Degree and Diploma Programs by Graduate Unit
2014-15 SGS Calendar
European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Faculty Affiliation
Arts and Science
Degree Programs
European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies—MA, JD/MA
European, Russian, and Eurasian
Studies
Collaborative Programs
Minimum Admission Requirements
Degree Programs Offered
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
2. Jewish Studies
 European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, MA
Overview
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 specialization in the European,
Russian, and Eurasian area.
The combined Juris Doctor/Master of Arts program
provides specialized professional training for those
seeking a career in law in the changing environment of the
post-communist world and the European Union. 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: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ceres/
Email: ceres.admin@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 946-8938
Fax: (416) 946-8939
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
Room 125N, 1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Canada
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Master of Arts
 Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations
of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also
satisfy the Centre for European, Russian, 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.
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 academic years of full-time graduate
study.
 Students will be required to take 6.0 full-course
equivalents (FCEs) as follows:
o 2.0 FCEs in a discipline chosen by the student as the
major discipline.
o 1.5 FCEs must be drawn from at least two disciplines
other than the major discipline.
o ERE 2001H, taken in the first year of the program.
o ERE 2000Y, the interdisciplinary core course. As part
of ERE 2000Y, each student must write a 30- to 40page master's essay, based on original research.
o The remaining 1.0 FCE may be drawn from any
discipline relating to the student's course of study.
o At least 0.5 FCE must be earned either in an approved
program-related internship or in an approved academic
exchange abroad.
Program Length
6 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence:
F/W/S/F/W/S)
Time Limit
3 years full-time
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Degree and Diploma Programs by Graduate Unit
Combined Juris Doctor (Law)/ Master of
Arts (European, Russian, and Eurasian
Studies)
Anthropology
For a full listing of courses, see the Anthropology entry in
this calendar.
For full details, see the Juris Doctor/Master of Arts
(European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies) entry in the
Combined Programs section of this calendar.
ANT 5146H
Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses
ANT 6020H
The Political Economy of Global/Local
Dialectics
Course List
ANT 6021H
Political Anthropology: State, Power, and
Sovereignty
JSA 5147H
Language, Nationalism, and PostNationalism
Not all courses are offered every year. Consult the centre
and individual departments for course availability. Consult
the centre's Graduate Coordinator for course credit
eligibility. The notation (PR) following a course indicates
the course has a prerequisite.
For a full listing of courses, see the Comparative Literature
entry in this calendar.
Required
ERE 2000Y
Comparative Literature
Research Seminar
ERE 2001H Gateway Pro-Seminar to European,
Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Optional
ERE 1111H The Demography of Post-Socialism
ERE 1151H Contemporary Topics in European
Security
COL 5037H Magic Prague: Questions of Literary
Cityscapes
COL 5044H A Journey from Petersburg to Los Angeles
COL 5099H Discourse and Iconography of Revolution
COL 5101H Diasporic Cities: Itinerant Narratives of
Metropoles by Travellers and Expatriates
JFC 5105H
Collections of Knowledge: Encyclopedism
and Travel Literature in Early Modern
Europe (1500–1800)
JGC 1850H
Derrida, the German, the Jew
ERE 1161H Topics in Russian and Eurasian Studies
ERE 1162H Topics in the Caucasus
ERE 1186H The Past as Prologue: East Central and
Southeastern Europe in the Interwar
Period
ERE 1188H European Identities: Ethnicity, Citizenship,
and Culture
ERE 1191H Contemporary Southeast Europe
ERE 1192H Majorities and Minorities in Southeastern
Europe
ERE 1193H European Enlargement in the PostCommunist Era
ERE 1194H State and Society in Post-Soviet Central
Asia
ERE 1195H Topics in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
Economics
For a full listing of courses, see the Economics entry in
this calendar.
ECO 2004H
The History of Economic Thought
ECO 2006H
Topics in the History of Economic
Thought
Germanic Languages and Literatures
For a full listing of courses, see the Germanic Languages
and Literatures entry in this calendar.
