The course described here offers computer-based instruction (CBI) in the history of the Russian literary language. It is designed to follow an introductory CBI Slavic course. The object of the course is to introduce graduate students in Russian literature to the types of changes that language in general, and Russian literary language in particular, undergoes in time and to discuss how these changes vary over a large territory. The most important single limitation of the CBI system is the speed of presentation of the materials to the student, which prohibits the asking of questions. In addition, the course material itself presents certain limitations in that there are historical gaps in information availability, making programming difficult. The CBI portions of this course were offered for the first time to a class of five students during the spring quarter of 1973. On the final examination students were tested on: (1) subjects that had been lectured on and reinforced by supplementary reading; (2) subjects that had been lectured on and reinforced by CBI material; (3) subjects about which they had only read; and (4) CBI material not reinforced by lectures. The results demonstrated that the material presented in the CBI/lecture combination was absorbed the best, and generally the performance of the students was better than in the previous class, which had depended on lectures and reading alone. As a final assessment, it is concluded that the CBI material is pedagogically sound. Sample portions of the programmed lessons and tests are provided. (Author/LG)