European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
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Arts and Science
Degree Programs Offered
European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies – MA, JD/MA
Collaborative Programs
The following collaborative programs are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:
1. Ethnic and Pluralism Studies
- European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, MA
The Master of Arts program in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (MA ERES) is designed to provide a well-rounded education in European, Russian 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 specialisation in the European, Russian and Eurasian area.
The Combined Juris Doctor/Master of Arts Program provides specialised professional training for those seeking a career in law in the changing environment of the post-communist world. Firms selling or manufacturing in the region need 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, Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Contact and Address
Web: www.utoronto.ca/ceres/
E-mail: ceres.admin@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 946-8938
Fax: (416) 946-8939
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Room 125N
University of Toronto
Munk Centre for International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Canada
Degree Programs
European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Master of Arts
Minimum Admission Requirements
- Applicants are accepted under the general regulations of the School of Graduate Studies.
- 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. 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.
Program Requirements
- Minimum of two sessions of full-time graduate study.
- Students will be required to take 6.0 full-course equivalents (FCE) as follows:
- 2.0 FCE in a discipline chosen by the student as his or her major discipline.
- ERE2001H, taken in the first year of the program.
- ERE 2000Y, the interdisciplinary core course, taken in the second year of the program. As part of ERE2000Y, each student must write a 30-40 page master’s essay, based on original research.
- The remaining 2.5 FCE must be drawn from at least two disciplines other than the major discipline.
Combined Juris Doctor/Master of Arts (European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies)
Minimum Admission Requirements
- Applicants must separately apply to and be accepted by both the JD program and the MA (European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies) programs. They must satisfy the normal admission requirements for each program.
- Applicants who have completed a year in the European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies master's program or the first year of the JD can apply for admission to the combined program.
Program Requirements
- Year 1 - Students are admitted to the Faculty of Law and receive deferred admission to the MA program in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. The first year of study will consist of requirements for the first year of the JD.
- Years 2, 3, and 4 - Students pursue credits in Law as well as in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
- The program allows students to receive the combined degree in four years of study instead of the five years needed to take the degrees separately.
Course List
Not all courses are offered every year. Consult the centre and individual departments for course availability.
Required
ERE 2000Y Research Seminar
ERE 2001H Gateway Pro-Seminar to European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Optional
Anthropology
ANT 5146H Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses
ANT 6020H The Political Economy of Global/Local Dialectics
JSA 5147H Language, Nationalism and Post-Nationalism
Comparative Literature
COL 5027H Memory, Trauma, and History
COL 5031H Russian Avantgarde Concepts in Art and Literature: Symbolism, Futurism, Constructivism, Formalism
Economics
ERE 1198H Europe’s Eastward Enlargement
Germanic Languages and Literatures
GER 1200H Middle High German
GER 1300H Cultural History of the German Language
GER 1470H Goethe in Context
GER 1661H Modernism in Context
GER 1772H The Politics of the Non-Fiction Film
GER 1780H Topics in German Visual Culture
GER 1830H Topics in German Intellectual History
JGC 1750H Modernity and Its Discontents
History
ERE 1186H The Past As Prologue: East Central and Southeastern Europe in the Interwar Period
ERE 1191H Contemporary Southeastern Europe
HIS 1279H World War II in East Central Europe (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS 1280Y History of Soviet Cinema (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS 1281H Experiences of Real Socialism
HIS 1282H Totalitarian Culture
HIS 1283H War, Plague and Hunger in the Early Modern Baltic
HIS 1284H The Baltic World
HIS 1285Y The Ukrainian National Revival
HIS 1287H Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland
HIS 1288H Age of Experiments
HIS 1291H Topics in Russian and Soviet Social History
HIS 1292H The Russian Revolution
HIS 1293Y Kievan Rus’
HIS 1295H Soviet History Seminar
HIS 1297H Problems of Political Survival in Eastern Europe Since 1848
HIS 1298H Problems in the Social and Cultural History of Imperial Russia
HIS 1299H Topics in Russian Intellectual History
JHP 1289Y Twentieth-Century Ukraine
JHP 2301Y Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Europe
Political Science
ERE 1184H Polls and Public Opinion in Post-Communist Countries
ERE 1188H European Identities: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Culture
ERE 1192H Majorities and Minorities in Southeastern Europe
ERE 1194H State and Society in Post-Soviet Central Asia
ERE 1199H Security, Sovereignty, and Great Power Politics in Central Asia
ERE 2001H Gateway Pro-Seminar to European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
JHP 1289Y Twentieth-Century Ukraine
JHP 2301Y Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Europe
POL 2004Y Marxism
POL 2304Y Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
POL 2308Y Politics and Government of Eastern Europe
POL 2324H Ethnonationalism and State-Building: The Communist and Post-Communist Experience
POL 2325Y The Politics of Post-Communism
Slavic Languages and Literatures
For a full listing of courses, see the Slavic Languages and Literatures entry in this calendar.
