Languages: Russian

As a member of the global community, the Georgia Tech Russian program is deeply concerned with the ongoing situation in Ukraine. We stand with the people of Ukraine, especially members of our program and the Georgia Tech community who might be affected, and support the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Board Statement:

The Board of Directors of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine and President Putin’s use of historical distortions and cynical untruths to justify Russia’s attack on Ukrainian sovereignty. We stand with all the people of Ukraine and Russia who oppose this war.

Overview

In the Russian program at Georgia Tech, students can master a critical need language to a professional level within the context of a four-year degree and immerse themselves in one of the world’s richest cultures.

Russian is spoken by approximately 260 million people in the Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Germany, Israel, the U.S. and Canada. It is a major language of science and technology (think aerospace, mathematics, physics, bioengineering) and crucial to security and international affairs. The Russian sector of the Internet is the second-biggest after English. Leading figures in literature, film, music, poetry, theater and art have worked and work in the Russian language. Russian remains on all U.S. government agencies’ lists of Critical Need languages.

Georgia Tech Russian degree programs combine high-level language and intercultural skills with rigorous cross-disciplinary study of Russian culture. We offer on-campus courses in the Russian language through the 3rd year; courses in literature, culture, and film with reading and discussion in English; and content courses taught in Russian at the 4th-year level. We also offer a range of programs and scholarships for study abroad.

Students majoring in Russian gain not only linguistic skills and cultural knowledge, but they also develop analytical skills, intercultural perspective, and communications skills (public presentation, expository writing), which complement their other studies at Georgia Tech. Our majors and minors have gone on to careers in security, international business, engineering (with multinational companies), data consulting, and architecture.