Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

Certificate in Russian and East European Studies

Students on Summer 2022, Fall 2022, or Spring 2023 requirements RUEESTACRT

Requirements

The certificate requires at least 24 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.

Introduction to International Studies. One (1) course:
- INTL-I 100 Introduction to International Studies
INTL-I 100 Introduction to International Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
This introductory, interdisciplinary course exposes students to the various academic approaches essential to international studies and to the various concentrations that comprise the major.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
Russian and East European Area Studies.
1. History and Geography. One (1) course:
  - Russian and East European Institute
  - Central Eurasian Studies
  - College of Arts and Sciences
  - Collins Living-Learning Center
  - European Studies, Institute for
  - Geography
  - Global and International Studies, School of
  - History
  - Jewish Studies
  - Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
  REEI-R 201 Current Issues in Eastern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Interdisciplinary introduction to social, political, economic, demographic, and cultural issues currently facing the countries of Eastern Europe. Primarily addresses recent developments, while also considering historical roots of Eastern Europe, from 19th-century empires to 20th-century Marxist-Leninist regimes to post-1989 governance after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  REEI-R 202 Magic in the Russian Empire
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the history of magic in the Russian Empire. Explores magical murder, herbal medicine, witchcraft trials, and political sorcery through original documents. Considers the importance of gender, class, and religion in the history of magic in this region.
  
  REEI-R 300 Russian and East European Issues
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Brief examination of selected topics related to Russia and East Europe. Variable topics.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a total of 6 credit hours.
  REEI-R 302 Russia, Past and Present
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Interdisciplinary study of the geography, natural resources, peoples, religions, economy, political and social systems, education, law, cultures, literatures, and arts of Russia. Emphasis on recent developments with appropriate attention to historical roots.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 302 or REEI-R 302.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  REEI-X 490 Readings in Russian and East European Studies
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Consent of instructor and the director of the Russian and East European Institute
  Description
  None
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in REEI-R 495 and REEI-X 490.
  CEUS-R 191 Introduction to Central Eurasia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Freshman or sophomore standing; or consent of department
  Description
  Introduction to the history of the traditional Central Eurasian ("Inner Asian") peoples through lecture and film. Topics include Proto-Indo-Europeans, Silk Road, Attila, steppe empires, Dalai Lama, Manchu and Russian relations, and the re-emergence of Central Eurasia in the late twentieth century. Extensive use of films.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 191 or CEUS-U 190.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for introductory topics in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 199 and CEUS-U 320.
  CEUS-R 294 Introduction to Hungary, Estonia, and Finland
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to Hungary, Estonia, and Finland, three European nations whose peoples speak unique Uralic languages. Covers their culture and history as shaped by their Uralic heritage and by Germanic, Turkish, and Slavic conquerors. Focuses on national awakenings, independence, communism, and their role in Europe today.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 295 Contemporary East Central Europe
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines East Central Europe within the context of the twentieth century's bitter legacy that left its shadow on the region. Analyzes how this legacy affected the post-1989 transition into pluralism and democracy. Includes discussion of the sovereignty of the newly independent states and the future of East Central Europe.
  
  CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for intermediate topics in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 299 and CEUS-U 320.
  CEUS-R 302 Modern Finland
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  In-depth study of modern Finnish history, stressing Russification; 1905 Revolution; independence; interwar period, the Winter War and the Continuation War; "Finlandization," economic miracle, and welfare state; changing role of women; Finland as part of Scandinavia; literature, art, and music; and membership in the European Union.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Baltic-Finnish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 310 Introduction to Central Asian History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores Central Asia's role in world history, in Islam, and as a link between East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Readings in English translation.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys Islam and Muslim communities in areas of the former U.S.S.R. After basic coverage of Islam, Russian expansion, and their interaction, the course focuses on the pressures experienced by and exerted by Islam as a religion and socio-cultural system, with attention to religious life's adaptations to the Soviet and post-Soviet context.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 313 or CEUS-U 394.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Central Asian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Europe's largest minority, the so-called "Gypsies," more properly the Roma, have been killed, hunted, and reviled; yet the exotic flavoring of "Gypsiness" has fascinated writers, artists, and composers. Surveys Roma history and representations. No background in East European studies, music, or film is required; readings are in English.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Hungarian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 360 Modern Mongolia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines Mongolia's turbulent history from independence from China's last dynasty in 1911 through theocracy, revolution, and communism to today's market democracy. Also focuses on social, economic, cultural, and demographic changes. No prerequisite.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 360 or CEUS-U 469.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Mongolian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 383 Ten Sultans, One Empire: Ottoman Classical Age, 1300-1600
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings to its height under Suleyman the Magnificent. Themes include Turks before the empire, Asia Minor before the Turks, rival principalities, centralization, Ottomans as European and Middle Eastern, economy, society, religion, law, learning, ethnic/cultural diversity, and the "classical age" as a concept.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Turkish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 393 The Mongol Century
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  In-depth exploration of Chinggis Khan's Mongol Empire from its origins in the twelfth century in the continent-wide breakdown of the 1330s-1370s. Primary sources (Mongolian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and European) in translation, including many of the medieval era's greatest histories and travelogues.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 393 or CEUS-U 368.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topic in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 399 and CEUS-U 320.
  CEUS-R 412 Central Asia under Russian Rule
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of Russia and Central Asia's complex relations, covering Russian expansion in the sixteenth century, Russian conquest in the nineteenth century, socio-political developments, and the emergence of modern nations in the 1920s. Themes include mechanism of Empire, dynamics between conqueror and conquered, and colonial administration of Islamic peoples.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 412 or CEUS-U 494.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 413 Islamic Central Asia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys Islamic Central Asia from the sixteenth century to the Russian conquest, especially Chinggisid Uzbek states and the "tribal" dynasties, but also East Turkestan to 1755, and nomadic Qasaqs, Qirghiz, Turkmens. Themes include political institutions, legitimation, nomads and sedentaries; ethnic developments; religion and culture; sources and historiography.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 413 or CEUS-U 493.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 104 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the social and historical studies Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of COLL-C 104 or COLL-S 104.
  Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts, sciences, and professions in their larger contexts. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts, sciences, and professions in their larger contexts. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected ideas, trends, and problems in contemporary Europe from the perspective of social and behavioral sciences. Specific topics will be announced each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  GEOG-G 320 Population Geography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of population growth, compositional change and redistribution at regional, national and global scales. Topics include population pressure, fertility control, aging of societies, AIDS epidemiology, immigration, and population policies.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  GEOG-G 378 The Geography of North Central Asia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the geography of the Caucuses and North Central Asia. Focuses on general issues, such as the challenges posed by living in Russia's shadow, environmental degradation and political identity, before turning to an examination of each country.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  GEOG-G 427 Russia and Its Neighbors
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Geographic problems and prospects of the former republics of the Soviet Union with an emphasis on political geography, environmental issues, population, urbanization, energy, and the location of economic activity.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Emphasizes common themes across the countries of Europe and the distinctive cultures that make up the region. Begins with a discussion of the physical landscape of Europe, then explores the cultural and economic landscape of the region.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  SGIS-S 300 Global Issues
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of a variety of global issues related to security, technology, media, law, global careers, global and local community awareness, global languages and policy making.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of international and global issues relating to politics, security, media and health.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  
  SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides academic structure to undergraduate students who wish to engage in a work experience through participation in internships domestically or internationally.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Grading
  S/F grading.
  HIST-B 300 Issues in Western European History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems across more than one period of Western European history. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems in modern European history (1750-present). Topics will vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the origins, character, and development of anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the post-Holocaust period. Asks whether anti-Semitism is a single phenomenon with a clear tradition and cause, or whether it has varied markedly over time and from country to country.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Anti-Semitism in imperial and Weimar Germany; the Nazi rise to power; the destruction of European Jewry; Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity; the attitude of the Allied nations; mass murder in comparative historical perspective; theological, moral, and political implications.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-B 323 or JSTU-J 323.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-B 348 Byzantine History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces the history and civilization of the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 330-1453). Explores the survival of the eastern Roman empire after the \"fall\" of its western half; how it developed a distinctive culture and ideology; and how it changed in response to economic, political, and military challenges.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 100 Issues in Russian and East European History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 102 Icon and Axe: Russia from Earliest Times to 1861
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to main events and issues in Russian history from earliest times to the Crimean War in the mid-nineteenth century. Covers foundation of a great Slavic state into the Eurasian plain, the Kievan era of early state building, colorful rulers such as Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 101, HIST-D 102, or HIST-H 261.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 103 The Making of Modern Russia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to main events and issues in Russian history from the middle of the nineteenth century to present. Covers the great liberating reforms of Tsar Alexander II, the last tsar, Nicholas II, the revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin, the brutal tyrant Joseph Stalin, and the last Communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 101, HIST-D 103, or HIST-H 261.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 200 Issues in Russian/East European History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 201 Democratic Revolutions since 1980
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  In recent decades democratically-oriented revolutions have occurred in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. What accounts for this phenomenon? What common ideas and practices link them? Why were some more successful than others?
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 300 Issues in Russian/East European History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 302 The Gorbachev Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The revolution in Soviet politics, culture, and daily life wrought by Mikhail Gorbachev (1986-1991) and the end of the Soviet Empire. Examination of selected issues: political structures, family, education, youth, status of women and minorities. Historical roots traced.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 302 or REEI-R 302.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Biographies of a number of Russia\'s most colorful personalities and the times in which they lived; among them, Ivan the Terrible, Pugachev, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Bakunin, Tolstoy, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of the history of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Topics to be discussed will include Hasidism, Kabbalah, shtetl life, Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment), Socialism, Yiddish literary traditions, and the Holocaust.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Russian empire under Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Napoleon\'s invasion, expansion across Asia into the Americas, nationalism, war, and revolution. Other topics include daily life of the common people, gender issues, religion, and the emergence of a modern industrial society.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 308 or HIST-D 409.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 309 Russia in World War II: Battles and People
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Issues covered include Soviet politics and society on the eve of WWII, prewar diplomacy, the major battles of WWII on the Eastern Front, the Soviet \"home front,\" popular culture, and the impact of WWII on the Soviet Union and on the Soviet Union\'s international position.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 310 Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Causes and development of Russian revolutions and civil war; Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin; purges, terror, economic development, society, and arts under Stalin; struggle against Hitler; scope and limits of de-Stalinization under Khrushchev; minorities, dissent, and life in the Soviet Union.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 310 or HIST-D 410.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 320 Modern Ukraine
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A history of one of the most neglected nations in European history, once the breadbasket of the Soviet Union and now one of the largest nations in Europe. Examines issues of national identity and national consciousness and explores the place of Ukraine in Eurasian history.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 321 Hungarian History and Civilization to 1711
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Origin of the Hungarian people; settlement of the Danubian basin; adoption of Christianity; formation of Hungarian state; impact of western European civilization and economic system during Middle Ages and Renaissance; effect of Ottoman domination; Ottoman-Habsburg conflict; liberation of Hungary from Turkish rule.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 321 or HIST-D 421.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 322 Hungarian History and Civilization 1711--1918
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Modernization and rebuilding of Hungary during Habsburg enlightened absolutism; age of reform and the revolution of 1848-1849; compromise of 1867; social and economic transformation of Hungary within the framework of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy; problems of a multinational state; World War I and collapse of historical Hungary.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 322 or HIST-D 422.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 325 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804--1923
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Decline of the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionary traditions and movements; peasant societies and folk customs; literary and linguistic nationalism; Balkan irredentism. Formation of Serbian (Jugoslav), Greek, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Albanian, and Turkish national states. Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and British influence and imperialism in southeastern Europe and Near East.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 325 or HIST-D 425.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 327 The Habsburg Empire, 1780-1918: Nation-Building and Imperial Decline
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Enlightened despotism; Metternichian system; struggle for German unification; Habsburg culture and civilization. German-Austrian, Hungarian, Czechoslovak, South Slavic, Rumanian, and Polish nationalism. Industrialization; Christian socialism and Austro-Marxism; murder at Sarajevo; destruction of the empire; its legacy to Europe.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 327 or HIST-D 427.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
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  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 329 Eastern Europe 1900--1943
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Begins around 1900 with twilight of great empires (Russian, Prussian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian), exploring origins of modern eastern Europe, the \"rebirth\" of Eastern Europe after WWI; wild 1920s; polarizing ideological spectrum of the 1930s; and dynamics of communism and fascism. Given the spectre of WWII, this course will pose the question of whether and how we can read the interwar years in a way other than as a prelude to an inevitable catastrophe to come.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 328, HIST-D 329, or HIST-D 428.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-D 330 Eastern Europe 1944--Present
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines origins of communism in Eastern Europe, brutal takeover and Stalinization, attempts to reform communism, the fall of communism and ensuing battles for privatization, democratization, and the Wars in Yugoslavia. Looks at political institutions that shaped communist and post-communist Eastern Europe and important social and cultural developments.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-D 328, HIST-D 330, or HIST-D 428.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
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  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-H 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topics include the origins of Judaism, Jewish life in ancient Israel and the Diaspora, Judaism and the origins of Christianity, Jewish society and culture under Christian and Muslim rule in the Middle Ages.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-H 251 or JSTU-J 251.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Jewish history from early modern times to the present. Topics include Jewish daily life in early modern Europe and Ottoman Turkey, Jewish mysticism, Hasidism, Jewish emancipation, modern Judaism, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Zionism, the State of Israel, and the history of American Jewry.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-H 252 or JSTU-J 252.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-J 400 Seminar in History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  HIST H-270; and a major in history or secondary education social studies
  Description
  Develops research skills in history, focusing on the issues and sources of a broad time period and/or theme with multi-national or global scope. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-W 203 World War I: Global War
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  World War I claimed millions of lives and forever changed global political and economic landscapes. Europe's western front dominates our understandings of the war. Why then, is it called a "world war"? This course considers the war's global scope through different lenses, including military history, empire, gender, race, and environment.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-W 325 World War II: The Peoples
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course will study the lives of the millions of peoples all over the world who participated in World War II as factory workers, propagandists, soldiers, mothers, political leaders, and survivors. Beginning with military strategy and diplomacy, we will focus on life on the home fronts of many nations.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  JSTU-J 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topics include the origins of Judaism, Jewish life in ancient Israel and the Diaspora, Judaism and the origins of Christianity, Jewish society and culture under Christian and Muslim rule in the Middle Ages.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-H 251 or JSTU-J 251.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  JSTU-J 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Jewish history from early modern times to the present. Topics include Jewish daily life in early modern Europe and Ottoman Turkey, Jewish mysticism, Hasidism, Jewish emancipation, modern Judaism, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Zionism, the State of Israel, and the history of American Jewry.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of J252 or HIST-H 252.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  JSTU-J 323 History of the Holocaust
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Anti-Semitism in the modern world; the Nazi rise to power; the destruction of European Jewry; Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity; the attitude of the Allied nations; mass murder in comparative historical perspective; anti-Semitism and racial thinking; collaboration, resistance, and rescue.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of JSTU-J 323 or HIST-B 323.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  MELC-M 347 Rise of Eastern Rome
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Covers the evolution of the Eastern Roman Empire in relation to Sassanian Persia from the second to seventh centuries, focusing on centralization at Constantinople; response to Western overlords; promotion of Christian orthodoxy, monasticism and Holy Land; and formulation of imperial strategies that defeated Persia but, ultimately, facilitated the Arab conquests.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of MELC-M 347 or NELC-N 347.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  MELC-M 348 Byzantium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the history, society, economy and culture of the Byzantine Roman Empire (\"Byzantium\"), ca. 330-1453 CE. Focuses on its imperial and Christian ideology, urban and frontier life, military ventures and diplomatic strategies for survival while situated between Western Christendom and Islamic Caliphates in the medieval Middle East.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of HIST-B 348, MELC-M 348, or NELC-N 348.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
2. Social Sciences. One (1) course:
  - Russian and East European Institute
  - Anthropology
  - Central Eurasian Studies
  - College of Arts and Sciences
  - Collins Living-Learning Center
  - Criminal Justice
  - Economics
  - European Studies, Institute for
  - Global and International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of
  - Global Living-Learning Community
  - Hutton Honors College
  - International Studies
  - Political Science
  - Public and Environmental Affairs, School of
  REEI-R 201 Current Issues in Eastern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Interdisciplinary introduction to social, political, economic, demographic, and cultural issues currently facing the countries of Eastern Europe. Primarily addresses recent developments, while also considering historical roots of Eastern Europe, from 19th-century empires to 20th-century Marxist-Leninist regimes to post-1989 governance after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  REEI-R 300 Russian and East European Issues
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Brief examination of selected topics related to Russia and East Europe. Variable topics.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a total of 6 credit hours.
  
  REEI-X 490 Readings in Russian and East European Studies
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Consent of instructor and the director of the Russian and East European Institute
  Description
  None
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in REEI-R 495 and REEI-X 490.
  ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Remembrance is analyzed as a cultural and social reality. Review of the theoretical literature on collective memory as it unfolds in written, narrative, visual, and audiovisual art; in architecture and monuments; in private and public ritual; in genealogy; and in the social experience of the body.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Europe is viewed as an idea, an identity, and an historical consciousness. Students explore the meaning of this idea in the contemporary development of social and cultural anthropology, and in such social areas as regionalism and nationalism, ethnic identity, gender and kinship, religion, the city versus the village, and political life.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  General anthropological introduction to social institutions and cultural forms of the Arab countries of North Africa and the Near East, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, development of Islam and Muslim empires, traditional adaptive strategies, consequences of colonialism, independence and rise of nation-states, impact of modernization, changing conceptions of kinship, ethnicity, and gender.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 397, CEUS-R 352, CEUS-U 397, or NELC-N 397.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  General anthropological introduction to societies and cultures of contemporary Muslim successor states of former Soviet Central Asia, Western China (Xinjiang), and Iran and Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, ethnohistory, traditional subsistence strategies, family, kinship, gender, sociopolitical organization, impact of colonial rule of tsarist and Soviet Russia and China, development of modern nation-states in Iran and Afghanistan, and dynamics of current conflicts and future prospects.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 398, CEUS-R 316, or CEUS-U 398.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the contradictory effects of socialism's "fall" through a study of new ethnographies of postsocialist societies. Regional inquiries will be related to broader intellectual issues such as globalization, social suffering, commodification and cultural identity, ethnicity and nation building, armed conflict, and gender inequalities.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This advanced seminar in medical anthropology focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding the body and notions of health, illness, and disease across cultures. Concentrates on interpretive and critical (political economy) approaches to issues of health and includes critical study of Western biomedicine.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  
  CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for introductory topics in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 199 and CEUS-U 320.
  
  CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for intermediate topics in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 299 and CEUS-U 320.
  
  CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Baltic-Finnish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 315 Politics and Society in Central Asia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An introduction to Central Eurasia, especially the former Soviet Union, focusing on the 1980s and beyond. Main topics are politics, society, and economy; others include demography, Islam, women, and foreign policy.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 315 or CEUS-U 395.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 318 Labor and Migration in Central Asia
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Traces migration flows in Soviet and contemporary Central Asia, asking questions about labor economics, gender, culture and ethnicity in labor migration. Focuses on shifts from formal to informal labor.
  CEUS-R 320 Central Asia in Soviet Times
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the Soviet experiment and its legacy in Central Asia through topics such as economic planning, nuclear testing, language policies, repression, and revival of Islam.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Central Asian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  
  CEUS-R 345 War and Peace in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the causes of the two world wars, the Holocaust, Soviet domination and its collapse in East Central Europe and the subsequent quest to deal with an uncomfortable past construct democratic political systems and to finally reconcile with hostile neighbors.
  
  CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Hungarian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  
  CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Mongolian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  
  CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Turkish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 394 Environmental Problems and Social Constraints in Northern and Central Eurasia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analyzes environmental and social conditions in the immense region of Northern and Central Eurasia (former Soviet Union). Covers general environmental and political situations; environmental transformation under Soviet rule; environmental and health problems; conclusions on current trends.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 394 or CEUS-U 374.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topic in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 399 and CEUS-U 320.
  CEUS-R 416 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exploration of the roles of religious figures and institutions in sanctioning, exercising, and/or undermining political authority in Islamic Central Asia. Focuses on the political influence wielded by the local representatives of Islam's spiritual ideal, especially Sufi shaykhs and how they used their extraordinary socio-economic and political power.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 416 or CEUS-U 498.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 104 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the social and historical studies Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of COLL-C 104 or COLL-S 104.
  Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts, sciences, and professions in their larger contexts. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts, sciences, and professions in their larger contexts. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CJUS-P 340 Law and Society: The Cross-Cultural Perspective
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Roles of legal institutions and processes in social and cultural systems. Cross-cultural examination of the foundations and contexts of legal forms and content and their relation to social, economic, and political systems and institutions. Analysis of legal impact, legal change, and legal development.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CJUS-P 474 Law, Crime, and Justice in Post-Soviet Russia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Interdisciplinary course examines how the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government are being influenced by the forces of transition. Analysis of Russian crime, including corruption, patterns of interpersonal violence, human trafficking, and drug use. Last section focuses on the Russian criminal justice system, including juvenile justice, policing, and prisons.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CJUS-P 493 Seminar in Criminal Justice
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intensive study and analysis of selected problems in criminal justice. Topics will vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  ECON-E 309 Topics in Economics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  ECON-E 252 or ECON-B 252
  Description
  Study of a topic area in economics. Topics will vary. Intended primarily for those wanting exposure to economics beyond the introductory level.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ECON-E 386 Soviet-Type Economies in Transition
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  ECON-E 321 or ECON-S 321
  Description
  Economic institutions, resource allocation mechanisms, incentives and decision-making in a Soviet-type economy; economics of transition to a market-oriented system. Particular attention is paid to price liberalization, development of the financial system, privatization of state-owned assets, opening to the world economy, and the role of private sector.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ECON-E 386 or ECON-E 497.
  
  ECON-E 390 Undergraduate Seminar in Economics
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  ECON-E 321 or ECON-S 321
  Notes
  Additional prerequisites may be required depending on the seminar topic
  Description
  Intensive study of a topic area in economics. Topics will vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  
  EURO-W 304 Model European Union
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A course with two interrelated parts. The first involves an analysis of the decision-making powers of the European Union (EU). This analysis then leads to a formal simulation of the EU.
  Repeatability
  This course may be repeated for credit, for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
  EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected ideas, trends, and problems in contemporary Europe from the perspective of social and behavioral sciences. Specific topics will be announced each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  SGIS-S 300 Global Issues
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of a variety of global issues related to security, technology, media, law, global careers, global and local community awareness, global languages and policy making.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of international and global issues relating to politics, security, media and health.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  
  SGIS-S 401 Cybersecurity, Policy, and Governance
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The Internet has created both opportunities for global connection as well as vulnerabilities that pose new challenges for nation-states and governments, who are forced to contend with actors whose identity and rules of behavior are often not known to them. Explore these issues and the current thinking in law, policy, and governance in dealing with them.
  GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of Global Village director
  Description
  Intermediate consideration of a topic or issue of international dimension not normally covered by individual departments. Often interdisciplinary. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  GLLC-G 220 Global Village Colloquium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of Global Village director
  Description
  Intermediate consideration of a topic or issue of international dimension not normally covered by individual departments. Often interdisciplinary. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  GLLC-G 320 Global Village Symposium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of Global Village director
  Description
  Advanced consideration of a topic or issue of international dimension not normally covered by individual departments. Often interdisciplinary. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  GLLC-G 321 Intelligence and National Security
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of intelligence in U.S. foreign policy and national security issues from 1776 to the present. A look at wartime and peacetime tactics, the Cold War, post–September 11th strategies, and both state and non-state threats. Examines shift to human intelligence, civil liberty issues, and foreign and domestic intelligence activities.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HON-H 304 Interdepartmental Colloquia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of Hutton Honors College
  Description
  Honors seminar focusing on topics in social and historical studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  INTL-I 203 Global Development
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; introduces theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course focuses on the intensive study and analysis of selected international problems and issues within an interdisciplinary format. Topics will vary but will cut across fields, regions, and periods.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Advanced topics examining pressing health and environmental challenges around the world. Focuses on the interaction of health and environmental problems that cross national borders and require a multinational or global effort to solve.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Advanced topics examining the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; in-depth analysis of theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Advanced topics focusing on human rights discourse and the role international law, treaties and conventions play in addressing these rights globally. Topics are interdisciplinary in theory and method.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Advanced topics focusing on the development of the modern state and the role of international organizations in maintaining global security and promoting global governance. Addresses issues of political and cultural diplomacy and their effect in international disputes.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  INTL-I 325 International Issues through Foreign Languages
  
  Credits
  1
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This seminar will examine an international issue through a foreign perspective. Course readings and discussions will be conducted in a foreign language at an advanced level. The seminar\'s objective is to expose participants to global problems utilizing non-U.S. sources.
  
  INTL-I 400 International Studies Capstone Seminar
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  INTL-I 315; International Studies major; and at least sophomore standing
  Description
  This required seminar is designed for senior majors who have completed all of the International Studies degree requirements to consolidate their studies. Students complete a project that addresses an issue appropriate to their concentration.
  
