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The University of Michigan offers REES-related courses in the following divisions of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: anthropology, art history, communication, comparative literature, economics, German, history, Judaic studies, linguistics, Near Eastern studies, philosophy, political science, Russian and East European studies, screen arts and cultures, Slavic languages and literatures, and sociology. Area-related courses are also taught in the Residential College and in the following professional fields: architecture, business, law, music, natural resources and environment, public health, and public policy.
The list below (PDF or searchable database) includes courses relating to Russia and Eastern Europe, many of which can be applied to REES undergraduate and graduate degrees. Independent study and directed reading courses may also be used toward a REES degree when appropriate. Please consult the LSA Course Guide and relevant department for details.
REES-approved courses DO NOT require approval by the CREES Academic Advisor; REES-related courses need to be approved.
Please note that only courses labeled 300 and above can count towards the REES concentration. The REES senior seminar requirement may be satisfied by any class meeting the following requirements: 1) it must be small (fewer than 25 students); 2) it must emphasize discussion rather than lecture; and 3) it must have a substantial writing requirement.
REES Courses Spring-Summer 2008 (PDF) REES Courses Fall 2008 (PDF)
| Dept. | UM Subj. | Term | Crse No./Sect. | Title | Credits | Level |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2008 | 306.001 | Anthropology and Film: East Cental Europe | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2008 | 306.001 | Anthropology and Film: East Cental Europe | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2008 | 558.002 | Current Issues in Sociocultural Anthropology: Romani Diaspora | 3 | Graduate |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2008 | 352.001 | Topics in Ethnology: Anthropology of the Body | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2008 | 374.001 | Language and Culture | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 465.001 | Islamic Mysticism | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 153.001 | Elementary Uzbek I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 253.001 | Intermediate Uzbek | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 271.001 | Intermediate Western Armenian I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 274.001 | Armenia: Culture and Ethnicity: Issues in Race and Ethnicity | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 289.001 | From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: Modern Central Asia | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 591.001 | Topics in Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies: Central Asia | 3 | Graduate |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2008 | 493.001 | Comparative Perspectives of the Middle East and North Africa | 1 | Undergraduate |
| Armenian | ARMENIAN | Fall 2008 | 271.001 | Intermediate Western Armenian I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Armenian | ARMENIAN | Fall 2008 | 274.001 | Armenia: Culture and Ethnicity: Issues in Race and Ethnicity | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Asian Studies | ASIAN | Fall 2008 | 289.001 | From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: Modern Central Asia | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian | BCS | Fall 2008 | 131.001 | First Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian | BCS | Fall 2008 | 439.001 | Directed Reading of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian | 1-4 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 395.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, The Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 289.001 | From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: Modern Central Asia | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 301.001 | Directed Reading | 1-3 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 403.001 | Sr. Honors Colloauium | 1-6 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 405.001 | Topics in Russian and East European Studies: Eastern Europe from 1500-1900 | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 695.001 | Colloquium on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies | 3 | Graduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 801.001 | Directed Reading | 1-3 | Graduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 410.001 | Polish Culture: Revolution in the Attic | 1 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 402.001 | Jr. Honors Workshop | 2 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 405.005 | Topics in Russian and East European Studies: Romani Diaspora | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2008 | 405.006 | Topics in Russian and East European Studies: Central Asia | 3 | Graduate |
| Communication Studies | COMM | Fall 2008 | 432.001 | Foreign News Coverage | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Communication Studies | COMM | Fall 2008 | 439.001 | Seminar in Journalistic Performance: Global Media and Press Freedom | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Communication Studies | COMM | Fall 2008 | 439.002 | Seminar in Journalistic Performance: Global Media and Press Freedom | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Communication Studies | COMM | Fall 2008 | 432.001 | Foreign News Coverage | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Communication Studies | COMM | Fall 2008 | 432.002 | Foreign News Coverage | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Comparative Literature | COMPLIT | Fall 2008 | 260.001 | Europe and Its Others | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Comparative Literature | COMPLIT | Fall 2008 | 740.001 | Seminar in Major Authors: East European Poets in the West | 3 | Graduate |
| Czech | CZECH | Fall 2008 | 141.001 | First Year Czech | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Czech | CZECH | Fall 2008 | 241.001 | Second Year Czech | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Czech | CZECH | Fall 2008 | 480.001 | Supervised Czech Reading | 1-4 | Undergraduate |
| Dance | DANCE | Fall 2008 | 220.001 | The Art of Dance | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2008 | 441.001 | International Trade Theory | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2008 | 462.001 | The Economics of Development II | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2008 | 453.001 | The European Economy | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2008 | 541.001 | International Trade Policy | 3 | Graduate |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2008 | 642.001 | International Finance | 3 | Graduate |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2008 | 841.001 | Research Seminar in International Economics | 3 | Graduate |
