European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies: European and Russian Affairs MA Courses

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

Required Courses

Course Code Course Title
ERE2000Y
Research Seminar
ERE2001H
Gateway Proseminar in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Elective Courses

Course Code Course Title
ERE1151H European Studies
ERE1161H Topics in Russian and Eurasian Studies
ERE1162H
Topics in the Caucasus
ERE1165H
International Internship (Credit/No Credit)
ERE1170H Conflicts and Para-States in the European Union’s Backyard
ERE1175H One Hundred Years of Cultures of Refugees in Europe, 1920–2020
ERE1179H Illiberalism in East-Central Europe
ERE1186H The Past As Prologue: East Central and Southeastern Europe in the Interwar Period
ERE1195H
Topics in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
ERE1197H Reading Course
ERE1994H The Search for Security in Europe Since 1945

Anthropology

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

Course Code Course Title
JSA5147H
Language, Nationalism, and Post-Nationalism

Comparative Literature

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

Course Code Course Title
COL5047H
The Two Avant-Gardes
JGC1855H
Critical Theory in Context: The German-French Connection
JHL1282H
Comparative Totalitarian Culture
JLV5134H Theories of the Novel

Criminology and Sociolegal Studies

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

Course Code Course Title
CRI3130H Policing
CRI3220H
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 Code Course Title
GER1722H
Kafka
GER1780H
Topics in German Visual Culture
GER6000H
Reading German for Graduate Students
JGC1855H
Critical Theory in Context: The French-German Connection

History

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

Course Code Course Title
HIS1032H Modernity and Its Visual Cultures
HIS1200H Readings in European Intellectual History
HIS1237H
France: 1870–1968
HIS1268H
The Holocaust and World War II
HIS1272H
Topics in Twentieth-Century European History
HIS1275H
Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
HIS1281H
History of Real Socialism
HIS1287H
Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1290H
Topics in Imperial Russian History
HIS1293Y
Kievan Rus' (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1296H
Stalinism and After: Beyond Cold War History
HIS1805H Human Rights and Empire (exclusion: HIS1860H)
JHL1282H Comparative Totalitarian Culture
JHP1289Y
Twentieth-Century Ukraine (joint graduate/undergraduate)

Political Science

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

Course Code Course Title
JRA2321H
Topics in Comparative Politics
JRA2337H
Government Law and Politics in Russia
POL2207H Topics in International Politics III
POL2226H Ethics and International Relations
POL2321H Topics in Comparative Politics I
POL2326H
Democracy and Dictatorship
POL2335H Business 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 Code Course Title
SLA1517H
Modern Serbian Bards
SLA1547H
South Slavic Folklore

Polish Literature

Course Code Course Title
SLA1304H
Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance
SLA1308H
Critical Paradigms in Polish Culture
SLA1312Y
Modernism and Postmodernism in Polish Literature

Russian Literature

Course Code Course Title
SLA1202H
Gulag Literature
SLA1203H
The Self and Other in Russian Prose
SLA1204H
Contemporary Russian Literature
SLA1207H
The Imaginary Jew
SLA1211Y
Studies in the Russian Drama: Eighteenth to Twentieth Century
SLA1215H
Studies in Russian Literature and Criticism in the Eighteenth Century
SLA1216H
From English to Russian Literature and Back
SLA1220H
Nineteenth Century Russian Thinkers
SLA1225H
Russian Literature in the Age of Empire
SLA1226H
Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism
SLA1228H
Themes in Russian Realism
SLA1231H
Russian Modernism
SLA1238H
Chekhov
SLA1239H
Vladimir Nabokov
SLA1240H
Tolstoy
SLA1410H
Gogol
SLA1411H
Synthesis of Arts in the Late Russian Empire-Early Soviet Union

Ukrainian Literature

Course Code Course Title
SLA1404Y
Studies in Ukrainian Poets
SLA1406Y
Studies in Ukrainian Literary Criticism
SLA1407H
Aspects of Literary Translation of Ukrainian

General Slavic

Course Code Course Title
SLA1010H Slavic Proseminar
SLA1039H
Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow: A City and the Text
SLA1421H
Women in East European Fiction
SLA1521H
Post-Modernity and the Mythopoetic Legacy of Mitteleuropa

Reading and Research Courses

Course Code Course Title
ERE1997H
Reading and Research
ERE1998H
Reading and Research I
ERE1999H
Reading and Research II