RUSS at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 19 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate RUSS coursework.

• RUSS 0200Elementary Russian IIopens 9 courses (1.1 directly)
• RUSS 5200Elementary Russian IIopens 7 courses (0.6 directly)
• RUSS 0300Intermediate Russian Iopens 6 courses (1.5 directly)
• RUSS 5300Intermediate Russian Iopens 5 courses (0.5 directly)
• RUSS 0400Intermediate Russian IIopens 4 courses (1 directly)
• RUSS 5400Intermediate Russian IIopens 4 courses (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate RUSS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 19 RUSS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 83 more RUSS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in RUSS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at RUSS 1200

  1. RUSS 0100Elementary Russian I
  2. RUSS 0200Elementary Russian II
  3. RUSS 0300Intermediate Russian I
  4. RUSS 0400Intermediate Russian II
  5. RUSS 1100High Intermediate Russian I
  6. RUSS 1200High Intermediate Russian II

• 2 courses deep, ending at RUSS 0401

  1. RUSS 0201Russian Literacy for Heritage Speakers I
  2. RUSS 0401Russian Literacy for Heritage Speakers II

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for RUSS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under RUSS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

RUSS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.