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Russian Exchange Program

the Russian program, a student
must have three years of
college-level Russian to attend
semester sessions, and two
years to attend the summer
session.

An average of about 120
students apply for each
semester program, nationally,
and 30 slots are alloted. (There
are generally more applicants
and more slots available in the
summer.) If selected, a student
pays fees of $2800 for a
semester of study, or $1800
for the nine week summer
session.

The fees cover all expenses
from the time of departure to
return. The particular program
to which the University
subscribes offers its course of
instruction at Leningrad State
University.

On the semester program
five exchange students live
with one Russian student in
the dorms, but in the summer,
the dorm assignments and
classes are made up almost
entirely of other exchange
students. Students have classes
in the mornings, and either free
periods or social and cultural
lectures in the afternoons.

Students study Russian
about 75% of the time, but are
allowed to audit other courses.
Ballets and movies are
sometimes presented at night,
and on some weekends
excursion trips are offered.

Mr. Scatton encourages
students interested in the
program to contact him at his
office in Cocke Hall. It should
be stressed that not just
Russian majors are encouraged
to participate in the program.
The CIEE wants to involve
students interested in as many
careers and courses of study as
possible in the program and
the application board is eager
to consider non-Russian
majors.