Post-Secondary Curriculum Development Program

Grants

CREES is accepting applications for the 2010 Post-Secondary Curriculum Development Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The program provides small grants to faculty at two- and four-year colleges and universities in the Midwest and at historically and predominantly black colleges and universities to support three- to five-day visits to the University of Michigan for curriculum development related to the former Soviet Union and/or Eastern Europe, including projects on EU enlargement. The visits must be between May 17 and August 14, 2010.

To apply, send:

A completed application form (PDF)
A proposal, not to exceed 500 words, which includes: a description of the teaching materials to be developed, including expected content, goals, and objectives; a description of the form of the final report (e.g., course syllabus, annotated bibliography, etc.); and the estimated number of students to be impacted by the new teaching materials
Curriculum Vitae

Deadline: March 12, 2010

For further information, please email Sylvia Meloche, CREES Outreach Coordinator, at crees.outreach@umich.edu or call 734.764.0351.

Curriculum Materials

The following are among the syllabi, bibliographies, and other curriculum materials prepared by participants in CREES's Post-Secondary Curriculum Development Program; other materials may be accessed through our searchable database of Teaching Resources Available at CREES. We are grateful to faculty awardees who have agreed to share their work.

Eastern Europe

Catherine Dollard, Department of History, Denison University (2001)
Project: Course Syllabus for "20th Century Eastern Europe" (PDF)
Alina Klin-Norris, Department of German and Slavic Studies, Wayne State University (1999)
Project: Course syllabus for "Polish and Yugoslavian Auteur Cinema" (PDF)
Jason Merrill, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University (2005)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Understanding Eastern Europe through Literature and Cinema" (PDF)
Penelope Stickney, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Kankakee Community College (2004)
Project: Annotated Bibliography for "Early 20th-century Jewish Influences on Prague/Eastern Europe" (PDF)

Economics

Richard Lotspeich, Department of Economics, Indiana State University (1999)
Project: Course syllabus for "The Russian Economy" (PDF)
Peter Mikek, Department of Economics, Wabash College (2005)
Project: Annotated Bibliography for "Macroeconomics for the New EU Members" (PDF)

Human Rights

Bernard L. Bray, Department of Public Administration, Talladega College (2000)
Project: Course Syllabus for "A Political Sociology of Human Rights" (PDF)

Philosophy

Darryl Scriven, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Wilberforce University (1999)
Project: Course syllabus for "P&R 440-Studies in Philosophy: Communism and Religion" (PDF)

Poland

Nameeta Mathur, Department of History, Saginaw Valley State University (2002)
Project: Course Syllabus for "History of Modern Poland" (PDF)
Marek Payerhin, Department of Political Science, Alma College (2003)
Project: Annotated Bibliography for "Transitions and Environment in Poland" (PDF)

Politics

Tomasz Inglot, Department of Political Science, Minnesota State University-Mankato (2005)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Politics of Russia and Neighboring States" (PDF)
Kema Irogbe, Department of Political Science, Claflin University (2006)
Project: Course Syllabus and Annotated Bibliography for "The Politics of Europe" (PDF)
Getachew Metaferia, Department of Political Science, Morgan State University (2006)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Politics of Russia and the Former Soviet States” (PDF)

Post-Communist Topics

Neal G. Jesse, Department of Political Science, Bowling Green State University (2001)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Politics of Post-Communist States" (PDF)
Lada Kochtcheeva Dunbar, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn (2006)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Comparative Communist and Post-Communist Systems" (PDF)
Jerry G. Pankhurst, Department of Sociology, Wittenberg University (1999)
Project: Course syllabus for "Post-Soviet Societies and Cultures" (PDF)
Frank Thames, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University (2002)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Post-Communist Legislatures in Ukraine and Russia" (PDF)
Tatiana Zilotina, Department of Modern Languages, Case Western Reserve University (2003)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Post-Soviet Russian Culture" (PDF)

Russia

Eliza Ablovatski, Department of History, Kenyon College (2004)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Studies in Russian and Soviet History: Peoples, Cultures, Histories" (PDF)
Jeremy Eccles, Department of Political Science, Marygrove College (2000)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Russian Schools: Alternative Paths to Reform" (PDF)
Michael J. Fontenot, Department of History, Southern University (1999)
Project: Course syllabus, bibliographies, and discussion slides for "Twentieth-Century Russia" (PDF)
Michael Fontenot, Department of History, Southern University at Baton Rouge (2007)
Project: Course Syllabus for "The Collapse of the Tsarist and Soviet Empires" (PDF)
Charles Gunnoe, Department of History, Aquinas College (2001)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Modern Russia" (PDF)
Keith Jacobson, Department of History, Mott Community College (2006)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Russian Eastward Expansion" (PDF)
B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Howard University (2007)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Ethnicity in Russia" (PDF)
Larry Martin, Department of History, Geography, and International Studies, Coppin State University (2005)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Medieval Russia to 1855" (PDF)
Jason A. Merrill, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University (2003)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Advanced Russian" (PDF)
Project: Lesson Plan for "The Beginning of the Russian State / Kievan Rus" (PDF)
Robert W. Montgomery, Department of History, Baldwin-Wallace College (2009)
Project: The Revolution of 1905, the First Two State Dumas, and the Nationalities (with Special Reference to the Buryats): a Select Annotated Bibliography (PDF)
Natalia Olshanskaya, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Kenyon College (2001)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Russian Culture through Cinema" (PDF)
Craig Patton, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Alabama A & M University (2002)
Project: Course Syllabus for "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in Comparative Perspective" (PDF)
Meshack Sagini, Department of Social Sciences, Langston University (2005)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Russian Government and Politics" (PDF)
Nicholas Sawicki, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Constructivism: Theory, Practice, Politics" (PDF)
Thomas Schurino, Business Department, Muskegon Community College (2004)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Russia: The Struggle for Economic Development" (PDF)
Irina Stakhanova, Department of German, Russian & East Asian Languages, Bowling Green State University (2000)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Russian Film" (PDF)
Kimberly Wyngarden, Department of English, Grand Rapids Community College (2004)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Russian Literature" (PDF)
Kimberly Wyngarden, Department of English, Grand Rapids Community College (2007)
Project: Report on 19th-century Women Writers for "Honors Seminar: Survey of 19th-century Russian Literature in Translation" (PDF)

Russia and Eastern Europe

Gary Flemming, Department of Political Science, Macomb Community College (2006)
Project: Course Syllabus for "Introduction to Russia & Eastern Europe" (PDF)
James Keating, Department of English and Interdisciplinary Program, Butler University (2006)
Project: "A Lesson Plan in Russian and East European Studies" (PDF)
Michael Tager, Department of Political Science, Marietta College (2009)
Project: Presidential Succession in Comparative Perspective across the Post-Soviet Countries An Annotated Bibliography (PDF)
Sergei Zhuk, Department of History, Ball State University ((2007)
Project: Syllabus for Course on "Cultural Consumption, Youth, and Every Day Life in the Soviet Bloc, 1945-1991" (PDF)