5: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
General Information |
Programs and Degrees Offered |
Admission Information
Financial Assistance |
Graduate Academic Regulations
Requirements for Specific Graduate Degrees |
Departments and Programs |
Faculty
Non-Departmental |
Anthropology |
Art |
Asian and Middle Eastern |
Asian Studies |
Astronomy
Biochemistry |
Biology |
Biological and Physical Sciences |
Biophysics |
Cell and Molecular Biology
Cell Biology |
Chemistry |
Classics |
Commerce |
Drama |
Economics |
English |
Environmental Sciences
French |
German |
Government and Foreign Affairs |
Health Evaluation Sciences |
History |
Linguistics
Mathematics |
Microbiology |
Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics |
Music |
Neuroscience
Pharmacology |
Philosophy |
Physics |
Psychology |
Religious Studies |
Russian and East European Studies
Slavic |
Sociology |
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese |
Statistics |
Surgery
Center for Russian and East European Studies
Course Descriptions |
Program Requirements
Program Requirements
Certificate in Russian and East European Studies A student in one of the
participating graduate departments, e.g., art, economics, government and
foreign affairs, history, music, Slavic languages and literatures, etc.,
or in the participating professional schools, such as Law, Medicine,
Darden, Education, etc., can broaden his or her knowledge of the Russian
and East European area by applying for the Certificate in Russian and
East European Studies in addition to the M.A., Ph.D., or professional
degree in his or her own home department or school. As detailed below,
the work for a certificate requires the student to complete a certain
number of non-language courses in the Russian and East European field
and demonstrate proficiency in a language of Russia or Eastern Europe.
Requirements for the graduate certificate are as follows:
- Language Competency Competency in a language of Eastern Europe
(including languages other than Russian) is to be demonstrated by the
completion of one of the following four specific arrangements approved
by the center in cooperation with the student's home department and the
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: (a) completion of
RUSS 501 with a grade no lower than B; (b) passing the ETS Graduate School
Foreign Language Test with a minimum score of 540; (c) passing the
Slavic department's Russian Proficiency Examination; or (d) passing an
examination devised by the student’s home department in cooperation
with the center and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
- Broad Area Concentration Successful completion of four non-language
courses in Russian and East European studies with a grade average no
lower than B. Students in the Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures must take these courses outside their home department.
- Thesis Successful completion of a master's thesis, Ph.D.
dissertation, or a significant and high quality seminar paper on a theme
closely related to Russian and East European studies.
This program is administered by the Center for Russian and East European
Studies which is directed by Allen Lynch of the Department of Government
and Foreign Affairs.
Continue to: Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
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