Curriculum
Courses
Faculty

Institute Colloquiums

• REEI-R 500 Russian and East European Issues (1-4 cr.) Selected issues in Russian and East European history, politics, culture, econom­ics, and society. 
• REEI-R 575 Graduate Readings in Russian and East European Studies (1-3 cr.) Consent of instructor and the director of the Russian and East European Institute required. 
• REEI-R 600 Proseminar in Russian and East European Area Studies (3 cr.) Introduction to the disciplines and methodologies of Rus­sian and East European area studies.
• REEI-R 601 Interdisciplinary Colloquium in Russian and East Euro­pean Studies (1.5-3 cr.) Capstone course for the Russian and East European Institute master’s degree, emphasizing readings in current problems and completion of a major research paper. 

Group One

Business

• BUS-D 503 International Business Environment (1.5 cr.)
• BUS-D 504 Operations of International Business (1.5 cr.)
• BUS-D 594 International Competitive Strategy (1.5 cr.)
• BUS-D 595 International Management (1.5 cr.)
• BUS-F 570 International Financial Markets (1.5 cr.)
• BUS-F 571 International Corporate Finance (1.5 cr.)
• BUS-L 579 Cybersecurity Law and Policy (1.5 cr.)
• BUS-M 594 Global Marketing Management (3 cr.)
• BUS-X 575 Kelley International Finance Perspectives Field Study (arr. cr.)
• BUS-X 699 International Business and Culture (3 cr.) 

Central Eurasian

• CEUS-R 502 Finland in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 509 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 515 Politics and Society in Central Asian (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 527 Post-Soviet Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 528 Post-Soviet Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 529 Topics in Central Asian Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 549 Topics in Hungarian Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 569 Topics in Mongolian Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 589 Topics in Turkish Studies: Social Science Topics (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 594 Environmental Problems and Social Constraints in Northern and Central Eurasia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 595 Politics of Identity (3 cr.)
• CUES-R 599 Central Eurasian Studies (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 693 Theorizing Central Eurasia: The Problems of Nationalism (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 697 Soviet and Post-Soviet Nationality Policies and Problems (3 cr.) 
• CEUS-R 790 Seminar in Central Eurasian Studies: Social Science Topics (3 cr.)

Economics

• ECON-E 501 Russian Economy (3 cr.)
• ECON-E 501 Seminar in Economics: Soviet-Type Economies in Transition (3 cr.)
• ECON-E 698 Comparative Economics and Economics of Transition (3 cr.)

Education

• EDUC-H 551 Comparative Education I (3 cr.)
• EDUC-H 552 Comparative Education II (3 cr.)

European Studies

• EURO-W 501 The Economics of European Integration (3 cr.)
• EURO-W 504 Model European Union (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• EURO-W 605 Topics in West European Studies (REE area topics) (3 cr.)

Gender Studies

• GNDR-G 701 Marxism and Gender

International Studies

• INTL-I 500 Topics in Global Studies (3 cr.)
• INTL-I 506 Seminar in Identity and Conflict (3 cr.)
• INTL-I 510 Seminar in Diplomacy, Security and Governance (3 cr.)
• INTL-I 545 Practicum in Human Rights Law and International Law (3 cr.)
• INTL-I 702 Independent Study in Global Studies (1-4 cr.)
• INTL-I 705 Multidisciplinary Graduate Seminar in Human Rights (3 cr.) 

• LAW-B 523 War Crimes (previously approved topics include: The Milosevic Trial and Trying Slobodan Milosevic) (3 cr.)
• LAW-B 565 International Criminal Law (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 
• LAW-B 575 Constitutional Design in Multiethnic Countries (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 
• LAW-B 755 European Union Law (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 
• LAW-L 675 Lessons of the Yugoslav Crisis (3 cr.)
• LAW-L 793 Seminar in Human Rights (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 

Political Science

• POLS-Y 368 Russian & Soviet Foreign Pol (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 385 Russian Political Ideas (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 557 Comparative Politics: Approaches and Issues (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 657 Comparative Politics (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 669 International Relations (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 673 Empirical Theory and Method (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 675 Political Philosophy (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• POLS-Y 681 Readings in Comparative Politics (REE area topics) (1-4 cr.)

Public and Environmental Affairs

• SPEA-E 503 Natural Gas: Technical and Policy Challenges (3 cr.)
• SPEA-E 590 Energy Policy from a Nation State Perspective (3cr.) 
• SPEA-V 524 Civil Society in a Comparative Perspective (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• SPEA-V 550 Topics in Public Affairs (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• SPEA-V 573 Comparative Public Management (3 cr.)
• SPEA-V 575 Comparative Public Management and Administration (3 cr.)
• SPEA-V 576 Approaches to Development (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• SPEA-V 577 Intro Comparative and International Affairs (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 
• SPEA-V 578 International Economics, Strategy, and Trade Policy (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 
• SPEA-V 589 Topics in Public Policy: Democratization and Transforma­tion in Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (3 cr.)
• SPEA-V 710 International Public Policy (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 

Russian and East European Institute

• REEI-R 500 Russian and East European Issues (3 cr.)

Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

• SLAV-R 572 Business Russian (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 592 Methodology of Russian Language Instruction (3 cr.)
• SLAV-S 540 Graduate Readings in Slavic Studies: Social Science topics (3 cr.) 

Group Two

Central Eurasian

• CEUS-R 501 The Baltic States Since 1918 (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 502 Finland in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 509 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 510 Intro to Central Asian History (REE area topic) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 513 Islam in the Former Soviet Union (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 515 Politics and Society in Central Asia (REE area topic) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 529 Topics in Central Asian Studies (REE area topic) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 547 East Central European Cities in Comparative Perspectives (3 cr.) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 549 Topics in Hungarian Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 560 Modern Mongolia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 569 Topics in Mongolian Studies (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 583 Ottoman Classical Age 1300-1600: Ten Sultans, One Empire (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 593 The Mongol Conquest (3 cr.) 
• CEUS-R 596 Ruz, Khazar, and Bulgars (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 599 Selected Topics in Central Eurasian Studies: Historical Topics (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 611 Ethnic History of Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 612 Central Asia under Russian Rule (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 613 Islamic Central Asia in the Sixteenth Nineteenth Centuries (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 616 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia (3 cr.) 
• CEUS-R 627 Islam and Modernity in Central Asia (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 628 Russia's Orient (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 629 Islamic Hagiography of Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 698 Empire and Ethnicity in Modern Russian History (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 713 Sources for the Central Asian History (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 790 Seminar in Central Eurasian Studies: History topics (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 

Geography

• GEOG-G 427 Russia and Its Neighbors (3 cr.)
• GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe (3 cr.)
• GEOG-G 603 Forced Migration
• GEOG-G 830 Readings in Geography 

History

• HIST-H 640 Colloquium in Russian History (4 cr.)
• HIST-H 645 Colloquium in East European History (4 cr.)
• HIST-H 720 Seminar in European History (REE area topics) (4 cr.)
• HIST-H 740 Seminar in Russian History (4 cr.) 
• HIST-H 745 Seminar in East European History (4 cr.) 
• HIST-H 620 Colloquium in Modern West European History (REE area topics) (4 cr.)
• HIST-H 699 Colloquium in Comparative History (4 cr.)
• HIST-R 500 Topics in Russian and East European History (3 cr.)
• HIST-T 500 Topics in History (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 

Group Three

Anthropology

• ANTH-E 600 Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 612 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 614 Post Socialist Gender Formations (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 645 Seminar in Medical Anthropology (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 677 Performing Nationalism (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 682 Memory and Culture (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 687 Ethnography of Europe (3 cr.)
• ANTH-L 500 Proseminar in Language and Culture (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• ANTH-L 600 Seminar in Ethnography of Comm. (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• ANTH-L 610 Language and Society in Central Asia (3 cr.)  

Central Eurasian

• CEUS-R 508 Estonian Culture and Civilization (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 509 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 513 Islam in the Soviet Union and Successor States (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 515 Politics and Society in Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 518 Labor and Migration in Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 516 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 528 Post-Soviet Transition Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 529 Topics in Central Asian Studies (REE area topic) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 542 Roma History and Culture (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 549 Topics in Hungarian Studies (1-4 cr.)
• CEUS-R 560 Modern Mongolia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 564 Shamanism and Folk Religion of the Mongols (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 569 Topics in Mongolian Studies (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 584 Topics in Turkish Studies: Sociocultural Topics (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 592 Uralic Peoples and Cultures (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 599 Central Eurasian Studies (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 616 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 627 Islam and Modernity in Central Asia (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 641 Art and Music of 19th and 20th Century Hungary (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 642 Bela Bartok: Composer in Context (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 649 Roma through History, Music and Film (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 
• CEUS-R 711 Seminar on Comparative Study of Central Asia and Middle East (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 780 Seminar in Turkish Studies: Sociocultural Topics (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 790 Seminar in Central Eurasian Studies: Sociocultural Topics (3 cr.)

Comparative Literature

• CMLT-C 641 Literature in its Intellectual and Cultural Contexts (REE area topics) (4 cr.)

Criminal Justice

• CJUS-P 680 Seminar: Issues in Criminal Justice: (REE area topics) (3 cr.)

Fine Arts

• FINA-A 425 Byzantine Art (3 cr.)
• FINA-A 442 Twentieth Century Art 1900-1924 (3 cr.)
• FINA-A 480 Russian Art (3 cr.)
• FINA-A 521 Early Christian Arts (REE area topics) (4 cr.)
• FINA-A 525 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium (REE area topics) (4 cr.)
• FINA-A 621 Problems in Early Christian Art (REE area topics) (4 cr.)
• FINA-A 626 Problems in Byzantine Art (3 cr.)

Folklore

• FOLK-F 635 European Folklore/Folk music (REE area topic) (3 cr.)
• FOLK-F 755 Folklore, Culture, and Society (REE area topics) (3 cr.) 

