Welcome!
The Slavic Department at the University of Illinois regularly teaches courses in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish languages. Get information on language placement.
The department offers an undergraduate major in Russian Literature and a minor in Russian literature. We invite students interested in literature, culture, politics, and art to pursue a major or minor in Russian.
At the graduate level, the department currently offers a Master of Arts in Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and a Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic Languages and Literatures. We invite applications to our graduate program from students interested in pursuing the study of Slavic literatures and cultures and welcome students with interests in interdisciplinary approaches that focus on literature and the arts, cinema, history, politics, or culture.
News
Slavic Language Students’ Talent Show. The first annual Slavic Language Students’ Talent Show was a huge success! From films to cooking demonstrations, poetry to dance, and music, music, music, our students showed that their Slavic talents go far beyond language. If you missed it, you can still get a small taste (but not of the food) on this page. How will our students top themselves next year?
Events
Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia
Jun 8, 2009 - Jul 31, 2009
University Library
Noontime Scholars Lecture, Mikhail Rybalko: "Ethnicity in the Regional Legislation Elections in Russia and Ukraine"
Jul 7, 2009
| 12:00 pm
101 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign
Directions Lecture, Barbara Engel: Patriarchy, Paternalism and the Limits of Autocratic Power: Some Thoughts about the Relationship between the Personal and the Political in late Imperial Russia
Sep 24, 2009
| 4:00 pm
101 International Studies Building 910 S Fifth Street, Champaign
Noontime Scholars Lecture, Rebecca Mitchell: Title TBA
Sep 29, 2009
| 12:00 pm
101 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign