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All Programs from SRAS

Policy and Conflict in the Post-Soviet Space
All Levels – beginning to advanced

Students will visit Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Russia and will discuss the conflicts in these states, both past and present, with local students, teachers, and experts.

Available: Fall, Spring
Russian as a Second Language (RSL)
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

Twenty hours per week of Russian language training. Individualized Russian Tutoring and Intensive Russian also available in most locations.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Custom & Short Term, Summer
Translation & Interpretation Summer Seminar
Advanced Only

Over four intensive weeks, students will study advanced Russian and translation and interpretation techniques. This course also covers practical aspects of starting and managing a career in the field.

Available: Summer
Art & Museums in Russia
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

An excursion-based four-week program to teach you art history, studio art, and/or museum studies through the famed collections of St. Petersburg's museums!

Available: Summer
Baikal Environmental Studies
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

Language, history, and hands-on experience with Tahoe-Baikal Institute to study the Baikal watershed and learn how to advance environmental initiatives through government, NGOs, and academic institutions.

Available: Summer
Central Asian Studies
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

Intensive language study, courses on regional history and hands-on learning of the countries and cultures. Home stay, cultural program and educational travel included.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Summer
Kyrgyz Summer Adventure
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

The Kyrgyz Summer Adventure Program combines three weeks of intensive language study in Bishkek and one week of horse-trekking through rugged Central Asian mountains!

Available: Summer
Siberian Summer Adventure
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

SRAS has partnered with GBT to provide any interested volunteer with a well-rounded educational experience and unforgettable summer adventure in Siberia.

Available: Summer
Eurasian Culinary Studies

Eurasian Culinary Adventure is designed to open all of your senses to the rich Russian language and the cultures and cuisines of Eurasia.

Available: Summer
Home and Abroad: Report

SRAS's Home and Abroad: Report offers $10,000 to students who want to build writing, research, reporting, and language skills at home and abroad.

Available: Year
Home and Abroad: Translate

The SRAS Home and Abroad Program offers $10,000 to students who want to build translation and language skills at home and abroad.

Available: Year
Home and Abroad: Art
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

SRAS's Home and Abroad: Creative offers $7,000 to students who want to build writing, research, art, and language skills at home and abroad.

Available: Fall, Spring, Summer
Internships: Translation Abroad
Advanced Russian skills required

Professional, hands-on translation experience and intensive Russian lessons! A unique program to jump-start your career as a translator!

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Summer
Internships: NGO and Cultural
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

Gain experience, make contacts, make a difference! Chose from NGOs working on a range of issues, diverse museums, and some theatres.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Custom & Short Term, Summer
Internships: Report from Abroad
Advanced Russian Skills Required

Intensive Russian lessons and an internship with a local English-language newspaper, researching stories in Russian and English and reporting in English.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Summer
Internships: Russian Business
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

Intensive Russian lessons combined with professional experience in Russia and a resume-building research project.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Custom & Short Term, Summer
Russian Folklore Expedition
All Levels – beginning to advanced

Leave the city behind – move to a Russian village to collect old songs and folk tales, film the spring rituals, and dance with the New Year's masqueraders. This is the Russia you definitely won't meet in the classroom!

Available: Fall, Spring, Summer
Politics and International Relations at MGIMO
Advanced Russian skills required

Enroll for regular semester classes, conducted in Russian and attended by the diverse student population of MGIMO, Russia's premier institution for politics and international relations.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year
Siberian Studies
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

From colonialism to industrialization to modern Siberia. Environmental, economic, and demographic problems. Combines academic courses with an environmental internship for a broad understanding of the region.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year
Funding: Language Exploration Grant
Intermediate to advanced

Get paid to get out and get active!

Available: Fall, Spring, Summer
Funding: Research Abroad Grant
Intermediate to advanced

The grant awards $1000 to one upperclassman or graduate student per year to conduct research in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, or Ukraine.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Summer
Acting in Russia
Acting experience required; courses available in English

Intensive courses of Russian-style actor training for English-speaking actors and education professionals.

Available: Summer
Research Travel Services

SRAS's many years of experience in travel, research, and education are now at the disposal of those hoping to perform research in Russia. Let us help you with visas, accommodations, archival work, and more!

Available: Fall, Spring, Year, Custom & Short Term, Summer
Russian Archive Access
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

SRAS offers a one-week, crash course into Russian archives. Great as a stand-alone option, as an addition to one of our courses, or as your first week of dissertation research in Moscow!

Available: Summer
Russian Studies Abroad
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

Intense language study, cultural immersion, and classes in history, politics, economics, and culture. For those planning a professional career with ties to Russia.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year
The Russian Far East
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

Study the international diplomacy, economy, and history of the Far East from the Russian perspective. China, Japan, and the volatile Korean Peninsula are discussed.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year
The Russians
All Levels - from beginning to advanced

The Russians: A Developmental History of a National Psyche is an innovative cultural immersion using venues and experiences to teach the cultural history that forms the world view of today's Russians.

Available: Fall, Spring, Year
Degree Programs
Advanced; Preparatory Courses Avail for Non-Advanced

Degree programs at Russian universities are becoming more and more appealing as costs continue to escalate at home and as more and more professionals trained in Russia successfully test their skills in the West.

Available: Fall