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 2009–10.

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

Anthropology

†ANTHRO 1660. What is Islam? Anthropological Perspectives
†ANTHRO 1668. Muslims in the Lands of the "Militant Godless": Post-Socialism, Religion and Identity
All courses in Anthropology
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Core Curriculum

†FOR-CULT 79. Historical and Musical Paths on the Silk Road
FOR-CULT 79. Historical and Musical Paths on the Silk Road
[†FOR-CULT 92. From the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution: Czech Culture under Communism]
†LIT-ART A-45. Theories of Authorship: Russian Case Studies
†LIT-ART C-28. Icon-Ritual-Text: Reading the Culture of Medieval Rus'
[†LIT-ART C-30. How and What Russia Learned to Read: The Rise of Russian Literary Culture]
†LIT-ART C-51. Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde
All courses in the Core Curriculum
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Dramatic Arts

DRAMA 117. Acting Chekhov
All courses in Dramatic Arts
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East Asian Languages and Civilizations

†CHNSHIS 118. Beyond the Great Wall: History of Relations between China and Inner Asia
†UYGHUR A. Elementary Uyghur
†UYGHUR B. Elementary Uyghur
[†UYGHUR 120A. Intermediate/Advanced Uyghur]
[†UYGHUR 120B. Intermediate/Advanced Uyghur]
†UYGHUR 300. Readings in Uyghur Language and Literature
All courses in East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Economics

ECON 1018. Cultural Economics
[ECON 1030. Psychology and Economics]
[ECON 1035. Policy Applications of Psychology and Economics]
[ECON 1390. Microfinance: Theory and Practice]
[ECON 1393. Poverty and Development]
ECON 1425. Political Economics
[ECON 1430. Macroeconomics and Politics]
[ECON 1480. Moral Perspectives on Economic Growth]
ECON 1530. International Monetary Economics
ECON 1531. Economics of International Financial Policy
ECON 1535. International Trade and Investment
ECON 1542. International Trade Policy
ECON 1661. Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy
ECON 2058. Networks and Social Capital
ECON 2327. Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and Evidence
ECON 2328. The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth: A Comparative and Historical Analysis
[ECON 2330. History and Human Capital]
ECON 2410g. Political Economics
ECON 2490. The Economics of National Security Seminar
All courses in Economics
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Freshman Seminars

†FRSEMR 30l. George Balanchine: Russian-American Master
†FRSEMR 42x. Leisure, Play, and Idleness in Russian Literature
Freshman Seminar Program
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General Education

[†CULTR&BLF 15. The Presence of the Past]
SOC-WORLD 18. Europe Since the Second World War
US-WORLD 23. Art and Thought of the Cold War
Program in General Education
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Government

†GOV 2216. Comparative Politics of the Post-Soviet States
GOV 90al. Global Distributive Justice and Political Borders: Seminar
GOV 90dp. The Rule of Law
†GOV 90vk. Islam in Central and South Asia: Comparative Hegemonies and Liberations
GOV 98tj. Research in International Law and Politics
GOV 1118. Political Geography
[GOV 1170. Nation-Building and Democracy in the Development of Europe]
[†GOV 1203. Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe]
GOV 1204. Jihad in World Politics
[†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 2125. Religion and Global Politics
[GOV 2136. Political Regimes and Regime Change]
[†GOV 2148. Civil Society, West and East]
GOV 2172. Nationalism and Democracy in Europe (and beyond)
[†GOV 2213. Comparative Politics of Post-Socialism]
GOV 2881. Mass Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
All courses in Government
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History

[HIST 72b. On Display: Commemoration, Collection and Public Spaces (c. 1600-2000)]
[†HIST 72e. The Life and Reign of Catherine the Great]
†HIST 72f. East European Identities: Russia and Ukraine
†HIST 72i. Cities and the Making of Modern Russia
†HIST 79e. Commodities in International History
†HIST 79f. Empire and Nation in Russia and China
†HIST 82b. Fin-de-Siécle Vienna
†HIST 82f. The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference (1945)
[†HIST 82g. The Black Sea World]
[†HIST 82h. Everyday Life in the Soviet Union]
[HIST 1060. Europe and Its Borders, 950-1550]
†HIST 1114. Early Modern Eastern Europe (1450-1795)
[†HIST 1260. Nationalism and Socialism in 20th-Century Central Europe]
[†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 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 1921. International Financial History, 1700 to the Present]
[†HIST 2260. Central Europe: Seminar]
[†HIST 2271. The Soviet Union: Proseminar]
†HIST 2272. The Soviet Union: Seminar
†HIST 2285. Imperial Russia: Proseminar
All courses in History
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History of Art and Architecture

