Students of Russian at UVM pursue courses in Russian language, literature, and culture over four years of campus study. UVM's German and Russian Department boasts an outstanding teaching reputation and a dedication to scholarship, as measured by numerous publications and teaching awards. Areas of faculty expertise include Russian phonology and lexicology, Russian news media, 19th and 20th century Russian literature, specialized courses on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, as well as more general 19th- and 20th-century survey courses.