| English Language & Literature | ENGLISH | Fall 2008 | 267.001 | Introduction to Shakespeare | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Germanic Languages | GERMAN | Fall 2008 | 416.001 | 19th Century German and European Intellectual History | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Great Books | GTBOOKS | Fall 2008 | 291.001 | Great Books of Modern Literature | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 382.001 | Early Modern Jewish History 1492-1700 | 3 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 396.005 | History Colloquium: Remembering War & Genocide: Memory and Politics in Germany's 20th Century | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 698.001 | Topics in History: Race, Culture, and Politics in Modern European History | 3 | Graduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 318.001 | Europe in the Era of Total War: 1870-1945 | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 330.001 | Eastern Europe from 1500-1900 | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 386.001 | The Holocaust | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 332.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, The Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 431.001 | History of the Balkans Since 1878 | 3 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 433.001 | Russia Under the Tsars: From Peter the Great to the Revolutions of 1917 | 3 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 480.001 | Conflict & Diplomacy in the Caucasus | 3 | UG/G |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 698.002 | Topics in History: Nationalism of Small Nations | 3 | Graduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 391.001 | Topics in European History: Medieval and Early Modern Russia | 3 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 591.002 | Topics in European History: Medieval and Early Modern Russia | 3 | Graduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 363.001 | U.S. Foreign Policy and International Politics Since World War II | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 391.005 | Topics in European History: The Russian Revolution | 3 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 396.003 | History Colloquium: Global Nuclear Proliferation | 4 | Undergraduate |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2008 | 416.001 | 19th Century German and European Intellectual History | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2008 | 531.001 | Intermediate Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | Graduate |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2008 | 101.001 | Elementary Yiddish I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2008 | 201.001 | Intermediate Yiddish I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2008 | 301.001 | Advanced Yiddish I | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2008 | 631.001 | Advanced Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | Graduate |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2008 | 431.001 | Beginning Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | Graduate |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2008 | 382.001 | Early Modern Jewish History 1492-1700 | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Linguistics | LING | Fall 2008 | 374.001 | Language and Culture | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Medieval & Early Modern Studies Program | MEMS | Fall 2008 | 382.001 | Early Modern Jewish History 1492-1700 | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Middle Eastern & North African Studies | MENAS | Fall 2008 | 493.001 | Comparative Perspectives of the Middle East and North Africa | 1 | Undergraduate |
| Middle Eastern & North African Studies | MENAS | Fall 2008 | 289.001 | From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: Modern Central Asia | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2008 | 423.001 | 20th Century Music | 2-3 | Undergraduate |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2008 | 523.001 | 20th Century Music | 2-3 | Graduate |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2008 | 413.001 | History of Opera | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2008 | 513.001 | History of Opera | 3 | Graduate |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2008 | 422.001 | 19th Century Music | 2-3 | Undergraduate |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2008 | 522.001 | 19th Century Music | 2-3 | Graduate |
| Philosophy | PHIL | Fall 2008 | 371.001 | Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Philosophy | PHIL | Fall 2008 | 371.002 | Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Polish | POLISH | Fall 2008 | 121.001 | First Year Polish I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Polish | POLISH | Fall 2008 | 221.001 | Second Year Polish I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Polish | POLISH | Fall 2008 | 321.001 | Third Year Polish I | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Polish | POLISH | Fall 2008 | 421.001 | Fourth Year Polish I | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Polish | POLISH | Fall 2008 | 450.001 | Directed Polish Reading | 1-3 | UG/G |
| Polish | POLISH | Fall 2008 | 621.001 | Directed Reading of Polish Literature | 1-4 | Graduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 395.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, The Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 489.003 | Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science: Conflict and Diplomacy in the Caucasus | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 682.001 | Democratization in Global Perspectives | 3 | Graduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 389.002 | Topics in Contemporary Political Science: Society and War | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 389.001 | Topics in Contemporary Political Science: Political Economy of Government Institutions | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 389.010 | Topics in Contemporary Political Science: U.S. Foreign Policy and International Politics Since World War II | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 489.002 | Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science: The International Law and Politics of Human Rights | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 660.001 | Proseminar in World Politics | 3 | Graduate |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2008 | 672.001 | International Peace and Security Affairs | 3 | Graduate |
| Public Policy | PUBPOL | Fall 2008 | 747.001 | International Macro/Financial Problems and Policies | 2 | Graduate |
| Public Policy | PUBPOL | Fall 2008 | 747.002 | Issues and Options for Mulitlateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade Liberalization | 2 | Graduate |
