Courses by Term

See below for the courses being offered in East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies this term, including the meeting times and course instructor. To see all of the courses offered by the EEERS Department this academic year, please check the left hand tabs. You may also check what courses have been taught the last several academic years in order to see the range of courses we have offered, some of which will be offered again in the near future. For courses descriptions for all courses, please see the ORC on the Registrar's website, in particular the sections for East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies courses; Russian Language courses; and Ukrainian Language courses.

COURSES OFFERED WINTER 2026:

RUSS 2 Beginning Russian An introduction to Russian as a spoken and written language. None of these serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements. -Apresyan, 9L.

RUSS 28 Intermediate Russian The sequence RUSS28 and RUSS29 completes the cycles of second-year Russian. Special emphasis is placed on such difficult areas as participles, aspects and verbs of motion. The course includes extensive reading, video work and vocabulary building.-Plagmann, 10.

UKRA 3 Beginning Ukrainian Building on Intensive Ukrainian, this course further develops students' oral and written communicative skills through authentic materials, analytical and creative exercises, and project work. Each student will partner with a student in Ukraine for conversational practice. The class will collaborate with a Kyiv-based professional theater and participate in the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings initiative. -Kolomiyets, 12.

EEER 11.01 After Communism, Before Freedom [new course] -Plagmann. Soc, WCult: W, 2. Course Syllabus.

EEER 34/ COLT 26.01  Romanticism and Romance in Eastern Europe [new course] -Kolomiyets. LIT; WCult:W. 10. Course Syllabus. 

EEER 38.01 Horror, Laughter, Fear, Rage: Emotions in Literature and Culture [new course] -Apresyan. LIT; WCult:W. 11. Course Syllabus.

EEER 15/ HIST 92.06 Russia and the West In its thousand-year history, Russia has occupied a unique place between Europe and Asia, and both Russian and foreign observers have wrestled with defining its place vis-à-vis western (European) civilization. This course will explore Russia's place in world history, examining the complex and evolving relationship of Russia and Europe, and the Soviet Union and the West, from the middle ages to the present. Particular emphasis will be given to the complex relationship of Putin's Russia with the United States today.-Finkel. INT or SOC; WCult:W. 2A.