RUS at Virginia Tech

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 RUS coursework.

• RUS 1106Elementary Russianopens 11 courses (2.5 directly)
• RUS 2106Intermediate Russianopens 8 courses (2.5 directly)
• RUS 3106Grammar, Composition and Conversationopens 5 courses (3.2 directly)
• RUS 2114Accelerated Intermediate Russianopens 4 courses (0.5 directly)
• RUS 3114Accelerated Advanced Russian Grammar Conversation Compositionopens 3 courses (1.2 directly)
• RUS 3105Grammar, Composition and Conversationopens 2 courses (0.7 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 RUS 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 20 RUS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 16 more RUS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on RUS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 5 courses deep, ending at RUS 3534

  1. RUS 1105Elementary Russian
  2. RUS 1106Elementary Russian
  3. RUS 2106Intermediate Russian
  4. RUS 3105Grammar, Composition and Conversation
  5. RUS 3534Russian as a Global Language

• 5 courses deep, ending at RUS 4104

  1. RUS 1105Elementary Russian
  2. RUS 1106Elementary Russian
  3. RUS 2106Intermediate Russian

• 2 courses deep, ending at RUS 3304

  1. ENGL 1106First-Year Writing
  2. RUS 3304Survey of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation

• 2 courses deep, ending at RUS 3424

  1. COMM 1016Communication Skills
  2. RUS 3424Topics in Russian Literature in English

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for RUS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under RUS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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