Courses on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard

The following Harvard departments and programs offer courses relevant to Russian or Eurasian studies. Individual course pages may require Harvard PIN access. If you are not a current Harvard affiliate, please use the link to the appropriate departmental web site to view more detailed course information.

† indicates courses approved for the Secondary Field in Regional Studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Bracketed courses will not be offered in 2011–12.

• Anthropology
• Comparative Literature
• Dramatic Arts
• East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Economics
• English
• Freshman Seminars
• General Education
• Government
• History
• History and Literature
• History of Art and Architecture
• History of Science
• Linguistics
• Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
• Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Social Studies
• Sociology
• Ukrainian Studies
• Visual and Environmental Studies

Anthropology

ANTHRO 1095. Urban Revolutions: Archaeology and the Investigation of Early States
[ANTHRO 1760. Nationalism and Bureaucracy: Corruption, Intimacy, and the Nation-State]
ANTHRO 1845. Mediterranean Becoming: Historical Anthropology of North Africa and Southern Europe
ANTHRO 1912. Political Economy: Seminar
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Comparative Literature

[COMPLIT 230. The Poetics of Empire: Colonization, Translation, and Literary Rewriting]
COMPLIT 240. Paradoxes of the Secular-Sacred in Modernism
[†COMPLIT 253. Literature, Art and Exile]
[†COMPLIT 256. Archeology of Modernity and Visual Culture]
[†COMPLIT 273. Approaches to Modernity: The Metropolis]
[LITER 127. Futurisms]
[†LITER 164. The 20th-Century Post-Realist Novel in Eastern Europe: Conference Course]
[LITER 165. The Holocaust and Problems of Representation]
LITER 173. The Politics of Aesthetics
LITER 175. The Moment in Modernism
LITER 181. Kafka, Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality
LITER 183. Unhappy in their Own Way: Hebrew and Yiddish as a Literary Family
LITER 185. Jewish Humor and Its Discontents
†LITER 190. Literary Realisms in China and Russia
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Dramatic Arts

†DRAMA 117. Acting Chekhov
DRAMA 164x. Playing in the Material World: Puppet and Object Theater as Global Traditions
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East Asian Languages and Civilizations

[†MONGOLN 120a. Intermediate Written Mongolian]
[†MONGOLN 120b. Advanced Written Mongolian]
†MONGOLN 300. Reading and Research
[†UYGHUR 120A. Intermediate/Advanced Uyghur]
[†UYGHUR 120B. Intermediate/Advanced Uyghur]
†UYGHUR 300. Readings in Uyghur Language and Literature
†UYGHUR A. Elementary Uyghur
†UYGHUR B. Elementary Uyghur
All courses in East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Economics

ECON 1425. Political Economics
ECON 1430. Macroeconomics and Politics
ECON 1450r. Religion and Political Economy
ECON 1535. International Trade and Investment
ECON 1661. Fundamentals of Environmental Economics and Policy
ECON 2327. Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and Evidence
[ECON 2328. The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth: A Comparative and Historical Analysis]
ECON 2412a. Political Economics
ECON 2412b. Law, Economics, and Politics
ECON 2490. The Economics of National Security Seminar
ECON 980u. Immigration Economics
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English

ENGLISH 199a. Literature and Memory
ENGLISH 90lm. Literature of Mourning: Seminar
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Freshman Seminars

FRSEMR 36g. The Creative Work of Translating
FRSEMR 37j. Memory and Memoir
FRSEMR 37w. The Worlds of Alexander the Great
FRSEMR 47z. Picturing the Great War: Visual Culture in World War I
FRSEMR 48g. Fascism From Mussolini to Today
Freshman Seminar Program
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General Education

[AESTH&INTP 11. Poetry Without Borders]
AESTH&INTP 29. Modern Jewish Literature
AESTH&INTP 40. Monuments of Islamic Architecture
[†AESTH&INTP 41. How and What Russia Learned to Read: The Rise of Russian Literary Culture]
[†AESTH&INTP 45. Art and Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe]
[AESTH&INTP 46. Modernisms 1865-1968]
CULTR&BLF 15. The Presence of the Past
CULTR&BLF 16. Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology
†CULTR&BLF 38. Icon, Ritual, Text: Reading the Culture of Medieval Rus'
[†CULTR&BLF 42. Communism and the Politics of Culture: Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution]
[†CULTR&BLF 43. The World of Yiddish]
CULTR&BLF 47. The Darwinian Revolution
CULTR&BLF 50. The European Postwar: Literature, Film, Politics
ETH-REASON 12. Political Justice and Political Trials
†ETH-REASON 28. Moral Inquiry in the Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
[SOC-WORLD 18. Europe Since the Second World War]
†SOC-WORLD 28. Exploration and Empire Building
†SOC-WORLD 35. Conditional Equality: The Case of the Jews of Europe in Modern Times
[SOC-WORLD 42. The World Wars in Global Context, 1905-1950]
SOC-WORLD 45. Beyond the Great Wall: China and its Nomadic Other
[US-WORLD 23. Art and Thought in the Cold War]
Program in General Education
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Government

