1998-1999 - The University of Scranton

RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
(21 credits)
Required: 6 credits from Category I and 15 credits from Category II
Category I. Two courses (6 credits)
REES 140 Russian and East European ECS/REES 335 Senior Seminar in ECS/REES
Culture
Category II: Select five courses (15 credits) from the following:
CHURCH
T/RS 225 Intro. to Theology of the T/RS 325 Eastern Christian
Eastern Churches Spirituality
T/RS 226
STATE
Intro to Eastern
Liturgies
PHIL 219 Russian Philosophy
GEOG 134 World Regional HIST 226 Russian Revolution and
Geography Its Aftermath
HIST 225
CULTURE
Imperial Russia H/PS 227 Soviet Foreign Policy
REES 231 Russian and East European
Music
ARTH 205 The Icon in Russian and RUSS 101/102 Elementary Russian
East European Art RUSS 211/212 Intermediate Russian
Concentration: 21 credits
ECS 110 3 credits
Biography as Culture
(This course is required of all students in the ECS
program.) A chronological study of men and
women who contributed to, and helped shape
Byzantine and early Christian thought. Attention
given to emperors and empresses, holy men and
women, philosophers, iconographers, architects,
musicians, writers (GE IV)
REES 140 3 credits
Russian and East European Culture
(Required of all students in REES program) A topical
study of Russia and East Europe. Included
among the lectures are the following: cultural history,
literature, art, religious thought, music, and
the role of the Society of Jesus in Russia and East
Europe.
REES 225
Russian and East 3 credits
European Literature
This course will examine Polish, Czech,
Romanian, East German, and Russian literature of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with emphasis
on the themes of the alienation of human life
and the search for the transcendent. Among the
authors to be read and discussed are Reymont,
Sienkiewicz, Lem, Capek, Ionesco, Tolstoy,
Dostoyevski and Chekhov.
ECS/REES 335
Senior Seminar in REES 3 credits
(Required of all students in ECS/REES program)
A summing up of the ECS/REES concentration in
advanced level discussions on the part of the students.
Students will engage in the following: (a)
identify one problem related to ECS/REES, (b)
choose a methodology suited to the problem, (c)
after intense research and analysis, choose a topic
approved by the staff and prepare a project or
paper approved by the staff. Some projects or
papers might lend themselves to publication.
Course available only to seniors in ECS/REES.
PHIL 219
Russian Philosophy 3 credits
This course will trace the evolution of Russian
philosophical thought. The offering will concentrate
on select nineteenth and twentieth-century
authors and will also highlight several grand
themes dear to Russian philosophers, including
integral knowledge, the philosophy of history,
Godmanhood, and Sophia. Consideration will be
afforded both religious and non-religious thinkers.
ARTH 205
The Icon in Russian and 3 credits
East European Art
This course focuses on theology, image and artistic
style in the making of the icon in Russia and East
Europe. The icon will be studied in its historical
and cultural context from medieval through
modem times.
Tutorials are available to students who cannot fit courses into their schedule.
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