  INTL-I 422 Contested Territories/Conflicted Identities
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of nationalism to explore how history, politics and culture conflict and converge in shaping multiple identities.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  INTL-X 370 Topics with Service Learning in International Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines issues of international scope through service learning projects. Content varies with instructor.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in INTL-I 435 and INTL-X 370.
  POLS-Y 107 Introduction to Comparative Politics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines countries around the world to investigate fundamental questions about politics. Topics include democratic development, promotion of economic prosperity, maintenance of security, and management of ethnic and religious conflict. Critical thinking skills encouraged. Cases for comparison include advanced industrialized democracies, communist and former communist countries, and developing countries.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of POLS-Y 107 and POLS-Y 217.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Causes of war, nature and attributes of the state, imperialism, international law, national sovereignty, arbitration, adjudication, international organization, major international issues.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of POLS-Y 109 or POLS-Y 219.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 200 Contemporary Political Topics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Extensive analysis of selected contemporary political problems. Topics vary from semester to semester and are listed in the online
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 210 Honors Seminar
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intensive examination of selected political topics for freshman and sophomore honors students. Emphasis on critical discussion and preparation of brief papers.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once for credit.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 332 Russian Politics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Political process and government structure in the Russian state. Political institutions inherited from tsarist empire and the Soviet state (1917-1991), history of subsequent political reform. Political problems of ethnic conflict, creating democratic institutions, and of transition from socialism to market economy.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 340 East European Politics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Compares political change in the East European states, and emphasizes the legacies of authoritarianism and communism and the post-communist transition to democracy. Topics include the building of political institutions, the inclusion of citizens into the polity, the reform of the economy, the management of ethnic and social conflicts, and integration into the European Union.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 348 The Politics of Genocide
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Comparative study of major twentieth-century genocides. Examines the political conditions, ideologies, and movements leading up to mass murder, and the ethnic and global context of genocide. Focuses on the question of responsibility and accountability from the viewpoints of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in the national and international communities.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of the politics of the European Union (EU). Assesses past and present dynamics of economic and political integration in Europe, the structure and work of European Union institutions, and EU public policies such as the Single Market, the common currency, common foreign and security policy, and trade.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 351 Political Simulations
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  May be taken alone or in conjunction with related political science courses
  Description
  A course tied to simulations of international organizations such as the European Union, the United Nations, or the Organization of American States.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
  POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of the socioeconomic conditions and political ideologies leading up to the Holocaust, and the political, administrative, and social context for the genocide from the vantage of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. Focus on the individual, national, and international responses to and responsibilities for the Holocaust. Consideration of the Holocaust's legacies for the postwar world.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Compares factors that influence foreign policy and the foreign policy process. Focuses on domestic or internal sources of foreign policy behavior, including impact of individual leaders, group decision-making processes, bureaucratic politics, ideology and political culture, historical experience, and type of political system. Classroom simulations are central to the course.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 368 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: POLS-Y 332
  Description
  Behavior of Russia and U.S.S.R. in world affairs from 1945 to the present. Emphasis on impact of geographic assets and vulnerabilities, historical experience, domestic politics, and the changing international environment.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
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  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 375 War and International Conflict
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The nature of war. Theories and evidence on the causes of war. Discussion of the ways in which war has been conceived and perceived across time and of methods employed to study the phenomenon of war.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Theories about the interaction between the international economic and political systems are the subject of this course. Works from each of the main traditions -- liberal, Marxist, and statist -- will be assigned. Specific topics covered will include (among others): the politics of trade, aid, foreign investment, and international monetary affairs; theories of dependency and imperialism; the politics of international competition in specific industries; the stability/ instability of international economic regimes.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  POLS-Y 401 Topics in Political Science
  Credits
  2–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topic varies with the instructor and year; consult the online
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  SPEA-V 160 National and International Policy
  
  Description
  This course will discuss current debates about U.S. Public Policy on the national and international levels. Some policy issues covered are economic, crime, security, health and energy.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
3. Literature and Culture. One (1) course:
  - Russian and East European Institute
  - Art History
  - Central Eurasian Studies
  - College of Arts and Sciences
  - Collins Living-Learning Center
  - Comparative Literature
  - English
  - European Studies, Institute for
  - Folklore and Ethnomusicology
  - Germanic Studies
  - Hutton Honors College
  - Jewish Studies
  - Media School, The
  - Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Studies
  - Religious Studies
  - Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
  REEI-R 201 Current Issues in Eastern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Interdisciplinary introduction to social, political, economic, demographic, and cultural issues currently facing the countries of Eastern Europe. Primarily addresses recent developments, while also considering historical roots of Eastern Europe, from 19th-century empires to 20th-century Marxist-Leninist regimes to post-1989 governance after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  REEI-R 300 Russian and East European Issues
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Brief examination of selected topics related to Russia and East Europe. Variable topics.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a total of 6 credit hours.
  
  REEI-X 490 Readings in Russian and East European Studies
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Consent of instructor and the director of the Russian and East European Institute
  Description
  None
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in REEI-R 495 and REEI-X 490.
  ARTH-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of major styles and monuments in art and architecture from prehistoric times to the end of the Middle Ages.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 101 or FINA-A 101.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 226 Envisioning the Sacred: Survey of Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Origins and development of the architecture, and especially the sculpture and painting, of the period from Constantine the Great (300 A.D.) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 in the Byzantine East and the beginning of the Renaissance in the Latin West.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 226 or FINA-A 226.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major artists and styles in painting and sculpture from c. 1770 to 1900, emphasizing developments in France, England, and Germany. Topics include neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 341 or FINA-A 341.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Christian art as it developed in its first centuries within the Roman Empire (200-600).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 421 or FINA-A 421.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 600-1453). Consideration of materials from the core territories of the Byzantine world (Constantinople, Asia Minor, Greece), the Byzantine commonwealth of Orthodox lands (Kievan Rus, Serbia) and Western Europe (Sicily, Venice, Crusader states).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 425 or FINA-A 425.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course will examine the cities of Western Europe and the Islamic and Byzantine worlds from the perspective of the institutions of the city and the art and architecture they generated, including houses, fortifications, churches, town halls, guild halls, and markets. Medieval representations of the city also will be explored.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 426 or FINA-A 426.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art, architecture and design of the first half of the twentieth century: cubism, futurism, German expressionism, Dada, constructivism, the Bauhaus, with emphasis on the central concepts of modernism and the avant-garde.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 442 or FINA-A 442.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Russian art from the twelfth century to the present. Emphasis on the period 1850 to the present: realism, the Slavic revival, symbolism, constructivism, and socialist realism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 480 or FINA-A 480.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for introductory topics in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 199 and CEUS-U 320.
  
  CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for intermediate topics in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 299 and CEUS-U 320.
  CEUS-R 304 Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An introduction to contemporary Finnish literature which leads students through its major developments over the last 30 years. Focuses on the major themes and trends of Finnish literature through selected representative works. Finnish texts will be read in translation, analyzed, and discussed.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Baltic-Finnish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys Islam and Muslim communities in areas of the former U.S.S.R. After basic coverage of Islam, Russian expansion, and their interaction, the course focuses on the pressures experienced by and exerted by Islam as a religion and socio-cultural system, with attention to religious life's adaptations to the Soviet and post-Soviet context.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 313 or CEUS-U 394.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CEUS-R 316 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Anthropology of former Soviet Central Asia and adjacent areas of Iran and Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, ethnohistory, subsistence traditions; kinship, gender, identities; religion; transformations under Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, and the war on terrorism. No previous knowledge presumed; background in anthropology helpful.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 398, CEUS-R 316, or CEUS-U 398.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Central Asian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Europe's largest minority, the so-called "Gypsies," more properly the Roma, have been killed, hunted, and reviled; yet the exotic flavoring of "Gypsiness" has fascinated writers, artists, and composers. Surveys Roma history and representations. No background in East European studies, music, or film is required; readings are in English.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Hungarian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  
  CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Mongolian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  
  CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topics in Turkish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  CEUS-R 392 Uralic Peoples and Cultures
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the Uralic (Finno-Ugric and Samoyed) peoples of northern Europe and Siberia. Topics include their origins and history, traditional and modern cultures, ethnic and national identity, development and modernization, and political independence and Russian rule. Also covers interrelations among Uralic peoples in the modern era.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CEUS-R 392 or CEUS-U 370.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable title course for topic in Central Eurasian studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours in CEUS-R 399 and CEUS-U 320.
  COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 103 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the arts and humanities Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of COLL-C 103 or COLL-S 103.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
  CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts, sciences, and professions in their larger contexts. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts, sciences, and professions in their larger contexts. Subjects vary each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  CMLT-C 335 Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
  Description
  The rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and its development into naturalism and impressionism; the symbolist reaction in poetry; the reemergence of the drama as a major genre. Authors such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Mallarme, Ibsen, Hauptmann, Strindberg, Chekhov.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CMLT-C 340 Women in World Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
  Description
  Study of literature by women from different ages and societies. Consideration of issues such as the relationship to literary tradition and cultural context, the creation of an authoritative voice, or the representation of women in literature. Course may focus on one genre or mode (such as drama, lyric, autobiography, or satire).
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CMLT-C 347 Literature and Ideas
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
  Description
  Historical interrelations between literature and philosophy. Recent topics have included free will and the problem of evil; mysticism, criminality, and suffering; existentialism and the literature of the absurd.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
  Description
  Selected topics focusing on Yiddish fiction and drama (1810-1914) or twentieth-century Yiddish fiction, drama, and poetry. Taught in English. No prior knowledge of Yiddish required. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours for any combination of CMLT-C 377 and GER-E 351.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CMLT-C 378 Topics in Yiddish Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
  Description
  Selected topics on history of Ashkenazic Jews; Old Yiddish and premodern Yiddish folklore and popular culture; history and sociology of Yiddish; modern Yiddish culture; and centers of modern Yiddish culture. Taught in English. No prior knowledge of Yiddish required. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours for any combination of CMLT-C 378 and GER-E 352.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  CMLT-C 400 Studies in Comparative Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
  Description
  Specific problems concerning the relationship of two or more literatures or of literature and another area in the humanities.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated twice.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Jewish authors, such as I. B. Singer and Elie Wiesel; groups of authors, such as Holocaust writers and writers about the immigrant experience; or genres and themes. Topic will vary from semester to semester.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  EURO-W 406 Special Topics in European Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected ideas, trends, and problems in contemporary Europe from the perspective of arts and humanities. Specific topics will be announced each semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Expressions of regional cultures and emerging nations of Europe. Social functions of folklore and folk music in rural and urban communities.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Studies of folk culture in relationship to other fields. Focuses on such interdisciplinary topics as folk culture in relationship to language, literature, psychology, history, religion, sociology, musicology, or anthropology.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics focusing on Yiddish fiction and drama (1810-1914) or twentieth-century Yiddish fiction, drama, and poetry. Taught in English. No prior knowledge of Yiddish required. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMLT-C 377, GER-E 351, and GER-Y 300.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics on history of Ashkenazic Jews; Old Yiddish and premodern Yiddish folklore and popular culture; history and sociology of Yiddish; modern Yiddish culture; and centers of modern Yiddish culture. Conducted in English. No prior knowledge of Yiddish required. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMLT-C 378, GER-E 352, and GER-Y 350.
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  GER-X 493 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Consent of instructor
  Description
  Readings in Yiddish or English translations on a topic in Yiddish Culture.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours in GER-X 493 and GER-Y 495.
  HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on works of fiction and/or nonfiction that are distinctive of a particular time period, memorable event or occurrence, or location. Relevant monographs capture the essence of a specific era, happening, or the perspectives of people in a particular place.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  HON-H 303 Interdepartmental Colloquia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of Hutton Honors College
  Description
  Honors seminar focusing on topics in arts and humanities.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  JSTU-J 203 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected arts and humanities topics and issues in Jewish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  JSTU-J 303 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected arts and humanities topics and issues in Jewish studies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  MSCH-J 448 Global Journalism: Issues and Research
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Structure and function of international communication systems and barrier to flow of information among nations. Emphasis on gathering and disseminating information around the world. Study of the major newspapers of the world, international news agencies, and international broadcasting and satellite networks.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 448 or MSCH-J 448.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
  Description
  American social-intellectual history integrated with the story of news media development, emphasizing the historical relationship of the mass media to American social, economic, and cultural patterns and developments. Origin, growth, shortcomings, and achievements of media. Impact of society on the media and vice versa.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 450 or MSCH-J 450.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  MELC-M 305 Issues in Middle Eastern Literature
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Engages selected works of Middle Eastern literature in relation to a singular cultural problem or theme. Topics will vary.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in MELC-M 305 and NELC-N 305.
  REL-A 355 The Right Belief: History of Orthodox Christianity
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the doctrines, spirituality, and practice of Orthodox Christianity as expressed in various cultural and national contexts. Particular attention is paid to Orthodox asceticism, monasticism, parish life, theology, and religious rivalry within the confession.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  REL-A 430 Topics in the History of Judaism
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics such as problems in Jewish mystical tradition, the nature of religious community, charismatic leadership, religious biography.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in REL-A 430 and REL-R 445.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  REL-D 362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Religious problems confronting Jews and Judaism in our own time: women and Judaism, the impact of the Holocaust on Judaism, contemporary views of Zionism, religious trends in American Judaism.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  REL-R 300 Studies in Religion
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics and movements in religion.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-C 223 Introduction to Czech Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to history, literature, visual arts, music, film, and theatre of the Czechs.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-C 363 History of Czech Literature and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A history of the Czech lands and their art, literature, and music from the ninth through the late nineteenth centuries. Some discussion of Slovak language and literature also included.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-C 364 Lovers & Murderers: Czech Literature and Culture from WWII to Today
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of Czech fiction and drama from World War II to the present. Some discussion of émigré literature also included.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-C 365 Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focus on either Czech or Central European literature and culture; intensive study of an author, a period, or a literary or cultural development. Readings and lectures in English.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-C 366 Czech Cinema
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces important trends and movements within the history of Czech cinematography. Places the films in their historical, cultural, and political contexts and illustrates how Czech films captured the life of Czech society during different periods. Examines the region of the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Central Europe: its history, geography, ethnography and languages.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-P 223 Introduction to Polish Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of Polish culture from the origins of the Polish state to modern times. Important historical, political, and social developments and trends as seen through literature, art, science, music, architecture, and political documents. Knowledge of Polish not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-P 363 Faces of War and Freedom
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Polish literature and culture from the nineteenth century to World War II in its turbulent historical and sociopolitical context. Special attention will be given to cultural representations of historical upheavals and the analysis of literary and artistic strategies of responding to the conditions of foreign occupation, colonization, and genocide. Knowledge of Polish language and culture not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-P 364 From Anxiety To Revolution
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Polish literature and culture from the end of World War II to the present day in the context of Poland's and Europe's historical and sociopolitical transformations. The main focus will be on literary and artistic representations of the shifting landscape of Polish culture. Students will analyze literature, film, and the arts, and interpret wide-ranging expressions of existential, aesthetic, and social anxieties and contestations. Knowledge of Polish language and culture not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-P 365 Topics in Polish Literature and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focus on Polish literature and culture with comparisons to other world literatures and cultures; intensive study of an author, a period, or a literary or cultural development. Readings and lectures in English. No previous knowledge of Polish literature or culture required.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-P 366 The Bold and the Restless: Polish Film from the 1950s to the Present
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An exploration of the post-World War II history of Polish cinema, made famous worldwide by directors such as Wajda, Kieslowski, and Polanski. Topics of interest include the cinema of moral anxiety (1970s); absurd comedies depicting life under communism; adaptations of literary classics; and new topics and genres in contemporary Polish film.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-R 223 Introduction to Russian Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of development of Russian culture and thought from medieval Russia to the present, as seen primarily through literature and the arts. No knowledge of Russian is necessary.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-R 224 Contemporary Russian Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of Russian culture from the late Soviet period to the present. Concentration on three simultaneous dichotomies: anthropological versus artistic culture; nationalism and classic Russian themes versus Western and postmodern trends; and popular versus serious art, music, and literature. Knowledge of Russian not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-R 229 Russian Folk Tales
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey, analysis, and origins of traditional Russian folk tales based on thematic and structural classifications. Various approaches and theories are introduced in analyzing and interpreting folk tales, e.g., structural, formalist, thematic, and psychological. Pagan mythology, customs, and rituals are viewed as the possible origins of folktales. Influence of folk tales in music, arts, and cinema.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-R 263 Pushkin to Dostoevsky
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The golden age of the Russian novel; its social, cultural, and economic context; the flowering of art and music; the rise of the metropolis in association with poverty, alienation, quest for identity (both national and personal), as reflected in the romantic and realistic works of Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky. Knowledge of Russian not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-R 264 Rus Lit: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  1880 to present, a period of profound political, social, and intellectual ferment: the Bolshevik Revolution, Civil War, collectivization, the Stalinist purges, World War II, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of a \"new\" Russia. Knowledge of Russian not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-R 322 Linguistic Approaches to Russian Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SLAV-R 202 with a grade of C or higher; or consent of department
  Description
  Introduction to Russian Silver Age poetry with focus on linguistic analysis of poems (scansion and related activities for identifying rhyme patterns, meter and other textual elements). Research of the culture and politics of the Silver Age is included to achieve more critical and nuanced reading. Readings in Russian; discussions in English.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-R 328 Nabokov
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides an overview of Vladimir Nabokov\'s work in both Russian and English and contextualizes that work within the Russian diaspora. Explores the themes that make Nabokov a central figure of twentieth-century literature. Includes samples of literature by other Russian émigré authors. Knowledge of Russian not required.
  SLAV-R 334 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Two giants of world literature who have shaped not only modern cultural history but philosophy and politics as well. Major works of each author will be read within an international perspective. Knowledge of Russian not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-R 349 Myth and Reality: Women in Russian Literature and in Life
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The roles, creations, and status of women in Russian and cross-cultural perspectives; and historical, literary, and social roles of Russian women. Major female characters of classical Russian literature and works of the most substantial Russian women writers will be studied. Special attention will be paid to the current situation in Russian literature and society.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-R 366 Russian and Soviet Film
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Development of Russian cinematography from 1896 to the present. Characteristic features of Soviet films; the theory and practice of filmmaking in the former Soviet Union; the Soviet and Russian cinema in its relationship to Russian literature and in the larger context of European cinema art. Knowledge of Russian not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-R 381 Dostoevsky and His Demons
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of homicide, suicide, patricide, and redemption through a study of the psychological novels of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Primary attention will be paid to narrative style, symbolism, imagery, point of view, structure, themes, allegory, and so on.
  SLAV-R 405 Readings in Russian Literature I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SLAV-R 302 or consent of department
  Description
  Reading, in the original, of important Russian literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discussion and analysis of the works.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-R 406 Readings in Russian Literature II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SLAV-R 302 or consent of department
  Description
  Reading, in the original, of important Russian literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discussion and analysis of the works.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-R 407 Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SLAV-R 302 or consent of department
  Description
  Extensive translation from the original of selected works on Russian history, government, music, folklore, geography, culture. Discussion of both linguistic problems and content.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-R 408 Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SLAV-R 302 or consent of department
  Description
  Extensive translation from the original of selected works on Russian history, government, music, folklore, geography, culture. Discussion of both linguistic problems and content.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-R 451 Russian Poetry
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SLAV-R 302 or consent of department
  Description
  Studies Russian lyric verse and its development through Russian literary history. Analyzes the most prominent works in the genre, from the pre-Pushkin period to the present day, and develops interpretive strategies. Considers the unique place of lyric verse in the Russian cultural tradition, its interactions with other cultural forms in Russia, and its origins in and influence on other literary traditions. Readings in Russian; discussion in English.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-S 223 Introduction to Balkan and South Slavic Cultures
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the cultures of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Romania, concentrating on the modern period. Lectures and readings in English.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-S 320 Special Topics in Slavic Studies
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study and analysis of literary and cultural issues and problems in the Slavic studies area. Variable topics ranging from a study of a single novel or genre to selected themes of Slavic literature in their historical and cultural contexts. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics up to 9 times for a total of 15 credit hours
  SLAV-S 363 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I: Literature and Nationalism in the Balkans
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of literary and intellectual history of the South Slavs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a special focus on the foundational ideology of nations and nationalism in this period. Readings and discussions in English.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-S 364 Socialist Modernism
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of literatures and cultures of former Yugoslavia during the 20th and 21st centuries. Exploration of the unique Yugoslav aesthetic of socialist modernism and directions Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literatures have taken in the post-modernist period.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-T 230 Topics in Slavic Literatures and Cultures
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics from Slavic and East European literatures and cultures.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  SLAV-T 241 Central and East European Immigration and Ethnic Identity in the U.S.
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An area studies exploration of the ways in which people of Central and East European heritage express and adapt their ethnic identities in a United States context.
  Repeatability
  With departmental approval, may be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  
  SLAV-T 252 Introduction to the Slavic Languages
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An introductory course on the linguistic analysis of Slavic languages.
  Repeatability
  With departmental approval, may be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  SLAV-T 366 Central European Cinema
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Broad cultural overview of Central European cinema, highlighting major developments of cinema in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the former Republics of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the post-Stalin era. Special attention will be given to the individual style and aesthetics of several major film directors.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-U 223 Introduction to Ukrainian Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of Ukrainian culture from Kyivan Rus to the present, including such diverse facets of Ukrainian culture as folklore, language, art, literature, and modern pop-culture. Readings are supplemented by documentaries, cartoons, and music. Knowledge of Ukrainian not required.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  SLAV-X 490 Supervised Individual Reading
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Consent of the department
  Description
  Reading, in the original, of materials in field of Slavic studies of particular interest to student.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in SLAV-S 498 and SLAV-X 490.
4. REE Area Studies Electives. Two (2) courses:
  - Additional course(s) from the History and Geography list
  - Additional course(s) from the Literature and Culture list
  - Additional course(s) from the Social Sciences list
Electives. Six (6) additional credit hours:
- Additional course(s) from the Russian and East European Area Studies lists.
- Methods Courses
- Russian or East European Language Courses
- REEI Capstone or Upper-Level Writing Course
- Professional Experience Courses
- Career Preparation Course
INTL-I 315 Research Design in International Studies

