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Author/ Instructor

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Author/Instructor: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Credits: 12

Main goals

• To define Eastern Europe
• To identify strengths and weaknesses of area studies and disciplinary approaches
• To identify and evaluate key tools and methods of East European Studies
• To analyze main analytical lenses used in in East European Studies

General topics

• Disciplinary versus area studies approaches
• Competing and changing notions of Eastern Europe
• Different types of data sources in East European Studies
• Key features of and different approaches to political and economic transformation in Eastern Europe
• Analytical perspectives on nationalism in Eastern Europe

Assignment

Students must normally complete and pass a specified number of module tasks as well as submit and pass one research assignment.