Fellowships for Graduate Students to Study Russian in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladimir

[Nurhan Kocaoglu]

Fellowships for Graduate Students to Study Russian in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladimir

Graduate students are eligible for Title VIII State Department fellowships to study Russian language in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vladimir on the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS semester, academic year and summer programs. Awards range from two to eight thousand dollars; they are made on the basis of need and merit.

American Councils has administered intensive Russian language study programs in immersion settings for American undergraduates and graduate students since 1976, serving more than three thousand students and faculty. The Russian Language and Area Studies Program provides approximately twenty hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies at Moscow International University, and at the Russian State Pedagogical University (Gertsen Institute) in St. Petersburg. The CORA Center for Russian Language hosts the Vladimir program. 

A full-time resident director oversees the academic and cultural programs and assists participants in academic, administrative, and personal matters. Students may live with Russian host families or in university dormitories in Moscow and St. Petersburg; all students in Vladimir live with host families. Full time home-stay coordinators in each city arrange host family placements and assist participants with host family issues. During the academic year, students may participate in unpaid internships at local public schools, charities, and international businesses, depending on language level and interests. Students are also offered the chance to meet for two hours per week with tutors recruited from the department of Russian as a Foreign Language at their host universities (in Vladimir, peer tutors come from the Vladimir State University).

Academic year students may choose to conduct independent research during the spring semester. Students are assigned an advisor from their Russian university faculty to oversee their research projects. In recent years, graduate students have used this part of the program to complete extensive work on MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations.

Participants are registered for academic credit at Bryn Mawr College. Graduate students receive the equivalent of 15 academic hours for one semester, 30 for the academic year, and 10 for the summer program. Undergraduate students receive the equivalent of 16 academic hours for one semester, 32 for the academic year, and 8 for the summer program.

Application Deadlines: Spring Semester: October 15; Fall/Academic Year Program: April 1; Summer Program, March 1.

For more information and an application contact: 

Outbound Programs
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 833-7522
outbound at americancouncils.org 

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