Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures program requirements
What the Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Specialist, Major and Minor require, as the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar states it, and every course they name.
Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Specialist
- Arts program
- 10.5 credits
- Open enrolment
- ASSPE1205
Enrolment
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(10.5 credits, with at least 4.0 credits at the 300+ level, including 1.0 credit at the 400-level)
Students must choose any two of the available language areas (Czech and Slovak, Estonian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, South Slavic, Ukrainian).
Note 1Please note: Some courses may appear in more than one group thanks to their content. No course, however, may be counted twice for the purposes of program completion.
11.0 credit of Common Core: SLA200H1, SLA201H1, SLA231H1, SLA232H1, and SLA256H1
24.0 credits of language coursework from each of the two chosen language areas (2.0 credits per area).
Czech and Slovak: SLA105Y1, SLA204Y1, SLA214H1
Estonian: EST100H1, EST101H1, EST200H1, EST201H1, EST300H1, EST301H1
Finnish: FIN100H1, FIN110H1, FIN200H1, FIN210H1, FIN300H1, FIN340H1, FIN400H1; SWE100H1, SWE101H1
Polish: SLA106H1, SLA116H1, SLA206H1, SLA207H1, SLA306H1, SLA336H1, SLA426H1
Russian: SLA100H1, SLA101H1, SLA210H1, SLA214H1, SLA220Y1, SLA221H1, SLA320Y1, SLA321H1, SLA322H1, SLA410H1, SLA420Y1
South Slavic (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian): [(SLA107Y1/ SLA117H1, SLA118H1); SLA214H1; SLA257H1; SLA277H1; SLA337H1];/ [SLA109Y1, SLA209H1, SLA213H1]
Ukrainian: SLA108Y1, SLA208Y1, SLA308H1
Yiddish (corresponds to the Jewish Cultures in Eastern Europe area): GER261H1, GER262H1, GER360H1, GER460H1
Note 2Note: In consultation with the Undergraduate Coordinator, and based on results in language placement tests, some students may substitute language courses with the equivalent number of credits in requirement 3 (below).
34.0 credits from culture courses corresponding to the student’s two chosen language areas (2.0 credits per area):
Czech and Slovak: SLA200H1, SLA215H1, SLA225H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA333H1, SLA335H1, SLA405H1
Estonian: EST205H1, EST206H1; EST207H1, EST208H1, FIN225H1, FIN240H1, FIN260H1, FIN310H1; HIS331H1; SLA200H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1
Finnish: FIN220H1, FIN225H1, FIN230H1, FIN236H1, FIN238H1, FIN240H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, FIN270H1, FIN280H1, FIN310H1, FIN320H1, FIN350H1, FIN360H1, FIN415H1; EST203H1, EST204H1, EST206H1; EST207H1, HIS331H1
Jewish Cultures in Eastern Europe (corresponds to the Yiddish language area): GER361H1; JJH370H1; SLA202H1; SLA224H1; SLA268H1; SLA302H1; SLA303H1; SLA318H1
Polish: SLA216H1, SLA226H1, SLA229H1, SLA236H1, SLA266H1, SLA286H1, SLA346H1, SLA356H1, SLA406H1, SLA427H1, SLA436H1
Russian: SLA121H1, SLA194H1, SLA195H1, SLA196H1, SLA203H1, SLA212H1, SLA224H1, SLA234H1, SLA245H1, SLA252H1, SLA253H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA260H1, SLA263H1, SLA268H1, SLA272H1, SLA280H1, JSH300H1, SLA300H1, SLA310H1, SLA311H1, SLA312H1, SLA314H1, SLA317H1, SLA318H1, SLA320Y1, SLA321H1, SLA322H1, SLA323H1, SLA330H1, SLA331H1, SLA334H1, SLA342H1, SLA343H1, SLA345H1, SLA367H1, SLA400H1, SLA404H1, SLA412H1, SLA413H1, SLA414H1, SLA415H1, SLA420Y1, SLA423H1, SLA424Y1, SLA430H1, SLA433H1, SLA434H1, SLA449H1, SLA463H1
South Slavic: SLA200H1, SLA217H1, SLA227H1, SLA235H1, SLA247H1, SLA330H1, SLA347H1, SLA357H1, SLA377H1, SLA380H1/ SLA232H1
Ukrainian: SLA199H1, SLA200H1, SLA203H1, SLA218H1, SLA228H1, SLA238H1, SLA248H1, SLA253H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA268H1, SLA311H1, SLA318H1, SLA328H1, SLA331H1, SLA338H1, SLA358H1, SLA428H1, SLA429H1
Note 3Note: In consultation with the Undergraduate Coordinator, students may take up to 1.0 credit in history or political science courses corresponding to their two chosen language areas (0.5 credit per language area) and taught outside the department.
