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Minor in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

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Undergraduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

The minor in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) is an interdisciplinary area studies program that allows the participating student significant opportunity to select REEES courses in various departments according to his or her interests.

REQUIREMENTS

  1. Two core courses: one on Russia and one on Eastern Europe or Eurasia, to be chosen by the student from an annual list of qualifying courses issued by CREEES.
  2. At least four additional REEES courses, totaling at least 20 units.
  3. The student's courses, core and additional, must be distributed among at least three disciplines. In addition to REEES courses in the departments of History, Political Science, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, REEES courses in departments such as Anthropology, Economics, and Sociology, when offered, may qualify. The CREEES academic coordinator determines which courses qualify for the minor.
  4. A capstone experience in REEES, including, but not limited to, one of the following:
    1. a departmental seminar course for advanced undergraduates
    2. directed reading and research with a Stanford faculty member or a CREEES-approved resident or visiting scholar
    3. participation in the Stanford Overseas Studies Program in Moscow.

Foreign Language—The REEES minor has no language requirement, but students are strongly encouraged to attain working competence in Russian or another relevant language. Courses at the third-year level or above in Russian or another language of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe (excluding German) may be counted towards the REEES minor, up to a maximum of 3 units per academic quarter, 9 units total.

Additional Information—The total number of courses applied to the REEES minor must be at least six, but the minor should total no more than 36 units. Courses counting towards the REEES minor may not be counted towards the student's major. Courses taken at Stanford overseas campuses (particularly the Moscow campus) may count towards the REEES minor, with the approval in each case of the CREEES academic coordinator; at least three courses for the minor must be taken in residence at Stanford.

Approval of CREEES Academic Coordinator—Students interested in pursuing the REEES minor should consult the CREEES academic coordinator. The minor is declared online using the Axess system. Students declaring the REEES minor must do so no later than three quarters prior to their intended quarter of degree conferral. Approval of minor declarations and certification of requirements are made by the academic coordinator.

Students pursuing the REEES minor work with the CREEES academic coordinator, who is responsible for determining that requirements for the minor are satisfied.

Core Courses for 2008-09—

ANTHRO 147A. Folklore, Mythology, and Islam

HISTORY 120A. Foundations of Modern Russia

HISTORY 120B. The Russian Empire

HISTORY 125. 20th-Century Eastern Europe

POLISCI 114D. Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (Same as IR 114D.)

REES 105. Central and East European Politics

SLAVGEN 146. History and Other Theories of Time and Action in the Great Russian Novel

SLAVGEN 147. The Age of War and Revolution: A Survey of Russian Literature and Culture, 1900-1950s

SLAVGEN 155. Anton Chekhov and the Turn of the Century

SLAVGEN 190. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in Dialogue with Contemporary Philosophical, Social, and Ethical Thought (Same as Humanities 197F.)

Additional 2008-09 courses which may be counted for the minor—

ANTHRO 111A. Cultural Heritage in Post-Socialist Europe (Same as ARCHLGY 111.)

ANTHRO 126. Post-Socialist City

ANTHRO 148A. Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition

ARCHLGY 111. Cultural Heritage in Post-Socialist Europe (Same as ANTHRO 111A.)

ARTHIST 245. Photographic Utopia Under Stalin

COMPLIT 115. Nabokov in the Transnational Context (Same as SLAVGEN 156.)

COMPLIT 119. Dostoevsky and His Times (Same as SLAVGEN 151.)

FILMSTUD 134A. Poetic Cinema: The Soviet School

HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

HISTORY 22N. Images and Practices of Violence

HISTORY 103E. History of Nuclear Weapons (Same as POLISCI 116.)

HISTORY 137. The Holocaust

HISTORY 182A. The Ottoman Empire

HISTORY 221B. The Woman Question in Modern Russia

HISTORY 223. Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia

HISTORY 224B. Modern Afghanistan

HISTORY 229. Poles and Jews

HISTORY 299X. Design and Methodology for International Field Research

INTNLREL 166. Russia and Islam

MS&E 193. Technology and National Security

POLISCI 116. History of Nuclear Weapons

POLISCI 140C. The Comparative Political Economy of Post-Communist Transitions

POLISCI 240T. American Efforts at Promoting Democracy Abroad: Theory and Reality

REES 130. With God in Russia: Orthodox Christianity in the 19th and 20th Centuries

SLAVGEN 13N. Russia and the Russian Experience

SLAVGEN 77Q. Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol

SLAVGEN 145. Age of Experiment: From Pushkin to Gogol

SLAVGEN 151. Dostoevsky and His Times (Same as COMPLIT 119.)

SLAVGEN 153. Russian Jewish Literature

SLAVGEN 156. Nabokov in the Transnational Context (Same as COMPLIT 115.)

SLAVGEN 195. Russian Theater

SLAVLIT 187. Russian Poetry of the 18th and 19th Centuries

SOC 15N. The Transformation of Socialist Societies

Other courses may be counted towards the minor by special arrangement with the instructor and the CREEES academic coordinator.

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