Germanic Studies

• GER-Y 506 Topics in Yiddish Culture (3 cr.)
• GER-Y 815 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (1-4 cr.)

Information and Library Science

• ILS-Z 542 International Information Issues (3 cr.)
• ILS-Z 604 Topics in Library and Info Science – Area and Intl Studies Lib (3 cr.)
• ILS-Z 605 Internship in Library and Information Science (2-6 cr.)
• ILS-Z 629 Topics in Information Sources and Services: Slavic Bibliography (3 cr.)

Media School

• MSCH-J 514 International Communication (3 cr.)
• MSCH-J 560 Topics Colloquium: Reporting Foreign Affairs (3 cr.)

Music

• MUS-M 502 Composers (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• MUS-M 510 Topics in Music Literature (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• MUS-M 527 Symphonic Literature (3 cr.) (REE area topics)
• MUS-M 537 Topics in Russian Music (3 cr.)
• MUS-M 601 Topics in Music Research (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• MUS-M 602 Seminar in Musicology: Music and Politics in Eastern Europe (3 cr.)
• MUS-M 695 Seminar in Romantic Music (REE area topics) (3 cr.)

Religious Studies

• REL-R 531 Orthodox Christianity (3 cr.)

Russian East European

• REEI-R 500 Russian and East European Issues (3 cr.)
• REEI-R 610 Seminar in International Librarianship: International Information Issues (3 cr.)
• REEI-R 620 Topics in Information, Literature, and Bibliography: Slavic Library Materials (3 cr.)

Slavic Languages

• SLAV-L 601 Sociolinguistic Issues in Post-Yugoslavia (3 cr.)
• SLAV-P 566 Polish Film (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 407 Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society I (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 408 Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society II (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 552 Russian and Soviet Film (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 553 Central European Cinema (3 cr.) 
• SLAV-S 540 Graduate Readings in Slavic Studies: Sociocultural Topics (3 cr.) 

Group Four

Central Eurasian

• CEUS-R 503 Classical Finnish Literature (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 504 Modern Finnish Literature (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 509 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 529 Topics in Central Asian Studies (REE area topic) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 549 Topics in Hungarian Studies (REE area topic) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 569 Topics in Mongolian Studies (REE area topics) (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 599 Topics in Central Eurasian Studies: Literature Topics (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 699 Seminar in Central Eurasian Studies: Literature Topics (3 cr.)
• CEUS-R 790 Seminar in Central Eurasian Studies: Literature Topics (REE area topics) (3 cr.)

Comparative Literature

• CMLT-C 535 The Later Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (REE area topics) (4 cr.)
• CMLT-C 641 Literature in Its Intellectual and Cultural Contexts (REE area topics) (4 cr.)
• CMLT-C 581 Workshop in Literary Translation (REE area topic) (4 cr.)
• CMLT-C 603 Topics in Comparative Literature (REE area topic) (4 cr.)

Germanic Studies

• GER-Y 505 Modernity and Tradition in Yiddish Literature and Culture (3 cr.)
• GER-Y 815 Individual Readings in Yiddish Language, Literature, or Culture (1-4 cr.)

Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

• SLAV-C 563 Literatures and Cultures of the Czechs and Slovaks I (3 cr.)
• SLAV-C 564 Literatures and Cultures of the Czechs and Slovaks II (3 cr.)
• SLAV-C 565 Seminar in Czech Literature and Culture (3 cr.)
• SLAV-L 599 Prague School Linguistics and Poetics (3 cr.)
• SLAV-M 565 Individual Readings in Romanian Language and Literature (3 cr.)
• SLAV-P 563 Survey of Polish Literature and Culture I (3 cr.)
• SLAV-P 564 Survey of Polish Literature and Culture I (3 cr.)
• SLAV-P 565 Seminar in Polish Literature and Culture II (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 405 Readings in Russian Literature I (3 cr.) (in Russian)
• SLAV-R 406 Readings in Russian Literature II (3 cr.) (in Russian)
• SLAV-R 500 Proseminar in Russian Literature (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 503 Old Russian Literature (3 cr.) (in Russian)
• SLAV-R 504 Eighteenth Century Russian Literature (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 505 Nineteenth Century Russian Literature I (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 506 Nineteenth Century Russian Literature II (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 507 Twentieth Century Russian Literature I (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 508 Twentieth Century Russian Literature II (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 520 Twentieth Century Russian Author (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 530 Pushkin (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 531 Gogol (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 532 Dostoevsky (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 533 Tolstoy (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 534 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 535 Chekhov (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 545 Jewish Characters in Russian Literature (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 549 Myth and Reality: Women in Russian Literature and in Life (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 550 Russian Drama (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 551 Russian Poetry (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 563 Pushkin to Dostoevsky (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 564 Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn (3 cr.)
• SLAV-R 601 Seminar in Russian Literature (1-6 cr.)
• SLAV-S 540 Graduate Readings in Slavic Studies (3 cr.)
• SLAV-S 563 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I (1-6 cr.)
• SLAV-S 564 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs II (3 cr.)
• SLAV-S 565 Seminar in South Slavic Literature (3 cr.)