Central and East European Studies
Director, Professor Laura Osterman
T: 303-492-7729
laura.osterman@colorado.edu
Students who seek in-depth, interdisciplinary knowledge of the region are encouraged to pursue the certificate in Central and East European studies (CEES). The certificate program offers students the opportunity to explore the cultures, history and politics of the nations of Central and Eastern Europe from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
The purpose of the certificate program is to enhance, rather than to replace, the department major. Students work with CEES faculty advisors to plan an appropriate certificate program. The certificate is awarded in addition to a bachelor’s degree in another field.
Requirements
Completion of the certificate requires the completion of 18 credits (9 upper-division) of approved courses with grades of C- or higher. No more than 9 credits in courses with the same course prefix can be used to fulfill CEES certificate requirements, and only 6 semester credit hours transferred from other institutions can be used to fulfill certificate requirements.1
Students pursuing the CEES certificate are strongly encouraged to take advantage of a recognized study abroad program in eastern Europe affiliated with CU Boulder. Courses taken on such a program, as approved by the certificate director, count toward the certificate in CEES even though it is not possible to list them below.
Required Courses and Credits
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Course | ||
| CEES 1623 | Introduction to Central and East European History since 1770 | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| 15 additional credit hours of approved CEES coursework from the list below. At least 9 credits need to be upper-division. 2 | 15 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |
| 1 | International Affairs majors must complete 9 credits that do not count towards major. |
| 2 | Two German and/or Russian language courses beyond the third semester can also count as CEES Electives. |
Electives
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Art History | ||
| ARTH 4929 | Special Topics in Art History 1 | 1-3 |
| German Culture (Taught in English) | ||
| GRMN 1601 | Germany Today | 3 |
| GRMN 1602 | Metropolis and Modernity | 3 |
| GRMN 1701 | Nature, Climate and Environment in German Culture | 3 |
| GRMN 2141 | Topics in Modern German Culture and Society | 3 |
| GRMN 2301 | Inside Nazi Germany: Politics, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Third Reich | 3 |
| GRMN 2402 | Sports and Athleticism in German and Global Culture | 3 |
| GRMN 2501 | Miniatures of Modrn Life: From Berlin to Vienna and Beyond | 3 |
| GRMN 2504 | Gothic, Horror, and Fantasy | 3 |
| GRMN 2502 | Representing the Holocaust | 3 |
| GRMN 2503 | Fairy Tales of Germany | 3 |
| GRMN 2601 | Kafka and the Kafkaesque | 3 |
| GRMN 2603 | 3 | |
| GRMN 3141 | Topics in Modern German Culture and Society | 3 |
| GRMN 3301 | Modern Art and Design at the Bauhaus | 3 |
| GRMN 3501 | The German-Jewish Experience: From the Enlightenment to the Present | 3 |
| GRMN 3502 | Literature in the Age of Goethe | 3 |
| GRMN 3503 | German Film Through World War II | 3 |
| GRMN 3504 | Topics in German Film | 3 |
| GRMN 3505 | The Enlightenment: Tolerance and Emancipation | 3 |
| GRMN 3506 | Tracing the Criminal: Crime in 19th C Society and Culture | 3 |
| GRMN 3507 | Engineering and the Practice of Literature | 3 |
| GRMN 3508 | Masters of Suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud | 3 |
| GRMN 3513 | German Film and Society 1945-1989 | 3 |
| GRMN 3514 | German Film & Society After 1989 | 3 |
| GRMN 3601 | German Women Writers | 3 |
| GRMN 3681 | Refugees in German Culture | 3 |
| GRMN 3702 | Dada and Surrealist Literature | 3 |
| GRMN 3802 | Politics and Culture in Berlin 1900-1939 | 3 |
| GRMN 4051 | Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School | 3 |
| GRMN 4231 | The Invention of Sexuality | 3 |
| GRMN 4251 | Marxism | 3 |
| GRMN 4301 | Gender, Race and Immigration in Germany and Europe | 3 |
| GRMN 4501 | Seminar: Literature in Cultural Context | 3 |
| GRMN 4502 | Nietzsche: Literature and Values | 3 |
| GRMN 4503 | Issues in German Thought | 3 |
| GRMN 4504 | Goethe's Faust | 3 |
| German Culture (Taught in German) | ||
| GRMN 3050 | German for Science and Engineering | 3 |
| GRMN 3110 | 3 | |
| GRMN 3120 | German Literature from the Enlightenment to Expressionism | 3 |
| GRMN 3130 | Issues in German Philosophy and Literature | 3 |
| GRMN 3140 | Current Issues in German Culture | 3 |
| GRMN 3150 | Issues in German Politics, Literature and Media | 3 |
| GRMN 3520 | Open Topics in the Cultural Context | 3 |
| GRMN 3900 | Independent Study | 1-6 |
| GRMN 3930 | Internship | 1-6 |
| GRMN 4330 | The Age of Goethe | 3 |
| GRMN 4340 | Seminar in German Literature | 3 |
| GRMN 4450 | Methods of Teaching German | 3 |
| GRMN 4460 | High School German Teaching | 6 |
| GRMN 4550 | Senior Seminar in German Studies | 3 |
| GRMN 4900 | Independent Study | 1-6 |
| History | ||
| HIST 1012 | Empire, Revolution and Global War: European History Since 1600 | 3 |
| HIST 1830 | Global History of Holocaust and Genocide | 3 |
| HIST 2100 | Revolution in History 1 | 3 |
| HIST 2110 | Living the Revolution 1 | 3 |
| HIST 2220 | History of War and Society 1 | 3 |
| HIST 3012 | Seminar in Modern European History 1 | 3 |
| HIST 3212 | Seminar in Early Modern Europe 1 | 3 |
