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 Winter 2010 (PDF)
| Dept. | UM Subj. | Term | Crse No./Sect. | Title | Credits | Level |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2009 | 309.001 | Anthropology of Europe: Radicalisms, Post-Socialisms, Refugees, and Rights | 3 | UG |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2009 | 258.001 | Honors Seminar: Deprovincializing Europe: Architects and Public Culture | 3 | UG |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2009 | 374.001 | Language and Culture | 4 | UG |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2009 | 352.001 | Anthropology of the Body | 3 | UG/G |
| Anthropology | ANTHRCUL | Fall 2009 | 558.002 | Anthropology of the Body | 3 | UG |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2009 | 153.001 | Elementry Uzbek I | 4 | UG |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2009 | 153.001 | Elementary Uzbek I | 4 | UG |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2009 | 489.001 | Advanced Uzbek I | 4 | UG/G |
| Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, & Islamic Stud | AAPTIS | Fall 2009 | 591.001 | Topics in AAPTIS: Cenral Asia | 3 | G |
| Armenian | ARMENIAN | Fall 2009 | 287.001 | Armenian History from Prehistoric Times to the Present | 3 | UG |
| Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian | BCS | Fall 2009 | 231.001 | Second-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I | 4 | UG |
| Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian | BCS | Fall 2009 | 439.001 | Directed Reading of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Literature | 1-4 | UG |
| Business | STRATEGY | Fall 2009 | 310.001 | The World Economy* | 3 | UG/G |
| Business | STRATEGY | Fall 2009 | 503.003 | The World Economy | 1.5 | G |
| Business | STRATEGY | Fall 2009 | 503.006 | The World Economy | 1.5 | G |
| Business | BUSINESS | Fall 2009 | 866.001 | International Business/Business Economics Seminar | 1.5 | G |
| Business | STRATEGY | Fall 2009 | 503.001 | The World Economy | 1.5 | G |
| Business | FIN | Fall 2009 | 612.001 | International Finance I: Current Markets | 1.5 | G |
| Business | FIN | Fall 2009 | 614.001 | International Finance II: Stock and Bond Markets | 1.5 | G |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2009 | 695.001 | Colloquium on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Central Asia | 3 | G |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2009 | 395.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | UG |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2009 | 301.001 | Directed Reading | 1-3 | UG |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2009 | 402.001 | Junior Honors Workshop | 2 | UG |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2009 | 403.001 | Senior Honors Colloquium | 1-6 | UG |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2009 | 405.001 | Topics in Russian and East European Studies: Eastern Europe between the Soviet Union and the European Union* | 1 | UG/G |
| Center for Russian & East European Studies | REES | Fall 2009 | 801.001 | Directed Reading | 1-3 | G |
| Communication Studies | COMM | Fall 2009 | 432.001 | Foreign News Coverage | 3 | UG |
| Comparative Literature | COMPLIT | Fall 2009 | 140.001 | First-Year Literary Seminar | 3 | UG |
| Czech | CZECH | Fall 2009 | 141.001 | First-Year Czech I | 4 | UG |
| Czech | CZECH | Fall 2009 | 241.001 | Second-Year Czech I | 4 | UG |
| Czech | CZECH | Fall 2009 | 480.001 | Supervised Czech Reading | 1-4 | UG |
| Dance | DANCE | Fall 2009 | 220.001 | Art of Dance | 3 | UG |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2009 | 841.001 | Research Seminar in International Economics | 3 | G |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2009 | 442.001 | International Finance | 4 | UG/G |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2009 | 453.001 | The European Economy* | 4 | UG/G |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2009 | 441.001 | International Trade Theory | 3 | UG/G |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2009 | 462.001 | The Economics of Development II | 3 | UG/G |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2009 | 541.001 | International Trade Policy | 3 | G |
| Economics | ECON | Fall 2009 | 641.001 | International Trade Theory | 3 | G |
| English Language & Literature | ENGLISH | Fall 2009 | 649.001 | Topics in Contemporary Literature: Literature of the Holocaust | 3 | G |
| Great Books | GTBOOKS | Fall 2009 | 291.001 | Great Books of Modern Literature | 4 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 363.001 | U.S. Foreign Policy and International Politics Since World War II | 4 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 397.007 | History Colloquium: Holocaust in Film. Strategies of Representation | 4 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 416.001 | Nineteenth-Century German and European Intellectual History | 3 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 420.001 | Modern Germany: From 1848 to the Present | 3 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 481.001 | Topics in European History: European Cultural History, 1870-1914 | 3 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 591.001 | Topics in European History: European Cultural History, 1870-1914 | 3 | G |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 698.001 | Topics in History: Race, Culture, and Politics in Modern European History | 3 | G |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 397.002 | History Colloquium: Balkans: Problems in Ethnicity/Nationalism | 4 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 408.001 | Byzantine Empire: 284-867 | 3 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 433.001 | Russia Under the Tsars: From Peter the Great to the Revolutions of 1917 | 3 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 480.001 | Conflicts and Diplomacy in the Caucasus | 3 | UG/G |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 696.001 | Studies in Ottoman History | 3 | G |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 698.008 | Topics in History: Central Asia | 3 | G |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 318.001 | Europe in the Era of Total War: 1870-1945 | 3 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 287.001 | Armenian History from Prehistoric Times to the Present | 3 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 332.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | UG |
