Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
Russian Track (Bachelor of Arts in Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)
Students on Summer 2018, Fall 2018, or Spring 2019 requirements SLVRUSNTRK
This track is designed for students seeking advanced study of the Russian language and/or Russian literature, culture, or film.
Requirements
The major requires at least 35 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Intermediate Russian Sequence.
- Intermediate Russian I. One (1) course:
- SLAV-N 221 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I
- SLAV-N 231 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I
- SLAV-R 201 Intermediate Russian I
- Intermediate Russian II. One (1) course:
- SLAV-N 232 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II
- SLAV-N 242 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II
- SLAV-R 202 Intermediate Russian II
- Intermediate Russian I. One (1) course:
- Advanced Intermediate Russian Sequence. Two (2) courses:
- Advanced Intermediate Russian I. One (1) course:
- SLAV-N 341 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I
- SLAV-N 351 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I
- SLAV-R 301 Advanced Intermediate Russian I
- Advanced Intermediate Russian II. One (1) course:
- SLAV-N 352 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II
- SLAV-N 362 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II
- SLAV-R 302 Advanced Intermediate Russian II
- Advanced Intermediate Russian I. One (1) course:
- Introduction to Russian Culture. One (1) course:
- SLAV-R 223 Introduction to Russian Culture
- SLAV-R 224 Contemporary Russian Culture
- SLAV-R 229 Russian Folk Tales
- Pushkin to Dostoevsky. One (1) course:
- SLAV-R 263 Pushkin to Dostoevsky
- Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn. One (1) course:
- SLAV-R 264 Rus Lit: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
- Advanced Electives. Four (4) courses and 12 credit hours:
- Any SLAV-N 400–499 except SLAV-N 461; SLAV-N 471; SLAV-N 472
- Any SLAV-R 300–399 except SLAV-R 301; SLAV-R 302; SLAV-R 378
- One (1) of the following:
- SLAV-N 461 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I
- SLAV-N 471 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I
- SLAV-R 401 Advanced Russian I
- One (1) of the following:
- SLAV-N 472 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian II
- SLAV-R 402 Advanced Russian II
- Any SLAV-R 400–409 except SLAV-R 401; SLAV-R 402
- SLAV-R 421 Fifth-Year Russian
- SLAV-R 422 Fifth-year Russian II
- SLAV-R 425 Advanced Oral Russian I
- SLAV-R 426 Advanced Oral Russian II
- SLAV-R 451 Russian Poetry
- SLAV-R 470 Political Russian
- SLAV-R 472 Business Russian
- Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
- A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Exceptions to major requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 120 credit hours, to include the following:
- College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines.
- Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
- College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College GPA. A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required for all courses taken at Indiana University.
- CASE Requirements. The following College of Arts and Sciences Education (CASE) requirements must be completed:
- CASE Foundations
- CASE Breadth of Inquiry
- CASE Culture Studies
- CASE Critical Approaches: 1 course
- CASE Foreign Language: Proficiency in a single foreign language through the second semester of the second year of college-level coursework
- CASE Intensive Writing: 1 course
- CASE Public Oral Communication: 1 course
- Major. Completion of the major as outlined in the Major Requirements section above.
Most students must also successfully complete the Indiana University Bloomington General Education program.