An intensive summer program abroad featuring language study at the beginner’s level Russian (First Year) that uses a four-skill approach: reading, writing, listening, and speaking with an emphasis on grammatical structure and communication practice. Students stay with local Russian-speaking families in the main resort city of Georgia on the Black Sea coast, known from Greek mythology as the land of Colchis where the Argonauts traveled for the Golden Fleece.

An intensive summer program abroad featuring language study at the second-year level of Russian that uses a four-skill approach: reading, writing, listening, and speaking with an emphasis on grammatical structure and communication practice. 

An intensive summer program abroad featuring language study at the third-year level of Russian. Language classes meet for three hours daily. Thematically, the course centers on Russian history from the murder of Paul I in 1801 to the Great Reforms of Alexander II and his murder in 1881. It involves a comprehensive review of the essential aspects of Russian grammar, extensive vocabulary building for social sciences and history, as well as practical vocabulary necessary for everyday conversations and activities in contemporary Russophone country.

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An intensive summer program abroad featuring language study at the advanced level. Designed to help students integrate language, context, and culture in order to recognize, understand, and interpret the relationship between language and social practices, as well as facilitate students’ own participation in them. Students will develop interpretive, intercultural, presentational, and interpersonal skills in the target language essential for engaging in sophisticated and authentic discourse on a spectrum of relevant topics and themes at the advanced low-intermediate level.

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