Russian Studies Department

Chair: Dan Ungurianu (2026/27 fall semester), Nikolai Firtich (2025/26 spring semester, 2026/27 spring semester);

Professors: Nikolai Firtich^a, Dan Ungurianu;

Associate Professor: Charles H. Arndt III;

Lecturer: Farida Tcherkassova;

Adjunct Instructor: Natalia Garrity.

^a On leave 2026/27, first semester

Advisers: The department.

Programs

Major

• •  Russian Studies Major

Correlate Sequence in Russian Studies

• •  Russian Studies Correlate Sequence

Courses

Russian Studies: I. Introductory

• •  RUSS 105 - Elementary Russian
• •  RUSS 106 - Elementary Russian
• •  RUSS 107 - Intensive Introductory Russian
• •  RUSS 135 - The Russian Classics: The Great Realists of the Nineteenth Century (in English)
• •  RUSS 140 - NEW WAVES IN FILM: West/East European and Soviet Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s (in English)
• •  RUSS 141 - Tolstoy in Battle (in English)
• •  RUSS 142 - Dostoevsky and Psychology (in English)
• •  RUSS 143 - The Genius of Chekhov: Theatre and Tales (in English)
• •  RUSS 152 - The Russian Modernists: Decadence, Revolution, & The Avant-Garde (in English)
• •  RUSS 153 - Russian Sci-Fi Cinema (in English)
• •  RUSS 154 - The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (in English)
• •  RUSS 155 - WW II in Russian Cinema (in English)
• •  RUSS 156 - The Cinema of Sergei Eisenstein (in English)
• •  RUSS 157 - A Revolutionary Apocalypse: Russian Civil War in Film (in English)
• •  RUSS 158 - Masterpieces of Russian Animation (in English)
• •  RUSS 159 - Russian Fantasy Films (in English)
• •  RUSS 160 - A Slap in the Face of Public Taste: Revolutionary Art in Russia 1910-1917 (in English)
• •  RUSS 161 - Nabokov Before “Lolita”: The Making of a Genius in the Age of Jazz and Surrealism (in English)
• •  RUSS 165 - Arts and Music in Imperial Russia (in English)
• •  RUSS 168 - Vampires, Monks, and Holy Fools: The Mystical in Russia and Eastern Europe (in English)
• •  RUSS 169 - The Great Utopia: Ideals and Realities of the Russian Revolution (in English)
• •  RUSS 171 - Russia and the Short Story (in English)
• •  RUSS 172 - Beyond the Looking Glass: Nonsense and Absurd in Russian and European Literature and Visual Arts (in English)
• •  RUSS 173 - Women in Russian Arts: The Power and The Glory (in English)

Russian Studies: II. Intermediate

• •  RUSS 210 - Intermediate Russian
• •  RUSS 211 - Intermediate Russian
• •  RUSS 222 - Six Masterpieces: Exploring the Treasures of the Hermitage Museum (in English)
• •  RUSS 235 - The Russian Classics: The Great Realists of the Nineteenth Century
• •  RUSS 252 - The Russian Modernists: Decadence, Revolution, and the Avant-Garde
• •  RUSS 272 - Beyond the Looking Glass: Nonsense and Absurd in Russian and European Literature and Visual Arts
• •  RUSS 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  RUSS 298 - Independent Work

Russian Studies: III. Advanced

• •  RUSS 300 - Senior Thesis
• •  RUSS 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  RUSS 302 - Senior Thesis
• •  RUSS 303 - Senior Project
• •  RUSS 331 - Advanced Russian
• •  RUSS 332 - Advanced Russian
• •  RUSS 370 - Russian Animation and Popular Culture
• •  RUSS 371 - Seminar on Russian Culture
• •  RUSS 373 - Seminar on Russian Literature
• •  RUSS 374 - Russian Poetry of the Silver Age
• •  RUSS 399 - Senior Independent Work