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Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

Minor in Russian and East European Studies with Language Certification

Students on Summer 2018, Fall 2018, or Spring 2019 requirements REELNGMIN
The minor indicates that students have achieved special competence in the Russian and East European area, successfully completing interdisciplinary area coursework. The minor in Russian and East European studies requires Distribution courses in three disciplinary groupings.

Requirements

The minor requires at least 21 credit hours (Students must complete coursework selected in consultation with the REEI advisor.), including the requirements listed below.
  1. Language. Two (2) courses and six (6) credit hours:
    • Central Eurasian Studies
      • CEUS-T 203 Intermediate Estonian I
      • CEUS-T 204 Intermediate Estonian II
      • CEUS-T 241 Intermediate Hungarian I
      • CEUS-T 242 Intermediate Hungarian II
      • CEUS-T 303 Advanced Estonian I
      • CEUS-T 304 Advanced Estonian II
      • CEUS-T 341 Advanced Hungarian I
      • CEUS-T 342 Advanced Hungarian II
      • CEUS-T 399 Advanced Central Eurasian Languages II
    • European Studies
      • EURO-E 200 Intermediate Modern Greek I
      • EURO-E 250 Intermediate Modern Greek II: An Introduction to Modern Greek Culture
      • EURO-E 300 Advanced Modern Greek I: Cultural Literacy and Current Events
      • EURO-E 350 Advanced Modern Greek II: Literature, History, and Cinema
    • Germanic Studies
      • GER-Y 200 Intermediate Yiddish I
      • GER-Y 250 Intermediate Yiddish II
    • Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
      • SLAV-C 201 Intermediate Czech I
      • SLAV-C 202 Intermediate Czech II
      • SLAV-C 301 Advanced Intermediate Czech I
      • SLAV-C 302 Advanced Intermediate Czech II
      • SLAV-M 201 Intermediate Romanian I
      • SLAV-M 202 Intermediate Romanian II
      • SLAV-N 221 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I
      • SLAV-N 231 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian I
      • SLAV-N 232 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II
      • SLAV-N 242 Summer Intensive Intermediate Russian II
      • SLAV-N 341 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I
      • SLAV-N 351 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian I
      • SLAV-N 352 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II
      • SLAV-N 362 Summer Intensive Advanced Intermediate Russian II
      • SLAV-N 461 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I
      • SLAV-N 471 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian I
      • SLAV-N 472 Summer Intensive Advanced Russian II
      • SLAV-N 481 Fifth-Year Russian I
      • SLAV-N 482 Fifth-Year Russian II
      • SLAV-N 491 Sixth-Year Russian I
      • SLAV-N 492 Sixth-Year Russian II
      • SLAV-P 201 Intermediate Polish I
      • SLAV-P 202 Intermediate Polish II
      • SLAV-P 301 Advanced Intermediate Polish I
      • SLAV-P 302 Advanced Intermediate Polish II
      • SLAV-P 473 Fourth-Year Polish I
      • SLAV-P 474 Fourth-Year Polish II
      • SLAV-R 201 Intermediate Russian I
      • SLAV-R 202 Intermediate Russian II
      • SLAV-R 301 Advanced Intermediate Russian I
      • SLAV-R 302 Advanced Intermediate Russian II
      • SLAV-R 325 Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian I
      • SLAV-R 326 Advanced Intermediate Oral Russian II
      • SLAV-R 401 Advanced Russian I
      • SLAV-R 402 Advanced Russian II
      • SLAV-R 421 Fifth-Year Russian
      • SLAV-R 425 Advanced Oral Russian I
      • SLAV-R 426 Advanced Oral Russian II
      • SLAV-R 470 Political Russian
      • SLAV-R 472 Business Russian
      • SLAV-S 201 Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I
      • SLAV-S 202 Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II
      • SLAV-S 301 Advanced Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I
      • SLAV-S 302 Advanced Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II
      • SLAV-S 320 Special Topics in Slavic Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SLAV-S 401 Fourth-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I
      • SLAV-S 508
      • SLAV-S 540
      • SLAV-U 201 Intermediate Ukrainian I
      • SLAV-U 202 Intermediate Ukrainian II
  2. History and Geography. One (1) course:
    • Central Eurasian Studies
      • CEUS-R 191 Introduction to Central Eurasia
      • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 294 Introduction to Hungary, Estonia, and Finland
      • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 302 Modern Finland
      • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 310 Introduction to Central Asian History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
      • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
      • CEUS-R 360 Modern Mongolia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 383 Ten Sultans, One Empire: Ottoman Classical Age, 1300-1600
      • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 393 The Mongol Century (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 412 Central Asia under Russian Rule
      • CEUS-R 413 Islamic Central Asia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • College of Arts and Sciences
      • COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Collins Living-Learning Center
      • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • European Studies, Institute for
      • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Geography
      • GEOG-G 120 Regions of the World (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GEOG-G 378 The Geography of North Central Asia
      • GEOG-G 427 Russia and Its Neighbors
      • GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global and International Studies, School of
      • SGIS-S 300 Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • History
      • HIST-B 300 Issues in Western European History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust
      • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust
      • HIST-D 100 Issues in Russian and East European History
      • HIST-D 102 Icon and Axe: Russia from Earliest Times to 1861
      • HIST-D 103 The Making of Modern Russia
      • HIST-D 200 Issues in Russian/East European History
      • HIST-D 201 Democratic Revolutions since 1980 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-D 300 Issues in Russian/East European History
      • HIST-D 302 The Gorbachev Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire
      • HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History
      • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe
      • HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars
      • HIST-D 309 Russia in World War II: Battles and People
      • HIST-D 310 Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime
      • HIST-D 320 Modern Ukraine
      • HIST-D 321 Hungarian History and Civilization to 1711
      • HIST-D 322 Hungarian History and Civilization 1711--1918
      • HIST-D 325 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804--1923
      • HIST-D 327 The Habsburg Empire, 1780-1918: Nation-Building and Imperial Decline
      • HIST-D 329 Eastern Europe 1900--1943
      • HIST-D 330 Eastern Europe 1944--Present
      • HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-H 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
      • HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
      • HIST-J 300 Seminar In History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-J 400 Seminar in History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Jewish Studies
      • JSTU-J 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
      • JSTU-J 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
      • JSTU-J 323 History of the Holocaust
  3. Social Sciences. One (1) course:
    • Anthropology
      • ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
      • ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
      • ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
      • ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
      • ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
      • ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
      • ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Central Eurasian Studies
      • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies
      • CEUS-R 315 Politics and Society in Central Asia
      • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
      • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 394 Environmental Problems and Social Constraints in Northern and Central Eurasia
      • CEUS-R 395 Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia
      • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 416 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia
    • College of Arts and Sciences
      • COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Collins Living-Learning Center
      • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Criminal Justice
      • CJUS-P 340 Law and Society: The Cross-Cultural Perspective
      • CJUS-P 474 Law, Crime, and Justice in Post-Soviet Russia
      • CJUS-P 493 Seminar in Criminal Justice (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Economics
      • ECON-E 386 Soviet-Type Economies in Transition
      • ECON-E 390 Undergraduate Seminar in Economics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ECON-S 202 Introduction to Macroeconomics: Honors
    • European Studies, Institute for
      • EURO-W 304 Model European Union
      • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Gender Studies
      • GNDR-G 402 Problems in Gender Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global and International Studies, School of
      • SGIS-S 300 Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global Living-Learning Community
      • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GLLC-G 220 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GLLC-G 320 Global Village Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GLLC-G 321 Intelligence and National Security
    • Hutton Honors College
      • HON-H 304 Interdepartmental Colloquia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • International Studies
      • INTL-I 100 Introduction to International Studies
      • INTL-I 203 Global Development (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 325 International Issues through Foreign Languages (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 400 International Studies Capstone Seminar
      • INTL-I 422 Contested Territories/Conflicted Identities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-X 370 Topics with Service Learning in International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Political Science
      • POLS-Y 107 Introduction to Comparative Politics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations
      • POLS-Y 200 Contemporary Political Topics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 210 Honors Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 332 Russian Politics
      • POLS-Y 340 East European Politics
      • POLS-Y 348 The Politics of Genocide
      • POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union
      • POLS-Y 351 Political Simulations (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics
      • POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy
      • POLS-Y 368 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
      • POLS-Y 375 War and International Conflict
      • POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
      • POLS-Y 381 Classical Political Thought
      • POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought
      • POLS-Y 399 Politics of the United Nations (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 401 Topics in Political Science (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Business, Kelley School of
      • BUS-D 301 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-D 496 FOREIGN STUDY IN BUSINESS (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-F 494 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-G 494 PUBLIC POLICY AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-M 401 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Public and Environmental Affairs, School of
      • SPEA-V 160 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  4. Literature and Culture. One (1) course:
    • Art History
      • ARTH-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ARTH-A 226 Envisioning the Sacred: Survey of Medieval Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
      • ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
      • ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
      • ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
    • Central Eurasian Studies
      • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 304 Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature
      • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States
      • CEUS-R 316 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
      • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
      • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
      • CEUS-R 352 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
      • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 392 Uralic Peoples and Cultures
      • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • College of Arts and Sciences
      • COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Collins Living-Learning Center
      • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Comparative Literature
      • CMLT-C 335 Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism
      • CMLT-C 340 Women in World Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 347 Literature and Ideas (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 378 Topics in Yiddish Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 400 Studies in Comparative Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • English
      • ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature
    • Folklore and Ethnomusicology
      • FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Germanic Studies
      • GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GER-X 493 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global and International Studies, School of
      • SGIS-S 300 Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global Living-Learning Community
      • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Hutton Honors College
      • HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place (approved topic: "Literature of the Holocaust")
      • HON-H 303 Interdepartmental Colloquia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Jewish Studies
      • JSTU-J 203 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (approved topic: "Literature of the Holocaust")
      • JSTU-J 303 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (approved topic: "Russian Jewish Writers")
    • Media School, The
      • MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • MSCH-J 448 Global Journalism: Issues and Research
      • MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
      • NELC-N 305 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Religious Studies
      • REL-A 355 The Right Belief: History of Orthodox Christianity
      • REL-A 430 Topics in the History of Judaism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • REL-D 362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • REL-R 300 Studies in Religion (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
      • SLAV-C 223 Introduction to Czech Culture
      • SLAV-C 363 History of Czech Literature and Culture
      • SLAV-C 364 Lovers & Murderers: Czech Literature and Culture from WWII to Today
      • SLAV-C 365 Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SLAV-P 223 Introduction to Polish Culture
      • SLAV-P 363 Faces of War and Freedom
      • SLAV-P 365 Topics in Polish Literature and Culture
      • SLAV-P 366 The Bold and the Restless: Polish Film from the 1950s to the Present
      • SLAV-R 123 Russian Short Fiction
      • SLAV-R 223 Introduction to Russian Culture
      • SLAV-R 224 Contemporary Russian Culture
      • SLAV-R 229 Russian Folk Tales
      • SLAV-R 263 Pushkin to Dostoevsky
      • SLAV-R 264 Rus Lit: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
      • SLAV-R 334 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
      • SLAV-R 352 Russian and Soviet Film
      • SLAV-R 353 Central European Cinema
      • SLAV-R 405 Readings in Russian Literature I
      • SLAV-R 407 Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society I
      • SLAV-S 223 Introduction to Balkan and South Slavic Cultures
      • SLAV-S 320 Special Topics in Slavic Studies
      • SLAV-S 363 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I: Literature and Nationalism in the Balkans
      • SLAV-S 364 Socialist Modernism
      • SLAV-T 230 Topics in Slavic Literatures and Cultures
      • SLAV-T 241 Central and East European Immigration and Ethnic Identity in the U.S.
