This program is is committed to immersion in language and culture, with the purpose of optimally preparing students to use their expertise in Russian for the 21st century job market.In addition to courses on classic writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov, the program offers broadly interdisciplinary courses such as Russian Fairy Tales, Russian Cinema, Stories of Siberia, Russian Science Fiction, Russian Crime Fiction, Russia at War and The Russian Avant-Garde.