| HIST 3414 | Seminar in Modern European Thought and Culture 1 | 3 |
| HIST 3713 | Seminar in Russian History | 3 |
| HIST 4040 | The History of Space Exploration and Defense | 3 |
| HIST 4050 | A Global History of World War II | 3 |
| HIST 4122 | Europe During the Renaissance | 3 |
| HIST 4212 | The Age of Religious Wars: Reformation Europe,1500-1648 | 3 |
| HIST 4222 | War and the European State, 1618-1793 | 3 |
| HIST 4232 | From Revolt to Revolution: Europe in an Age of Global Enlightenment, 1648-1789 | 3 |
| HIST 4312 | 19th Century Europe | 3 |
| HIST 4412 | Europe, 1890-1945 | 3 |
| HIST 4414 | European Thought and Culture, 1750-1870 | 3 |
| HIST 4422 | World War I in Europe | 3 |
| HIST 4423 | German History 1848-1989: Weimar Republic, Nazism, State Socialism | 3 |
| HIST 4424 | Modern European Thought and Culture, 1870-Present | 3 |
| HIST 4442 | Europe since 1945 | 3 |
| HIST 4433 | Nazi Germany and the Holocaust | 3 |
| HIST 4444 | Topics in Modern European Thought 1 | 3 |
| HIST 4623 | History of Eastern Europe Since 1914 | 3 |
| HIST 4643 | Poland since the 16th Century: Democracy and Nation | 3 |
| HIST 4713 | History of Russia through the 17th Century | 3 |
| HIST 4723 | Imperial Russia | 3 |
| HIST 4803 | Special Topics in European History 1 | 3 |
| HIST 4733 | The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Regime | 3 |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST 1828 | Jewish History Since 1492 | 3 |
| JWST 1830 | Global History of Holocaust and Genocide | 3 |
| JWST 2350 | Introduction to Jewish Culture | 3 |
| JWST 2502 | Representing the Holocaust | 3 |
| JWST 2551 | Modern Jewish Literature | 3 |
| JWST 3100 | Judaism | 3 |
| JWST 3110 | Of Jewish Legends, Folktales and the Supernatural | 3 |
| JWST 3401 | The Heart of Europe: Filmmakers and Writers in 20th Century Central Europe | 3 |
| JWST 3501 | The German-Jewish Experience: From the Enlightenment to the Present | 3 |
| JWST 3600 | Contemporary Jewish Societies | 3 |
| JWST 3681 | Refugees in German Culture | 3 |
| JWST 4122 | Music in Jewish Culture | 3 |
| JWST 4180 | Is God Dead? | 3 |
| JWST 4534 | Modern European Jewish History | 3 |
| JWST 4544 | History of Yiddish Culture | 3 |
| JWST 4580 | The Holocaust: An Anthropological Perspective | 3 |
| JWST 4800 | Ethics, Medicine and the Holocaust: Legacies in Health and Society | 3 |
| Russian Culture (Taught in English) | ||
| RUSS 1112 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2121 | ||
| RUSS 2211 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2221 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2222 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2231 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2241 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2261 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2271 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2311 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2471 | 3 | |
| RUSS 2501 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3121 | ||
| RUSS 3221 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3231 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3241 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3301 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3251 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3333 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3601 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3701 | 3 | |
| RUSS 3705 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4120 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4210 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4211 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4221 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4251 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4301 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4321 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4431 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4441 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4451 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4471 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4481 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4811 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4821 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4831 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4851 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4861 | 3 | |
| RUSS 4871 | ||
| Russian Culture (Taught in Russian) | ||
| RUSS 3900 | 1-6 | |
| RUSS 3930 | 1-6 | |
| RUSS 4050 | Professional Russian | 4 |
| RUSS 4220 | Topics in Russian, East European and Eurasian Culture (in Russian) | 3 |
| RUSS 4230 | Russian Cultural Idioms | 3 |
| RUSS 4850 | Russian Film and Society | 4 |
| RUSS 4900 | 1-6 | |
| Social Science | ||
| ANTH 4580 | The Holocaust: An Anthropological Perspective | 3 |
| ECON 4514 | Economic History of Europe | 3 |
| GEOG 3842 | Human Geography of Czechia: Political, Economic and Social Transitions | 3 |
| GEOG 3882 | Geography of the Former Soviet Union | 3 |
| LIBB 2100 | Russian Revolutions: Social and Artistic | 3 |
| PSCI 3022 | Russian Politics | 3 |
| PSCI 3062 | Revolution and Political Violence 1 | 3 |
| PSCI 4002 | Western European Politics | 3 |
| PSCI 4062 | East European Politics | 3 |
| PSCI 4213 | Europe and the International System | 3 |
| GRMN 3681 | Refugees in German Culture | 3 |
| 1 | Only when topic is related to Central or Eastern Europe. |