Faculty in CREECA are offering some amazing courses in Spring 2025! Scroll down for details.
For a full list of REECAS courses, please click on the links below.
REECAS Course: Spring 2025
Spring 2025: POLI SCI 344 – The Russian War on Ukraine
Course Description: Examines causes and consequences of the Russian invasion and war on Ukraine. Analyzes the war using concepts in comparative politics (e.g., regime type, national identity, and domestic politics in Ukraine and Russia) and international relations (e.g., international security, institutions and norms, sanctions and trade, migration and human rights).
Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing
Course meeting days and times: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:25-3:15, Sewell Social Sciences 5106
Credits: 3 credits. Counts as L&S credits, Social Science Breath
Spring 2025: Slavic 253 – Russia: An Interdisciplinary Survey
Course Description: This course examines Russian history and Russia of the present day, relying on a variety of disciplinary perspectives and drawing on the expertise of guest speakers from UW-Madison and other institutions. It aims to impart a basic knowledge of Russian history, geography, literature, art, religious traditions, philosophy, economy, and politics, to provide students with the tools to begin to grasp the complex issues with which Russian culture and society present us.
Prerequisite: None
Course meeting days and times: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00-2:15, Sewell Social Sciences 6210
Credits: 4 credits. Counts as L&S credits, Humanities or Social Science Breath
Spring 2025: History 265 – An Introduction to Central Asia: From the Silk Route to Afghanistan
Course Description: Central Asia has been a borderland region between and enclosed by the world’s largest empires led by some of history’s most infamous figures, including Chinggis Khan in the thirteenth century and Stalin in the twentieth. The immense size of these polities and the staggering ethno-linguistic, racial, religious, political, and ecological diversity that they encompassed provokes a number of questions: What held them together? How did their power structures integrate territories, resources, and peoples into imperial systems? And, lastly, how can we understand the place of Central Asia within global processes?
Prerequisite: None
Course meeting days and times: Mondays & Wednesdays 4:00-5:15 PM, Mosse Humanities Building 1217
Credits: 3 credits. Counts as L&S credits, Humanities Breath
