Russian Studies

Welcome to Russian Studies!

The ECU Russian Studies Program (RUSI) is interdisciplinary and housed in the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS). Our innovative interdisciplinary approach designed for the 21st-century global economy integrates the study of Russian language with Russian area studies in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Fine Arts, making our program distinctive in the UNC system and eastern United States. 

 
The quality of our instruction, advising, and mentoring can be measured by the success of our students in gaining graduate admissions to leading research universities, and their achievements in undergraduate research funding, including a U.S. Fulbright grants, a Phi Kappa Phi Award of Excellence, and URCA awards. Our recent graduates have gone on to careers in the Department of Defense, the U.S. Secret Service, USAID, private intelligence firms like Booz Allen Hamilton, as Military Linguists and Intelligence Officers, and to a number of other careers as teachers, computer scientists, and a range of other professions. The progressive nature of RUSI curriculum combined with innovative learning strategies and delivery methods equips ECU students with highly competitive skills for today’s world and prepares them to succeed in an increasingly global and culturally diverse society. 

 
Our program mission is to promote a high level of instructional quality in language courses; to offer excellent General Education courses on historic and modern Russia through a global perspective; to integrate the areas of our research interests, creative activities, service and teaching practice in Russian Studies into a fruitful collaboration between ECU students, faculty, and community; to lend our professional expertise by broad variety of educational, research, administrative, consulting and translational practices to the University, public groups, and professional organizations on the local, state, national, and international level.