Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Advisor Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2025-26 Catalog Program: Russian

Russian

(Russian major requirements are listed below. Follow this link for the Russian Minor requirements.)

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

Degree Requirements 

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Division Requirements:

Literature and Languages 

Students are required to fulfill the division requirements for their major.

Total divisional units: 3

Major Requirements:

Total major units: 9-13, depending on language proficiency

Two Units of Advanced Russian

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
RUSS 300 - Advanced Russian: Language, Style, and Culture

Prerequisite(s): RUSS 212 or equivalent

RUSS 301 - Advanced Maintenance Russian Through Poetry

Prerequisite(s): RUSS 212 or equivalent

Five Units in Russian Literature

Three Units from the Following:

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
RUSS 371 - Origins of Russian Literature: From Medieval to Romantic

Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 212 or equivalent.

RUSS 372 - Russian Literature: Realism

Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 212 or equivalent.

RUSS 373 - Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 212 or equivalent.

A Minimum of one in Russian Poetry

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
RUSS 385 - Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin”

Prerequisite(s): RUSS 212 or equivalent 

One at the 300-level or higher (excluding 470)

Junior Year Requirement:

  • Junior qualifying examination

Two units of Thesis

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
RUSS 470 - Thesis

Recommended, but Not Required:

  • Two units HUM 211, HUM 212, HUM 221, or HUM 222 in the sophomore year.
  • Courses in English or other literature, philosophy, or history that may be relevant to the chosen area of concentration of the individual student.
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