Fall 2025 Central &East European Studies

Location: 1628 UH; Phone: (312) 996-4412.

Last generated: Monday, December 15 2025 08:30 AM CST

NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing

CEES 208

Central and Eastern European Cinema

3 hours. Same as MOVI 208. Taught in English. Weekly film screenings. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 160; or consent of the instructor. UIC GE Creative Arts course.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
44702LCD11:00 AM - 12:15 PMTRMeet on campus

CEES 246

European Avant-Garde

3 hours. Same as AH 246. Previously listed as RUSS 246. Taught in English. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above; or consent of the instructor. UIC GE Creative Arts course.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
43610LCD11:00 AM - 11:50 AMMWFMeet on campus

CEES 247

Central and Eastern European Science Fiction and Fantasy

3 hours. Taught in English.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
49126LCD03:30 PM - 04:45 PMTVaingurt, JOn campus and online
LCDARRANGEDVaingurt, JOn campus and online

CEES 320

Great Stories from Central and Eastern Europe

3 hours. Taught in English.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
43293LCD02:00 PM - 03:15 PMTR

CEES 400

A Survey of Central and Eastern Europe

3 OR 4 hours. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
35422LCD03:00 PM - 05:45 PMM
3 hours Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
35423LCD03:00 PM - 05:45 PMM
4 hours Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

CEES 406

History of European Standard Languages

3 OR 4 hours. Same as LCSL 406 and LING 406. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Taught in English. Previously listed as CEES 405. In cases where students speak languages other than English, they might receive tasks to research literature in that language (and on that language) and to present their research results. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above; and consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
33526LCD12:30 PM - 01:45 PMTR
3 hours Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
33527LCD12:30 PM - 01:45 PMTR
4 hours Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

CEES 418

Topics in German History

3 OR 4 hours. Same as HIST 418. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of European history, or consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
31244LCD01:00 PM - 01:50 PMMWF2042GHAbbott, J
3 hours Germany in Dictatorship & War "No nations history was more consequential in shaping twentieth-century events than Germanys. Even before the First World War, German industrial might, combined with the nations volatile politics and vibrant culture, cast deepening shadows across Europe. In the world wars to follow, Germanys vaunted military was central to the titanic clashes that, by 1945, had decisively recast world power relations as well as Europe's territorial divisions. Central to Germany's twentieth century, of course, is the Nazi era, a time of unparalleled horror and persecution that, to this day, challenges our capacity for rational explanation. And the twelve years that made up Hitlers Thousand Year Reich provide this course its narrative fulcrum and central interpretive challenges. Yet these questions cannot be answered by reference to the Nazi years alone and, for that reason, we start our story with Germany on the eve of World War I, carrying it through the endphases of World War II in" Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
31245LCD01:00 PM - 01:50 PMMWF2042GHAbbott, J
4 hours Germany in Dictatorship & War "No nations history was more consequential in shaping twentieth-century events than Germanys. Even before the First World War, German industrial might, combined with the nations volatile politics and vibrant culture, cast deepening shadows across Europe. In the world wars to follow, Germanys vaunted military was central to the titanic clashes that, by 1945, had decisively recast world power relations as well as Europe's territorial divisions. Central to Germany's twentieth century, of course, is the Nazi era, a time of unparalleled horror and persecution that, to this day, challenges our capacity for rational explanation. And the twelve years that made up Hitlers Thousand Year Reich provide this course its narrative fulcrum and central interpretive challenges. Yet these questions cannot be answered by reference to the Nazi years alone and, for that reason, we start our story with Germany on the eve of World War I, carrying it through the endphases of World War II in" Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

CEES 433

Topics in Eastern European History

3 OR 4 hours. Same as HIST 433. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of European history or consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
29686LCD03:30 PM - 06:15 PMTStauter-Halsted, K
3 hours Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
29687LCD03:30 PM - 06:15 PMTStauter-Halsted, K
4 hours Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

