Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Globalization, democratization, and post-colonial forces continue to powerfully shape our increasingly complex and interconnected world. World Literature and Culture Studies provides a valuable opportunity to study these relationships as expressed in literary and other cultural texts from a variety of perspectives.
Russian and Eurasian Studies is an interdisciplinary major and minor program administered by the department of World Literature and Culture Studies.
Bachelor of Arts
The Russian and Eurasian Studies program is available as a major, double major, minor or honours option as part of a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree. Arts is a four year program and covers a broad range of subject areas concerned with the study of human beings and the evolution and nature of global societies, ideas, and institutions. In your first two years of the program, you will select courses in fields like humanities, languages, social sciences as well as science and business to provide you with a broad foundation for advanced study in your chosen subject area during the final two years.
Combine courses
Below is a selection of first year courses that have been taught in previous years:
- The Political Economy of Russia and Ukraine
- Eastern Europe in Transition
- Russian Culture I
- Introduction to 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation
Russian @ Work
A BA in Russian and Eurasian Studies could lead to work as a:
- Journalist
- Researcher
