Russian Language Requirements

LANGUAGE COMPETENCE REQUIRED FOR A PH.D. IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Students must pass the reading, grammar, and speaking/oral comprehension portions of the departmental Russian proficiency examination.

Students are required to show proficiency in a second Slavic language by passing Slavic 671 672 in Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, or Serbo Croatian; or, where permitted by the advisor and the Graduate Studies Committee, the 101 407 sequence in Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, or Serbo Croatian; or equivalent (determined by a departmental proficiency examination or certification of completion from a recognized language program).

Students are required to show proficiency in a research language by passing the sequences 571-572, 671-672, 101-407, or equivalent in those languages (determined by a departmental proficiency examination or certification of completion from a recognized language program) in a language of relevance to the student's research, to be selected with the approval of the student's advisor. Most often, the language will be French, German, a third Slavic language, or Romanian.

This requirement can also be fulfilled by Slavic 810 (Old Church Slavonic) plus one of the following courses: Slavic 812 (Readings in Church Slavonic Texts), Russian 829 (Old Russian Literature), Russian 993.33 (Readings in Medieval Russian Texts), or Slavic 834 (Medieval Slavic Literature). The readings for Russian 829, Russian 993.33, and Slavic 834, must be in the original in order that the course fulfill this requirement. Note that classes used to fulfill this requirement cannot be used simultaneously to fulfill other departmental requirements.