CEES 435

Topics in Russian History

3 OR 4 hours. Same as HIST 435. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of European history or consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
33502LCD06:00 PM - 08:30 PMWDaly, JMeet on campus
3 hours Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
33503LCD06:00 PM - 08:30 PMWDaly, J
4 hours Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

CEES 439

Gender and Cultural Production

3 OR 4 hours. Same as GER 439 and GWS 439. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated up to 1 time(s) if topics vary. Taught in English. Students who intend to use GER 439 toward a degree offered by the Department of Germanic Studies will do assignments in German. Area: literature/culture. Prerequisite(s): GER 212 or consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
37620LCD03:00 PM - 05:45 PMW
3 hours
37622LCD03:00 PM - 05:45 PMW
4 hours

CEES 460

Topics in Central and Eastern European Literature and Culture

3 OR 4 hours. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Same as SLAV 460. May be repeated up to 2 time(s), with consent of the instructor, and if topics vary. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above; or consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
36532LCD03:30 PM - 06:00 PMT2192SHKendall, MMeet on campus
3 hours The Idea of Documentary This course explores the history of the idea of documentary in 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Central & East European Media. We will consider how new forms of media and reportage like print journalism, photography, and sound produced a new effect of documentation, and how this effect appeared in expected and unexpected artistic contexts. Throughout the semester, class discussions will explore relationships between representation and reportage, fact and fiction, and sincerity and performance. Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
36533LCD03:30 PM - 06:00 PMT2192SHKendall, MMeet on campus
4 hours The Idea of Documentary This course explores the history of the idea of documentary in 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Central & East European Media. We will consider how new forms of media and reportage like print journalism, photography, and sound produced a new effect of documentation, and how this effect appeared in expected and unexpected artistic contexts. Throughout the semester, class discussions will explore relationships between representation and reportage, fact and fiction, and sincerity and performance. Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

CEES 515

Film and Media Culture

4 hours. Same as GER 515. May be repeated. Taught in English. Students will be asked to watch films outside of class.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
43920LCD03:00 PM - 05:30 PMMKendall, MMeet on campus

CEES 551

Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Literature in Central and Eastern Europe

4 hours. Taught in English. May be repeated if topics vary and with approval from the Director of Graduate Studies.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
43611LCD03:00 PM - 05:30 PMM2072GHMarkowski, MMeet on campus
Fascism, Modernism, End of Lit Published in 1930, one of the most eccentric and complex European modernist novels, Insatiability by a Polish writer, artist, and philosopher, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, tells a story of a man on the brink of disaster, who slowly, under the pressure of totalitarian politics and international military conflict, transforms himself from a promising artist and intellectual into a mental zombie. The novel, written at the end of literature, diagnoses a chronic decline of high culture in the contemporary society and the erosion of meaning under the rule of unlimited consumption and moral indifference. By contextualized reading, linking Witkiewicz with major social, political, and artistic ideas of the prewar Europe, we will be able not only to better understand the inescapable predicament of the European art in the epoch of actual or imagined totalitarianism, but also to discover the very source of the current crisis of liberal culture. The course will combine a close reading of the novel in English translation with a survey of a large intellectual framework indispensable to understanding Eastern and Western culture and politics in the 1920s and 1930s. We will also build a comprehensive and useful framework for analyzing the political and social imbrication of art, as it was designed by European Modernity in the last 200 years. Besides the novel we will read such authors as Oswald Spengler, Ortega y Gasset, Ernst Jnger, Georges Bataille, Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Nicolai Berdyaev. All reading materials will be in English. A copy of the English version has to be purchased on Amazon (S. I. Witkiewicz, Insatiability, transl. Louis Iribarne, Northwestern University Press 1996). Other materials will be distributed.

CEES 599

Ph.D. Thesis Research

0 TO 16 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Students may apply a maximum of 26 credit hours toward the degree. Previously listed as SLAV 599. Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree and consent of the Director of Graduate Studies.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
45072CNFARRANGEDKendall, M
45069CNFARRANGEDMarkowski, M
45071CNFARRANGEDUnderhill, K
45070CNFARRANGEDVaingurt, J