Slavic Languages and Literatures

Overview

The Slavic Languages and Literatures major is the study of Russian, along with work in another Slavic language, such as Serbo-Croatian, Polish, or Czech. The study of the languages is combined with the study of the literatures.

Russian literature is some of the greatest in the world. You’re entering the realm of Pushkin, Mayakovksy, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov and Dostoevsky. These writers have also written some of the longest works ever committed to paper, so you’ll have Great Doorstops after you read these Great Books.

Selected Schools

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA

$66,410 Tuition
1480 Avg SAT
9,575 Enrolled

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

1520 Avg SAT
16,063 Enrolled

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL

$19,806 Tuition
1320 Avg SAT
32,217 Enrolled

Harvard College

Cambridge, MA

$52,659 Tuition
1540 Avg SAT
7,110 Enrolled

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

1520 Avg SAT
8,846 Enrolled

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

1540 Avg SAT
5,671 Enrolled

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SAMPLE CURRICULUM

20th Century Russian Literature
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
Russian I-IV
Serbo-Croatian I-III
Survey of Russian Literature
Survey of Serbo-Croatian Literature

HIGH SCHOOl PREPARATION

If you can take Russian or Polish (or, by some chance, Serbo-Croatian or Czech) at your school—do it. Since these languages are not often offered, you can start getting experience in mastering a foreign language by studying one that your school does. Classes in European history and world literature will be useful. And start digging into those Russian novels.

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