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Fall 2022 – Fall 2025 Courses
Academic English
Anna Brækkan | S25 F
Ancient Culture: Polis, Family, Personality
Ilya Kalinin | F24 M W
Anthropological Aspects of Digital Technology
Ilya Utekhin | F24 FR
Anti-Colonial Museum and the Practice of Reconciliation
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – NOV F23
Artist in Power: The King as Narrator
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F25
Autofiction at the Crossroads of Experience and Writing
Larissa Muravieva | MAR – APR S23
Autofiction at the Crossroads of Experience and Writing
Larissa Muravieva | NOV – DEC F23
Beautiful Russia of the Future: The Political Legacy of Alexei Navalny
Venyavkin, Gessen, Gilev, Kalinin | OCT F24
Cinema around the Balkans
Jan Levchenko | MAR – APR S25
Climate Crisis and the Struggle for Equality
Felix Jaitner | FEB – APR S25
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | S23 M W
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | F23 T T
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | F24 T T
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – NOV F23
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – OCT F24
Contemporary Art in Russia
Stanislav Savitski | F23 T T
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | S24 M W
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | S25 M W
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | F25 Mon Wed
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: Human Rights and Spectatorship
Denis Skopin | F23 W
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: Human Rights and Spectatorship
Denis Skopin | F24 W
Decadence on the Screen
Olga Kirillova | JUN 9 — JUL 18
Diary Film
Masha Godovannaya | S25 M W
Diary Film, Autoethnography, and Poetic Film Writing
Masha Godovannaya | S24 M W
Disability and Human Rights: Activism and Practice
Vera Shengeliya | F25 Tue
Disability Representation in the Cultural Institutions
Vera Shengeliya | FEB15 – APR18 | TH
Dissent! Politics, Justice, Dignity
Pinar Kemerli | S23 T T
Documentary Poetry
Galina Rymbu | MAR – APR S25
Documentary Poetry: Politics of Memory and the ‘Desire for an Archive’
Galina Rymbu | SEP – NOV F24
Does Might Make Right? Ancient Perspectives on an Enduring Dilemma
Thomas Bartscherer | S24 Tu
Dystopia: history, poetics, pragmatics
Dmitry Bykov | MAR27 – APR26 | W F
Ecocritical Reading of Russophone Poetry
Galina Rymbu | APR – MAY S25
Empowering People with Disabilities: Community Support and Advocacy
Vera Shengeliya | FEB12 – APR15 | M
Experimental Feminist / Woman’s Poetry
Galina Rymbu | JUNE6 – AUG22 | TH
Experimental Feminist / Woman’s Poetry
Galina Rymbu | JUN 3 — JUL 11
Experimental feminist/ woman’s poetry
Galina Rymbu | NOV21 – DEC21 | T T
Exploring Disability Identity
Vera Shengeliya | FEB – MAR S25
Film Diary: Archiving of The Everyday
Masha Godovannaya | JUNE10 – JULY3 | M T W
Film Diary: Archiving of The Everyday
Masha Godovannaya | JUN 9 — JUL 2
Foundations of Data Analysis
Vera Ivanova | F25 Mon Thu
French Modernism
Larissa Muravieva | S24 Fr
French Modernism
Larissa Muravieva | S25 MON
Generative AI and Global Media
Daria Minsky | FEB – APR S25
Geospatial Analysis in Social Sciences
Vera Ivanova | ARP – MAY S25
Global Middle Ages?
Victor Apryshchenko | JUNE11 - JULY3 | M T W
Historical Memory and the Politics of Memory
Yurii Latysh | F25 Fri
Historical Memory during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Yurii Latysh | S25 W F
History of Globalization since 1300
Victor Apryshchenko | F25 Tue
History of History Painting
Maria Chernysheva | F24 T T
History of History Painting
Maria Chernysheva | F25 Tue Thu
History of History, or How Modernity Comprehends the Past
Victor Apryshchenko | S23 T T
History of the World since 1300
Victor Apryshchenko | F24 M W
Homo Medievalis: Culture and the Individual in the Middle Ages
Victor Apryshchenko | S24 M W
How Did Math Begin to Rule?
Andrei Rodin | S24 T T
How Did Math Begin to Rule?
