Each student will complete a minor field, consisting of four courses. The minor field may focus on a second Slavic language and literature, comparative literature, performing arts or fine arts, cultural studies, film studies, a well-defined theoretical or interdisciplinary field, Russian and East European history, or Slavic linguistics. Throughout this process students should be speaking with the Director of Graduate Studies and other department faculty about the selection/shaping of a minor field and the coursework that will lie at its foundation.

Students will work with the Director of Graduate Studies when choosing their minor field, and should take one course towards their minor field during each semester of their first and second years. Of the four four-credit courses required for the minor field, at least one must be a Slavic Department course, and only one can be a language course. 

Students present their minor field portfolios to the department in the fall of their third year.