Requirements

1. Language. Two (2) courses and six (6) credit hours:
   • Central Eurasian Studies
   • CEUS-T 203 Intermediate Estonian I i
   • CEUS-T 204 Intermediate Estonian II i
   • CEUS-T 241 Intermediate Hungarian I i
   • CEUS-T 242 Intermediate Hungarian II i
   • CEUS-T 303 Advanced Estonian I i
   • CEUS-T 304 Advanced Estonian II i
   • CEUS-T 341 Advanced Hungarian I i
   • CEUS-T 342 Advanced Hungarian II i
   • CEUS-T 399 Advanced Central Eurasian Languages II i
   • European Studies
   • EURO-E 200 Intermediate Modern Greek I i
   • EURO-E 250 Intermediate Modern Greek II: An Introduction to Modern Greek Culture i
   • EURO-E 300 Advanced Modern Greek I: Cultural Literacy and Current Events i
   • EURO-E 350 Advanced Modern Greek II: Literature, History, and Cinema i
   • Germanic Studies
   • GER-Y 200 Intermediate Yiddish I i
   • GER-Y 250 Intermediate Yiddish II i
   • Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
   • Advanced Russian II i
   • Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II i
   • Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I i
   • Political Russian i
   • Advanced Oral Russian II i
   • Advanced Oral Russian I i
   • Intermediate Ukrainian II i
   • Fifth-Year Russian I i
   • Fifth-Year Russian II i
   • Sixth-Year Russian I i
   • Sixth-Year Russian II i
   • Fifth-Year Russian i
   • Special Topics in Slavic Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Fourth-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II i
   • Grad Rdgs in Slavic Studies i
   • Intermediate Ukrainian I i
   • Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I i
   • Intermediate Czech I i
   • Intermediate Czech II i
   • Intermediate Romanian I i
   • Intermediate Romanian II i
   • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I i
   • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I i
   • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II i
   • Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II i
   • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I i
   • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I i
   • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II i
   • Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II i
   • Advanced Russian I i
   • Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I i
   • Summer Intensive Advanced Russian II i
   • Intermediate Polish I i
   • Intermediate Polish II i
   • Fourth-Year Polish I i
   • Fourth-Year Polish II i
   • Intermediate Russian I i
   • Intermediate Russian II i
   • Advanced Intermediate Russian I i
   • Advanced Intermediate Russian II i
   • Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian I i
   • Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian II i
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2. History and Geography. One (1) course:
   • Russian and East European Institute
   • Magic in the Russian Empire i
   • Current Issues in Eastern Europe i
   • Russia, Past and Present i
   • Russian and East European Issues i
   • Central Eurasian Studies
   • CEUS-R 191 Introduction to Central Eurasia i
   • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 294 Introduction to Hungary, Estonia, and Finland i
   • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 302 Modern Finland i
   • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 310 Introduction to Central Asian History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture i
   • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies i
   • CEUS-R 360 Modern Mongolia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 383 Ten Sultans, One Empire: Ottoman Classical Age, 1300-1600 i
   • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 393 The Mongol Century (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 412 Central Asia under Russian Rule i
   • CEUS-R 413 Islamic Central Asia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • College of Arts and Sciences
   • COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Collins Living-Learning Center
   • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • European Studies, Institute for
   • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Geography
   • GEOG-G 120 Regions of the World (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • GEOG-G 378 The Geography of North Central Asia i
   • GEOG-G 427 Russia and Its Neighbors i
   • GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Global and International Studies, School of
   • Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • History
   • HIST-B 300 Issues in Western European History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust i
   • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust i
   • HIST-D 100 Issues in Russian and East European History i
   • HIST-D 102 Icon and Axe: Russia from Earliest Times to 1861 i
   • HIST-D 103 The Making of Modern Russia i
   • HIST-D 200 Issues in Russian/East European History i
   • HIST-D 201 Democratic Revolutions since 1980 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • HIST-D 300 Issues in Russian/East European History i
   • HIST-D 302 The Gorbachev Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire i
   • HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History i
   • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe i
   • HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars i
   • HIST-D 309 Russia in World War II: Battles and People i
   • HIST-D 310 Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime i
   • HIST-D 320 Modern Ukraine i
   • HIST-D 321 Hungarian History and Civilization to 1711 i
   • HIST-D 322 Hungarian History and Civilization 1711--1918 i
   • HIST-D 325 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804--1923 i
   • HIST-D 327 The Habsburg Empire, 1780-1918: Nation-Building and Imperial Decline i
   • HIST-D 329 Eastern Europe 1900--1943 i
   • HIST-D 330 Eastern Europe 1944--Present i
   • HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • HIST-H 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion i
   • HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present i
   • HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
   • HIST-J 400 Seminar in History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Jewish Studies
   • JSTU-J 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion i
   • JSTU-J 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present i
   • JSTU-J 323 History of the Holocaust i
   • Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
   • MELC-M 348 Byzantium i
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3. Social Sciences. One (1) course:
   • Russian and East European Institute
   • Current Issues in Eastern Europe i
   • Russia, Past and Present i
   • Russian and East European Issues i
   • Anthropology
   • ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture i
   • ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe i
   • ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East i
   • ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia i
   • ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe i
   • ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology i
   • ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Central Eurasian Studies
   • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies i
   • CEUS-R 315 Politics and Society in Central Asia i
   • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies i
   • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 394 Environmental Problems and Social Constraints in Northern and Central Eurasia i
   • CEUS-R 395 Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia i
   • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 416 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia i
   • College of Arts and Sciences
   • COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Collins Living-Learning Center
   • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Criminal Justice
   • CJUS-P 340 Law and Society: The Cross-Cultural Perspective i
   • CJUS-P 474 Law, Crime, and Justice in Post-Soviet Russia i
   • CJUS-P 493 Seminar in Criminal Justice (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Economics
   • ECON-E 309 Topics in Economics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • ECON-E 386 Soviet-Type Economies in Transition i
   • ECON-E 390 Undergraduate Seminar in Economics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • ECON-S 202 Introduction to Macroeconomics: Honors i
   • European Studies, Institute for
