Maintenance Russian Courses
Maintain the Russian language skills you’ve worked so hard to attain! Options are available at any level. We work with our trusted academic partners to provide quality, noncredit courses online with a variety of schedules and configurations so that you can find an option that meets your needs.
About this project
Below is a snapshot of the options available. For specific details and to register, click on the option.
For additional conversation practice outside of your formal instruction, peer tutoring is available for $15 per hour for 1-9 hours and $13 per hour for 10+ hours. Peer tutoring sessions are informal conversations with a young local from our study locations. You and your tutor decide on the topic to speak about. Sessions are one full 60-minute hour. These can be added on when you register for a course.Registration and payment are easily managed through the SRAS website.
Meeting Duration | Weekly
Meetings | Class
Size | Cost
(6 weeks) | Timeframe (EST) | Location |
90 min | 2 | 4-6 | $195 | late morning | Kyiv |
50 min | 3 | 1 | $210 | early morning | Bishkek |
60 min | 1 | 1-3 | $150 | evening | Irkutsk |
- A 6-week minimum commitment is required
- Simple level-testing will take place online once you register
- A 6-week session can be started at the beginning of any month
- Upon signing-up for a course, the specific timing of the lessons will be determined, taking into account your preferences
- Payment is due in advance of each 6-week session
- Group lessons will be recorded, so a missed lesson can be viewed
- Individual lessons can be rescheduled with instructor agreement with 48-hour minimum notice
- A missed lesson with less than 48-hours notice may not be made up (instructor discretion)
More Opportunities
In addition to regular Russian maintenance courses, our partners in Kyiv will also be offering grammar workshops – a series of “deep dives” into a particular grammar topic. Click here for more information on these and other workshops.
Make sure to check out our main alumni page for MANY more opprotunities for you to stay involved with the region! Thanks for keeping in touch!
Thanks again to (SRAS Assistant Director) Josh Wilson for being so helpful with getting us started! At our concluding discussion class yesterday I asked the students to write and then present five “Kliuchevykh slov” about their experience. Several of them wound up referencing Josh’s comments about trying to observe without judging, which he made during the Moscow Walking Tour. Thanks for helping me teach this course!
Jane CostlowProfessor of Environmental StudiesBates College
Renee, the work that you do is so far beyond any kind of formal service or trip planning in your vision, scope, and ability to think of absolutely everything and anticipate potential problems in advance. You clearly have a gift for this.
Andrea LanouxAssociate ProfessorConnecticut College
My Dear Renee, I am still in Kazakhstan but can report back we had a perfectly splendid time in Kyrgyzstan. The students and I want to collectively buy a little plot of land and a yurt or house in the village at the base of the mountains. They loved their families and I fell in love with Kenzhe, we want to include her in our documentary. I will be in touch over the next two weeks. Forever grateful to you.
Jane Knox-VoinaProfessor of RussianBowdoin College
The SRAS guides were excellent! They really knew their stuff and were able to relate the history of the places we visited in an interesting and inventive way. It was obvious they had a lot of experience working with American students.
Charles Arndt IIIVisiting Assistant ProfessorUnion College
We had a great time overall. The students were super impressed with SRAS — the guides, the accommodations, the excursions, etc. The guides were super knowledgeable and kind–the only thing that would improve the tours is volume. They tend to speak quietly so a few people who can’t hear lose interest. But we loved the Hermitage art project and Novgorod, and the bunker, and going behind the fountains at Peterhof, and the boat to Peterhof… We loved everything!
Ona Renner-FaheyAssociate Professor of RussianUniversity of Montana
A long overdue thank you for the wonderful trip you and your staff planned for the Drew group in St. Petersburg. I have never had a trip where NOTHING went wrong. It was a terrific experience from start to finish, your staff was superb and St. Petersburg Economics University was a marvelous host. We enjoyed each and every lecture and guide, and the many fine added touches. I would love to do this again.
Dr. Carol R. UelandProfessor of RussianDrew University