The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in the Student Services section of this Web site.

Graduate students entering as Cluster fellows are required to take three of the following graduate seminars over the course of two years. These seminars will provide you with the opportunity to: 

• interact with Cluster faculty and graduate students from different departments
• gain new knowledge in an interdisciplinary context
• explore the history, literature and cultures of the Cluster from an original and new perspective 

New Courses:

• ICC 461: 'Novyimir' as a Literary, Historical and Political Phenomenon (Wachtel and Fitzpatrick)
• ICC 465: Russian Modernism (Naroditskaya)
• ICC 468: Culture and Money (McReynolds-Oddoand O’Driscoll)
• ICC 473: Marxism (Bushnell and O’Driscoll)
• ICC 477: Prison Camp Literature as Genre (Morson) 
• ICC 479: Encountering the Jew  (Petrovsky-Shtern) 
• ICC 481: Anti-Semitism, Artists and Intellectuals (1860-Present)  (McReynolds-Oddo)
• ICC 483: Imagining the Peasant  (Bushnell and Cavanagh)
• ICC 485: A Woman’s Kingdom  (Naroditskaya)
• ICC 487: Pushkin as Muse: Musical adaptations of the poet’s work  (Naroditskaya and O’Driscoll)
• ICC 489: Nations and Nationalism  (Frommer and Wachtel)
• ICC 491: Eastern Europe between the Wars (Frommer and Gourianova)
• ICC 493: Hebrew and Yiddish Literary Renaissance in Jewish Eastern Europe (Mosely)