University Center for International Studies - East European Studies, Russian Studies, and Soviet Studies

Graduate Advisor: Bob Donnorummo

Associate Director

Center for Russian and East European Studies

4G12 Posvar Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Phone: (412) 648-7403

Fax: (412) 648-2199

E-mail: tsarpepe@pitt.edu

Web site: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees

Established in 1965, the Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) at the University of Pittsburgh is designated by the U.S. Department of Education for Title VI funding as a National Resource Center. This distinguishes REES as one of the nation's strongest language and area studies centers.

There are three broad focus areas for the research conducted by faculty and graduate student specialists in the REES program. They are (1) contemporary Russian culture and politics, (2) societies in transition, and (3) foreign policy issues as they relate to the REES world area. REES library holdings exceed 350,000 volumes and are supplemented by several special collections. REES maintains one of the largest Web sites facilitating research on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

The Center for Russian and East European Studies offers graduate certificates in East European Studies, Russian Studies, or Soviet Studies to students who successfully combine foreign language expertise and multidisciplinary area-focused courses.

Financial Assistance

As a National Resource Center designated by the U.S. Department of Education, REES has a number of fellowships available for graduate students. U.S. citizens and permanent residents must apply for these fellowships through the professional school or academic department to which they have applied for admission. This requires a letter noting that the student wishes to be a candidate for a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship in Russian and East European Studies.

Requirements for REES Certificates

The requirements for each of the REES graduate certificates are as follows:

Completion of six Russian and East European area studies courses, including four courses in at least two disciplines other than the student's major discipline, for a total of 18 credits.

Demonstration of language proficiency equivalent to three years of college-level study in a language of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe.

Completion of a substantial research paper based on primary sources in one or more languages of the REES world area.

REES Course List

Anthropology

ANTH 1768 Culture and societies of Eastern Europe

ANTH 1787 Ethno-national violence

ANTH 2741 Anthropology of law

ANTH 2789 Cultural anthropology core course

Cultural Studies

CLST 2050 Cultural studies common seminar

CLST 2471 Russian women's writing

CLST 2699 Old Russian literature

Communication

COMMRC 1104 Political Communication

COMMRC 1120 Rhetoric of Cold War

Economics

ECON 1670 Former Socialist Economies and Transition

ECON 1680 Economics of European Union

ECON 2230 Public Finance

English Literature

ENGLIT 1325 The Modernist Tradition

German

GER 1490 Breaking Boundaries: Visions of United Europe

GER 1502 Indo-European Folktales

GER 2212 Folktales

History of Art and Architecture

HA&A 1400 Modern Art in the Third Reich and Memorialization of the Holocaust

History

HIST 1000 Uses and Abuses of History: The Case of Yugoslavia

HIST 1000 History, Politics, and Film

HIST 1005 Idea of Europe

HIST 1044 Two Centuries of Democratization

HIST 1045 Socialism versus Capitalism/Capstone

HIST 1046 Nationalism

HIST 1086 Nuclear Age-Nuclear War

HIST 1108 Comparative European History

HIST 1146 Welfare State in Comparative Perspective

HIST 1270 Modern Eastern European Jewry

HIST 1313 History of Russian Revolution

HIST 1315 Stalin

HIST 1378 Russian Jewry

HIST 1755 Comparative Views of Freedom 19th-20th cents.

HIST 1767 Modern Jewry

HIST 1769 History of the Holocaust

HIST 1902 History Honors Seminar

HIST 2005 Trans-Europe Research

HIST 2080 Problems of European History

HIST 2081 Problems of European History - Research

HIST 2212 Idea of Europe

HIST 2213 Readings - Soviet Union

History and Philosophy of Science

HPS 1410 Change, Progress, and Ideology

Jewish Studies

JS 1232 Modern Eastern European Jewry

JS 1250 Modern Jewry

JS 1252 History of the Holocaust

JS 1257 Russian Jewry

Linguistics

LING 0231 Greek (modern) 1

LING 0232 Greek (modern) 2

LING 0233 Greek (modern) 3

LING 0234 Greek (modern) 4

LING 0291 Hungarian 1

LING 0292 Hungarian 2

LING 0293 Hungarian 3

LING 0641 Serbian 1

LING 0642 Serbian 2

LING 0643 Serbian 3

LING 0644 Serbian 4

LING 1267 Aspects of Sociolinguistics

LING 2267 Sociolinguistics

LING 2269 Current Issues in Social Linguistics

LING 2270 Advanced Sociolinguistics

Philosophy

PHIL 1330 Topics in Political Philosophy

Polish

POLISH 0010 Elementary Polish 1

POLISH 0020 Elementary Polish 2

POLISH 0030 Intermediate Polish 3

POLISH 0040 Intermediate Polish 4

POLISH 0040 Advanced Polish through Film

POLISH 0210 Intensive Beginning Polish

POLISH 0220 Intensive Intermediate Polish

POLISH 1901 Contemporary Polish Cinema

Political Science

PS 1341 Government and Politics of the USSR & Russian Federation

PS 1372 European Environmental Policy Making

PS 1373 The Welfare State in Comparative Perspective

PS 1378 Two Centuries of Democratization

PS 1381 Comparative Government Seminar (Russia & Eastern Europe)

