printer friendly pageOSPMOSC 10M: Intensive First-Year Russian
Terms: Aut
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: Language
OSPMOSC 15: Academic Internship
Placements in areas such as banking, finances, consulting, journalism, language teaching, and technology. Introduction to Russian society and work experience. Evaluation and analysis of experience in final academic paper.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Abashkin, A. (PI)
OSPMOSC 44: Economic Reform and Economic Policy in Modern Russia
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
OSPMOSC 45: Russia in the Changing World
Russia's vision of the international environment to its West and to its East, constructed around specific issues of political and economic nature. Topics include: the challenge of Russian modernization, Russia¿s Eurasian project, the energy factor in Eurasia, and Russia in the Islamic world.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Bratersky, M. (PI)
OSPMOSC 46: Cultural Diversity in Contemporary World: Normative, Political, and Socio-Anthropological Dimensions
Dimensions of cultural diversity generated by globalization. Issues include: sources of cultural diversity (`cultural¿ subsumes ethnic, linguistic, religious as well as diversity in life styles) and how the issue of diversity is presented in contemporary scholarship, in both humanities and social sciences; make-up of the specificity of the Russian case in terms of cultural diversity and in terms of its political accommodation; societal and cultural impact of transnational migration on national states in general and on the FSU countries in particular.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
OSPMOSC 51M: Second-Year Russian
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
OSPMOSC 68: From Science to Market: Technical Innovation Policy in Post-Soviet Russia
Evolution and nature of government science and innovation policy beginning after the breakup of the Soviet Union and its impact, aiming to understand why science did not turn into business. Among topics explored are: what has been inherited from the Soviet times and why the legacy is so strong; what was Russian government trying to reform in science; birth of innovation policy and its relation to science policy in Russia; results that have been achieved; what could be done; and what may be learned about Russia from the science and innovation perspective.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Dezhina, I. (PI)
OSPMOSC 72: Space, Politics, and Modernity in Russia
The idea of space as a key to understanding Russian politics and governance, economy, society, and culture. Phenomenology of Russian space: structure, topology, and features, including notions of enormity. Space in its relation to state power; how geography shaped Russian history and politics. Reification of space-state relationship on levels such as economy, politics and administration, security and social mobility, nationalism and imperialism, culture and language, and habits and ways.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
OSPMOSC 111M: Third-Year Russian
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
OSPMOSC 177M: Fourth-Year Russian
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
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