Russian Studies

Russian is both an official language of the UN and one of the world’s most commonly spoken languages. It is still widely used—and useful—across much of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and is appearing increasingly in major cities in Western Europe and the U.S. Russian is also the language of some of the world’s greatest writers, composers, artists, performers, and scientists.

Contrary to the popular belief, Russian is not difficult to learn—and the Rhodes Russian students and graduates are a living proof of that fact. They enjoy a variety of courses (which are very user-friendly, too!) in Russian language, literature, culture, history, music, philosophy, and linguistics.

Rhodes offers a Russian Studies Major and Minor, Maymester in St. Petersburg, Russia (mid-May – mid-June every year), Semester and Year Study-Abroad at Novgorod State University (Novgorod) and the Smolny Institute (St. Petersburg), the Rhodes chapter of the National Slavic Honor Society (Dobro Slovo), and the Russian Club.

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