Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Master of Arts
For More Information
Campus address: Calhoun Hall (CAL) 413, phone (512) 471-3607, fax (512) 471-6710; campus mail code: F3600
Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 204 West 21st Street F3600, Austin TX 78712
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/creees/
Facilities for Graduate Work
The University Libraries contain about eighty thousand volumes and excellent supporting material on Russia and Eastern Europe. The Harry Ransom Center holds important original documents, including the Alexander Kerensky papers and collections on Soviet history and literature. The Population Research Center houses extensive census data for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, dating back to the Russian census of 1897. The Audio Visual Library in the Flawn Academic Center has several hundred films and video recordings from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.
The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Resource Center houses about five hundred books and journals on the region, as well as audio and video recordings. The center maintains the Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC), which gives Internet users easy access to databases worldwide.
More than sixty faculty members regularly teach courses dealing with Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.
Areas of Study
The Master of Arts in Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies is a two-year, multidisciplinary program that offers advanced scholarly training for students who seek integrated knowledge of the language, history, society, and culture of the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe, or one or more of their subareas. The program is designed for students preparing for careers in the professions, and for those seeking an intermediate, interdisciplinary master’s degree before pursuing a doctorate in a particular discipline. Within the requirements of the program, the student may choose an individual course of study to meet his or her needs and may have a broader choice of courses than is possible in a disciplinary master’s degree program.
The program may involve work in any of the following academic disciplines: anthropology, architecture, art history, business, comparative literature, economics, geography, government, history, law, linguistics, music, philosophy, public affairs, radio-television-film, sociology, Slavic languages and literatures, and Turkic languages.
Students who complete this degree are expected to have an extensive understanding of the country or countries of their specialization, including a working knowledge of one of the region’s languages.
Graduate Studies Committee
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.
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Zoltan D Barany David J Eaton James K Galbraith Thomas J Garza Francis J Gavin Sabine Hake Ian F Hancock Tatiana Kuzmic Keith A Livers |
Inga Markovits Robert G Moser Joan H Neuberger Mary C Neuburger Michael A Pesenson Gilbert C Rappaport Danilo F Udovicki Charters S Wynn |
Admission Requirements
The entering student must have a bachelor’s degree. He or she must have completed at least nine semester hours in upper-division undergraduate courses, other than language courses, that focus primarily or exclusively on the former Soviet Union or East/Central Europe, and three years or the equivalent of formal language training in a language of the area. An applicant who does not meet these requirements may be admitted conditionally, but he or she must make up the deficiencies while obtaining the degree. The amount of coursework to be made up is determined by the graduate adviser before the student is admitted to the program.