41.0 credit from the pool of comparative courses offered by the Department: EST205H1; EST206H1; EST207H1; FIN225H1, FIN238H1, FIN240H1, FIN260H1, SLA104H1, SLA190H1, SLA191H1, SLA192H1, SLA200H1, SLA201H1, SLA202H1, SLA203H1, SLA222H1, SLA229H1, SLA231H1, SLA232H1, SLA235H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA256H1, SLA268H1, SLA272H1, SLA286H1, SLA302H1, SLA303H1, SLA318H1, SLA330H1, SLA331H1, SLA333H1, SLA340H1, SLA380H1, SLA425H1, SLA435H1, SLA492H1
50.5 credit in Breadth Requirement Category 5: The Physical and Mathematical Universes or another 0.5 credit approved by the Undergraduate Coordinator, to fulfill the Quantitative Reasoning Competency required in the program.
Courses these requirements name
- SLA200H1Culture and Politics in Europe
- SLA201H1Slavic and East European Civilizations
- SLA231H1Analyzing Slavic and East European Cultural Texts
- SLA232H1Language, Politics, Identity
- SLA256H1Firebirds and Other Wonders: The World of Slavic and East European Folklore
- SLA105Y1Elementary Czech
- SLA204Y1Intermediate Czech
- SLA214H1Slavic Languages through Creative Writing
- EST100H1Elementary Estonian I
- EST101H1Elementary Estonian II
- EST200H1Intermediate Estonian I
- EST201H1Intermediate Estonian II
- EST300H1Estonian Language through Contemporary Media
- EST301H1Advanced Estonian
- FIN100H1Elementary Finnish I
- FIN110H1Elementary Finnish II
- FIN200H1Intermediate Finnish I
- FIN210H1Intermediate Finnish II
- FIN300H1Advanced Finnish I
- FIN340H1Advanced Finnish II
- FIN400H1Translation: Finnish-English
- SWE100H1Elementary Swedish I
- SWE101H1Elementary Swedish II
- SLA106H1Polish for Beginners I
- SLA116H1Polish for Beginners II
- SLA206H1Intermediate Polish I
- SLA207H1Intermediate Polish II
- SLA306H1Conversations-Inspirations: Everyday Polish
- SLA336H1Let's Talk! Advanced Polish
- SLA426H1Polish for the 21st Century
- SLA100H1Elementary Russian I
- SLA101H1Elementary Russian II
- SLA210H1Russian for Heritage Speakers
- SLA220Y1Intermediate Russian
- SLA221H1Speak Like a Russian
- SLA320Y1Advanced Russian
- SLA321H1Conversational Russian
- SLA322H1News in Russian
- SLA410H1Russian for Heritage Speakers II
- SLA420Y1Studies in Russian Syntax and Stylistics
- SLA107Y1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- SLA117H1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian I
- SLA118H1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian II
- SLA257H1Intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian I
- SLA277H1Intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian II
- SLA337H1Advanced Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
- SLA109Y1Elementary Macedonian
- SLA209H1Intermediate Macedonian
- SLA213H1Reading Macedonia: A Cultural Exploration
- SLA108Y1Elementary Ukrainian
- SLA208Y1Intermediate Ukrainian
- SLA308H1Advanced Ukrainian
- GER261H1Elementary Yiddish 1
- GER262H1Elementary Yiddish 2
- GER360H1Intermediate Yiddish
- GER460H1Advanced Yiddish
- SLA215H1Czech and Slovak Cultures
- SLA225H1Czech and Slovak Cinema
- SLA254H1Stone Books to Sky Books: The Book as Institution, Commerce and Art last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- JSM354H1Stone Books to Sky Books: The Book as Institution, Commerce and Art
- SLA333H1Animated Film in Europe
- SLA335H1Lifting the Iron Curtain: Czech Culture between 1960 and 1989
- SLA405H1On the Waves of the Avant-garde and Beyond: Czech Literature of the 20th Century
- EST205H1Estonian Cinema
- EST206H1Environmental Humanities in Central and Eastern Europe
- EST207H1Indigenous Cultures of Northern Eurasia
- EST208H1Estonian Cultural History Across Time
- FIN225H1Culture, Society and Politics of the Nordic Region
- FIN240H1Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature
- FIN260H1Scandinavian Cinema
- FIN310H1Finnish Folklore: The Kalevala
- HIS331H1Modern Baltic History
- FIN220H1Nordic Myth and Epic
- FIN230H1Finnish Culture 1800 to Present
- FIN236H1Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature
- FIN238H1The Vikings
- FIN250H1Finnish Cinema
- FIN270H1Modern and Contemporary Finnish Architecture and Design
- FIN280H1Finnish Musical Culture from Sibelius to Heavy Metal
- FIN320H1The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience
- FIN350H1The Finnish Short Story
- FIN360H1Bilingualism in Finland
- FIN415H1Finnish Literature in the 20th Century
- EST203H1Introduction to Estonian Literature last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- EST204H1Introduction to Estonian Culture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- GER361H1Yiddish Literature in Translation (E)
- JJH370H1Soviet Jewish History, Culture, and Diaspora
- SLA202H1Jewish Communities in Slavic and East European Countries
- SLA224H1Russian-Jewish Writing
- SLA268H1Cossacks!
