Georgetown University’s Department of Slavic Languages is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding in the global community by educating students who are linguistically and culturally competent users of Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. Focusing on the integration of language into the humanities and social sciences, the Department prepares students to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex and interdependent world.
We provide content-based instruction in the Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian languages and a wide variety of courses in Russian and East European literatures and cultures, taught both in Russian and in English.
We offer an undergraduate major in Russian and two different minors, contribute to undergraduate general education in the humanities and the social sciences, and welcome all students interested in our courses. For a fuller description, visit our about page.
The Department of Slavic Languages of Georgetown University condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine
As educators, we understand our responsibility to resist national discord and historical revanchism. We and many of our students have friends and families both in Ukraine and Russia. Some of them are currently suffering from the military actions and some are detained for participation in anti-war protests. Families in Ukraine see their children volunteering to battle for their country, while families in Russia are terrified that their sons face forced conscription. Now it is more important than ever to separate political leaders from individual people and their culture, language, and literature. We encourageour students to reach out to us for support during this crisis. We stand with Ukraine and all the people in Russia who oppose this war.
