printer friendly pageREES 23: Issues in International Public Health
Activity course features Stanford faculty and researchers who lecture weekly on their experiences working international health issues. Focus this year will be on the global region including Russia, East Europe, Central Asia.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
12 times
(up to 12 units total)
REES 100: Current Issues in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Enrollment limited to REEES students. Scholars present analyses of methodologies, challenges, and current issues in the study of Russia, E. Europe, and Eurasia.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
(up to 99 units total)
Instructors:
Crews, R. (PI)
;
Wessling, R. (PI)
REES 18: Understanding the Jews of Russia and Poland
A preparatory course, for field trip to Moscow and Warsaw, that would cover Russian and Polish History, former Soviet Jewry, international relations, and current social realities
REES 200: Current Issues in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Enrollment limited to REEES students. Scholars present analyses of methodologies, challenges, and current issues in the study of Russia, E. Europe, and Eurasia.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Crews, R. (PI)
;
Wessling, R. (PI)
REES 207A: St. Petersburg, a Cultural Biography: Architecture, Urban Planning, the Arts (ARTHIST 107A)
The most premeditated city in the whole world, according to Dostoevsky; created in 1703 by Peter the Great as a counterpoise to Moscow and old Russian culture; planned as a rational, west-European-appearing capital city of the Russian Empire. St. Petersburg's history through works of its artists, architects, urban planners, writers, and composers.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Kollmann, J. (PI)
REES 247A: Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia (ANTHRO 147A)
Central Asian cults, myths, and beliefs from ancient time to modernity. Life crisis rites, magic ceremonies, songs, tales, narratives, taboos associated with childbirth, marriage, folk medicine, and calendrical transitions. The nature and the place of the shaman in the region. Sources include music from the fieldwork of the instructor and the Kyrgyz epoch
Manas. The cultural universe of Central Asian peoples as a symbol of their modern outlook.
Instructors:
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI)
REES 299: Directed Reading
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Dunlop, J. (PI)
;
Lapidus, G. (PI)
;
Milani, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Dunlop, J. (PI)
;
Lapidus, G. (PI)
;
Milani, A. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Young, P. (PI)
REES 301: An Introduction to Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
This seminar investigates the origins and evolution of the field and exposes students to major debates about the history, geography, politics, societies, economies, cultures, and languages of the region.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Crews, R. (PI)
REES 320: State and Nation Building in Central Asia
Issues of identity, development, and security following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Topics include the impact of 9/11, the spread of radical Islamist movements in the region, its growing role as a transit route for drugs, weapons, and possibly nuclear materials, the impact of the Soviet legacy, the nature of political and economic transformations, relations with neighboring countries, security challenges, and options facing U.S. policy makers.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Lapidus, G. (PI)
REES 340: The Comparative Political Economy of Post-Communist Transitions (POLISCI 240C)
Dominant theoretical perspectives of comparative democratization and marketization; focus is on the political economy of transition in Eastern Europe and Eurasia while comparing similar processes in Latin America and Asia. Topics include: meanings of democracy, synergy between democracies and markets, causes of the collapse of communism, paths to political liberalization and democracy, civil society, constitutions, parliaments, presidents, the rule of law, electoral systems, market requirements, strategies of reform, the Russian experience of market building, exporting democracy and the market, and foreign aid and assistance.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Stoner, K. (PI)
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