Courses 2008-09
CREEES-Sponsored Courses, Autumn 2008
REES 105/205. Central and East European Politics
T/Th, 4:15-5:30 pm, Bldg 200 room 305
Counts as a PoliSci cognate course!
Focus is on how the states of Central and East Europe, including the Baltic
states, have moved from communism and the Soviet Bloc to democracy, NATO and
the EU. Topics include the communist legacy, transitions and their legacies,
ethnic issues, and the evolution of economic and social policies, and the
comparison of democratization processes in these countries to democracies in
other regions, such as 
Latin America and southern Europe. GER:DB-SocSci
5 units, Aut (Jane Curry), given once only
Jane Curry is Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University and joins CREEES for Autumn 2008. She has authored or edited a variety of books, including Polish Journalists: Professionalism and Politics (Cambridge University Press), The Black Book of Polish Censorship (Random House), Dissent in Eastern Europe, Press Control Around the World, and Poland's Permanent Revolution. You may have seen Curry during one of her appearances on the "MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour." To learn more about this course, contact the instructor
REES 130/330. With God in Russia: Orthodox Christianity in the 19th and 20th
Centuries
W, 2:15-4:05 pm, Bldg 50-51P
Counts as a Religious Studies cognate course!
The experience of religion, particularly Orthodoxy, under tsars and
commissars. Religion as a lived experience; practice and belief in the
provinces and villages, intertwining of religion and folk customs (the
so-called double faith); condition of the Church before and after the
Revolutions of 1917; religion under 
Soviet control; and liberation of the
Church since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
4-5 units, Aut (Kollmann, J)
Jack Kollmann is the CREEES Lecturer and Academic Coordinator. He holds a PhD in Russian History from Harvard University and has taught many courses on Russian civilization at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He and Professor Nancy Kollmann will be taking a group of Stanford undergraduates to St. Petersburg for a Bing Overseas Seminar in August and September 2008. To learn more about this course, contact the instructor
Special Languages Courses in Czech, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh,
Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Ukrainian for Speakers of a
Slavic Language, Uzbek, and Yiddish.
Available on demand on the beginning, intermediate, and
advanced level. Contact Eva Prionas for details.
Courses 2008-09
Below you will find a list of all of the graduate and undergraduate courses in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (REEES) offered at Stanford University during the 2008-09 academic year.
COMPLETE LIST OF REEES COURSES 2008-09
All graduate and undergraduate courses in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (REEES) offered at Stanford University during the 2008-09 academic year (includes helpful scheduling worksheet at the end of each file):
TIME SCHEDULE OF AUTUMN REEES COURSES