| History | HISTORY | Fall 2009 | 384.001 | Modern Jewish History 1880-1948: European Culture and the Jews | 3 | UG |
| History of Art | HISTART | Fall 2009 | 394.002 | Special Topics: Art and Authoritarianism | 3 | UG |
| Honors | HONORS | Fall 2009 | 251.001 | Honors Humanities Seminar: History of the Symphony | 3 | UG |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2009 | 417.002 | Topics in Judaic Studies: The Representation of the Holocaust in Israeli Literature, Theater, and Film | 3 | UG |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2009 | 417.004 | Topics in Judaic Studies: European Cultural History, 1870-1914 | 3 | UG |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2009 | 517.002 | Topics in Judaic Studies: European Cultural History, 1870-1914 | 3 | G |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2009 | 617.001 | Graduate Topics in Judaic Studies: Literature of the Holocaust | 3 | G |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2009 | 387.001 | Modern Jewish History 1880-1948: European Culture and the Jews | 3 | UG |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2009 | 431.001 | Beginning Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | UG/G |
| Judaic Studies | JUDAIC | Fall 2009 | 417.001 | Topics in Judaic Studies: Shtetl: Image and Reality | 3 | UG |
| Law | LAW | Fall 2009 | 886.001 | Impact of Human Rights on International Law | 2 | G |
| Law | LAW | Fall 2009 | 756.001 | Comarative Human Rights Law | 3 | G |
| Law | LAW | Fall 2009 | 616.001 | Bloodfueds | 3 | G |
| Law | LAW | Fall 2009 | 630.001 | Public International Law | 2 | G |
| Law | LAW | Fall 2009 | 724.001 | International Refugee Law | 3 | G |
| Linguistics | LING | Fall 2009 | 374.001 | Language and Culture | 4 | UG |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2009 | 405.001 | Special Course: Music & Language | 3 | UG |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2009 | 505.001 | Special Course: Music & Language | 3 | G |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2009 | 423.001 | 20th Century Music | 2-3 | UG |
| Music | MUSICOL | Fall 2009 | 523.001 | 20th Century Music | 2-3 | G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 400.001 | Selected Topics in Political Theory: Globalizatioin and Democratic Theory | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 497.001 | Undergraduate Seminar in Comparative and Foreign Government: Comparative Parties and Political Systems | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 497.002 | Undergraduate Seminar in Comparative and Foreign Government: Comparative Party Politics in the European Union | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 660.001 | Proseminar in World Politics | 3 | G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 389.003 | Topics in Contemporary Political Science: German Politics in Europe Since 1945 | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 682.001 | Democratization in Global Perspectives | 3 | G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 389.010 | Topics in Contemporary Political Science: Political Economy of Government Institutions | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 363.001 | International Organization and Integration: Globalization and International Security | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 389.002 | Topics in Contemporary Political Science: Society and War | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 604.001 | Democratic Theory | 3 | G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 632.001 | Politics of Federalism | 3 | G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 658.001 | Comparative Institutional Analysis | 3 | G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 342.001 | Eastern Europe: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform | 3 | UG |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 489.002 | Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science: Conflict and Diplomacy in the Caucasus | 3 | UG/G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 644.001 | Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics | 3 | G |
| Political Science | POLSCI | Fall 2009 | 395.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | UG |
| Public Policy | PUBPOL | Fall 2009 | 541.001 | International Trade Policy | 3 | G |
| Public Policy | PUBPOL | Fall 2009 | 747.002 | Issues and Options for Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade Liberalization | 2 | G |
| Public Policy | PUBPOL | Fall 2009 | 747.001 | International Macro/Financial Problems and Policies | 2 | G |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2009 | 383.001 | Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov | 4 | UG |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2009 | 260.001 | Art of Dance | 3 | UG |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2009 | 334.002 | Special Topics in the Humanities: History of the Symphony | 3 | UG |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2009 | 260.001 | Art of Dance | 3 | UG |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2009 | 313.001 | Russian and Ukrainian Cinema | 3 | UG |
| RC Humanities | RCHUMS | Fall 2009 | 347.001 | Survey of Russian Literature | 3 | UG |
| RC Languages | RCLANG | Fall 2009 | 323.001 | Russian Readings: Russian Foodways | 4 | UG |
| RC Languages | RCLANG | Fall 2009 | 333.001 | Russian Service Learning in Action Network (RUSLAN) | 3 | UG |
| RC Languages | RCLANG | Fall 2009 | 193.001 | Intensive First-Year Russian | 8 | UG |
