On 1 July 2024, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will officially change its name to the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. This name change reflects the evolution of our academic unit's geographic and disciplinary expertise.
In addition to five Slavic language and culture areas, we have recently integrated into the main suite of our programs of study two non-Slavic areas – Finnish and Estonian, and we hope to keep expanding the number of national language and culture areas we research and teach. In addition, our department's curriculum now goes well beyond language and literature: we offer a broad variety of courses in cultural history and in various forms of creative cultural expression (cinema, drama and theater, folklore, visual and plastic arts, etc.).
Our academic unit's new name accounts for this geographic and disciplinary evolution, charting the department's future toward further curricular enrichment and thematic diversity.