Russian and East European Studies

Please note that, with the creation of the European Studies Major,
this major will be incorporated into that major as a focus.

See European Studies Major.

Major Requirements	The interdisciplinary major in Russian, Central and East European Studies requires a total of 33 credits. Of the eleven courses, no more than two may be from each of the following disciplines: economics, geography, history, Hungarian, journalism, Polish, Political Science, Russian. Only one independent study may be counted toward the major. Substitutions are possible with the permission of the director.
Four Core Courses (12 credits)	01:510:271 Russia and the West (3) 01:790:383 Politics of Post-Communist Economic Reforms (3) 01:450:332 Newly Independent States and Eastern Europe(3) 01:220:378 Economies of the U.S.S.R. and Russia (3)
Exit Seminar (3 credits)	01:861:455 Contemporary Russia, Central and Eastern Europe (3)
Six Elective Courses (18 credits)	Five of the elective courses must be at the 300 level or above.
Economics	01:220:362 Comparative Economic Systems (3)
Geography	01:450:262 Geographical Background to Current World Affairs (3) 01:450:405 Political Geography (3)
History	01:506:231 Revolution (3) 01:506:361 History of Socialism and Communism (3) 01:510:371 Russia from the Vikings to Peter the Great (3) 01:510:373 State and Society in Imperial Russia (3) 01:510:375 Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union (3) 01:510:381 The Making of Modern Eastern Europe (3) 01:510:383 Nationalism and Socialism in Eastern Europe (3) sp 01:510:385 The Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe (3) 01:510:391 Historical Studies: Ideas of Modernity (3)
Hungarian	01:535:259 Hungarian Literature and Civilization (3) 01:535:260 Hungarian Culture Today (3) 01:535:360 Special Topics in Hungarian Studies (3) 01:535:460 Advanced Special Topics in Hungarian Studies (3)
Journalism	04:571:463 Advanced Research Studies in Journalism and Mass Media (3)
Polish	01:787:259 Tradition and National Identity in Polish Literature (3) 01:787:370 Special Topics In Polish Studies (3) 01:787:470 Advanced Special Topics In Polish Studies (3) 01:787:475 Seminar In Polish Studies (3)
Political Science	01:790:380 Russian and Central European Political Thought (3) 01:790:381 Post-Communist Democracies (3) 01:790:382 Foreign Policy of Russia and the East European States (3)
Russian	01:860:269 Dostoevsky (3) 01:860:327 The Russian Novel I (3) 01:860:328 The Russian Novel II (3) 01:860:335 Landscapes of the Mind: Country and City in Russian Literature and Art (3) 01:860:336 Art and Literature of the Soviet Period and the Varieties of Nonconformism (3) 01:860:337 Ideology and the Construction of Fact: Soviet Cinema and the Historical Record (3) 01:860:435 Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Russian Literature (3)
Russian, Central and East European Studies	01:861:360 Special Topics in Hungarian Studies (3) 01:861:391 Historical Studies: Ideas of Modernity (3) 01:861:460 Advanced Special Topics in Hungarian Studies (3) 01:861:370 Special Topics in Polish Studies (3) 01:861:470 Advanced Special Topics in Polish Studies (3) 01:861:475 Seminar in Polish Studies (3) top