Departments & Programs

Russian and East European Institute

Courses Satisfying the Distribution Requirement for the REEI Minors

The following is a list of courses that were offered in the recent past and are expected to be offered again. This list is subject to change. A current list of courses for each semester may be obtained in Ballantine Hall 565. Courses must have at least 25 per cent Russian and East European area related content to count towards the REEI minor. Please consult with Jennifer Ashcraft, the REEI Academic Advisor, prior to registering for courses to count toward the minor. (REE=Russian and/or East European.)

Group I (Historical/Geographical)

Central Eurasian Studies
  • CEUS-R 191 Introduction to Central Eurasia (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • CEUS-R 302 Finland in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic–Finnish Studies (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 310 Introduction to Central Asian History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REEI Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies (1–4 cr.)
  • CEUS-R 360 Modern Mongolia (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (3 cr.) CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 383 Ten Sultans, One Empire: Ottoman Classical Age, 1300-1600 (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (1-4 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 393 The Mongol Century (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 412 Central Asia under Russian Rule (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • CEUS-R 413 Islamic Central Asia: Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
College of Arts and Sciences
  • COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE CAPP (REE Area topics)
Collins Living-Learning Center
  • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REE Area Topics)
  • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
European Studies, Institute for
  • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
Geography
  • GEOG-G 120 Regions of the World (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • GEOG-G 427 Russia and Its Neighbors (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
History
  • HIST-B 300 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-C 393 Ottoman History (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 102 Icon and Axe: Russia from Earliest Times to 1861 (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 103 Icon and Axe: Russia from 1861 to Present (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 200 Issues in Russian and East European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • HIST-D 300 Issues in Russian/East European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • HIST-D 302 The Gorbachev Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 310 Russian Revolution and the Soviet Regime (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 320 Modern Ukraine (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 325 Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804–1923 (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 327 Nation-Making and Imperial Decline in East Central Europe, 1780–1918 (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 329 Eastern Europe in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 330 Eastern Europe in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-D 400 Issues in Russian/East European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE area topics)
  • HIST-H 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-J 300 Seminar in History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • HIST-J 400 Seminar in History  (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
Hutton Honors College
  • HON-H 204 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
Jewish Studies
  • JSTU-J 251 Introduction to Jewish History: from the Bible to Spanish Expulsion (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC

Group II (Social Science)

Anthropology
  • ANTH-E 332 Jewish Women: Anthropological Perspectives (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE DUS
  • ANTH-E 371 Modern Jewish Culture and Society (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • ANTH-E 455 Anthropology of Religion (3 cr.) CASE S&H
Central Eurasian Studies
  • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic–Finnish Studies (3 cr.)
  • CEUS-R 315 Politics and Society in Central Asia (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies (1–4 cr.)
  • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (3 cr.) CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (1–4 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 394 Environmental Problems and Social Constraints in Northern and Central Eurasia (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • CEUS-R 416 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
College of Arts and Sciences
  • COLL-X 311 Experimental Topics (3 cr.) (REE Social Science Topics)
Collins Living-Learning Center
  • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium  (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REE Area Topics)
  • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Social Science Topics)
Criminal Justice
  • CJUS-P 340 Law and Society: The Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • CJUS-P 474 Law, Crime, and Justice in Post-Soviet Russia (3 cr.) CASE S&H 
  • CJUS-P 493 Seminar in Criminal Justice (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
Economics
  • ECON-E 386 Soviet-Type Economies in Transition (3 cr.)
  • ECON-E 390 Undergraduate Seminar in Economics (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • ECON-S 202 Introduction to Macroeconomics: Honors  (3 cr.) CASE S&H
European Studies, Institute for
  • EURO-W 304 Model European Union (1–3 cr.)
  • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in West European Studies (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
Gender Studies
  • GNDR-G 402 Problems in Gender Studies (1–3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
Global Village Living-Learning Center
  • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REEI Area Topics)
  • GLLC-G 220 Global Village Colloquium (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REEI Area Topics)
  • GLLC-G 321 Intelligence and National Security (3 cr.) CASE S&H
International Studies
  • INTL-I 100 Introduction to International Studies (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • INTL-I 203 Global Development (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies (1–3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance (3 cr.) (REEI Area Topics)
  • INTL-I 325 International Issues through Foreign Languages (1 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • INTL-I 400 International Studies Capstone Seminar (3 cr.)
Political Science
  • POLS-Y 107 Introduction to Comparative Politics (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • POLS-Y 200 Contemporary Political Topics (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • POLS-Y 210 Honors Seminar (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • POLS-Y 332 Russian Politics (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 340 East European Politics (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 348 The Politics of Genocide (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 351 Political Simulations (1–3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • POLS-Y 368 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 375 War and International Conflict (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • POLS-Y 381 Classical Political Thought (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
Business, Kelley School of
  • BUS-D 301 International Business Environment (3 cr.)
  • BUS-D 302 International Business: Operating International Enterprises (3 cr.)
  • BUS-D 496 Foreign Study in Business (2–6 cr.)
Public and Environmental Affairs, School of
  • SPEA-E 466 International and Comparative Environmental Policy (3 cr.)
  • SPEA-V 160 National and International Policy (3 cr.)
  • SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)