Croatian and Serbian Literatures
SLA 1507H Modern Croatian Bards
SLA 1517H Modern Serbian Bards
SLA 1520H Bosnia in Literature and Culture: Between Croats and Serbs
SLA 1521H Topics in Modern Croatian Literature
SLA 1522Y The Modern Serbian Novel
SLA 1537H Political Drama from Dubrovnik to the Danube
SLA 1547H South Slavic Folklore
Czech and Slovak Literatures
SLA 1600Y Studies in Czech and Slovak Literatures
SLA 1601Y Modern Czech Fiction
SLA 1603Y Readings in Czech/Russian Literary Theory
SLA 1604Y History of the Czech Literary Language
SLA 1605Y Modern Czech Drama and Theatre
SLA 1606H Czech Short Story
Estonian Literature
SLA 1420Y Estonian National Identity
SLA 1421Y Women in East European Fiction
Hungarian Literature
HUN 1440Y The Modern Hungarian Novel
HUN 1450H Hungarian Drama
HUN 1451H Three Hungarian Film Directors
Polish Literature
SLA 1304H Staging God, Man, and History: Polish Drama and Theatre in Context
SLA 1305Y Polish Fiction or A Disrupted Funeral of the Novel
SLA 1306H Polish Poetry: Shaping the National Canon
SLA 1307H Studies in Polish Poetry: Twentieth Century
SLA 1308Y Topics in Polish Literature
SLA 1310H Revolutions in the Theatre: Slanislavski, Meyerhold, Grotowski, and Kantor
SLA 1312Y Modernism and Postmodernism in Polish Literature in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
SLA 1331H Imagining “The Other” in Polish Literature and Culture
Russian Literature
SLA 1201Y Studies in the Russian Novel
SLA 1203Y Studies in Russian Modernism
SLA 1204H Contemporary Russian Literature
SLA 1205H Literary Scandals in Twentieth-Century Russia
SLA 1210H Studies in Medieval Russian Literature
SLA 1211Y Studies in the Russian Drama: Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries
SLA 1212H Gogol
SLA 1215H Studies in Russian Literature of the Eighteenth Century
SLA 1225H Russian Literature and Criticism in the 1860s
SLA 1230Y Russian Emigré Literature, 1917-1945
SLA 1231H Twentieth Century Russian Prose I: Modernism, Avant-garde, Totalitarianism
SLA 1232H Russian Symbolism
SLA 1233H Studies in Modern Russian Poets
SLA 1234H Dostoevsky
SLA 1235H Pasternak
SLA 1236Y Pushkin
SLA 1237H Twentieth-Century Russian Prose II: Internal and External Exile
SLA 1238H Chekhov
SLA 1239H Vladimir Nabokov’s American Novels
SLA 1240H L. Tolstoy
SLA 1243H Leskov
SLA 1250H Russian Journalism: 1830-1860, The Formative Decades
SLA 1251H Pushkin and His Age
SLA 1900Y Russian Poetry (for MA students only)
Ukrainian Literature
SLA 1039Y Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow: A City Through Cultures and Centuries
SLA 1402Y Studies in Ukrainian Modernism
SLA 1403Y Studies in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
SLA 1404Y Studies in Ukrainian Poets
SLA 1405Y Experiments in Ukrainian Prose
SLA 1406Y Studies in Ukrainian Literary Criticism
SLA 1407H Aspects of Literary Translation of Ukrainian
SLA 1408H Taras Shevchenko
SLA 1409H Ukrainian Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Slavic Linguistics
SLA 1101Y History of the Russian Language (PR)
SLA 1102Y Advanced Russian Language Skills
SLA 1103H Comparative South Slavic Linguistics
SLA 1104Y Old Church Slavonic
SLA 1105Y Structure of Russian
SLA 1106H Proseminar in Diachronic Slavic Linguistics
SLA 1107H Comparative West Slavic Linguistics
SLA 1108H Slavic Dialectology
SLA 1109H Old Church Slavonic Translation Technique
SLA 1110H Comparative Historical Slavic Linguistics
SLA 1112H Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Slavic
SLA 1141H History of the Ukrainian Language
SLA 1142H Style and Structure of Ukrainian
SLA 1150H Russian Since the Revolution
SLA 1160H Proseminar in Synchronic Slavic Linguistics
SLA 1161H An Introduction to Areal Linguistics: The Balkan Sprachbund
General Slavic
SLA 1036H Metamorphosis of Modernity in Central Europe
SLA 1037Y Theatre and Cinema in Extremis: Staging Twentieth-Century Aesthetics and Politics
SLA 1038H Magic Prague
Reading and Research Courses
ERE 1997Y Reading and Research III
ERE 1998H Reading and Research I
ERE 1999H Reading and Research II
(PR) Courses with prerequisites
For further information about graduate programs and study grants, please contact the Director.
