RES Track Course Listings
Below is a list of courses that fulfill certificate requirements and reflect the breadth of disciplines that correspond with the study of REEES. Not every course is offered every year; some may be one-time-only offerings. In addition, there may be courses not listed below which qualify toward the certificate. Please consult with the program director or program manager.
Fall 2021
HIS 301 Modern Eastern Europe, 19th to 20th Century
HIS 360/RES 360 The Russian Empire: From Peter the Great to Nicholas II
RUS 101 Beginner’s Russian I
RUS 103 Russian for Heritage Speakers
RUS 105 Intermediate Russian I
RUS 207 Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation I
RUS 408/TRA 408 Practical Translation
SLA 219/RES 219 Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky: Introduction to the Great Russian Novel
SLA 303/HUM 306 Seeing Health: Medicine, Literature, and the Visual Arts
SLA 345/ECS 354/RES 345 East European Literature and Politics
SLA 368/HUM 368/GHP 368/COM 388 Literature and Medicine
SLA 411/RES 411/ENG 441/COM 456 Selected Topics in Russian Literature and Culture: Crosscultural Links between Russian and American Literature & Culture
SLA 416/RES 416 Dostoevsky
TUR 101 Elementary Turkish I
TUR 105 Intermediate Turkish I
Spring 2021
HIS 406 Two Empires: Russia and the US from Franklin to Trump
HIS 434/RES 434 Revolutionary Russia
NES 362 Blood, Sex, and Oil: The Caucasus
RUS 102 Beginner’s Russian II
RUS 107 Intermediate Russian II
RUS 108 Russian for Heritage Speakers II
RUS 208 Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation II
SLA 220/RES 220 The Great Russian Novel and Beyond: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Others
SLA 221/RES 221 Soviet Culture, Above and Below Ground
SLA 315/RES 315 Madness in Russian Culture
SLA 369/RES 369/ENG 247 Horror in Film and Literature
SLA 412 Selected Topics in Russian Literature and Culture: (Mis)interpreting Nikolai Gogol
SLA 415/COM 415/RES 415 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: Writing as Fighting
SLA 420/ANT 420/COM 424/RES 420 Communist Modernity: The Politics and Culture of Soviet Utopia
TUR 102 Elementary Turkish II
TUR 107 Intermediate Turkish II
TUR 305 Advanced Turkish: Selected Readings in Historical and Literary Texts
Language:
RUS 101 Beginner's Russian I
RUS 102 Beginner's Russian II
RUS 103 Russian for Heritage Speakers
RUS 105 Intermediate Russian I
RUS 107 Intermediate Russian II
RUS 108 Russian for Heritage Speakers II
RUS 207 Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation I
RUS 208 Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation II
RUS 305 Russian Humor
RUS 407 Advanced Russian Through Film
RUS 408 Advanced Russian Through History
RUS 409 The History of Russian Rock
TUR 101 Elementary Turkish I
TUR 102 Elementary Turkish II
TUR 105 Intermediate Turkish I
TUR 107 Intermediate Turkish II
TUR 305 Advanced Turkish: Selected Readings in Historical and Literary Texts
Culture, Literature, and the Arts:
ART 337/GER 337 Court, Cloister, and City: Art and Architecture in Centreal and Eastern Europe
ART 393/SLA 393/AMS 392/RES 393 Getting the Picture: Photojournalism in the U.S. and Russia
ART 466/SLA 466/ECS 466 The Crossroads of Invention: Art, Society, and Identity in East Central Europe (1500-1914)
COM 410/SLA 410 Bakhtin, Formalists, Cultural Semiotics
COM 415/SLA 415/RES 415 Tolstoy War and Peace
ECS 360/SLA 360 Central European Literature of the 20th Century
MUS 339/SLA 311 Russian Music
SLA 218/RES 218 Soviet Cinema
SLA 219/RES 219 Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky: Introduction to the Great Russian Novel
SLA 220/RES 220 The Great Russian Novel and Beyond: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Others
SLA 221/RES 221 Soviet Culture, Above and Below Ground
SLA 301/ANT 382/RES 301 Russian Folklore
SLA 303/ART 330 Seeing Health: Medicine, Literature, and the Visual Arts
SLA 305/COM 377/RES 305/ANT 343 Roma (Gypsies) in Eastern Europe: The Dynamics of Culture
SLA 307 Manuscripts Don’t Burn: Works of Mikhail Bulgakov
SLA 308/RES 309 The Russian Short Story
SLA 309 Moscow: City to Myth
SLA 310/COM 369/RES 310 Philosophy and Literature: Western Thought and the Russian Dialogic Imagination
SLA 312/RES 312 Russian Drama
SLA 345/ECS 354/COM 345/RES 345 East European Literature and Politics
SLA 347/JDS 337 Jewish Topics in East European Cinema
SLA 350/RES 350 Russian Fairy Tales
SLA 361/RES 361 The Evil Empire: Reading Putin's Russia
SLA 365/RES 365 Russian Science-Fiction (SF) in the 20th Century – Utopia-Dystopia-Post-Utopia
SLA 367/RES 367 On Space in Russian Culture
SLA 368/HUM 368/RES 368/COM 348 Literature and Medicine
SLA 369/RES 369/ENG 247 Horror in Film and Literature
SLA 395/RES 395 Czeslaw Milosz: Poetry, Politics, History
SLA 396/ECS 397 Polish Literature on Screen
SLA 411/RES 411 Selected Topics in Russian Literature and Culture
SLA 412/RES 412 Selected Topics in Russian Literature and Cutlure
SLA 413/RES 413 Pushkin and His Time
SLA 415/COM 415/RES 415 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: Writing as Fighting
SLA 416/RES 416 Dostoevsky
SLA 417/COM 418/ENG 424/RES 417 Vladimir Nabokov
SLA 422 Church Slavonic and History of Slavic
History:
HIS 360 The Russian Empire: From Peter the Great to Nicholas II
HIS 362 The Soviet Empire
HIS 406 Two Empires: Russia and the US from Franklin to Trump
HIS 480 Property How, Why and What We Own
NES 362 Blood, Sex and Oil: The Caucasus
NES 406 The Great War in the Middle East
Social Sciences:
NES 362 Blood, Sex and Oil: The Caucasus
NES 364/REL 399 Secularism in Muslim Central Asia and the Middle East
POL 360 Social Movements and Revolutions
POL 432 Seminar in Comparative Politics: Russia, Ukraine and the New Cold War
POL 433 Seminar in Comparative Politics: Democratization and Economic Reforms After Communism
POL 374 Russian and Post-Soviet Politics
SLA 338/ANT 338 Between Heaven and Hell: Myths and Memories of Siberia
SLA 368/HUM 368/RES 368 Literature and Medicine
SLA 420/ANT 420/COM 424/RES 420 Communist Modernity: The Politics and Culture of Soviet Utopia
SOC 308/RES 308 Communism and Beyond: China and Russia