   • EURO-W 304 Model European Union i
   • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Gender Studies
   • GNDR-G 402 Problems in Gender Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Global and International Studies, School of
   • Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Global Living-Learning Community
   • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • GLLC-G 220 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • GLLC-G 320 Global Village Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • GLLC-G 321 Intelligence and National Security i
   • Hutton Honors College
   • HON-H 304 Interdepartmental Colloquia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • International Studies
   • INTL-I 100 Introduction to International Studies i
   • INTL-I 203 Global Development (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-I 325 International Issues through Foreign Languages (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-I 400 International Studies Capstone Seminar i
   • INTL-I 422 Contested Territories/Conflicted Identities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • INTL-X 370 Topics with Service Learning in International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Political Science
   • Introduction to International Relations i
   • Topics in Political Science (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
   • Modern Political Thought i
   • Classical Political Thought i
   • International Political Economy i
   • War and International Conflict i
   • Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy i
   • Comparative Foreign Policy i
   • The Holocaust and Politics i
   • Political Simulations (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Politics of the European Union i
   • The Politics of Genocide i
   • East European Politics i
   • Russian Politics i
   • Honors Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Contemporary Political Topics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Introduction to Comparative Politics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Business, Kelley School of
   • BUS-D 301 International Business Environment (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • BUS-D 496 Foreign Study in Business (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • BUS-F 494 International Finance (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • BUS-G 494 Public Policy and the International Economy (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • BUS-M 401 International Marketing (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Public and Environmental Affairs, School of
   • National and International Policy (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
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4. Literature and Culture. One (1) course:
   • Russian and East European Institute
   • Current Issues in Eastern Europe i
   • Russia, Past and Present i
   • Russian and East European Issues i
   • Art History
   • ARTH-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • ARTH-A 226 Envisioning the Sacred: Survey of Medieval Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art i
   • ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire i
   • ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945 i
   • ARTH-A 480 Russian Art i
   • Central Eurasian Studies
   • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 304 Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature i
   • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States i
   • CEUS-R 316 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia i
   • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture i
   • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies i
   • CEUS-R 352 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East i
   • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CEUS-R 392 Uralic Peoples and Cultures i
   • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • College of Arts and Sciences
   • COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Collins Living-Learning Center
   • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Comparative Literature
   • CMLT-C 335 Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism i
   • CMLT-C 340 Women in World Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CMLT-C 347 Literature and Ideas (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CMLT-C 378 Topics in Yiddish Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • CMLT-C 400 Studies in Comparative Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • English
   • ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature i
   • Folklore and Ethnomusicology
   • FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Germanic Studies
   • GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • GER-X 493 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Global and International Studies, School of
   • Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Global Living-Learning Community
   • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Hutton Honors College
   • HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place (Approved topics: "LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST" (TPC 12)) i
   • HON-H 303 Interdepartmental Colloquia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Jewish Studies
   • JSTU-J 203 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (Approved topics: "LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST" (TPC 13)) i
   • JSTU-J 303 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (Approved topics: "RUSSIAN JEWISH WRITERS" (TPC 25)) i
   • Media School, The
   • MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • MSCH-J 448 Global Journalism: Issues and Research i
   • MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
   • MELC-M 305 Issues in Middle Eastern Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Religious Studies
   • Studies in Religion (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Topics in the History of Judaism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • The Right Belief: History of Orthodox Christianity i
   • Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
   • Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society I i
   • Readings in Russian Literature I i
   • Central European Cinema i
   • Russian and Soviet Film i
   • Tolstoy and Dostoevsky i
   • Rus Lit: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn i
   • Pushkin to Dostoevsky i
   • Russian Folk Tales i
   • Contemporary Russian Culture i
   • Introduction to Russian Culture i
   • The Bold and the Restless: Polish Film from the 1950s to the Present i
   • Topics in Polish Literature and Culture i
   • Faces of War and Freedom i
   • Introduction to Polish Culture i
   • Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures (approved topics only; see academic advisor)i
   • Lovers & Murderers: Czech Literature and Culture from WWII to Today i
   • History of Czech Literature and Culture i
   • Introduction to Czech Culture i
   • Special Topics in Slavic Studies i
   • Supervised Individual Reading i
   • Russian Poetry i
   • Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society II i
   • Readings in Russian Literature II i
   • Myth and Reality: Women in Russian Literature and in Life i
   • Nabokov i
   • Linguistic Approaches to Russian Literature i
   • Introduction to Ukrainian Culture i
   • Introduction to the Slavic Languages i
   • Central and East European Immigration and Ethnic Identity in the U.S. i
   • Topics in Slavic Literatures and Cultures i
   • Socialist Modernism i
   • Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I: Literature and Nationalism in the Balkans i
   • Introduction to Balkan and South Slavic Cultures i
   • Jacobs School of Music
   • MUS-Z 280 Music of the Silk Road i
   • MUS-Z 282 Music of Russia i
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5. Electives. Two (2) courses:
   • Additional courses from the History and Geography list
   • Additional courses from the Social Sciences list
   • Additional courses from the Literature and Culture list
6. Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
   1. Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 3.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
   2. Minor 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 minor.
   3. Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
   4. Minor Residency. At least 12 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.