      • SLAV-T 252 Introduction to the Slavic Languages
      • SLAV-U 223 Introduction to Ukrainian Culture
    • Jacobs School of Music
      • MUS-Z 280 MUSIC OF THE SILK ROAD
      • MUS-Z 282 MUSIC OF RUSSIA
  5. Electives. Two (2) courses:
    • Central Eurasian Studies
      • CEUS-R 191 Introduction to Central Eurasia
      • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 294 Introduction to Hungary, Estonia, and Finland
      • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 302 Modern Finland
      • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 310 Introduction to Central Asian History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
      • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
      • CEUS-R 360 Modern Mongolia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 383 Ten Sultans, One Empire: Ottoman Classical Age, 1300-1600
      • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 393 The Mongol Century (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 412 Central Asia under Russian Rule
      • CEUS-R 413 Islamic Central Asia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • College of Arts and Sciences
      • COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Collins Living-Learning Center
      • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • European Studies, Institute for
      • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Geography
      • GEOG-G 120 Regions of the World (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GEOG-G 378 The Geography of North Central Asia
      • GEOG-G 427 Russia and Its Neighbors
      • GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global and International Studies, School of
      • SGIS-S 300 Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • History
      • HIST-B 300 Issues in Western European History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust
      • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust
      • HIST-D 100 Issues in Russian and East European History
      • HIST-D 102 Icon and Axe: Russia from Earliest Times to 1861
      • HIST-D 103 The Making of Modern Russia
      • HIST-D 200 Issues in Russian/East European History
      • HIST-D 201 Democratic Revolutions since 1980 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-D 300 Issues in Russian/East European History
      • HIST-D 302 The Gorbachev Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire
      • HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History
      • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe
      • HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars
      • HIST-D 309 Russia in World War II: Battles and People
      • HIST-D 310 Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime
      • HIST-D 320 Modern Ukraine
      • HIST-D 321 Hungarian History and Civilization to 1711
      • HIST-D 322 Hungarian History and Civilization 1711--1918
      • HIST-D 325 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804--1923
      • HIST-D 327 The Habsburg Empire, 1780-1918: Nation-Building and Imperial Decline
      • HIST-D 329 Eastern Europe 1900--1943
      • HIST-D 330 Eastern Europe 1944--Present
      • HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-H 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
      • HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
      • HIST-J 300 Seminar In History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • HIST-J 400 Seminar in History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Jewish Studies
      • JSTU-J 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
      • JSTU-J 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
      • JSTU-J 323 History of the Holocaust
    • Anthropology
      • ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
      • ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
      • ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
      • ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
      • ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
      • ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
      • ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Central Eurasian Studies
      • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies
      • CEUS-R 315 Politics and Society in Central Asia
      • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
      • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 394 Environmental Problems and Social Constraints in Northern and Central Eurasia
      • CEUS-R 395 Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia
      • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 416 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia
    • College of Arts and Sciences
      • COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Collins Living-Learning Center
      • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Criminal Justice
      • CJUS-P 340 Law and Society: The Cross-Cultural Perspective
      • CJUS-P 474 Law, Crime, and Justice in Post-Soviet Russia
      • CJUS-P 493 Seminar in Criminal Justice (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Economics
      • ECON-E 386 Soviet-Type Economies in Transition
      • ECON-E 390 Undergraduate Seminar in Economics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ECON-S 202 Introduction to Macroeconomics: Honors
    • European Studies, Institute for
      • EURO-W 304 Model European Union
      • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Gender Studies
      • GNDR-G 402 Problems in Gender Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global and International Studies, School of
      • SGIS-S 300 Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global Living-Learning Community
      • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GLLC-G 220 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GLLC-G 320 Global Village Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GLLC-G 321 Intelligence and National Security
    • Hutton Honors College
      • HON-H 304 Interdepartmental Colloquia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • International Studies
      • INTL-I 100 Introduction to International Studies
      • INTL-I 203 Global Development (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 325 International Issues through Foreign Languages (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-I 400 International Studies Capstone Seminar
      • INTL-I 422 Contested Territories/Conflicted Identities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • INTL-X 370 Topics with Service Learning in International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Political Science
      • POLS-Y 107 Introduction to Comparative Politics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations
      • POLS-Y 200 Contemporary Political Topics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 210 Honors Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 332 Russian Politics