GER 1200H Middle High German
GER 1300H Cultural History of the German Language
GER 1400H From Real to Virtual Shtetl: Jewish Culture
in Russia, 1917–2010
GER 1470H Goethe in Context
ERE 1198H Europe's Eastward Enlargement
ERE 1199H Security, Sovereignty, and Great Power in
Politics in Central Asia
GER 1480H Goethe's Faust
GER 1580H Vienna at the Turn of the Century
GER 1661H Modernism in Context
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Degree and Diploma Programs by Graduate Unit
GER 1772H The Politics of the Non-fiction Film
HIS 1295H
Soviet History Seminar
GER 1780H Topics in German Visual Culture
HIS 1296H
Stalinism
GER 1830H Topics in German Intellectual History
HIS 1297H
National Survival in Eastern Europe Since
1848
HIS 1419H
Science and Society in Britain, 1600–1800
JHP 1289Y
Twentieth-Century Ukraine
JGC 1660H
Modernism and the Other
JGC 1750H
Modernity and Its Discontents
History
For a full listing of courses, see the History entry in this
calendar.
ERE 1186H The Past As Prologue: East Central and
Southeastern Europe in the Interwar
Period
Political Science
For a full listing of courses, see the Political Science entry
in this calendar.
POL 2308Y
Politics of Transition in Eastern Europe
POL 2324H
Ethnonationalism and State-Building: The
Communist and Post-Communist
Experience
Colonial Urbanism in the Mediterranean
World, 1800–1950
POL 2337H
Government Law and Politics in Russia
HIS 1237H
France: 1870–1968
POL 2341H
Topics in Ukrainian and Post-Soviet
Politics
HIS 1245H
Gender, Men and Women in Europe
1500–1900
POL 2344H
Politics of Independent Ukraine
POL 2429H
Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and
Democracy
ERE 1191H Contemporary Southeastern Europe
HIS 1233H
HIS 1247H
Ideas of Race in Europe and the Atlantic
World
HIS 1264H
Jewish Identity
HIS 1265H
Atrocities and Memory in Postwar Europe
and North America
HIS 1268H
The Holocaust and World War II
HIS 1271H
Modern Political Trials
HIS 1275H
Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
HIS 1279H
World War II in East Central Europe (joint
graduate/undergraduate)
HIS 1281H
History of Real Socialism
HIS 1282H
Totalitarian Culture
HIS 1283H
Crusades, Conversion and Colonization in
the Medieval Baltic (joint
graduate/undergraduate)
HIS 1286H
Categories of Imperial Russian Social
History
HIS 1287H
Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland
HIS 1290H
Topics in Imperial Russian History
HIS 1293Y
Kievan Rus'
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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 1603H
Lifting the Iron Curtain: Czech Culture of
the Sixties in Context
SLA 1605H
Modern Czech Drama
SLA 1606H
Public Places and Private Spaces in
Czech Short Story
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Polish Literature
SLA 1304H
Staging God, Man, and History: Polish
Drama
SLA 1306H
Polish Poetry: Shaping the National
Canon
SLA 1308Y
Topics in Polish Literature
SLA 1312Y
Modernism and Postmodernism in Polish
Literature
Russian Literature
SLA 1202H
Gulag Literature
SLA 1203H
The Self and Other in Russian Prose
SLA 1204H
Contemporary Russian Literature
SLA 1207H
The Imaginary Jew
SLA 1211Y
Studies in the Russian Drama: Eighteenth
to Twentieth Century
SLA 1410H
Gogol
SLA 1411H
Experiments in Art in the Late Russian
Empire-Early Soviet Union
Ukrainian Literature
SLA 1402Y
Studies in Ukrainian Modernism
SLA 1403Y
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
General Slavic
SLA 1037Y
Theatre and Cinema in Extremis: Staging
Twentieth-Century Aesthetics and Politics
Studies in Russian Literature and Criticism
in the Eighteenth Century
SLA 1039H
Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow: A City through Cultures
and Centuries
From English to Russian Literature and
Back
SLA 1310H
Theatre in the Twentieth Century
SLA 1220H
Nineteenth Century Russian Thinkers
SLA 1421H
Women in East European Fiction
SLA 1225H
Russian Literature and Criticism in the
1860s
SLA 1521H
Post-Modernity and the Mythopoetic
Legacy of Mitteleuropa
SLA 1226H
Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and
Criticism
SLA 1215H
SLA 1216H
Reading and Research Courses
ERE 1997H Reading and Research
SLA 1228H
Themes in Russian Realism
ERE 1998H Reading and Research I
SLA 1232H
Russian Symbolism
ERE 1999H Reading and Research II
SLA 1233H
Studies in Modern Russian Poets
SLA 1235H
Pasternak
SLA 1238H
Chekhov
SLA 1239H
Vladimir Nabokov
SLA 1240H
Tolstoy
SLA 1241H
Narrative and History
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