PS 1501 Theory of International Relations

PS 1504 Nationalism

PS 1510 Cold War: Soviet Union and West 1917-91

PS 1513 Foreign Policies—Changing World

PS 1521 Eastern Europe in World Politics

PS 1542 Global Environmental Politics

PS 1603 Contemporary Political Thought

PS 1604 European Social Thought and Political Practice

PS 1681 Seminar—Political Theory

PS 2114 The Politics of Finance in Emerging Markets - Capstone Seminar

PS 2341 Government and Politics of the USSR & Russian Federation

PS 2342 East Europe: Communism, Revolution, Transition

PS 2501 Theory of International Relations

PS 2502 Theories and Concepts of International Relations

PS 2503 Topics in International Affairs

PS 2506 International Politics

PS 2517 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

PS 2525 Regional Foreign Policy Workshop

PS 2543 International Political Economy

PS 2556 Problems International Security

PS 2557 Alternative Approaches to National Security

Religious Studies

RELGST 1135 Orthodox Christianity

RELGST 1232 Modern Eastern European Jewry

RELGST 1252 History of the Holocaust

RELGST 1257 Russian Jewry

RELGST 1540 Saints East and West

RELGST 2305 Religion and History

Russian

RUSS 0010 Elementary Russian 1

RUSS 0020 Elementary Russian 2

RUSS 0030 Intermediate Russian 1

RUSS 0040 Intermediate Russian 2

RUSS 0210 Intensive Beginning Russian

RUSS 0220 Intensive Intermediate Russian

RUSS 0230 Intensive Advanced Russian

RUSS 0240 Intensive Fourth-Year Russian

RUSS 0400 Advanced Russian 1

RUSS 0410 Advanced Russian 2

RUSS 1400 Morphology of Modern Russian

RUSS 1410 Advanced Russian Syntax

RUSS 1500 History of Russian Literature 1

RUSS 1510 History of Russian Literature 2

RUSS 1771 History of Russian Cinema

RUSS 1771 New Russian Media

RUSS 2110 Introduction to the Study of Literature

RUSS 2120 Proseminar: Methods & Materials

RUSS 2210 Structure of Russian

RUSS 2410 Late 17th- & 18th-Century Literature

RUSS 2471 Russian Women's Writing

RUSS 2506 Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

RUSS 2600 Russian Poetry 19th century

RUSS 2601 Russian Poetry 20th century

RUSS 2610 Russian Short Story

RUSS 2633 The Russian Novel 1860-1870

RUSS 2640 Russian Film: LumiËre to Lenin

RUSS 2700 Old Russian Literature

RUSS 2702 Late 19th & early 20th-Century Literature

RUSS 2801 Literature & Society in 19th-Century Russia

Serbo-Croatian

SERCRO 0210 Intensive Beginning Croatian

SERCRO 0211 Intensive Beginning Serbian

SERCRO 0220 Intensive Intermediate Serbian

SERCRO 0221 Intensive Intermediate Croatian

Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLAV 0211 Intensive Beginning Hungarian

SLAV 0212 Intensive Beginning Czech

SLAV 0213 Intensive Beginning Bulgarian

SLAV 0214 Intensive Beginning Macedonian

SLAV 0215 Intensive Beginning Romanian

Slovak

SLOVAK 0010 Elementary Slovak 1

SLOVAK 0020 Elementary Slovak 2

SLOVAK 0030 Intermediate Slovak 3

SLOVAK 0040 Intermediate Slovak 4

SLOVAK 0210 Intensive Beginning Slovak

SLOVAK 0220 Intensive Intermediate Slovak

SLOVAK 0400 Advanced Slovak 1

SLOVAK 0410 Advanced Slovak 2

SLOVAK 1250 Cultural History of Slovakia

SLOVAK 1260 Survey of Slovak Literature and Culture

Sociology

SOC 1325 Two Centuries of Democratization

SOC 1447 Science & Technology in U.S./Japan/Europe

SOC 2011 Global and Comparative Seminar 1

SOC 2012 Global and Comparative Seminar 2

Ukrainian

UKRAIN 0010 Elementary Ukrainian 1

UKRAIN 0020 Elementary Ukrainian 2

UKRAIN 0030 Intermediate Ukrainian 1

UKRAIN 0040 Intermediate Ukrainian 2

UKRAIN 0210 Intensive Beginning Ukrainian

Administration and Policy Studies (School of Education)

ADMPS 2131 Higher Education Administration

ADMPS 3136 Comparative Higher Education

ADMPS 3343 Comparative Education

ADMPS 3347 International Organization & Development of Education

Business Finance (Katz Graduate School of Business)

BUSFIN 1341 International Finance

School of Law

LAW 5420 Anthropology of Law

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

PIA 2096 Political Economy in European Union (capstone seminar)

PIA 2096 Politics of finance in Emerging Markets (capstone seminar)

PIA 2096 Collective Security & Peacekeeping in Europe (capstone seminar)

PIA 2097 Aspects of EU Enlargement

PIA 2290 Organized Crime and the State

PIA 2290 Western Aid Policies to Central & Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union

PIA 2300 Theories & concepts of International Relations

PIA 2301 International Political Economy

PIA 2302 International Financial Policy

PIA 2303 National & International Security Policy

PIA 2305 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

PIA 2319 International Trade

PIA 2341 Alternative Approaches to National Security

PIA 2344 Problems of International Security

PIA 2358 Regional Foreign Policy Workshop

PIA 2363 International History

PIA 2365 Transnational Organized Crime & International Security

PIA 2374 Theory of International Relations

PIA 2441 Government and Politics of the USSR & the Russian Federation

PIA 2442 East Europe: Communism, Revolution, Transition

PIA 2450 International Politics

PIA 2490 Politics of Finance in Emerging Markets

PIA 2490 Seminar on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

PIA 2490 World War II & the Cold War

PIA 2501 Issues in Development Management and Policy