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Russian and East European Studies


The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program (REEES) of Emory University is administered through the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC).  It is a dynamic interdepartmental program that seeks to broaden knowledge about Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia through multi- and inter-disciplinary programming.   Along with core faculty in REALC, faculty of REEES include specialists in history, political science, art history, film and media studies, and music. REEES supports an undergraduate major and minor in “REES” with options in language and culture or interdisciplinary studies. A range of study abroad programs, internships, and opportunities for undergraduate research and Honors are available. [Please see REALC] 

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Concentrations

Faculty

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Juliette Apkarian
Core

Courses

REES 100-Level Courses

Fulfills GER freshman seminar requirement. Seminar will introduce students to special topics in Russian and East European studies with a cross-disciplinary approach.


Credit Hours
3
GER
FS
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

REES 200-Level Courses

An introduction to Russian, this course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the questions that have animated Russians for centuries: What is Russia? Where is Russia going? These issues are approached from a number of perspectives: historical, cultural, political, legal, & artistic.


Credit Hours
3
GER
HAP
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

An introduction to Russian, this course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the questions that have animated Russians for centuries: What is Russia? Where is Russia going? These issues are approached from a number of perspectives: historical, cultural, political, legal, & artistic.


Credit Hours
4
GER
SS
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Explores the repressions of the Soviet totalitarianism through the experience of those who lived through it. Taking a humanistic approach, this course will focus on autobiography, memoirs, letters, and diaries to explore average Soviet citizens' interior life during Stalinism.


Credit Hours
3
GER
HA
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 251

Explores the repressions of the Soviet totalitarianism through the experience of those who lived through it. Taking a humanistic approach, this course will focus on autobiography, memoirs, letters, and diaries to explore average Soviet citizens' interior life during Stalinism.


Credit Hours
4
GER
HAW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 251W

Study of Russian, Eastern European, or Eurasian languages, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Study of Russian, Eastern European, or Eurasian languages, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.


Credit Hours
1 - 5
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

REES 300-Level Courses

This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.


Credit Hours
3
GER
HSC
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 328

This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.


Credit Hours
4
GER
HSCW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 328W

Topics to be announced in advance.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Topics to be announced in advance.


Credit Hours
1 - 5
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

REES 400-Level Courses

Jr/Sr Colloquium. This class will study not simply the rise and rule of Iosef Stalin-one of the Twentieth Century's most sanguinary rulers-but also the deep social, political and cultural revolutions he wrought that still shape post-Soviet Russia and the world.


Credit Hours
4
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 420W

Jr/Sr Colloquium. Investigates he most infamous symbol of Soviet Communism, the forced-labor camps-the Gulags. From the intake of millions of "dekulakized" peasants to the killing fields of wartime Gulag to the Party's ""purged,"" the Gulag evolved and had a history. Here, we focus on that history.


Credit Hours
4
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 421W

Jr/Sr Colloquium. Concentrate on the experience of women across the broad scope of Russian history. Will investigate women's roles in the Russian aristocracy, serfdom, revolutionary movement, Communist state and post-Soviet embrace of capitalism and gender subordination.


Credit Hours
4
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 422W

Jr/Sr Colloquium. This course will examine Russia and its Muslims over a long chronological span (with particular emphasis on the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries) and broad geographical focus (the Volga, the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as the Russian heartland).


Credit Hours
4
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • HIST 423W

Required of Russian area studies majors. The interdisciplinary thesis must be approved by the Russian and East European Studies Committee and will be directed by a member of the faculty whose specialty lies in the field emphasized by the student's course of study.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Required of Russian area studies majors. The interdisciplinary thesis must be approved by the Russian and East European Studies Committee and will be directed by a member of the faculty whose specialty lies in the field emphasized by the student's course of study.


Credit Hours
1 - 5
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This is the first of the two courses required for students pursuing Honors in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.


Credit Hours
3
GER
XA
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This is the second of the two courses required for students pursuing Honors in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REES).


Credit Hours
4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Directed study in Russian, Eastern European, Eurasian Studies.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None