US Students Show Renewed Interest in Russian Studies

RIA Novosti: "... he didn’t realize he was part of a national trend that experts say is a small but significant sign of revitalized American interest in all things Russian..."

Abramovich Tops List of Most Charitable Russians

MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russian billionaire and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is Russia’s most generous philanthropist, having spent $310 million on charity out of his fortune of $12.8 billion in the past three years, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

U.S. Needs a Russia Strategy

Andrei P Tsygankov (San Francisco State University) for The Moscow Times: "The new conventional wisdom among Russia experts in the U.S. seems to be that the agenda of the two sides' relationship will have to be limited to issues of nuclear arms control."

Testimonials

Vincent Hyland, Summer school 2010

There is nothing quite like leaving your dormitory, with it’s 19th-century facade, and walking down the street every morning for «sirniki» and «chai» and then grabbing your «Rossiiskaia Gazeta» and running off to take classes on Russian history and culture in a marble palace!

MARCA Courses offered in 2011–12 and 2012–13

Each course consists of typically 14 lectures and 14 follow-up discussion sessions; each course counts for 8 ECTS credits. All instruction is in English.

IMARES Policy on Tutorials: Courses in which the number of registered students is 4 and less are taught in the form of tutorials which means that less time will be spent in class and the students will meet with the instructor mainly for discussion sessions. Currently tutorials bear 2 credits (4 ECTS credits)

For all course descriptions including the courses for Fall 2012, see the program brochure or the descriptions from the menu.

FALL 2012

Empire, State, Building: Architecture as a Mirror of Russian Politics

Vadim Bass

St. Petersburg in Russian Literature: Reality and Metaphor

Olga Demidova

The Political Culture of the Russian Revolution

Boris Kolonitskii

From Icon to Avant-Garde: A Survey of Russian Art Through the Centuries

Alexei Kurbanovsky

SPRING 2013

Russian Avant-Garde: Myths, Hypotheses, Facts
Elena Basner

Unofficial Late Soviet Culture

Stanislav Savitsky

Russian Media, Culture and Society
Sergey Erofeev

The Home of Russian Tsars: Palace, People, Collections

Roman Grigoriev

Visual Images of Russian Identity in the 19th — early 20th Century Art and Architecture
Ilia Doronchenkov

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Russian language training

Can I have extra Russian language classes and take an official exam like TRKI?

Additional Russian language classes can be arranged for an extra small fee also covering the preparation to a TRKI (TORFL) test if needed.