German and Russian

Smolny College in St. Petersburg (Bard)

If you choose to study at Smolny College, you will have an experience that is unparelleled among study abroad programs. In addition to excellent Russian language instruction, you will take classes on other subjects together with Russian students at Russia′s first liberal arts college. Some courses are taught in English, but most—everything from Art and Architecture, to Film, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Complex Systems, and many more—will be in Russian.
The majority of Smolny′s students and faculty are Russian; others come from the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, Europe, and the United States, among other places. These students came to Smolny because they want small classes and personal attention. They want to be part of Russia′s first liberal arts college - an institution that is open, multidisciplinary, and international. For all of these reasons, the Smolny community warmly welcomes visiting international students.

CIEE Program in St. Petersburg

This program is designed for students with two years of college-level Russian who wish to improve their proficiency with the Russian language. This is an intensive program that focuses on all language skills.

  • Intensive Russian language program; the longest running study abroad program in Russia
  • Participate in optional volunteer projects organized through a well developed network of contacts that facilitate integration into Russian society
  • Beautiful St. Petersburg, three hundred years of history in one city
  • Cultural program including local excursions and field trips
  • Class-related field trips in and around St. Petersburg,The Siege of Leningrad, The Russian Museum, The Menshikov Palace, St. Petersburg Cathedrals, Petrodvorets, Pavlovsk, and Yusopovskii Palace
  • Excursions to Moscow, Novgorod, and Tallinn, Estonia (fall) or the Pskov region (spring)
  • Peer language partners

IES Berlin

A center of modern European history, Berlin has no equal for leaving its imprint on political, social, and cultural history in the 20th century. One of Europe′s most vibrant cities, Berlin boasts a wide array of museums, art galleries, theaters, and cabarets, and its taste for artistic and social experimentation and effervescent night life are as alive today as they were in the 1920s. A center for business, politics, and culture, and an ideological crossroads where East meets West, Berlin is the driving force for Germany in the 21st century. IES offers programs focusing in Language and Area Studies and Metropolitan Studies.

The Eberhard-Karls, Universitat Tubingen, Germany

The University of Tübingen has always maintained intensive contacts to universities in other countries. In the past few decades the University of Tübingen has built up an extensive network of relationships to other institutes abroad for both students and researchers. More than fifteen percent of our students are foreign citizens and half of our German students want to spend some period of their studies abroad. Numerous international guest researchers teach and carry out research in different faculties of our university and many Tübingen professors will spend some time teaching and researching abroad.

Goethe Institute, Germany

The Goethe Institute has 50 years′ experience in teaching German as a foreign language, teacher training and developing curricula, examinations and course materials. Our courses in Germany and abroad, internationally recognised examinations and distance learning programmes are precisely coordinated.

Novgorod University, Russia

The State Educational Institution of Higher Vocational Education “Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University” (NovSU), established under the resolution of the government of the Russian Federation from June 30, 1993 No. 624, is the largest higher education institution in the Novgorod region. The Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University comprises 6 Institutes, 2 University Faculties and 5 Colleges. Besides, there is a Re-Training Faculty, Research Centre, Scientific Library, Centre for New Information Technologies, Innovation Department, Publishing Centre, Marketing Centre, Press Centre, and other subdivisions.