- SLA302H1The Imaginary Jew
- SLA303H1Literary Imagination and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
- SLA318H1City of Saints and Sinners: Kyiv through the Centuries
- SLA216H1Introduction to Polish Culture
- SLA226H1Film and Ethics: Polish Cinema
- SLA229H1Frames of Memory: The European Graphic Novel
- SLA236H1Polish Culture in 10 Images
- SLA266H1War and Culture
- SLA286H1Russian and East European Science Fiction
- SLA346H1Communism and Culture
- SLA356H1What's New? Polish Culture Today
- SLA406H1Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA427H1Polish Culture for the Curious
- SLA436H1Rebels, Scoffers, and Jesters: Polish Culture from Different Perspectives
- SLA121H1Russian Cultural History in Twelve Images
- SLA194H1Utopia Interrupted: Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA195H1Literature and Painting in Russia and the West
- SLA196H1Russia at War
- SLA203H1Faking It
- SLA212H1The Russian Novel
- SLA234H1Russian and Soviet Cinema
- SLA245H1The Golden Age of Russian Literature
- SLA252H1Russian Short Fiction
- SLA253H1Origins of Russia and Ukraine
- SLA260H1Constructing Space: A History of Russian Art and Architecture
- SLA263H1Studies in Russian-French Cultural History
- SLA272H1Cultural History of the Caucasus
- SLA280H1Introduction to Russian Asia: From Central Asia to Siberia
- JSH300H1Literature and History in Russia last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA300H1Russian Literature in the Age of Empire
- SLA310H1Russian Literature Between Tradition and Modernity
- SLA311H1Gogol
- SLA312H1Nabokov
- SLA314H1Dostoevsky
- SLA317H1Tolstoy
- SLA323H1The Mysteries of Russian Revealed
- SLA330H1Old Church Slavonic
- SLA331H1Modernism and Visual Arts
- SLA334H1Film Genre in Europe
- SLA342H1Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture: From Jesters to Meyerhold
- SLA343H1Studies in Late Soviet Culture
- SLA345H1Russian Modernism
- SLA367H1Global Chekhov
- SLA400H1Medieval and Early Modern Literature of East Slavic Peoples
- SLA404H1Russia Across Centuries I
- SLA412H1History of Russian
- SLA413H1Pushkin
- SLA414H1Russia Across Centuries II
- SLA415H1Studies in Russian Literature of the 18th Century
- SLA423H1War and Peace
- SLA424Y1
- SLA430H1Advanced Russian Writing Skills
- SLA433H1Anna Karenina last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA434H1Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA449H1Russian Thinkers
- SLA463H1Themes in Russian Realism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA217H1Cultural History of the South Slavs
- SLA227H1South Slavic Literature
- SLA235H1After Communism: Literature and Art Post-1989
- SLA247H1Cinema of the Balkans
- SLA347H1The Imaginary Geography of the Balkans last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA357H1Literature of Exile and Immigration
- SLA377H1Revolutionary Visions of Yugoslavia: Art, Power, and Ideology
- SLA380H1Language, Politics, Identity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- SLA199H1Invisible Kingdom, Imaginary Space
- SLA218H1Ukrainian Literature and Culture
- SLA228H120th Century Ukrainian Fiction in Translation
- SLA238H1Literature of the Ukrainian-Canadian Experience
- SLA248H1Women and Women's Themes in Ukrainian Literature
- SLA328H1The Culture of Contemporary Ukraine
- SLA338H1Ivan Franko
- SLA358H1Breaking Away from Empire: Ukrainian Fiction Since Independence
- SLA428H1The Ukrainian Novel
- SLA429H1Shevchenko
- SLA104H1Cities of the Mediterranean
- SLA190H1Losing It
- SLA191H1The Criminal Mind
- SLA192H1On the Road in Eastern Europe
- SLA222H1Forging Identities: The Roms of Central and Eastern Europe last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA340H1Contemporary Women Writers from Eastern Europe
- SLA425H1Docufictions: Cinema, Authenticity, and Theory
- SLA435H1Contemporary East European Cinemas
- SLA492H1Race, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe and Russia
Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Major
- Arts program
- 6.5 credits
- Open enrolment
- ASMAJ1205
Enrolment
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(6.5 credits, with at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level, including 0.5 credit at the 400-level)
Note 1Please note: Some courses may appear in more than one group thanks to their content. No course, however, may be counted twice for the purposes of program completion.