| RC Languages | RCLANG | Fall 2009 | 333.001 | Russian Service Learning In Action Network | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 616.001 | Russian Service Learning In Action Network | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 103.001 | Intensive First-Year Russian | 8 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 471.001 | Modern Russian Poetry | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 862.001 | Seminar in 20th-Century Russian Literature | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 501.001 | Fifth-Year Russian I: Contemporary Issues: Russian for Research | 4 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 101.001 | First-Year Russian I | 5 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 102.001 | First-Year Russian II | 5 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 225.001 | Russian for Heritage Speakers | 3 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 325.001 | Russia Today: Culture and Identity in a "Multi-National" State | 4 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 358.001 | Central Asia through Russian Eyes: Cultural Appropriation of an Exotic Land | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 558.001 | Central Asia through Russian Eyes: Cultural Appropriation of an Exotic Land | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 201.001 | Second-Year Russian I | 5 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 301.001 | Third-Year Russian I | 4 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 401.001 | Fourth-Year Russian I | 4 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 410.001 | Teaching of Russian | 2 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 430.001 | Supervised Reading of Russian Literature | 1-4 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 469.001 | 20th-Century Authors | 3 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 552.001 | Russian Literature of the 18th Century | 3 | G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 651.001 | Supervised Reading of Russian Literature | 1-4 | G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 852.001 | 19th-Century Literature | 3 | G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 478.001 | Vladimir Nabokov and World Literature I: The Russian Years | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 858.001 | Seminar on Nabokov | 3 | UG/G |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 491.001 | Senior Honors Course | 3 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 347.001 | Survey of Russian Literature | 3 | UG |
| Russian | RUSSIAN | Fall 2009 | 316.001 | Russian Service Learning in Action Network | 3 | UG/G |
| Screen Arts & Cultures | SAC | Fall 2009 | 441.003 | National Cinemas: Russian Cinema | 3 | UG |
| Screen Arts & Cultures | SAC | Fall 2009 | 422.001 | Topics in Avant-Garde Film | 3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 470.001 | Topics in Cultural Studies of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe: Shtetl: Image and Reality | 3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 325.001 | Polish Literature to 1890: Appetite for Destruction | 3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 421.001 | Fourth-Year Polish I | 3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 121.001 | First-Year Polish I | 4 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 221.001 | Second-Year Polish I | 4 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 321.001 | Third-Year Polish I | 3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 313.001 | Russian and Ukrainian Cinema | 3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 525.001 | Polish Literature in English to 1890: Appetite for Destruction | 3 | G |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 395.001 | Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, & the Successor States | 4 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 490.001 | Issues in the Cultures of Eastern Europe: Eastern Europe between the Soviet Union and the European Union* | 1 | UG/G |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 151.001 | First Year Seminar: Prague: The Magic City | 4 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 151.002 | First Year Seminar: Yiddish Love Stories | 4 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 450.001 | Directed Polish Reading | 1-3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | POLISH | Fall 2009 | 621.001 | Directed Reading of Polilsh Literature | 1-4 | G |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 151.003 | First Year Seminar: Yugoslav/Post-Yugoslav Short Fiction | 4 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 225.001 | Arts & Cultures of Central Europe: Issues in Race and Ethnicity | 3 | UG |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 549.001 | Proseminar on Research Methods in Slavic Literatures | 1 | G |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 661.001 | Directed Reading in Slavic Linguistics | 1-4 | G |
| Slavic Languages & Literatures | SLAVIC | Fall 2009 | 865.001 | Seminar on East European Literary Theories: Dissent Film Under Communism | 3 | G |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2009 | 555.001 | Culture and Knowledge | 3 | G |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2009 | 595.006 | Topics in Sociology: Empires: Theory and Historical Research | 2-3 | G |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2009 | 595.001 | Topics in Sociology: Marx and Modernity | 3 | G |
| Sociology | SOC | Fall 2009 | 595.004 | Topics in Sociology: Human Rights in a Globalizing World | 3 | G |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2009 | 331.001 | Hungary: Eotvos Lorand University | 16 | UG |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2009 | 332.001 | Czech Republic: Charles University | 16 | UG |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2009 | 346.001 | Russia: UM-Middlebury | 12 | UG |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2009 | 362.001 | Russia: St. Petersburg State University | 12 | UG |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2009 | 378.001 | Russia: International University, Moscow | 12 | UG |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2009 | 463.001 | Poland: CIEE, Warsaw | 12 | UG |
| Study Abroad | STDABRD | Fall 2009 | 464.001 | UM at University of Turku, Finland | 12-16 | UG |
| Ukrainian | UKRAINE | Fall 2009 | 421.001 | Directed Reading in Ukrainian Literature | 1-4 | UG |
| Ukrainian | UKRAINE | Fall 2009 | 251.001 | Second-Year Ukrainian I | 4 | UG |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2009 | 101.001 | Elementary Yiddish I | 4 | UG/G |
| Yiddish | YIDDISH | Fall 2009 | 431.001 | Beginning Yiddish I for Graduate Students | 4 | UG/G |