Andrei Rodin | S25 T T
Intro to Data Analysis
Evgeniya Polyakova | S25 T T
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Pavel Kononenko | S25 M W
Introduction to Dialectics
Artemy Magun | F24 M
Introduction to Dialectics
Artemy Magun | F25 Fri
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F23 M W
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F24 M W
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F25 Mon Wed
Introduction to Liberal Arts Mathematics
Andrei Rodin | F24 T T
Introduction to Liberal Arts Mathematics
Andrei Rodin | F25 Tue Thu
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
Denis Skopin | SEP – OCT F24
Machines of No More War
Natalia Fedorova | S24 T T
Machines of No More War
Natalia Fedorova | S25 TUE
Memory and Archives in Russia
Tamara Velikodneva | S25 T T
Memory and Digital Archives
Tamara Velikodneva | F25 Mon Wed
Methodology of Science: Doubt, Truth, and Critical Thinking
Michael Allakhverdov | JUN 9 — JUL 3
Origins of Political Economy
Danila Raskov | F25 Tue Thu
Philosophy and Literature on Moral Sense
Garris Rogonyan | JULY8 – AUG9 | M F
Philosophy of War and Peace
Artemy Magun | S24 TH
Philosophy of War and Peace
Artemy Magun | S25 TH
Political Economy in Retrospect
Danila Raskov | S24 T T
Political Economy in Retrospect
Danila Raskov | S25 T T
Political History of Documentary Photography in Russia
Denis Skopin | S23 M W
Political History of Documentary Photography in Russia
Denis Skopin | FEB19 – MAR21 | M TH
Practices of Autofiction
Larissa Muravieva | F25 Tue
Prison and Hard Labor in Russian Literature
Dmitry Bykov | OCT31– DEC1 | T T
Putinism as an Ideology
Ilia Veniavkin | JAN – FEB W23
Putinism as an Ideology
Ilia Veniavkin | S24 M TH
Python and Data Processing for the Humanities
Ivan Iufriakov | S24 Т Т
Qualitative Research Methods
Victor Apryshchenko | S24 Tu
Rethinking Political Economy
Danila Raskov | JUN 10 — JUL 8
Russian Cultural Revolution of the 1920s – 1930s
Ilya Kalinin | JUNE3 – JULY10 | M W
Russian Emigrant as a Cultural Hero
Dmitry Bykov | APR – MAY S25
Russian Folklore: Myth, Rumor, and Cultural Memory
Dmitry Bykov | OCT – NOV F25
Russian History since 1985
Victor Apryshchenko | S25 T T
Russian Immigrant as a Cultural Hero
Dmitry Bykov | OCT – NOV F24
Russian Politics after 1991
Aleksey Gilev | F24 M W
Russian Politics after 1991
Aleksey Gilev | F25 Mon Thu
Science and War
Andrei Rodin | NOV– DEC F22
Sexuality and Disability: Intersecting Identities
Vera Shengeliya | MAR – APR S25
Social Documentary Photography
Denis Skopin | FEB – APR S25
Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language
Oleksandr Vasiukov | JUN 9 — JUL 18
Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language
Oleksandr Vasiukov | F25
Soviet Origins of Contemporary Russia
Aleksey Gilev | S23 M W
Soviet Origins of Contemporary Russia
Aleksey Gilev | S24 M W
Soviet Origins of Contemporary Russia
Aleksey Gilev | S25 M W
Sustainable Development: Natural Resources Governance
Pavel Kononenko | F25 Wed
Teen Literature as a Challenge
Dmitry Bykov | FEB14 – MAR15 | W F
Teen Literature as a Challenge
Dmitry Bykov | FEB – MAR S25
The Art and Thought of the Renaissance
Maria Chernysheva | S25 M TH
The Art and Thought of the Renaissance: Mimesis in Artistic Theory and Practices
Maria Chernysheva | S24 T T
The Art of Data Analysis: Data Visualization
Vera Ivanova | MAY 5 – JUN 5
The Olympics, Charity, and Soviet Legacy
Vera Shengeliya | JAN – FEB W23
The Olympics, Charity, and Soviet Legacy
Vera Shengeliya | OCT – DEC F24
The Politics of Truth and Falsehood
Garris Rogonyan | F25 Mon Thu
The Russia Paradox: Intellectual History of the Russian Empire
Victor Apryshchenko | F24 TH
The Russia Paradox: Political History of the Russian Empire(s)
Victor Apryshchenko | S24 M W
The Western Film on the Soviet Screen
Jan Levchenko | MAY 7 – JUN 5
Thinking Through Conflict
Michael Allakhverdov | F25 Tue Thu
Thriller Aesthetics
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F23
Thriller Aesthetics
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F24
Trauma Narratives in Contemporary Russian Literature
Larissa Muravieva | OCT – NOV F23
Trauma Narratives in Contemporary Russian-language Literature
Larissa Muravieva | F24 TH
Understanding Human Behavior
Michael Allakhverdov | S25 T T
Unofficial Late Soviet Culture
Stanislav Savitski | S23 W F
Utopian Economic Thinking
Danila Raskov | F24 W
Visual Media in the Past and Present
Jan Levchenko | F25 Tue Thu
Walter Benjamin
Garris Rogonyan | S25 T F
War and the Decay of Language
Natalia Fedorova | NOV – DEC F22
War Shocks and Economic Development
Vsevolod Ostapenko | NOV F22
When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice
Atanassow & Bartscherer | S23 Tu
Wittgenstein: Language, World, and Ethics
Garris Rogonyan | JUNE3 – JULY5 | M F
Writing Across Disciplines
Natalia Fedorova | F23 T T
Writing Across Disciplines
Natalia Fedorova | F24 T T