GOV 1109. Comparative Institutional Design
[GOV 1115. Social Movements, Protest and Politics in Comparative Perspective]
[†GOV 1170. Nation-Building and Democracy in the Development of Europe]
†GOV 1203. Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
†GOV 1243. Russian Politics in Transition
GOV 1732. The Origins of Modern Wars
GOV 1780. International Political Economy
GOV 2105. Comparative Politics: Field Seminar
[GOV 2136. Political Regimes and Regime Change]
GOV 2148. Civil Society, West and East
†GOV 2213. Comparative Politics of Post-Socialism
[†GOV 2219. The Politics of Islam in the Former Communist World]
GOV 2349. Institutional Design Theory and Public Law: Seminar
[†GOV 2887. International Politics of the Post-Soviet Space]
GOV 90ps. The Police State: Power, Politics, and Authority
GOV 98al. Global Distributive Justice
GOV 98mg. The Politics of Migration
GOV 98sl. Cycles of War and Peace
GOV 98sm. Political Regimes around the World
All courses in Government
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History

[HIST 1060. Europe and Its Borders, 950-1550]
†HIST 1266. Central Europe, 1789-1918: Empires, Nations, States
[†HIST 1270. Frontiers of Europe: Ukraine since 1500]
[†HIST 1280. History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991]
[†HIST 1281. The End of Communism]
[†HIST 1282. The Russian Revolution: An International History]
[†HIST 1285. Russia and the Great Eurasian Steppe]
[†HIST 1290. The History of the Russian Empire]
[HIST 1390. Understanding Democracy through History]
HIST 1465. The United States in the World since 1900
HIST 1877b. History of the Near East, 1055-1500: Conference Course
HIST 1878a. Ottoman State and Society I (1300-1550)
[HIST 1878b. Ottoman State and Society II (1550-1920)]
[HIST 1920. A Global History of Modern Times]
HIST 1967. An Introduction to the History of Economic Thought
[†HIST 1970. Cold War Summits: Conference Course]
†HIST 2260. Central Europe: Seminar
†HIST 2270hf. Informing Eurasia: Seminar
[†HIST 2271. The Soviet Union: Proseminar]
[†HIST 2272. The Soviet Union: Seminar]
†HIST 2285. Imperial Russia: Proseminar
HIST 2315. Censorship: Seminar
HIST 2494. Power and Protest: The 1960s Globally (Graduate Seminar in General Education)
†HIST 72e. The Life and Reign of Catherine the Great
[†HIST 72i. Cities and the Making of Modern Russia]
HIST 73c. The University and Society (with Michael Tworek)
HIST 79e. Commodities in International History
[†HIST 79f. Empire and Nation in Russia and China]
[†HIST 82b. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna]
†HIST 82f. The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference (1945)
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History and Literature

HIST-LIT 90ae. Border Crossings: Remaking European Identities
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History of Art and Architecture

†HAA 120n. Art of the Timurids in Greater Iran and Central Asia
HAA 170v. Vienna, City of Dreams
[†HAA 176m. Berlin & Moscow, 1918/1933: Proseminar]
HAA 178m. Cold War Photography
[HAA 226s. Ottoman Architectural Culture and Urbanism in the Age of Sinan : Seminar]
HAA 249n. The Travel Narrative and Art History
[†HAA 274k. Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde]
All courses in History of Art and Architecture
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History of Science

[HISTSCI 111. Two Scientific Revolutions: From the Classical Age of Islamic Sciences to the Scientific World of Early Modern Europe]
[HISTSCI 113. Crusades, Plagues and Hospitals: Medicine and Society in the Islamic Middle Ages]
HISTSCI 176. Brainwashing and Modern Techniques of Mind Control
[HISTSCI 183. Democracy and Technology]
†HISTSCI 191. Brave New World? Scientific and Technological Visions of Utopia and Dystopia in Russia and the Soviet Union
HISTSCI 209. Science and Religion: Debates, Approaches and Controversies: Seminar
†HISTSCI 239. Empire and Environment
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Linguistics

[LING 162. Incomplete Acquisition]
†LING 250. Old Church Slavonic
[†LING 251. Advanced Readings in Church Slavonic Texts]
[†LING 252. Comparative Slavic Linguistics]
[LING 290. Heritage Languages and Their Speakers (Graduate Seminar in General Education)]
All courses in Linguistics
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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

