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12 courses with the subject REES, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

REES 110The Holocaust

The Holocaust was arguably the most pernicious Jewish catastrophe; it continues to challenge our understanding of historical processe

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 161Literature and Empire in Russia’s “Golden Age”

Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov. Readers across the globe come to Russian literature for answers to life's cursed questio

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 162Writing Under Authoritarian Regimes: Soviet Russia and Beyond

This course offers a survey of the texts and challenges of writing literature in Russia and Eastern Europe since the Soviet reg

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 163Back in the USSR: Encounters with Soviet Russia on the Page and Screen

The aim of this culture survey is to introduce you to how the Soviets saw the West and the way the West -- Americans and Western/East-Central Europeans -- saw the Soviet Union. Cold War cultural hostilities, still very much a part of how the West perceives Russia today, have had a retroactively distorting effect on our understanding of what the Soviet-West encounter looked like prior to World War II/ Intellectuals, writers, artists, and activists like Arthur Koestler, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Margaret Bourke-White, and John Steinbeck -- traveled to the USSR

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 241History, Art and Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe

This course introduces students to the major issues addressed by scholars of Russia and Eastern Europe in a number of different discipl

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 265Dostoevsky in a Global Context

An examination of Fyodor Dostoevsky's major novels and journalism in the context of his transnational legacy. We examine probl

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 267Revolution! Russian Culture and the Radical Tradition

Russia. This is where the world’s liberation struggles for racial and economic justice - whether in China, Cuba, or Ghana - looked for inspirat

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 270National and Transnational Cinemas

In this class we will study various cinemas of the world and the cultural, political, and historical contexts from which they emerge. Through screenings, complementary readi

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 310Testimonies of Atrocity

This research seminar explores testimonies of two arguably most horrific human-made catastrophes of the twentieth century: Holocaust and the

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 365“War and Peace:” Tolstoy’s Novel and Its Undying Questions

What is war? What is peace? What is love? What is death?-these are the questions raised by Lev Tolstoy’s War and Peace . This cours

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 460Reading and Research in Russian/ East European Studies

This course gives advanced students the opportunity to investigate intensively an area of special int

Subject: REES
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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REES 495-496Thesis1

Students interested in completing a thesis for Program Honors are advised to consult with the program coordinator toward the end of their junior year. Following selection of a topic and thesis director, a research design must be provided at the opening of the fall semester. The student then completes REES 495. If the thesis director and program coordinator conclude that sufficient progress has been made, the student takes REES 496 and completes a thesis for submission for honors.

Subject: REES
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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