• RUSS 1020

    First-Year Russian
     Rating

    4.48

     Difficulty

    2.57

     GPA

    3.56

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Introduces Russian grammar with emphasis on reading and speaking. Class meets five days per week plus work in the language laboratory. To be followed by RUSS 2010, 2020. Prerequisite: A grade of C or above in RUSS 1010.

  • RUTR 2460

    Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization
     Rating

    3.93

     Difficulty

    2.44

     GPA

    3.62

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    No knowledge of Russian needed. Investigates 'being Russian' through the works of Russia's great writers, artists, architects, and composers. Focuses on the heroes, heroines, and villains, symbols, legends, and rituals central to Russian creativity.

  • RUTR 3350

    Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
     Rating

    4.78

     Difficulty

    3.33

     GPA

    3.62

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. Emphasizes prose fiction. This course is a prerequisite for 5000-level literature courses. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

  • RUSS 1010

    First-Year Russian
     Rating

    4.15

     Difficulty

    3.07

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Introduces Russian grammar with emphasis on reading and speaking. Class meets five days per week plus work in the language laboratory. To be followed by RUSS 2010, 2020.

  • RUTR 2500

    Topics in Russian Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Studies in English translation of selected authors, works, or themes in Russian literature. Topics in recent years were Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov. May be repeated for credit under different topics.

  • RUSS 4010

    Fourth-Year Russian
     Rating

    4.87

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.70

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes oral practice, extensive reading, and work in Russian stylistics. Prerequisite: RUSS 3010, 3020 with a grade of C or better.

  • RUSS 3010

    Third-Year Russian
     Rating

    2.33

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.71

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes intensive oral practice through reports, dialogues, guided discussions; composition of written reports and essays; readings in literary and non-literary texts. Class meets three hours per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: RUSS 2010, 2020 or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

  • SLTR 3200

    Poland: History and Culture
     Rating

    4.33

     Difficulty

    1.00

     GPA

    3.72

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course takes students through more than 1000 years of Poland's history and culture. Explorations of literature, art, film, and music, as well as key historic events and biographies, will provide students with unique insight in the main sources of Polish identity, its central values, challenges, myths, symbols, and preoccupations in a larger European context. All materials in English.

  • RUSS 3020

    Third-Year Russian
     Rating

    4.83

     Difficulty

    4.50

     GPA

    3.72

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes intensive oral practice through reports, dialogues, guided discussions; composition of written reports and essays; readings in literary and non-literary texts. Class meets three hours per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: RUSS 2020 with a grade of C or better.

  • RUTR 2730

    Dostoevsky
     Rating

    4.00

     Difficulty

    2.64

     GPA

    3.73

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Dostoevsky.