Study Abroad

Studying abroad is one of the best ways to improve fluency in a foreign language.  Slavic study abroad opportunities include:

  • The Slavic Department currently sponsors a ten credit summer-study programs as part of the Summer Language Institute in Pittsburgh (5 weeks) and Moscow (5 weeks) at the Moscow State University, in Pittsburgh (6 weeks) and Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria (4 weeks). Students may study first- through fourth-year Russian, or first- and second-year Polish, Slovak and Bulgarian, covering one full year of language study in ten weeks. The Summer Language Institute offers generous scholarships.
  • The Slovak Studies Program also provides access to a summer program in Bratislava which follows the Intensive Slovak courses during the summer.  A six-week program in Advanced Mastery Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian is held in Zagreb, Belgrade and Sarajevo.  A departmental scholarship, the Thomas Kukucka Memorial Award is a possible extra source of funding for study in Slovakia. 
  • The University of Pittsburgh is affiliated with a number of other organizations holding both summer and semester or year-long study in Central and East Europe.
  • The Russian East European and Eurasian Studies Center regularly organizes summer study courses in both language and social science in such locations as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, among others. REEES has scholarships available for summer study abroad. 
  • The Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs offer a wide variety of competitive scholarships for summer study abroad in many parts of the world, including Central and East Europe.