Credits
3
Prerequisites
International Studies major or minor; and at least sophomore standing
Notes
Completion before the major's overseas/international experience is strongly recommended. This course is required for all International Studies majors.
Description
Introduction to research design and methodology used in international studies in preparation for undertaking research abroad and completing the INTL-I 400/INTL-I 406 Capstone Seminar.
INTL-I 431 Statistics for International Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to statistics and quantitative measures in international studies. Provides practical experience with descriptive and inferential statistics as well as international indicators. No previous knowledge or coursework in statistics is required.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
INTL-I 432 Models of Social and Political Processes

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Surveys quantitative frameworks for evaluating global and international phenomena, events, and processes to assess political and social obstacles to achieving collective goals. A basic knowledge of algebra is necessary to succeed in this course.
POLS-Y 395 Quantitative Political Analysis
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to methods and statistics used in political inquiry, including measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, sampling, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, measures of association, analysis of variance, and regression.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
POLS-Y 405 Models and Theories of Political Decision Making
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One course in political science at the 200 level or above
Notes
R: ECON-E 201
Description
Introduces collective choice and game theory for understanding how societies make political decisions. Examines how institutions, or the political context in which decisions are made, affect group choices. Theories of individual and group decision making, collective choice, and social dilemmas. Applications to congressional politics, intergovernmental relations, and parliamentary democracies.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 370 Research Methods in Sociology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
The logic of scientific work in sociology; theory construction; major research designs, including experiments, sample surveys, and ethnographic field studies. Methods of sampling; measurement of variables; and descriptive statistics. Commonly used rates and indices in social research; using software to produce graphical displays and descriptive statistics.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CEUS-T 303 Advanced Estonian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
CEUS-T 204 or CEUS-U 212 with a grade of C or higher
Description
Builds students' confidence as language users via class discussion of newspaper articles, fiction and poetry, class presentations, journal entries, summaries of articles, film and news clips, short essays, TV broadcasts, and audiotape recordings. Focuses on structures of formal written Estonian and different registers of oral production.

CEUS-T 304 Advanced Estonian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
CEUS-T 303 with a grade of C or higher; or consent of department
Description
Consolidates students' knowledge of Estonian structure, and adds to vocabulary, especially in students' areas of interest. While speaking, reading, listening, and writing are developed, this course has more emphasis on reading and writing. Independent work and student contribution a must; class is tailored to individual interests.

CEUS-T 341 Advanced Hungarian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
CEUS-T 242 or CEUS-U 232 with a grade of C or higher
Description
Assumes four semesters of Hungarian and substantial knowledge of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Enables students to converse about moderately complex personal, social, and academic topics; to read and understand a full range of literary genres; and to write and translate to meet most personal and academic needs.

CEUS-T 342 Advanced Hungarian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
CEUS-T 341 with a grade of C or higher
Description
Students continue to learn how to converse about moderately complex personal, social, and academic topics; read and understand a range of genres; and write and translate for personal and academic needs. Through readings, students extend vocabulary and develop a more academic style for conversation and writing.

SLAV-N 341 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 232, SLAV-N 242, or SLAV-R 202 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-R 301.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 341, SLAV-N 351, or SLAV-R 301.

SLAV-N 351 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 232, SLAV-N 242, or SLAV-R 202 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-R 301.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 341, SLAV-N 351, or SLAV-R 301.

SLAV-N 352 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 341, SLAV-N 351, or SLAV-R 301 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-R 302.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 352, SLAV-N 362, or SLAV-R 302.

SLAV-N 362 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 341, SLAV-N 351, or SLAV-R 301 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-R 302.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 352, SLAV-N 362, or SLAV-R 302.

SLAV-N 461 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 352, SLAV-N 362, or SLAV-R 302 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-R 401.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 461, SLAV-N 471, or SLAV-R 401.

SLAV-N 471 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 352, SLAV-N 362, or SLAV-R 302 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-R 401.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 461, SLAV-N 471, or SLAV-R 401.

SLAV-N 472 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 461, SLAV-N 471, or SLAV-R 401 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-R 402.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 472 or SLAV-R 402.

SLAV-N 481 Fifth-Year Russian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 471 or SLAV-R 402 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
First semester of an intensive fifth-year Russian language course.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 481 or SLAV-N 581.

SLAV-N 482 Fifth-Year Russian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 481, SLAV-N 581, or SLAV-R 501 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
The second semester of an intensive fifth-year Russian language course.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 482 or SLAV-N 582.

SLAV-N 491 Sixth-Year Russian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 482, SLAV-N 582, or SLAV-R 502 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
First semester of an intensive sixth-year Russian language course.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 491 or SLAV-N 691.

SLAV-N 492 Sixth-Year Russian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-N 491, SLAV-N 691, or SLAV-R 601 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
This is the second semester of an intensive sixth-year Russian language course.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 492 or SLAV-N 692.

SLAV-P 473 Fourth-Year Polish I

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Refinement of active and passive language skills, with emphasis on vocabulary building and word usage.Â Extensive readings, discussion, composition writing.Â Individualized remedial drill in grammar and pronunciation.

SLAV-P 474 Fourth-Year Polish II

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Refinement of active and passive language skills, with emphasis on vocabulary building and word usage.Â Extensive readings, discussion, composition writing.Â Individualized remedial drill in grammar and pronunciation.

SLAV-R 301 Advanced Intermediate Russian I

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 202 with a grade of B or higher; or appropriate placement exam score; or consent of department
Description
Morphological, lexical, and syntactic analysis of a broad spectrum of textual materials with special emphasis on meaning. Development of oral and written fluency and comprehension. Remedial grammar and phonetics as required.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 341, SLAV-N 351, SLAV-R 301, SLAV-W 305, or SLAV-W 354.

