RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

 

Professors: John Bonin (Economics), Susanne Fusso (Chair)(Russian Language and Literature), Priscilla Meyer (Russian Language and Literature), Philip Pomper (History), Peter Rutland (Government)

Associate Professor: Duffield White (Russian Language and Literature)

Adjunct Associate Professor: Irina Aleshkovsky (Russian Language and Literature)

Visiting Fellows in Slavic Studies:  Vladimir Mylnikov (Spring)

Departmental Advising Experts (2000-2001): Duffield White, Priscilla Meyer (Fall), Susanne Fusso (Spring), Peter Rutland, Philip Pomper

 

 

The major in Russian and East European Studies is designed to provide a broad background in Russian, Soviet, and East European history, politics, economics, and literature. To be accepted into the program, students must have a minimum overall average of B in courses related to the major.

 

Major program requirements for student entering the major prior to January 2001.   Majors must complete three years of college-level Russian or the equivalent.  Each student, in consultation with an advisor, will work out an individual program consisting of at least two courses from each of the fields listed below (politics and economics, history, and literature) and one or more additional courses in one of these fields. The field distributions are designed to familiarize the student with several distinctive modes of inquiry, the additional course or courses to ensure a degree of mastery in one of them.

 

    Major program requirements for students entering the major after January 2001.

(a) Russian track: Majors must complete three years of college-level Russian or the equivalent. Each student, in consultation with an advisor, will work out an individual program consisting of at least one course from each of the fields listed below (politics and economics, history, and literature) and three more courses in the three fields (distributed as agreed with the advisor).

(b) Central European track: Majors must complete two years of college-level Russian or the equivalent, plus one semester of language study (during study abroad) of either Czech, Polish, or Hungarian. If the student can demonstrate fluency in Czech, Polish, or Hungarian, the Russian requirement may be waived. Each student, in consultation with an advisor, will work out an individual program consisting of six more courses (above the language courses) relating to the area of interest, of which one must be taken during study abroad. Students choosing the Central European track must write either a senior essay or a senior honors thesis (which would count as part of the six-course requirement).

 

Study abroad. Majors are strongly encouraged to participate in either a summer or a semester program of study in the Former Soviet Union (FSU), for which academic credit will be given.

Departmental honors. To qualify to receive honors or high honors in Russian and East European Studies, a student must write a senior thesis that will be evaluated by a committee consisting of the tutor, a second reader from the Russian and East European Studies faculty, and one additional reader from the faculty at large. This committee makes the final decision on departmental honors.

 

I. RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

ECON235          Economies in Transition

ECON250          Marxian Political Economy

ECON252          Analytical Political Economy

ECON254          Classical Political Economy and Its Modern Legacy

GOVT273          The Cold War

GOVT274          Russian Politics

GOVT277          Transition in East Europe

GOVT283          East European Politics

 

II. RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY

HIST130            Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

HIST210            Balkan Peoples, Balkan States

HIST218            From Balkan Peoples to Balkan Countries, 1804-1999

HIST269            Russian History to 1881

 

III. RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

RUSS101 & 102 Elementary Russian

RUSS105          Intensive Elementary Russian

RUSS111 & 112 Intermediate Russian

RUSS201 & 202 Third-Year Russian

RUSS205          The 19th-Century Russian Novel

RUSS206          A Matter of Life and Death: Fiction in the Soviet Era

RUSS207          Popular Culture in Russia

RUSS209          The Beginnings of the Russian Short Story

RUSS211          Readings in 19th-Century Russian Fiction

RUSS212          The Short Course: Readings in 20th-Century Fiction

RUSS220          Speak, Memory: Autobiography and Memoir in Russian Literature

RUSS222          Doubles in Literature

RUSS240          Reading Stories

RUSS250          Pushkin

RUSS251          Dostoevsky

RUSS252          Tolstoy

RUSS253          Gogol's "Dead Souls"

RUSS254          The French and Russian Novel

RUSS255          The Central and Eastern European Novel

RUSS256          Russian Formalism

RUSS257          Women in Russia: 1825-2000

RUSS261          19th-Century Russian Poetry

RUSS262          The Gogolian Tradition in Russian Literature

RUSS263          Nabokov and Cultural Synthesis

RUSS266          Russian Modernist Poetry

RUSS269          Russian Drama

RUSS270          Introduction to 20th-Century Literary Theory

RUSS272          Chekhov and Drama of the Age of Realism

RUSS302          Advanced Russian: Stylistics