The below courses are kept updated as often as possible. Contact the chair if you have questions about the frequency at which a given course is offered.

APPROVED LIST OF COURSES

Humanities

REES 161 (CL 161):  Literature and Empire in Russia’s “Golden Age” (offered every Fall)

REES 162 (CL 162):  Writing Under Authoritarian Regimes: Soviet Russia and Beyond (offered every Spring)

REES 163 (CL 163): Back in the USSR: Encounters with Soviet Russia on the Page and Screen (not offered regularly)

REES 265 (CL 265, ENG 265): Dostoevsky in a Global Context (offered every other Spring)

REES 365 (CL 365): “War and Peace:” Tolstoy’s Novel and Its Undying Questions (offered every other Spring)

ART 216:  Byzantine Art

FAMS 270: National and Transnational Cinemas (when topic is Russian film) (not offered regularly)

REL 306:  Jewish Responses to the Holocaust

REL 307 (JS 307): Jews in Poland, Culture and Memory

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RUSS 111: Intermediate Russian I

RUSS 112: Intermediate Russian II

RUSS 209: Survey of Russian Literature I

RUSS 210: Survey of Russian Literature II

RUSS 211:  Advanced Russian

RUSS 311:  The Russian Short Story

RUSS 316:  Soviet Russian Literature

Social Sciences

GOVT 225:  Politics of Russia, the Other Post-Soviet States, and Eastern Europe

HIST 118: The Cold War

HIST 243:  Imperial Russia

HIST 244:  Russia from Lenin to Putin

HIST 354 Seminar: 1968–Year of Global Rebellion (REES majors focus on Eastern Europe for their paper)

Interdisciplinary

REES 110 (JS 110): The Holocaust

REES 241 (ART 241/HIST241):  History, Art, and Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe (not offered regularly)

REES 267: Revolution! Russian Culture and the Radical Tradition (not offered regularly)

INDS 279: Conflict in Eastern Europe: Past and Present (summer interim course)

REES 460:  Independent Study

REES 495, 496:  Thesis

Though the courses do not directly count for the REES major, Elementary Russian is offered every year:

RUSS 101: Elementary Russian I

RUSS 102: Elementary Russian II