      • POLS-Y 340 East European Politics
      • POLS-Y 348 The Politics of Genocide
      • POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union
      • POLS-Y 351 Political Simulations (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics
      • POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy
      • POLS-Y 368 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
      • POLS-Y 375 War and International Conflict
      • POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
      • POLS-Y 381 Classical Political Thought
      • POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought
      • POLS-Y 399 Politics of the United Nations (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • POLS-Y 401 Topics in Political Science (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Business, Kelley School of
      • BUS-D 301 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-D 496 FOREIGN STUDY IN BUSINESS (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-F 494 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-G 494 PUBLIC POLICY AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • BUS-M 401 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Public and Environmental Affairs, School of
      • SPEA-V 160 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Art History
      • ARTH-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ARTH-A 226 Envisioning the Sacred: Survey of Medieval Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
      • ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
      • ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
      • ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
    • Central Eurasian Studies
      • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 299 Intermediate Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 304 Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature
      • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States
      • CEUS-R 316 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
      • CEUS-R 329 Topics in Central Asian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
      • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
      • CEUS-R 352 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
      • CEUS-R 369 Topics in Mongolian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CEUS-R 392 Uralic Peoples and Cultures
      • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • College of Arts and Sciences
      • COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Collins Living-Learning Center
      • CLLC-L 310 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Comparative Literature
      • CMLT-C 335 Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism
      • CMLT-C 340 Women in World Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 347 Literature and Ideas (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 378 Topics in Yiddish Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • CMLT-C 400 Studies in Comparative Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • English
      • ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature
    • Folklore and Ethnomusicology
      • FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Germanic Studies
      • GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • GER-X 493 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global and International Studies, School of
      • SGIS-S 300 Global Issues (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-S 400 Advanced Topics in Global Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Global Living-Learning Community
      • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Hutton Honors College
      • HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place (approved topic: "Literature of the Holocaust")
      • HON-H 303 Interdepartmental Colloquia (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Jewish Studies
      • JSTU-J 203 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (approved topic: "Literature of the Holocaust")
      • JSTU-J 303 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (approved topic: "Russian Jewish Writers")
    • Media School, The
      • MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • MSCH-J 448 Global Journalism: Issues and Research
      • MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
      • NELC-N 305 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Religious Studies
      • REL-A 355 The Right Belief: History of Orthodox Christianity
      • REL-A 430 Topics in the History of Judaism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • REL-D 362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • REL-R 300 Studies in Religion (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
      • SLAV-C 223 Introduction to Czech Culture
      • SLAV-C 363 History of Czech Literature and Culture
      • SLAV-C 364 Lovers & Murderers: Czech Literature and Culture from WWII to Today
      • SLAV-C 365 Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
      • SLAV-P 223 Introduction to Polish Culture
      • SLAV-P 363 Faces of War and Freedom
      • SLAV-P 365 Topics in Polish Literature and Culture
      • SLAV-P 366 The Bold and the Restless: Polish Film from the 1950s to the Present
      • SLAV-R 123 Russian Short Fiction
      • SLAV-R 223 Introduction to Russian Culture
      • SLAV-R 224 Contemporary Russian Culture
      • SLAV-R 229 Russian Folk Tales
      • SLAV-R 263 Pushkin to Dostoevsky
      • SLAV-R 264 Rus Lit: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
      • SLAV-R 334 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
      • SLAV-R 352 Russian and Soviet Film
      • SLAV-R 353 Central European Cinema
      • SLAV-R 405 Readings in Russian Literature I
      • SLAV-R 407 Readings in Russian Culture, History, and Society I
      • SLAV-S 223 Introduction to Balkan and South Slavic Cultures
      • SLAV-S 320 Special Topics in Slavic Studies
      • SLAV-S 363 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I: Literature and Nationalism in the Balkans
      • SLAV-S 364 Socialist Modernism
      • SLAV-T 230 Topics in Slavic Literatures and Cultures
      • SLAV-T 241 Central and East European Immigration and Ethnic Identity in the U.S.
      • SLAV-T 252 Introduction to the Slavic Languages
      • SLAV-U 223 Introduction to Ukrainian Culture
    • Jacobs School of Music
      • MUS-Z 280 MUSIC OF THE SILK ROAD
      • MUS-Z 282 MUSIC OF RUSSIA
  6. Minor GPA Requirement. 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.
  7. Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. At least 9 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.
    2. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
    3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
    4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    5. Exceptions to minor requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.