| Public Policy | PUBPOL | Fall 2008 | 495.003 | Policy Seminar: Human Rights and Public Policy | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Public Policy | PUBPOL | Fall 2008 | 541.001 | International Trade Policy | 3 | Graduate |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2008 | 260.001 | The Art of Dance | 3 | Undergraduate |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2008 | 313.001 | Russian Cinema | 3 | Undergraduate |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2008 | 360.001 | The Existential Quest in the Modern Novel | 4 | Undergraduate |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2008 | 347.001 | Survey of Russian Literature | 3 | Undergraduate |
| RC Languages | RCLANG | Fall 2008 | 193.001 | Intensive First Year Russian | 8 | Undergraduate |
| RC Languages | RCLANG | Fall 2008 | 323.001 | Russian Readings: Moscow & St. Petersburg: Two Capitals, Two Worlds, Two Planets | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Religion | RELIGION | Fall 2008 | 455.001 | Religion and Society | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Religion | RELIGION | Fall 2008 | 465.001 | Islamic Mysticism | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Residential College | RCCORE | Fall 2008 | 100.007 | First Year Seminar: Listening to Holocaust Survivors | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 347.001 | Survey of Russian Literature | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 856.001 | Seminar In Russian Literature | 3 | Graduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 474.001 | Late 20th Century Russian Literature | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 477.001 | Russian Culture and National Identity | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 458.001 | Poetics and Rhetoric | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 491.001 | Senior Honors Course | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 501.001 | Fifth Year Russian I: Contemporary Issues: Russian for Research | 4 | Graduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 510.001 | Language Taching Pedagogy Lab | 1 | Graduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 651.001 | Supervised Reading of Russian Literature | 1-4 | Graduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 103.001 | Intensive First Year Russian | 8 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 101.001 | First Year Russian I | 5 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 101.002 | First Year Russian I | 5 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 102.001 | First Year Russian II | 5 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 121.001 | Applied Russian I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 201.001 | Second Year Russian I | 5 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 201.002 | Second Year Russian I | 5 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 225.001 | Russian for Heritage Speakers | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 231.001 | Russian Culture & Society: An Introduction | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 301.001 | Third Year Russian I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 355.001 | Supervised Reading of Russian Literature | 1-4 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 401.001 | Forth Year Russian I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 449.001 | Twentieth-Century Russian Literature | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2008 | 462.001 | Dostoevsky | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Screen Arts & Cultures | SAC | Fall 2008 | 441.003 | Russian Cinema | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 151.001 | First Year Seminar: Prague: The Magic City | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 151.002 | First Year Seminar | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 151.003 | First Year Seminar: Myth and History in Contemporary Balkan Culture | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 549.001 | Proseminar on Research Methods in Slavic Literature | 1 | Graduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 573.001 | Old Church Slavic | 2-3 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 661.001 | Directed Reading in Slavic Linguistics | 1-4 | Graduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 490.001 | Issues in the Cultures of Eastern Europe: Revolutioin in the Attic | 1 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 225.001 | Arts & Cultures of Central Europe: Issues in Race and Ethnicity | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 313.001 | Russian Cinema | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2008 | 395.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, The Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2008 | 392.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, The Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2008 | 595.001 | Special Courses: Culture, History, Memory | 3 | Graduate |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2008 | 595.006 | Special Courses: Emerging Democracies | 3 | Graduate |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2008 | 455.001 | Religion and Society | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2008 | 595.003 | Special Courses: Marx and Modernity | 3 | Graduate |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2008 | 595.005 | Special Courses: Sociology of Religion | 3 | Graduate |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2008 | 464.001 | UM at University of Turku, Finland | 12-16 | Undergraduate |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2008 | 331.001 | UM/U California at Eotvos Lorand University Hungary | 12-16 | Undergraduate |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2008 | 332.001 | UM/CERGE at Charles University, Czech Republic | 12-16 | Undergraduate |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2008 | 346.001 | UM-Middlebury in Russia | 1-16 | Undergraduate |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2008 | 362.001 | UM/CIEE at St. Petersburg State University, Russia | 12-16 | Undergraduate |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2008 | 378.001 | UM/U California at International University, Moscow | 12-16 | Undergraduate |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2008 | 463.001 | UM/CIEE in Warsaw, Poland | 12-16 | Undergraduate |
| Ukrainian | UKRAINE | Fall 2008 | 151.001 | First Year Ukrainian I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Ukrainian | UKRAINE | Fall 2008 | 421.001 | Directed Reading in Ukrainian Literature | 1-4 | Undergraduate |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2008 | 631.001 | Advanced Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | Graduate |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2008 | 531.001 | Intermediate Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | Graduate |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2008 | 101.001 | Elementary Yiddish I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2008 | 201.001 | Intermediate Yiddish I | 4 | Undergraduate |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2008 | 301.001 | Advanced Yiddish I | 3 | Undergraduate |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2008 | 431.001 | Beginning Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | Graduate |
