Russian and East European languages are offered on campus through the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, including Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. Turkish is available through the Department of Linguistics.
Other regional languages are available in an online synchronous or hybrid format through the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) CourseShare program, such as Armenian (Eastern, Western, Grabar), Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Persian, Uyghur, Uzbek, and Yiddish. Other regional languages can sometimes be studied at low tuition cost through online programs, such as Georgian. For more languages in summer intensive programs, please visit our student resources page. For questions about enrolling in courses through the BTAA or about summer intensive programs, email reec@illinois.edu.
REEES majors must complete two courses of advanced conversation and/or composition in Russian or another language of Eastern Europe or Eurasia beyond the level specified by the LAS requirement, or equivalent proficiency. MA students must have at least three years of a foreign language.