[HAA 12m. Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction]
[HAA 120n. Art of the Timurids in Greater Iran and Central Asia]
[HAA 178m. Cold War Photography]
†HAA 274k. Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde
All courses in History of Art and Architecture
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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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Literature and Comparative Literature

[CL 230. The Poetics of Empire: Colonization, Translation, and Literary Rewriting]
†CL 256. Archeology of Modernity and Visual Culture
CL 261. Fragments of a Material History of Literature
[†CL 262. Aesthetics and Freedom]
[†CL 273. Approaches to Modernity: The Metropolis]
LITERATURE 12. Introduction to Literary Studies
[LITERATURE 102. On Narrative]
[LITERATURE 117. Literature, Gender, and Revolution]
LITERATURE 127. Futurisms
[†LITERATURE 164. The 20th-Century Post-Realist Novel in Eastern Europe: Conference Course]
[†LITERATURE 178. Trauma: Representation, Theory, Experience: Conference Course]
All courses in Literature and Comparative Literature
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Music

MUSIC 219rs. Ballets Russes, Ballets Suédois
All courses in Music
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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
[†ARMENST 100. Armenian Epic]
[†ARMENST 105. Survey of 19th and 20th Century Armenian Poetry: From Romantics to Revolutionaries]
†ARMENST 300. Reading and Research in Armenian Studies
JEWISHST 104. Introduction to Yiddish Culture
JEWISHST 105. Modern Yiddish Poetry
JEWISHST 109. The Yiddish Novel Under Tsars and Stripes
TURKISH 121a. Elementary Uzbek
TURKISH 121b. Elementary Uzbek II
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 Ca. Beginning Czech I
SLAVIC Cb. Beginning 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
SLAVIC 102. 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: Topics in Russian Culture
†SLAVIC 117. Advanced Russian: Reading Literary Texts
†SLAVIC 120r. Supervised Readings in Advanced Russian
[†SLAVIC 126a. Structure of Modern Russian: Phonology and Morphology]
[†SLAVIC 137. Prague Between Two Empires: Czech Culture from 1914 to 1948]
[†SLAVIC 140. 18th-Century Russian Literature: Conference Course]
[†SLAVIC 145b. Russian Literature and Revolution]
†SLAVIC 147. Soviet Film After Stalin
†SLAVIC 149. Performance, Theater, Culture, Nation, Self: Russia and Its Others
[†SLAVIC 150. One Writer]
†SLAVIC 151. Experiments in Reading: Chekhov and Nabokov
[†SLAVIC 153. Short Russian Prose]
†SLAVIC 154. Introduction to Russian Poetry
[†SLAVIC 155. Dostoevsky]
[†SLAVIC 165. Survey of 19th-Century Ukrainian Literature]
†SLAVIC 166. Russian-Ukrainian Literary Relations in the 19th Century: Conference Course
[†SLAVIC 170. Polish Literature from 1945 to the Present]
[†SLAVIC 174. Romantic Word, Romantic Deed]
†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 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 195. Myths of Central Europe after World War II: Conference Course]
[†SLAVIC 196. Literature and Nationalism in Central Europe: Conference Course]
[†SLAVIC 197. Rebels With A Cause: Dissident Culture in Central Europe: Conference Course]
[†SLAVIC 222. 20th-Century Ukrainian Poetry]
†SLAVIC 223. 19th-Century Ukrainian Poetry
[†SLAVIC 224. Pavlo Tychyna and His Age]
†SLAVIC 269. Structure of Russian for Instructors
†SLAVIC 280r. Slavic Culture: Seminar
[†SLAVIC 281. Literature, Film, and Visual Arts in Russia, 1920-1930]
†SLAVIC 282. Literature, Film, and Visual Art in Contemporary Russia
[†SLAVIC 285r. Modern Russian Literature: Seminar]
†SLAVIC 289. Elegy: The Art of Losing
[†SLAVIC 291. Problems in the History of Early Ukrainian Literature]
†SLAVIC 299. Proseminar
All courses in Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Social Studies

SOC-STD 98jw. Citizenship Rights: Theory and Practice
All courses in Social Studies
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Sociology

†SOCIOL 134. Theories of Power and Postcommunist Societies
[†SOCIOL 174. Contemporary Central Asian Societies]
All courses in Sociology
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The Study of Religion

RELIGION 1433. Christianity Along the Silk Road
RELIGION 1816. Ismaili History and Thought
All courses in the Study of Religion
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Ukrainian Studies

†UKRAN 200. Ukrainian Studies: Seminar
All courses in Ukrainian Studies
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Visual and Environmental Studies

†VES 184. Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
[VES 288. Dziga Vertov and His Time: Left-Wing Art, Avant-Garde Filmmaking, Radical Politics]
All courses in Visual and Environmental Studies
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