European and Eurasian Studies

European and Eurasian Studies: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

European and Eurasian Studies

MA

Combined Degree Programs

STG, Law, JD / European and Eurasian Studies, MA

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Overview

The Master of Arts program in European and Eurasian Studies (MA EES) is designed to provide a well-rounded education in European and Eurasian affairs for students who wish to pursue professional, non-academic careers in areas such as government and diplomacy, journalism, business, and teaching. The programs also enrich and broaden the base of knowledge of beginning graduate students considering any PhD-level study with a specialization in the European and Eurasian areas.

The Combined Degree Program in Law, Juris Doctor / European and Eurasian Studies, Master of Arts provides specialized professional training for those seeking a career in law in the changing environment of the post-communist world and the European Union. There is a need for the services of well-informed specialists who can navigate the legal pitfalls of emergent legal systems and deal with lawyers and government officials in the area. Best equipped to meet this demand are people with dual expertise in law and European and Eurasian studies.

Contact and Address

Web: munkschool.utoronto.ca/cees
Email: cees.graduate@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 946-8962

Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
University of Toronto
Room 127N, 1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Canada

European and Eurasian Studies: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Austin, Robert - BA, MA, PhD (Graduate Coordinator)
Bergen, Doris - MA, PhD
Braun, Aurel - BA, MA, PhD
Fenner, Angelica - BA, MA, PhD
Goetschel, Willi - PhD
Hansen, Randall - BA, MPH, PhD, CRC
Koznarsky, Taras - MA, PhD
Kramer, Christina - BA, MA, PhD
Levi, Ron - BCL, LLB, LLM, SJD
Magocsi, Paul - BA, MA, MA, PhD, FRSC
Noyes, John - BA, MA, PhD
Ornston, Darius - BA, MA, PhD
Orwin, Donna - PhD
Ostapchuk, Victor - BA, PhD
Pruessen, Ronald - BA, MA, PhD
Retallack, James - BA, DPhil
Smith, Alison - AM, PhD
Soldovieri, Stefan - BA, MA, PhD
Stock, Markus - MA, PhD
Subtelny, Maria - BA, PhD
Tarnawsky, Maxim - BA, PhD
Trojanowska, Tamara - MA, PhD
Wittmann, Rebecca - AB, MA, PhD
Wrobel, Piotr Jan - MA, PhD
Zilcosky, John - BA, MA, MA, PhD

Members Emeriti

Johnson, Robert - BA, PhD
Lahusen, Thomas - MA, PhD
Perron, Paul - PhD
Solomon, Peter - BA, MA, PhD
Solomon, Susan - BA, MA, PhD
Viola, Lynne - BA, MA, PhD

Associate Members

Cohen, Paul - AM, PhD
Falk, Barbara - BA, MA, PhD
Holland, Kate - MA, PhD
Jennings, Eric - BA, MA, PhD
Kahraman, Filiz - BA, MA, PhD
Kalmar, Ivan - BA, MA, PhD
Kasekamp, Andres - PhD
Komaromi, Ann - MA, DPhil
Korteweg, Anna - BA, MA, PhD
Kotsovilis, Spyridon - PhD
Light, Matthew - BA, MA, JD, PhD
Mandusic, Zdenko - BA, MA, PhD
Manger, Mark - DrRerPol
McElroy, Brendan - DPhil
Methodieva, Milena - PhD
Nelson IV, William Max - BA, MSS, MA, PhD
Pavone, Tommaso - BA, MA, DrRerPol
Reisenbichler, Alexander - BA, MA, PhD
Sayle, Timothy - AM, MPA, PhD
Schatz, Edward - PhD (Director)
Shternshis, Anna - MA, PhD
Skira, Jaroslav - PhD
Todorova, Miglena - BA, MA, PhD
Topouzova, Lilia - BA, MA, PhD
Triadafilopoulos, Triadafilos - BA, MA, PhD
Way, Lucan Alan - BA, PhD
Wilson, David - BA, MA, PhD

European and Eurasian Studies: European and Eurasian Studies MA

The Master of Arts program in European and Eurasian Studies (MA EES) is designed to provide a well-rounded education in European and Eurasian studies for students who wish to pursue professional, non-academic careers in areas such as government and diplomacy, journalism, business, and teaching. The programs also enrich and broaden the base of knowledge of graduate students considering any PhD-level study with a specialization in the European and Eurasian areas.

The MA in European and Eurasian Studies offers students:

  • the opportunity to study at the leading research university in Canada;

  • the chance to work with outstanding faculty in a wide range of disciplines with a research specialization on Europe and Eurasia;

  • internships, exchanges, summer study programs, and research experience in the region;

  • access to one of North America's largest research libraries;

  • participation in the rich academic programs of the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy including specialized graduate workshops and courses offered by visiting professors;

  • a strong and vibrant learning community with individualized academic and financial support;

  • leadership roles in graduate student conferences, blogs, and journals.

The program requires a minimum of two academic years of full-time graduate study. For further information about graduate programs and study grants, please contact the Graduate Coordinator.

MA Program

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies additional admission requirements stated below.

