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Web resources specific to the FSP to St. Petersburg.

Language Study Abroad

Dartmouth Students on the 2003 LSA+
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LSA+ to Saint Petersburg
Nearly all Russian majors (and many non-majors as well) spend a term in Russia on the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program. Students study Russian language and culture in the beautiful and historic city of St. Petersburg, some 400 miles northwest of Moscow, and can enjoy the intense cultural life for which St. Petersburg is renowned. Dartmouth's program, established some thirty years ago, is designed for students, both majors and non-majors, who have had at least one year (three terms) of Russian. Many students participate in the program during the summer of their sophomore year, while others may do so later in their academic career.

The courses in phonetics, grammar, conversation, and literature, which meet four hours a day, are supplemented by lectures on various aspects of Russian art, literature, and society. Students are encouraged to participate fully in the rich cultural life of the city: concerts, plays, films, operas and ballet are available on any given night.

We encourage you to look at the many sites on student travel as well as on Russia and St. Petersburg. Click here to link to web resources specific to the language study abroad to St. Petersburg.

Click here to link to a video about the LSA+ to St. Petersburg.

Opportunities abound to explore the many historical landmarks of this sublimely beautiful city: the palaces of the tsars, the scenes of the revolution, the Hermitage Museum. Almost every street and building of St. Petersburg has been immortalized by such masters of nineteenth-century Russian literature as Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, all of whom drew inspiration from the city. The same can be said of such twentieth-century figures as Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, Shostakovich, and Brodsky. Apart from the many excursions organized within the city and its environs, the group has weekend trips to such ancient Russian cities as Novgorod and Pskov. Also included are extended trips to Moscow, capital of Russia, and Tallinn, capital of Estonia. By the end of the program, participants will not only have markedly increased their command of the Russian language but will also have acquired new insights into the nature of a society radically different from their own.

To be eligible for the program, students need to complete Russian 3 with a grade no lower than B-. Any one of the following three courses is also required: Russian 15, Russian 31 or History 54. Applications are due in February. Successful completion of the St. Petersburg program will serve in satisfaction of the Summer Residence Requirement (even when taken in the summer following the first year or third year). To learn more about opportunities to study in other countries include both the Language Study Abroad, Advanced Language Study Abroad (LSA+) and Foreign Study Programs.
Contact:

Office of Off-Campus Programs
110 Wentworth Hall
Hanover, NH
03755-3526
603-646-1202
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ocp/

Dartmouth Students on the 1999 FSP

Dartmouth Students on the 1998 FSP

Dartmouth Students on the 1997 FSP


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