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Overview

The Department of Slavic Languages is Brown University’s center for studying the cultures and literatures of Russia and other Slavic countries. Distinguished by academic excellence and dedication to teaching, it is one of the oldest Slavic departments in the United States, established in 1947 and offering a graduate program since 1960.

The department has remained in the vanguard of Slavic studies with its flexible and innovative approaches to the field, which include strategic links to performing arts, history, economics, and international relations, among other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The department’s primary mission is to educate Slavic studies researchers, specialists, and teachers in an interdisciplinary, cross-fertilizing environment. Both undergraduate and graduate Slavic studies programs build on the spirit of a collaborative exchange of ideas through Brown’s open curriculum.