Master's Curriculum

A candidate is admitted to the program by meeting the general university requirements for graduate study. With the advice and consent of the director and the participating faculty, the student selects a faculty committee to supervise his/her degree program. The committee members are drawn from at least two different disciplines. Comps or Theses Option The student may choose either a thirty-three (33) semester hour course work program or a thirty (30) semester hour course and thesis program. Students selecting the first option will take a comprehensive examination during their last semester in the program. Students selecting the thesis option will designate one of their committee members to serve as their major professor and work closely with this major professor throughout the stages of outlining, researching, and writing their thesis. Six (6) of the required thirty (30) semester hours are to be taken as thesis hours. In lieu of a comprehensive written examination, students selecting the thesis option will be examined by an oral defense of their thesis. Language Requirement All students are expected to demonstrate a reading proficiency in Russian, Serbo-Croatian or some other approved East European language through either: 1) the completion of twelve (12) semester hours of college level course work in the chosen language with an average grade of at least 3.0 (B); 2) satisfactory performance on the Graduate School Foreign Language Tests of the Educational Testing Service; or 3) passage of a reading comprehension test administered by the Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics at the Florida State University. Up to nine (9) semester hours of advanced level language study beyond the minimum requirement may be counted towards the degree requirements when taken under the appropriate 4000 and 5000 level course numberings. Course Work Students are encouraged to concentrate their course work as much as possible to develop a particular country and language competence. Moreover, while it is required to take course work from both the social sciences and the arts and humanities tracks, students should select one of these two broad areas for greater concentration, generally around one or several related disciplines. Students may select broadly from the approved course list, so long as they take a minimum of eight (8) semester hours in history and six (6) semester hours each from the social science and arts and humanities tracks. Russian and East European History [minimum of eight (8) hours] EUH 5238 (4) Rise of Nationalism EUH 5246 (4) World War I: Europe, 1900-1918 EUH 5249 (4) The Holocaust in Historical Perspective EUH 5285 (4) Europe in the Cold War and Détente EUH 5338 (4) History of East Central Europe:1815 to the Present EUH 5365 (4) The Balkans Since 1700 EUH 5578 (4) Nineteenth-Century Russia EUH 5579 (4) Twentieth-Century Russia EUH 5609 (4) European Intellectual History, 1800 to Present WOH 5246 (4) World War II Social Science Track [minimum of six (6) hours] CPO 5036 (3) Politics of Developing Areas CPO 5091 (3) Core Seminar in Comparative Government Politics CPO 5740 (3) Comparative Political Economy CPO 5934 (3) Selected Topics CPS 5424 (3) Research Seminar in Comparative Political Administrative Organization CPS 5911 (3) Supervised Research ECO 5005 (3) Economic Principles for International Affairs ECO 5705 (3) International Trade ECO 5715 (3) International Finance ECS 5005 (3) Seminar in Comparative Economic Systems ECS 5335 (3) Economies in Transition GEA 5195r (3) Advanced Area Studies GEO 5358 (3) Environmental Conflict and Economic Development GEO 5425 (3) Cultural Geography GEO 5465 (3) Historical Geography GEO 5472 (3) Political Geography GEO 5481 (3) Military Geography INR 5014 (3) Contexts and IR INR 5036 (3) International Political Economy INR 5088 (3) International Conflict INR 5137 (3) Politics of Terror INR 5315 (3) Foreign Policy Analysis INR 5934 (3) Selected Topics INR 5935 (3) Special Topics (1-3) INR 5938 (3) Joint Seminar in International Affairs SYP 5105 (3) Theories of Social Psychology SYP 5305 (3) Collective Behavior Social Movements Arts & Humanities Track [minimum of six (6) hours] ANG 5275 (3) Human Conflict (3) ANG 5493 (3) Cultural Anthroplogy (3) ARH 5220 (3) Early Christian and Byzantine Art (3) ARH 5648 (3) Art After 1940 MMC 5305 (3) Comparative Systems of Mass Communication MUL 5854 (3) Music of Igor Stravingsky MUT 5587 (3) Classic, Romantic, and 20th Century Music PHH 5505r (4) Nineteenth-Century Philosophy REL 5035 (3) Seminar: Introduction to the Study of Religion REL 5195r (3) Seminar: Religion and Culture REL 5305r (3) Seminar: History of Religions RUS 5415r (3) Grad Russian Conversation and Comprehension RUS 5845 (3) History of the Russian Language RUT 5115 (3) Russian Literature in English Translation RUW 5375 (3) Russian Short Story RUW 5335 (3) Russian Poetry RUW 5405 (3) Old Russian Literature RUW 5559r (3) Seminar in 19th Centruy Russian Literature RUW 5579 (3) Modern Russian Literature RUW 5930 (3) Special Topics Note: each of the participating departments periodically offer courses in selected or special topics, or as directed individual studies, which allows students the opportunity for greater concentration in selected areas of specialization relevant to his or her country focus. Definition of Prefix EUS- Russian and East European Studies Graduate Courses EUS 5971r Thesis (1-6) (S/U grade only) A minimum of six semester credit hours is required. EUS 8966r Master’s Comprehensive Examination EUS 8976r Master’s Thesis Defense

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