Courses Which Satisfy Requirements for the RAS Major/Minor

Courses for the RAS major/minor are offered through a variety of departments; consult the proper department heading for the course. Each course listing below links to its full catalog description.

Language Courses

Humanities Courses

Social Sciences Courses

Contextual Courses

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Language Courses [TOP]

• RUS 101/102 Introductory Russian I/II
• RUS 105 Beginning Russian in Review
• RUS 201/202 Intermediate Russian I/II
• RUS 301/302 Advanced Russian I/II
  
• RUS 330/331 Russian Language, Literature and Culture I and II
• RUS 450 Independent Study (Language)

Humanities Courses [TOP]

*Note: all MDLN courses are now to be found under the heading RUSE, indicating they are Russian Area Studies courses taught in English.

• ART 256 Art of the Russian Revolution
  
• BIDS 298 The Ballets Russes
  
• ENG 360 20th-Century Central European Fiction
  
• HIST 367 Women and the Russian State
• MUS 150 In a Russian Voice
  
• RUSE 112 Introduction to Russian Literature--the 20th Century
  
• RUSE 203 Russian Prison Literature
  
• RUSE 204 Russian Film
• RUSE 230 Russian Culture
  
• RUSE 237 Russian Folklore
  
• RUSE 238 Spies, Reds, and Poets
  
• RUSE 350 Survey of 19th-Century Russian Literature
  
• RUSE 351 20th-Century Russian Literature: Women Writers
  

Social Sciences Courses [TOP]

• BIDS 120 Russia and the Environment
  
• ECON 146 The Russian Economy
  
• HIST 260 19th Century Russia through Literature
  
• HIST 261 20th-Century Eurasia
  
• HIST 394 Russia and Central Asia
  
• HIST 396 History and the Fate of Socialism
  
• POL 257 Russia and China Unraveled
  

Contextual Courses [TOP]

(cannot count for either of the minors or for the Language and Culture major; maximum of one can count for the History and Society major)

• ECON 233 Comparative Economic Systems and Institutions
  
• ECON 236 Introduction to Radical Political Economy
  
• ECON 240 International Trade
  
• ECON 344 Economic Development and Planning
• HIST 238 World Wars in Global Perspective
• HIST 276 The Age of Dictators
• POL 140 Introduction to Comparative Politics
  
• POL 245 Europe East and West
  
• POL 379 Radical Thought
  
• SOC 300 Classical Sociological Theory