Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences · major
Russian requirements
Explore the reviewed Russian major at Boston College, organized by requirement and course.
Russian grammar, composition, and stylistics at or beyond the intermediate level (three courses, 9 credits; placement determines entry point, SLAV2121 and above)
Choose from these approved options.
Russian literature surveys: Classics of Russian Literature and Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (two courses, 6 credits)
Required for the program.
Russian literature and culture, third course of the 9-credit literature and culture block (one course, 3 credits)
Choose from these approved options.
- SLAV6060 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- SLAV1161 Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov: What is the Good Life?
- SLAV2069 Literature of the Other Europe
- SLAV2179 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (in translation)
- SLAV2180 From Russia with Love: Russian Musical and Visual Culture
- SLAV2181 Masterworks of Russian Art
- SLAV5163 Nabokov: Seminar
Introduction to Slavic Peoples and Cultures (one course, 3 credits)
Required for the program.
Russian literature, culture, advanced grammar and stylistics, linguistics, history, or politics (three courses, 9 credits)
Choose from these approved options.
- SLAV3122 Third-Year Russian II
- SLAV6060 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- SLAV2179 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (in translation)
- SLAV2180 From Russia with Love: Russian Musical and Visual Culture
- SLAV2181 Masterworks of Russian Art
- SLAV3121 Third-Year Russian I
- SLAV4121 Advanced Russian I
- SLAV4122 Advanced Russian II
- SLAV5163 Nabokov: Seminar
Source and limitations
Requirements sourced from Boston College University Catalog — Russian.
Applies to the Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year cohort.
16 courses across 5 requirement groups.
Requirement eligibility varies by school, cohort, and section. Confirm every degree requirement in EagleApps or with an advisor.