SLAV-R 302 Advanced Intermediate Russian II

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 301 with a grade of B or higher; or appropriate placement exam score; or consent of department
Description
Morphological, lexical, and syntactic analysis of a broad spectrum of textual materials with special emphasis on meaning. Development of oral and written fluency and comprehension. Remedial grammar and phonetics as required.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 352, SLAV-N 362, SLAV-R 302, SLAV-W 306, or SLAV-W 355.

SLAV-R 325 Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian I

Credits
1
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 202 or consent of the department
Description
Designed primarily for those interested in developing oral fluency. Sections in advanced conversation, recitation, and oral comprehension, supplemented by lab and drill in corrective pronunciation, dictation, and reading.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credit hours.

SLAV-R 326 Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian II

Credits
1
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 301 or SLAV-R 325; or consent of department
Description
Continuation and advanced treatment of topics covered in SLAV-R 325, as well as themes relating to current events.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credit hours.

SLAV-R 401 Advanced Russian I

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 302 with a grade of B or higher; or appropriate placement exam score; or consent of department
Description
Refinement of active and passive language skills, with emphasis on vocabulary building and word usage. Extensive reading, discussion, composition writing. Individualized remedial drill in grammar and pronunciation aimed at preparing students to meet departmental language proficiency standards.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 461, SLAV-N 471, SLAV-R 401, SLAV-W 307, or SLAV-W 356.

SLAV-R 402 Advanced Russian II

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 401 with a grade of B or higher; or appropriate placement exam score; or consent of department
Description
Refinement of active and passive language skills, with emphasis on vocabulary building and word usage. Extensive reading, discussion, composition writing. Individualized remedial drill in grammar and pronunciation aimed at preparing students to meet departmental language proficiency standards.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-N 472, SLAV-R 402, or SLAV-W 357.

SLAV-R 421 Fifth-Year Russian

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 402 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of department
Description
This course continues developing students' advanced skills in Russian, while focusing on a particular topic related to a diverse range of social, cultural, or historical domains. Language work includes writing, syntactical and stylistic analysis, academic speech, reading and listening activities.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

SLAV-R 422 Fifth-year Russian II

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 402 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of instructor
Description
Covers a range of socio-cultural, historical, and political topics. Develops linguistic and cultural proficiency in preparation for academic study or research in Russian.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 18 credit hours.

SLAV-R 425 Advanced Oral Russian I

Credits
1
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 302 or consent of the department
Description
Designed primarily for those interested in maintaining or developing oral fluency. Sections in advanced conversation, recitation and oral comprehension, dictation, and reading.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credit hours.

SLAV-R 426 Advanced Oral Russian II

Credits
1
Prerequisites
SLAV-R 401 or SLAV-R 425; or consent of the department
Description
Continuation of SLAV-R 425.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credit hours.

SLAV-R 470 Political Russian

Credits
3
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor
Description
Students will develop advanced language skills with a focus on international relations, economics, trade, national security, and arms control. Students will be exposed to such authentic materials as newspaper articles and audio excerpts from news broadcasts. Course goal is to develop functional proficiency in all basic language skills: reading, listening, speaking. Grammar review is part of the course.

SLAV-U 111 Summer Intensive Elementary Ukrainian I

Credits
4
Prerequisites
None
Description
No previous knowledge of Ukrainian required. Intensive summer equivalent of SLAV-U 101, designed to provide active command of phonology and basic grammatical patterns of Ukrainian.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLAV-U 101, SLAV-U 111, or SLAV-U 311

SLAV-U 322 Advanced Ukrainian II

Credits
4
Prerequisites
SLAV-U 311 with a grade of B or higher; or consent of instructor
Description
Develops advanced skills in speaking, writing, reading, and listening about a broad range of topics related to contemporary Ukrainian society and culture. Emphasis is on fostering cultural awareness, a higher level of listening and reading comprehension, and more sophisticated self-expression in both writing and speaking.

CEUS-R 491 Capstone Seminar in Central Eurasian Studies

Credits
3
Prerequisites
CEUS major; senior standing; and consent of supervising faculty
Description
Requires the preparation of an original thesis or research project that brings together the student's interests, region, and language of specialization and demonstrates accumulated training in the field. The project must be produced under the supervision of a faculty member.

INTL-I 400 International Studies Capstone Seminar

Credits
3
Prerequisites
INTL-I 315; International Studies major; and at least sophomore standing
Description
This required seminar is designed for senior majors who have completed all of the International Studies degree requirements to consolidate their studies. Students complete a project that addresses an issue appropriate to their concentration.

ANTH-X 476 Museum Practicum

Credits
1–8 credit hours
Prerequisites
ANTH-A 403, ANTH-A 405, or consent of instructor
Description
Independent work of student's choice in one aspect of the field of museum work. Relevant readings required.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-X 476.

ANTH-X 478 Practicum in Anthropology

Credits
1–8 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of chairperson
Description
Supervised work of an anthropological nature arranged through an outside agency or institution, such as an internship, apprenticeship, or volunteer work at a governmental office, zoo, or archaeological site. One credit hour per 45 hours or one full-time week of activity.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-A 496 and ANTH-X 478.

ARTH-X 376 Professional Practice in the History of Art

Credits
1–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
Art history major or minor; junior or senior standing; minimum 3.000 overall GPA; and consent of the director of undergraduate studies
Notes
Does not count toward CASE Breadth of Inquiry or art history requirements.
Description
Supervised, career-related work experience in a cooperative institution, agency, or business. Evaluation by supervisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-X 376 and FINA-Y 399.
Grading
S/F grading.

CLLC-X 273 Collins Internship in Student Self-Governance and Management

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of director
Description
Students expand their engagement in Collins residence or LLC self-government, in educational programming, arts management, or other activities, by reflecting on their work through journal-keeping and a final report. Meetings with the LLC Director (or designated instructor of record) provide opportunities to gain critical reflections on the experience and to learn how to apply learned skills to post-college experience.
Repeatability
May be repeated up to 3 times for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

ECON-X 373 Internship in Economics

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of department
Notes
Does not count toward a major or minor in economics
Description
Supervised work experience in an academic or business environment, including as a teaching assistant for undergraduate classes. Performance evaluation by a faculty mentor.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours in ECON-X 373 and ECON-Y 398.
Grading
S/F grading.

EURO-X 373 Internship in European Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of department based on completion of at least 6 credit hours toward the minor or certificate in European Studies
Description
Provides an opportunity to combine interests in modern Europe with practical experience working with the Institute for European Studies.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

FOLK-X 476 Museum Practicum in Folklore

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Prior arrangement with the museum professional supervising work
Description
Independent, supervised, folklore-oriented practicum at a campus or community museum or systematic research collection relevant to folklore, ethnography, or cultural history. Participatory activities will be supplemented by reading and writing activities.
Repeatability
May be repeated with consent of the chair for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FOLK-F 408 and FOLK-X 476.

GNDR-X 474 Internship in Gender Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
At least Junior class standing; and 15 credit hours of gender studies course work
Notes
Does not count toward major
Description
Selected career-related work in a cooperating institution or business. Evaluation by faculty supervisor and employer.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

GNDR-X 476 Practicum in Gender Studies

Credits
3–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
Junior or senior standing; 12 credit hours of gender studies coursework; consent of faculty advisor and department
Description
Directed study of issues or policies related to gender or sexuality based on a field experience. Directed readings, papers and/or an analytical journal may be required.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

HIST-X 376 Practicum in History

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor
Description
Students will engage in practical applications of history, such as facilitating a history discussion forum, working with K-12 students, preparing an exhibit, or recreating historical materials, with faculty supervision. By arrangement with instructor.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a total of 3 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

HIST-X 473 Internship for History Majors

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
History major; HIST-H 270; and 6 additional credit hours of History coursework
Description
Provides opportunity to receive academic credit for a part-time or full-time, paid or unpaid internship experience in any professional field. Requires a learning contract, employer evaluations, and faculty-supervised critical reflections relating the internship experience to the competencies gained in the major. Credits based on at least 50 work hours per credit hour.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

INTL-I 426 Advanced Topics in International Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
In-depth study and analysis of an international problem, culminating in a research project. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics up to four times.

INTL-X 370 Topics with Service Learning in International Studies

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines issues of international scope through service learning projects. Content varies with instructor.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in INTL-I 435 and INTL-X 370.

JSTU-X 473 Internship in Jewish Studies

Credits
1–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
Through internships, students make particular use of their skills, learn new skills, and start to build professional contacts in the field of their interest. Students who wish to receive credit through Jewish Studies for their internship need to have a Jewish Studies faculty sponsor and are responsible for finding and securing their own internships.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours in JSTU-P 498 and JSTU-X 473.
Grading
S/F grading.

