Below are a list of classes that have, historically, been used by REEI MA students in obtaining their degrees. However, that does not mean that these classes are always guaranteed to be offered in the desired semester. Updated September 2022
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-L 589 Cybersecurity Risk Management Capstone (3cr)
- 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 523 International Security Regimes (3cr)
- INTL-I 545 Practicum in Human Rights Law and International Law (3 cr.)
- INTL-I 545 Practicum in Human Rights (2cr)
- INTL-I 702 Independent Study in Global Studies (1-4 cr.)
- INTL-I 705 Multidisciplinary Graduate Seminar in Human Rights (3 cr.)
Law
- 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 572 Political Russian (3cr)
- 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 692 Language and Society in Central Asia (3cr)
- CEUS-R 711 Seminar on Comparative Study of Central Asia and the 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-R 601 Marx and Marxisms (3cr)
- 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.)
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