Group III (Literature and Culture)

Anthropology

  • ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
Central Eurasian Studies
  • CEUS-R 304 Modern Finnish Literature (3 cr.)
  • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic–Finnish Studies (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 313 Islam in the Soviet Union and Successor States (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • CEUS-R 316 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies (1–4 cr.)
  • CEUS-R 352 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (3 cr.) CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (1–4 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
  • CEUS-R 392 Uralic Peoples and Cultures (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (1–4 cr.) (REE Area Topics)

College of Arts and Sciences

  • COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
Collins Living-Learning Center
  • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REE Literature/Culture Topics)
  • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Literature/Culture Topics)
Comparative Literature
  • CMLT-C 335 Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • CMLT-C 340 Women in World Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CMLT-C 347 Literature and Ideas (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CMLT-C 378 Topics in Yiddish Culture   (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • CMLT-C 400 Studies in Comparative Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REE Area Topics)
English
  • ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
Fine Arts
  • FINA-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • FINA-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art 1900–1924 (4 cr.) CASE GCC
  • FINA-A 480 Russian Art (4 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
  • FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
Germanic Studies
  • GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REEI Area Topics)
  • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REEI Area Topics)
  • GER-Y 495 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (1–3 cr.) (REEI Area Topics)
Global Village Living-Learning Center
  • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REE Area Topics)
Hutton Honors College
  • HON-H 203 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REEI Area Topics)
  • HON-H 204 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REEI Area Topics)
Jacobs School of Music
  • MUS-Z 282 Music of Russia (3 cr.)

Media School, The

  • MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (REE Area Topics)
  • MSCH-J 448 Global Journalism: Issues and Research (3 cr.)
  • MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism (3 cr.) (REE Area Topics)
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • NELC-N 305 Issues in Middle Eastern Studies (3 cr.) CASE GCC (REEI Area Topics)
Religious Studies
  • REL-A 430 Topics in the History of Judaism (REE Area Topics) (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REE Area Topics)
  • REL-D 362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism  (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • REL-R 300 Studies in Religion (3 cr.) CASE A&H (REE Area Topics)
Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
  • SLAV-C 223 Introduction to Czech Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-C 363 History of Czech Literature and Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-C 364 Modern Czech Literature and Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-C 365 Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (REE Area Topics)
  • SLAV-P 223 Introduction to Polish Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-P 363-P364 Survey of Polish Literature and Culture I–II (3–3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 123 Masterworks of Russian Short Fiction (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 223 Introduction to Russian Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 224 Contemporary Russian Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 229 Russian Folktales (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 263 Pushkin to Dostoevsky (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 264 Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 334 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 345 Jewish Characters in Russian Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 352 Russian and Soviet Film (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 353 Central European Cinema (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-R 405-R 406 Readings in Russian Literature I–II (3–3 cr.) CASE A&H
  • SLAV-R 407-R 408 Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society I–II (3–3 cr.) CASE A&H
  • SLAV-S 320 Special Topics in Slavic Studies (1–3 cr.)
  • SLAV-S 363-S 364 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I–II (3–3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • SLAV-U 223 Introduction to Ukrainian Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC

Language Classes

Students completing the undergraduate minor in Russian and East European studies with language certification are required to complete at least 6 credit hours of language study above the first-year level in a related language (Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian and Croatian, Ukrainian, or Yiddish). The following courses count toward this requirement:

Central Eurasian Studies
  • CEUS-T 203-T 204 Intermediate Estonian I-II (4-4 cr.)
  • CEUS-T 241-T 242 Intermediate Hungarian I-II (4-4 cr.)
Germanic Studies
  • GER-Y 200-Y 250 Intermediate Yiddish I-II (3-3 cr.)
Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
  • SLAV-C 201-C 202 Intermediate Czech I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-C 301-C 302 Advanced Intermediate Czech I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-M 201-M 202 Intermediate Romanian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-N 221/N 231-N 232 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I-II (4-4 cr.)
  • SLAV-N 242-N 341 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II-Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I (4-4 cr.)
  • SLAV-N 341/N 351 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I (4 cr.)
  • SLAV-N 352/N 362-N 461 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II-Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I (4-4 cr.)
  • SLAV-N 461/N 471-N 472 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I-II (4-4 cr.)
  • SLAV-P 201-P 202 Intermediate Polish I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-P 301-P 302 Advanced Intermediate Polish I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-P 473-P 474 Fourth-Year Polish I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-R 201-R 202 Intermediate Russian I-II (4-4 cr.)
  • SLAV-R 301-R 302 Advanced Intermediate Russian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-R 325-R 326 Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian I-II (1-1 cr.)
  • SLAV-R 401-R 402 Advanced Russian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-R 425-R 426 Advanced Oral Russian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-R 470 Political Russian (3 cr.)
  • SLAV-S 201-S 202 Intermediate Serbian and Croatian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • SLAV-S 301-S 302 Advanced Intermediate Serbian and Croatian I-II (3-3 cr.)