MSCH-X 472 Media Internship

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
At least junior standing; at least 12 credit hours completed in the school; and application for internship credit approved by the school
Notes
Application is available on the Media School website
Description
Faculty-supervised work in a media field related to student's academic interests. Credits based on at least 45 work hours per credit hour with a maximum of 6 credit hours applied toward the B.A. in Media or the B.S. in Game Design. Student must write a critical analysis paper and be evaluated by a workplace supervisor.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 382, MSCH-I 382, MSCH-I 497, MSCH-X 472, or TEL-T 497.
Grading
S/F grading.

MSCH-X 474 Journalism Internship

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Approval for a College Career Internship
Notes
Application is available on the Media School website
Description
Supervised internship working in a journalism or media-related role with a professional media organization.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

MSCH-X 490 Projects in Media

Credits
1–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
Application approved by director of undergraduate studies, instructor, and facilities and technology director (when relevant)
Notes
Application is available on the Media School website
Description
Opportunity for individual and group projects in media production and journalism; work with faculty member on individual or group basis.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in MSCH-X 475, MSCH-X 490, and TEL-T 498.

POLS-X 276 Political Science Practicum I

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Notes
Information on topic and course affiliation available in the online schedule of classes
Description
In the practicum, students will conduct experiments, or participate in simulations, or hold moot court sessions, or compete in debates or engage in problem-solving exercises.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credit hours in POLS-X 180 and POLS-X 276.
Grading
S/F grading.

POLS-X 376 Political Science Practicum II

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Notes
Information on topic and course affiliation available in the online schedule of classes
Description
In the practicum, students will conduct experiments, or participate in simulations, or hold moot court sessions, or compete in debates or engage in problem-solving exercises.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours in POLS-X 280 and POLS-X 376.
Grading
S/F grading.

POLS-X 471 Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship

Credits
1–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor
Description
Faculty-directed participation in the various aspects of academic teaching and research. Students will assist a faculty member in such activities as directing simulations, grading, teaching discussion sections, doing research, etc. Individual assignments will vary by instructor.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in POLS-X 471 and POLS-Y 484.
Grading
S/F grading.

POLS-X 476 Political Science Practicum III

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Notes
Information on topic and course affiliation available in the online schedule of classes
Description
In the practicum, students will conduct experiments, or participate in simulations, or hold moot court sessions, or compete in debates or engage in problem-solving exercises.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours in POLS-X 380 and POLS-X 476.
Grading
S/F grading.

POLS-X 477 Field Experience in Political Science

Credits
1–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
Junior or senior standing, 15 credit hours of political science, and project approval by instructor
Description
Faculty-directed study of aspects of the political process based on field experience. Directed readings, field research, research papers. Certain internship experiences may require research skills.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in POLS-X 477 and POLS-Y 481.

POLS-Y 496 Foreign Study in Political Science

Credits
3–8 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor
Description
Course involves planning of research project during year preceding summer abroad. Time spent in research abroad must amount to at least one week for each credit hour granted. Research paper must be presented by end of semester following foreign study.

REL-X 370 Service Learning in Religious Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of director of undergraduate studies
Notes
To obtain consent, student must submit an application and obtain a faculty sponsor
Description
Affords a student the opportunity to receive academic credit for work experience in a communal or public setting.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of REL-R 496 or REL-X 370.

SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
Provides academic structure to undergraduate students who wish to engage in a work experience through participation in internships domestically or internationally.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

SOC-X 373 Internship in Professional Practice

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Two sociology courses, including one at 200-level or above; and consent of the director of undergraduate studies
Notes
Three credit hours to count in the major or minor
Description
Provides opportunities for students to receive credit for selected, career-related work in a cooperating institution, agency, or business. Research paper that relates work experience to materials learned in sociology courses is required. Evaluation by employer and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Sociology.
Repeatability
Limited to a total of 9 credit hours among the following courses: SOC-S 494, SOC-S 495, SOC-X 373, SOC-X 477, SOC-X 490, and SOC-Y 398.
Grading
S/F grading.

SOC-X 477 Field Experience in Sociology

Credits
1–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor and prior arrangement
Description
Faculty-directed study of aspects of sociology based on field experience, in conjunction with directed readings and writing. Specifically, each intern is required to (1) keep a daily or weekly journal, which is given at regular intervals to the faculty sponsor; (2) give an oral report once the fieldwork is completed; and (3) depending on academic credit, write a journal or an analytic paper or both.
Repeatability
Limited to a total of 9 credit hours among the following courses: SOC-S 494, SOC-S 495, SOC-X 373, SOC-X 477, SOC-X 490, and SOC-Y 398.

SOC-X 498 Sociological Research I

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SOC-S 370 and SOC-S 371; or consent of instructor.
Description
Participation in all aspects of a sociological research project, including conceptualization and design, data collection, analysis, and report writing.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SOC-S 491 or SOC-X 498.

SOC-X 499 Sociological Research II

Credits
3
Prerequisites
SOC-S 491 or SOC-X 498; or consent of instructor
Description
None
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SOC-S 492 or SOC-X 499.

INFO-I 391 Professional Internship

Description
Students gain professional work experience in an industry or research organization setting, using skills and knowledge acquired in informatics course work.
Additional information
Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.

SPEA-V 380 Internship in Public and Environmental Affairs

Description
Students and faculty must complete appropriate paperwork prior to or during experience. Retroactive experiential credit will not be awarded. Students work with public agencies or governmental units for assignment to a defined task relevant to their educational interests in public affairs. Tasks may involve staff work or research.
Additional information
Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.

SPEA-V 381 Professional Experience

Description
Students will be required to fulfill a minimum of 120 hours of professional relevant work.
Additional information
Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.

SPEA-V 482 Overseas Topics in Public Affairs

Description
SPEA Abroad Program: study of selected topics in public affairs. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Additional information
Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.

ASCS-Q 275 Professional Portfolio Development

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Description
Students create a professional portfolio, an educational tool used for reflection and the practical pursuit of graduate studies and/or career placement. Students incorporate their personal academic experience into a tangible record of their accomplishments in order to communicate the value of their liberal arts education with outside constituents.
Grading
S/F grading.

ASCS-Q 294 College to Career I: Explore Your Options

Credits
2
Prerequisites
Freshman or sophomore standing
Description
Development and integration of self-assessment, career planning, and academic work. Students design and produce an individual career action plan. Through self-assessment instruments, they develop their understanding of their personal values, interests, skills, and personality in relation to their vocational options, academic process, and career projections.
Grading
S/F grading.

ASCS-Q 295 Design Your Life and Career

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Description
Uses design-thinking principles and framework as a way to approach important life decisions with mindfulness and creativity. Includes exploration of majors and careers of interest as well as development of a plan to continue this exploration throughout the college years.
Grading
S/F grading.

ASCS-Q 296 College to Career II: Navigate Your Arts and Sciences Experience

Credits
2
Prerequisites
At least sophomore standing
Description
Explores the relationship between academic and extracurricular choices and life after graduation. Students assess their skills, develop a portfolio to highlight them, and create a plan to address gaps. Focuses on a paradigm of job searching that emphasizes research and highly customized, focused application materials.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of the following: ASCS-Q 296, BUS-T 275, or SPEA-V 252.
Grading
S/F grading.

ASCS-Q 299 Build Your Job and Internship Search Toolkit

Credits
1
Prerequisites
At least sophomore standing
Description
Introduces a job and internship search paradigm focused on the developing a professional story and communicating it through resumes, cover letters, interviews, and networking. Provides training in the creation of a self-marketing plan that incorporates academic, extracurricular, and professional experiences, as well as strengths and skills into a compelling narrative.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of the following: ASCS-Q 299, BUS-X 420, SPEA-H 267, SPEA-V 252, or SPEA-V 352.

ECON-E 298 Careers in Economics

Credits
1
Prerequisites
Major in economics or consent of instructor
Notes
R: Sophomore or junior standing
Description
How to use campus career development resources, write a resume and cover letter, and develop interviewing and networking skills for the job market. Options to prepare for professional or graduate education. Invited speakers provide perspectives from a variety of fields. Helps match student skills and interests to the requirements of a chosen career.

POLS-X 299 Careers for Political Science Students

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Description
Through presentations and discussions with IU alumni with professional careers in law, government, business, non-profits and research institutes, international service, polling, and other fields, introduces various career options available to political scientists as well as how to write a resume and excel in interviews for such opportunities.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of two credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.
Additional Requirement*.
1. Russian or East European Language Requirement. Complete coursework or show proficiency in one of the following languages through the second semester of the second year:
  - Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
  - Czech
  - Estonian
  - Hungarian
  - Polish
  - Russian
  - Ukrainian
  - Other language for the Russian/East European area with approval of the program
Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. Certificate GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
2. Certificate Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
3. Certificate Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
4. Certificate Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.

Notes

* Courses used to fulfill additional requirements do not count toward the Certificate GPA or Certificate Hours.

Certificate Area Courses

Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

Minor in Polish Studies (POLISTMIN)
Minor in Russian and East European Studies (REESTMIN)
Minor in Russian and East European Studies with Language Certification (REELNGMIN)

Exceptions to and substitutions for certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.