Slavic Languages - Columbia University in the City of New York

Slavic Languages from Columbia University in the City of New York is a Campus Bachelor Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Why should I major in this subject? Do you see college as a place for intellectual thrills, challenges, and discoveries? Do you expect to learn a lot, but also have fun? Do you wish to prepare yourself for the world out there without losing touch with your creative and adventurous side? Join us in exploring the fascinating intellectual opportunities and reap the rewards available to those who study Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures. Who exactly are the Slavs? You may be surprised how many European countries have Slavic-speaking population. Russia's political, economic, and cultural importance has long been unquestionable, but the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine have also produced notable literary and cultural traditions in their own languages. Columbia's Slavic Department offers opportunities to study each of them in separate or combined programs. We also address the Balkan Slavs: from Serbia and Bulgaria to Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Slovenia, with all of the political, linguistic and cultural complexities involved in their mapping and remapping. Belarus, a former Soviet Republic, and Slovakia, part of the former Czechoslovakia, complete the territory of this versatile and vibrant field of study, which has completely reinvented itself in the post-Soviet era in response to the current political, economic, and conceptual reconfigurations of Europe. What career opportunities follow upon study in this field? An advanced knowledge of Russian (or Czech, Polish, Serbian /Croatian /Bosnian, or Ukrainian) language and culture, coupled with the Columbia general education, can become a big bonus in pursuing your career, and, at the same time, may help you to focus your career goals. Columbia graduates who were involved in Russian studies are working in banks, law firms, international businesses, and any number of related careers in which they can distinguish themselves by their expertise in Russian and East European affairs. Our graduating majors are also in big demand in non-governmental organizations connecting to this region, such as the George Soros foundation, for example. A few of our Russian studies graduates are currently working as journalists in Russia. View more details on Columbia University in the City of New York . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.