<p>anyone know how popular this major is at the big universities?</p>
<p>my passion at the moment is eastern european/russian lit (stuff like tolstoy, dostoyevsky, turgenev, pushkin, gorky, gogol, chekhov, nabakhov, hesse, kafka, mann, etc etc), and would like to major in it if possible - is it well regarded/at all popular?</p>
<p>It's very interesting, but not very popular. You get into the situation where some people say in order to read such stuff really well, you have to read it in whatever language it was written in. You run into some Russian literature in English classes (in translation), but obviously you'd have to take classes from a Russian or Slavic languages dept. in order to get a lot of it. So the big question is do you already read a Slavic language or do you want to learn a Slavic language? Slavic languages are difficult but not impossible. Also, Slavic literature tends to be extremely philosophical, so you might run into some of the ideas in philosophy classes.</p>
<p>colleges offering majors in slavic lit:
boston college
columbia
cornell
florida state
harvard
northwestern
princeton
stanford
u texas
ucla
uc-santa barbara
u illinois-chicago
u kansas
u manitoba
u michigan
u pitt
u toronto
u virginia
u washington
u waterloo
wayne st
york u.</p>
<p>Hey don't forget UC Berkeley's Department of Slavic Languages and Literature.</p>
<p>Northwestern's Slavic department is awesome! Professor Morson, who teaches Intro to Russian Lit and a special class on War and Peace, is one of the most popular profs at NU.</p>