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Undergraduate Bulletin College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Minor in Russian

Students on Summer 2025, Fall 2025, or Spring 2026 requirements RUSSIANMIN

Students will develop intermediate language proficiency and its application to real-world settings; cultural literacy demonstrated in a general knowledge of the target culture, its history, products, and practices; the ability to analyze cultural texts and situations and the mechanisms by which they function; and the ability to analyze problems from multiple critical perspectives.

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
  1. Minor Requirements. At least five (5) courses:
    • Advanced Oral Russian II
    • Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
    • Myth and Reality: Women in Russian Literature and in Life
    • Russian and Soviet Film
    • Dostoevsky and His Demons
    • Special Credit in Slavic Languages
    • Advanced Russian I
    • Advanced Russian II
    • Russian Phonetics
    • Readings in Russian Literature I
    • Readings in Russian Literature II
    • Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society I
    • Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society II
    • Fifth-Year Russian
    • Fifth-year Russian II
    • Advanced Oral Russian I
    • Nabokov
    • Russian Poetry
    • Political Russian
    • Central and East European Immigration and Ethnic Identity in the U.S. (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Introduction to the Slavic Languages (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • The Vampire in European and American Culture (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Central & East European Immigration and Ethnic Identity in the U.S. (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Introduction to the Slavic Languages (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Structure of Russian
    • Business Russian
    • Topics in Russian Literature, Culture, and Language
    • Central European Cinema (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Supervised Individual Reading (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Topics in Slavic Literatures and Cultures (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Topics in Slavic and East European Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (requires special approval; see academic advisor)
    • Seventh-Year Russian I
    • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I
    • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II
    • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II
    • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I
    • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I
    • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II
    • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II
    • Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I
    • Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I
    • Summer Intensive Advanced Russian II
    • Fifth-Year Russian I
    • Fifth-Year Russian II
    • Sixth-Year Russian I
    • Sixth-Year Russian II
    • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I
    • Seventh-Year Russian II
    • Russian for Heritage Speakers I
    • Intermediate Russian I
    • Intermediate Russian II
    • Introduction to Russian Culture
    • Contemporary Russian Culture
    • Russian Folk Tales
    • Pushkin to Dostoevsky
    • Rus Lit: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
    • Advanced Intermediate Russian I
    • Advanced Intermediate Russian II
    • Linguistic Approaches to Russian Literature
    • Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian I
    • Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian II
  2. Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    2. Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
    3. Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
    4. Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.

Minor Area Courses

  • Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:

    • Any course at the 100–499 level with the SLAV-R subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent
    • Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
    • Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
Exclusions

The following courses cannot be applied toward minor requirements:

  • Russian for Graduate Students I
  • Russian for Graduate Students II

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

  • Russian Track (Bachelor of Arts in Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) (SLVRUSNTRK)

Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.