Graduate Faculty
Full Members
Ambros, Veronika - MA, PhD
Austin, Robert - BA, MA, PhD (Coordinator of Graduate Studies)
Barnes, Christopher - BA, MA, PhD
Bodemann, Michal - MA, PhD
Bogert, Ralph - BA, MA, PhD
Braun, Aurel - BA, MA, PhD
Brym, Robert - BA, MA, PhD
Day, Richard - BA, MA, PhD
Dimnik, Martin - BA, MA, MDiv, DPhil
Dowler, E Wayne - BA, AM, PhD
Friedmann, Harriet - AB, MA, PhD
Johnson, Robert - BA, PhD
Kivimae, Juri - AM, PhD
Kopstein, Jeffrey - BA, MA, PhD
Kramer, Christina - BA, MA, PhD
Krementsov, Nikolai - PhD
Lahusen, Thomas - MA, PhD
Livak, Leonid - BA, AM, PhD
Magocsi, Paul - BA, MA, MA, PhD
Noyes, John - BA, MA, PhD
Orwin, Donna - PhD
Ostapchuk, Victor - BA, PhD
Pruessen, Ronald - BA, MA, PhD
Retallack, James - BA, DPhil
Rossos, Andrew - BA, MA, PhD
Schallert, Joseph - PhD
Schwartz, Donald - BA, MA, PhD
Sigmon, Becky - BA, MS, PhD
Solecki, Samuel - BA, MA, PhD
Solomon, Peter - BA, MA, PhD
Solomon, Susan - BA, MA, PhD
Subtelny, Maria - BA, PhD
Tarnawsky, Maxim - BA, PhD
Viola, Lynne - BA, MA, PhD
Wellman, Barry - BA, MA, PhD, PhD
Wittmann, Rebecca - AB, MA, PhD
Wrobel, Piotr Jan - MA, PhD
Zilcosky, John - BA, MA, MA, PhD
Members Emeriti
Bisztray, George - PhD
Dyck, Harvey - BA, MA, PhD
Eddie, Scott - BS, PhD
Gregor, Richard - BA, MA, PhD
Griffiths, Franklyn Jc - BA, MIA, PhD
Isajiw, Wsevolod - BA, MA, PhD
Lantz, Kenneth - BA, MA, PhD
Lindheim, Ralph - BA, MA
Associate Members
Bucerius, Sandra - BA, MA, PhD
Hansen, Randall - BA, MPH, PhD
Jenkins, Jennifer - BA, MA, PhD
Jennings, Eric - BA, PhD
Klein, Edith - BA, MA, PhD
Knop, Karen - BSc, LLB, LLM, SJD
Komaromi, Ann - MA, DPhil
Korteweg, Anna - BA, MA, PhD
Koznarsky, Taras - MA, PhD
Light, Matthew - BA, MA, JD, PhD
Schatz, Edward - PhD
Schonberg, Michal - BA, MA, PhD
Shternshis, Anna - MA, PhD
Smith, Alison - AM, PhD
Triadafilopoulos, Phil (Triadafilos) - BA, MA, PhD
Trojanowska, Tamara - MA, PhD
Vahamaki, Borje - BA, PhD
Way, Lucan Alan - BA, PhD
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