<p>How do UCLA, UCSD, and Berkeley compare with their undergraduate russian programs?</p>
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<p>UCLA and UCSD have distinct Russian programs. Berkeley has a Slavic Studies Program but they have an annual conference with Stanford.</p>
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<p>So does that mean that UCSD and UCLA have better programs? And out of those two which is better?</p>
<p>johnny it doesn’t necessarily means a Slavic department is worse than a specific Russian department – but it could mean that you have fewer Russian-specific classes to choose from and may also have requirements in other Slavic areas besides Russian. You may want to read course offerings at each of the schools, as well as google the faculties for additional info. Years ago, Berkeley’s Slavic department was considered the best on the West coast and among the best in the US in large measure because they had the Nobel Prize winning poet Czeslaw Milosz and renown professor Simon Karilinsky there, both of whom attracted nationally recognized visitors to the dept. Also, Berkeley at the time was a foreign language power house, which gave Slavic studies that much more prestige. Berkeley remains a fabulous place to study languages and foreign literatures but whether the Slavic Studies dept. is as good as it used to be I really don’t know.</p>
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