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Duke Academic Departments and Programs
There is close collaboration in courses and activities with the Duke Program in Literature, the Marxism and Society Program, the Film/Video/Digital Program, the English Department, the Romance Studies Department, the History Department, the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, the Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Women's Studies.

Students have the opportunity to consult and take courses with the faculty and visiting media fellows of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communication and Journalism, and to use its important video archives of news programs from Soviet and Russian television, as well as other materials.

The Duke University-University of North Carolina Cooperative Program
This program provides the opportunity for Duke students to take courses for credit at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of UNC-Chapel Hill, to consult with UNC faculty and to use the library facilities at UNC.

The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES)
With the support of the U.S. Department of Education, this joint Duke-University of North Carolina Center coordinates interdisciplinary efforts primarily in the fields of Russian (including Soviet) and East European history, economics, political science, literature, linguistics and language training. Language instruction in Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian is available. The committee also sponsors visiting lectures, conferences, symposia, and films.

Library facilities and language laboratory
The Duke University Library has been collecting in the Slavic area since the late 1940's. For over twenty years, the Duke University Library and the UNC-Chapel Hill Library have been collaborating in building collections in the Eastern European areas. Duke has primary responsibility for Polish titles and UNC has primary responsibility for Czech, Slovak and Balkan titles. A shared on-line catalog and a courier service make possible the delivery of most materials to the neighboring library within 24 hours. Students working on research papers or dissertations are strongly encouraged to consult with the Perkins Library Slavic Bibliographer.

The Duke University Library has also acquired an important collection of Soviet films of the 1920s through the 1950s.

The language laboratories on East and West Campuses include state of the art listening and audio-visual equipment as well as a separate video screening room. The Language Labs also receive foreign television broadcasts including one hour each of Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and other Eastern European languages news each day.

Study in Russia
The Duke Slavic Department has an ongoing faculty exchange with St. Petersburg State University. Since 1988, one professor from Russia has come to teach at Duke each semester. Additionally, this exchange provides the opportunity for Duke undergraduate and graduate students to study Russian language and literature at St. Petersburg State University on the Duke in Russia program. The Department, with Study Abroad at Duke University, offers semester (4 courses of credit) and summer language and culture programs (2 courses of credit) at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Duke Slavic Department encourages its students to take advantage of the many opportunities for interdisciplinary studies at Duke University and on Duke academic programs abroad.

 

 
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Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
316 Languages Building
Box 90259
Duke University
Durham, NC
27708-0259

Email: russian@duke.edu
Phone: (919) 660-3140
Fax: (919) 660-3141

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