  • At least some of the work in the program is based on the study of original texts and presupposes a reading knowledge of a language relevant to the program. Preferably, applicants should have a minimum of one academic year of study in a relevant language and are urged to undertake additional language training in the summer preceding entry to the program.

Completion Requirements

  • Coursework. Students must successfully complete a total of 6.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:

    • 2.0 FCEs in the chosen primary discipline; for example, History or Political Science.

    • 2.0 FCEs must be drawn from any discipline(s) relating to the student's course of study other than the chosen primary discipline. Students can take courses in any department, with the approval of the instructor and Graduate Coordinator, provided that the student submits coursework related to the region.

    • ERE2001H Gateway Proseminar in European and Eurasian Studies, taken in Year 1 of the program.

    • ERE2000Y Research Seminar, the interdisciplinary core course, beginning in the second session of Year 1 and continuing into Year 2. As part of ERE2000Y, each student must write 10,000 to 12,000 words including references, based on original research.

    • At least 0.5 FCE must be earned either in an approved program-related internship or in an approved academic exchange abroad.

Mode of Delivery: In person
Program Length: 6 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: FWS-FWS)
Time Limit: 3 years full-time

 

European and Eurasian Studies: European and Eurasian Studies MA Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Consult the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies and individual departments for course availability. Consult the Graduate Coordinator for course credit eligibility.

Required Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Research Seminar
Gateway Proseminar in European and Eurasian Studies

Elective Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
ERE1151HEuropean Studies
ERE1161HTopics in European and Eurasian Studies
Topics in the Caucasus
International Internship
ERE1170HConflicts and Para-States in the European Union’s Backyard
ERE1175HOne Hundred Years of Cultures of Refugees in Europe, 1920–2020
ERE1179HIlliberalism in East-Central Europe
ERE1180HTopics in European and Eurasian Affairs
ERE1186HThe Past As Prologue: East Central and Southeastern Europe in the Interwar Period
Topics in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
ERE1197HReading Course
ERE1994HThe Search for Security in Europe Since 1945

Anthropology

For a full listing of courses, see the Anthropology entry in this calendar.

Course CodeCourse Title
Language, Nationalism, and Post-Nationalism

Comparative Literature

For a full listing of courses, see the Comparative Literature entry in this calendar.

Course CodeCourse Title
The Two Avant-Gardes
Critical Theory in Context: The German-French Connection
Comparative Totalitarian Culture
JLV5134HTheories of the Novel

Criminology and Sociolegal Studies

For a full listing of courses, see the Criminology and Sociolegal Studies entry in this calendar.

Course CodeCourse Title
CRI3130HPolicing
Organized Crime and Corruption

Germanic Languages and Literatures

For a full listing of courses, see the Germanic Languages and Literatures entry in this calendar.

Course CodeCourse Title
Kafka
Topics in German Visual Culture
Reading German for Graduate Students
Critical Theory in Context: The French-German Connection

History

For a full listing of courses, see the History entry in this calendar.

Course CodeCourse Title
HIS1032HModernity and Its Visual Cultures
HIS1200HReadings in European Intellectual History
France: 1870–1968
The Holocaust and World War II
Topics in Twentieth-Century European History
Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
History of Real Socialism
Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland
Topics in Imperial Russian History
Stalinism and After: Beyond Cold War History
HIS1805HHuman Rights and Empire
JHL1282HComparative Totalitarian Culture
Twentieth-Century Ukraine

Political Science

For a full listing of courses, see the Political Science entry in this calendar.

Course CodeCourse Title
Topics in Comparative Politics
POL2207HTopics in International Politics III
POL2226HEthics and International Relations
POL2321HTopics in Comparative Politics I
Democracy and Dictatorship
POL2335HBusiness and Politics: Power in a Global World

Slavic Languages and Literatures

For a full listing of courses, see the Slavic Languages and Literatures entry in this calendar.

Croatian and Serbian Literatures

Course CodeCourse Title
Modern Serbian Bards
South Slavic Folklore

Polish Literature

Course CodeCourse Title
Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance
Critical Paradigms in Polish Culture
Modernism and Postmodernism in Polish Literature

Russian Literature

Course CodeCourse Title
Gulag Literature
The Self and Other in Russian Prose
Contemporary Russian Literature
The Imaginary Jew
Studies in the Russian Drama: Eighteenth to Twentieth Century
Studies in Russian Literature and Criticism in the Eighteenth Century
From English to Russian Literature and Back
Nineteenth Century Russian Thinkers
Russian Literature in the Age of Empire
Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism
Themes in Russian Realism
Russian Modernism
Chekhov
Vladimir Nabokov
Tolstoy
Gogol
Synthesis of Arts in the Late Russian Empire-Early Soviet Union

Ukrainian Literature

Course CodeCourse Title
Studies in Ukrainian Poets
Studies in Ukrainian Literary Criticism
Aspects of Literary Translation of Ukrainian

General Slavic

Course CodeCourse Title
SLA1010HSlavic Proseminar
Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow: A City and the Text
Women in East European Fiction
Post-Modernity and the Mythopoetic Legacy of Mitteleuropa

Reading and Research Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Reading and Research
Reading and Research I
Reading and Research II