†ARMEN 120. Armenian Magical Texts
[†ARMEN 130. Advanced Classical Armenian]
†ARMEN 300. Armenian Language and Literature
[†ARMEN A. Elementary Classical Armenian]
†ARMEN B. Elementary Modern Eastern Armenian
[†ARMENST 100. Armenian Epic]
†ARMENST 105. Survey of 19th and 20th Century Armenian Poetry: From Romantics to Revolutionaries
ISLAMCIV 210. Introduction to Islamic Law
[ISLAMCIV 216. Ibn Taymiyyah]
[†JEWISHST 109. The Yiddish Novel Under Tsars and Stripes]
MOD-HEB 158. Milestones in Modern Hebrew Poetry
†TURKISH 121. Elementary Uzbek
[†TURKISH 125a. Intermediate Uzbek I]
[†TURKISH 125b. Intermediate Uzbek II]
†YIDDISH A. Elementary Yiddish
†YIDDISH Ba. Intermediate Yiddish I
†YIDDISH Bb. Intermediate Yiddish II
†YIDDISH Ca. Advanced Yiddish I
†YIDDISH Cb. Advanced Yiddish II
All courses in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLAVIC 101. Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation
†SLAVIC 102r. Advanced Russian: Introduction to the Language of History and the Media
†SLAVIC 103. Advanced Russian: Reading, Composition, and Conversation
†SLAVIC 111. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian/Post-Soviet Studies
†SLAVIC 112. Advanced Russian: Russian Press and Television
†SLAVIC 113. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian Literature I
†SLAVIC 115. Advanced Russian: Russian Cultural Self-Images and National "Mentality"
†SLAVIC 120r. Supervised Readings in Advanced Russian
[†SLAVIC 125. Modern Russian in Historical Perspective]
†SLAVIC 126a. Structure of Modern Russian: Phonology and Morphology
[†SLAVIC 142. Engineering the Mind in Soviet Culture]
†SLAVIC 143. Russian Formalism
[†SLAVIC 147. Soviet Film After Stalin]
[†SLAVIC 149. Performance, Theater, Culture, Nation, Self: Russia and Its Others]
[†SLAVIC 151. Experiments in Reading: Chekhov and Nabokov]
†SLAVIC 152. Pushkin
[†SLAVIC 154. Introduction to Russian Poetry]
[†SLAVIC 155. Dostoevsky]
[†SLAVIC 166. Russian-Ukrainian Literary Relations in the 19th Century: Conference Course]
†SLAVIC 171. Writing Women in Post-1989 Poland
[†SLAVIC 176. Between Avant-Garde and Catastrophism: The Interwar Period in Polish Literature]
†SLAVIC 177. Polish Literature After 1989: the Arrival of the Others
[†SLAVIC 179. Bialoszewski: The Art of Private Life]
†SLAVIC 180. Russian Symbolist Poetry
[†SLAVIC 181. Russian Poetry of the 19th Century]
[†SLAVIC 182. Problems in 20th-Century Poetry: Conference Course]
†SLAVIC 186. Poetry after Brodsky: How Russian Is It?
[†SLAVIC 192. Literature as Institutions: Conference Course]
[†SLAVIC 198. Encounters of Memory and History]
[†SLAVIC 223. 19th-Century Ukrainian Poetry]
†SLAVIC 224r. Ukrainian Literature
[†SLAVIC 231. Czech Literary Culture, 1900-1945]
[†SLAVIC 240. Soviet Cinema and the Bolshevik Revolution: Seminar]
†SLAVIC 251. Reading Anna Karenina
†SLAVIC 280r. Slavic Culture: Seminar
[†SLAVIC 282. Literature, Film, and Visual Art in Contemporary Russia]
[†SLAVIC 289. Elegy: The Art of Losing]
[†SLAVIC 290. 19th-Century Ukrainian Prose: Seminar]
†SLAVIC 299. Proseminar
†SLAVIC 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
†SLAVIC 97. Tutorial - Sophomore Year
†SLAVIC 98. Tutorial - Junior Year
†SLAVIC 99a. Tutorial--Senior Year
†SLAVIC 99b. Tutorial - Senior Year
SLAVIC A. Beginning Russian
SLAVIC Aab. Beginning Russian (Intensive)
†SLAVIC Ac. Grammar and Vocabulary Review for Heritage Speakers
SLAVIC B. Intermediate Russian
SLAVIC Bab. Intermediate Russian (Intensive)
SLAVIC Ca. Beginning Czech I
†SLAVIC Cb. Beginning Czech II
†SLAVIC Cc. Intermediate Czech I
†SLAVIC Cd. Intermediate Czech II
†SLAVIC Cr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Czech
SLAVIC Da. Beginning Polish I
†SLAVIC Db. Beginning Polish II
†SLAVIC Dc. Intermediate Polish I
†SLAVIC Dd. Intermediate Polish II
†SLAVIC Dr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Polish
SLAVIC Ga. Beginning Ukrainian I
†SLAVIC Gb. Beginning Ukrainian II
†SLAVIC Gr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Ukrainian
All courses in Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Social Studies

SOC-STD 98md. Struggles for Democracy in the Middle East and Beyond
SOC-STD 98nd. Mass Violence, Memory, and Justice/Reconciliation
SOC-STD 98ne. Nation, Race, and Migration in Modern Europe
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Sociology

†SOCIOL 134. Theories of Power and Postcommunist Societies
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Ukrainian Studies

†UKRAN 200. Ukrainian Studies: Seminar
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Visual and Environmental Studies

VES 175s. Carving Space in Time: Film and Sculpture
[†VES 184. Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts]
†VES 188s. Soviet and Russian Film and Film Theory
[VES 192. Cinema and French Culture from 1896 to the Present]
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