The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) minor introduces students to the culture, history and politics of Russian, East European and Eurasian countries. Students fulfilling requirements for the REEES minor must complete or test out of Russian language courses through RUSS 2020 and take a number of courses on cultural topics.
Requirements
Declaration of a minor in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) is open to any student enrolled at CU Boulder, regardless of college or school.
A REEES minor requires the completion of 20 credit hours, 9 of which must be upper-division credit hours. All courses used to fulfill requirements for the minor must receive a grade of C- or better. The GPA for all coursework taken in the minor department must be equal to 2.00 (C) or higher. No courses applied to the minor may be taken pass/fail. Students may not apply more than 9 hours of transfer credit (including 6 upper-division credit hours) toward the minor. Transfer courses must be approved by the department.
Required Courses and Credit Hours
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| RUSS 2010 | Second-Year Russian 1 1 | 4 |
| RUSS 2020 | Second-Year Russian 2 1 | 4 |
| Culture Courses in English and Optional Russian Courses | 12 | |
| Choose 12 hours from the following (include at least 3 hours from culture courses on the 19th century and earlier): | ||
| Culture Courses in English (19th Century and Earlier): | ||
| Topics in Russian, East European and Eurasian Culture 2 | ||
| Russian Culture and Art Under Tsars Great and Terrible | ||
| Fairy Tales of Russia | ||
| Death and the Undead in Slavic and Nordic Cultures | ||
| Madness and Gambling: Russian Short Stories of Life on the Edge 3 | ||
| Women in Russian Culture: From Folklore to the Nineteenth Century | ||
| Topics in Russian, East European and Eurasian Culture 2 | ||
| Arctic Thrillers: Environment, Landscape and Literature of the Far North | ||
| Russian Culture Past and Present 3 | ||
| Crimes of Passion: Gender and Sexual Politics in Tolstoy's Russia | ||
| Topics in Russian, East European and Eurasian Culture 2 | ||
| Russian and Soviet Queer Culture 3 | ||
| American-Russian Cultural Relations 3 | ||
| Dostoevsky | ||
| Tolstoy | ||
| Chekhov | ||
| Rogues to Revolutionaries: Russian Rebels, Past and Present | ||
| Seeds of Revolt: 19th-Century Russian Literature | ||
| Absurd and Supernatural in Russian Literature 3 | ||
| Culture Courses in English (20th and 21st Centuries): | ||
| Astronauts and Astropolitics: Space Exploration from the Cold War to the Future of Innovation | ||
| Topics in Russian, East European and Eurasian Culture 2 | ||
| Introduction to Modern Russian and Soviet Culture | ||
| Sports and the Cold War | ||
| Madness and Gambling: Russian Short Stories of Life on the Edge 3 | ||
| Space, Invention, and Wonder in Fairy Tales, Literature and Film | ||
| Energy Cultures: Oil, Coal, and Atoms in Modern Literature and Film | ||
| Russia Beyond the Headlines: Media, Politics, Culture, and Environment | ||
| Space Race in Russian and American Culture | ||
| Laughter in Slavic Cultures | ||
| Red Star Trek: Russian Science Fiction Between Utopia and Dystopia | ||
| Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia Today through Film and TV | ||
| Spies Like Us: Espionage in the Culture of the Cold War and Beyond | ||
| Slavic Folk Culture: Ideals and Values in the Contemporary World | ||
| Russia after Communism: Post-Soviet Politics and Culture | ||
| Topics in Russian, East European and Eurasian Culture 2 | ||
| History of Russian and Soviet Cinema | ||
| Stalinism: Culture and Society | ||
| Russian and Soviet Queer Culture 3 | ||
| American-Russian Cultural Relations 3 | ||
| Mythological Russia and Ukraine | ||
| Women in 20th-21st Century Russian, East European and Eurasian Cultures | ||
| Rogues to Revolutionaries: Russian Rebels, Past and Present 3 | ||
| 20th-Century Russian Literature and Art | ||
| Contemporary Russian Literature | ||
| Critical Thinking: Russian Film and Society | ||
| Absurd and Supernatural in Russian Literature 3 | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 20 | |
| 1 | Heritage speakers should take RUSS 3060 and RUSS 4060 as well as any other 4000-level Russian language course in lieu of RUSS 2010 and RUSS 2020. In this case, 18 credit hours will be sufficient for the minor if other requirements are fulfilled. |
| 2 | Course counts for appropriate category depending on topic (Undergraduate Faculty Advisor determines category). |
| 3 | Course can only count for one category (student can choose). |