11.0 credit of Common Core: SLA200H1, SLA201H1, SLA231H1, SLA232H1, and SLA256H1
22.0 credits of language coursework in one language area chosen from the list below:
Czech and Slovak: SLA105Y1, SLA204Y1, SLA214H1
Estonian: EST100H1, EST101H1, EST200H1, EST201H1, EST300H1, EST301H1
Finnish: FIN100H1, FIN110H1, FIN200H1, FIN210H1, FIN300H1, FIN340H1, FIN400H1; SWE100H1, SWE101H1
Polish: SLA106H1, SLA116H1, SLA206H1, SLA207H1, SLA306H1, SLA336H1, SLA426H1
Russian: SLA100H1, SLA101H1, SLA210H1, SLA214H1, SLA220Y1, SLA221H1, SLA320Y1, SLA321H1, SLA322H1, SLA410H1, SLA420Y1
South Slavic (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian): [(SLA107Y1/ SLA117H1, SLA118H1); SLA214H1; SLA257H1; SLA277H1; SLA337H1];/[SLA109Y1, SLA209H1, SLA213H1]
Ukrainian: SLA108Y1, SLA208Y1, SLA308H1
Yiddish (corresponds to the Jewish Cultures in Eastern Europe area): GER261H1, GER262H1, GER360H1, GER460H1
Note 2Note: In consultation with the Undergraduate Coordinator, and based on results in language placement tests, some students may substitute language courses with the equivalent number of credits in requirement 3 (below).
32.0 credits from culture courses corresponding to the student’s chosen language area:
Czech and Slovak: SLA200H1, SLA215H1, SLA225H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA333H1, SLA335H1, SLA405H1
Estonian: EST205H1, EST206H1, EST207H1, EST208H1; FIN225H1, FIN240H1, FIN260H1, FIN310H1; HIS331H1; SLA200H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1
Finnish: FIN220H1, FIN225H1, FIN230H1, FIN236H1, FIN238H1, FIN240H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, FIN270H1, FIN280H1, FIN310H1, FIN320H1, FIN350H1, FIN360H1, FIN415H1; EST205H1; EST206H1, EST207H1, HIS331H1
Jewish Cultures in Eastern Europe (corresponds to the Yiddish language area): GER361H1; JJH370H1; SLA202H1; SLA224H1; SLA268H1; SLA302H1; SLA303H1; SLA318H1
Polish: SLA216H1, SLA226H1, SLA229H1, SLA236H1, SLA266H1, SLA286H1, SLA346H1, SLA356H1, SLA406H1, SLA427H1, SLA436H1
Russian: SLA121H1, SLA194H1, SLA195H1, SLA196H1, SLA203H1, SLA212H1, SLA224H1, SLA234H1, SLA245H1, SLA252H1, SLA253H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA260H1, SLA263H1, SLA268H1, SLA272H1, SLA280H1, JSH300H1, SLA300H1, SLA310H1, SLA311H1, SLA312H1, SLA314H1, SLA317H1, SLA318H1, SLA320Y1, SLA321H1, SLA322H1, SLA323H1, SLA330H1, SLA331H1, SLA334H1, SLA342H1, SLA343H1, SLA345H1, SLA367H1, SLA400H1, SLA404H1, SLA412H1, SLA413H1, SLA414H1, SLA415H1, SLA420Y1, SLA423H1, SLA424Y1, SLA430H1, SLA433H1, SLA434H1, SLA449H1, SLA463H1
South Slavic: SLA217H1, SLA227H1, SLA235H1, SLA247H1, SLA330H1, SLA347H1, SLA357H1, SLA377H1, SLA380H1/ SLA232H1
Ukrainian: SLA199H1, SLA200H1, SLA203H1, SLA218H1, SLA228H1, SLA238H1, SLA248H1, SLA253H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA268H1, SLA311H1, SLA318H1, SLA328H1, SLA331H1, SLA338H1, SLA358H1, SLA428H1, SLA429H1
Note 3Note: In consultation with the Undergraduate Coordinator, students may take 0.5 credit in history or political science courses corresponding to their chosen language area and taught outside the department.
41.0 credit from the pool of comparative courses offered by the Department: EST205H1, EST206H1, EST207H1, FIN225H1, FIN238H1, FIN240H1, FIN260H1, SLA104H1, SLA190H1, SLA191H1, SLA192H1, SLA200H1, SLA201H1, SLA202H1, SLA203H1, SLA222H1, SLA229H1, SLA231H1, SLA232H1, SLA235H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA256H1, SLA268H1, SLA272H1, SLA286H1, SLA302H1, SLA303H1, SLA318H1, SLA330H1, SLA331H1, SLA333H1, SLA340H1, SLA380H1, SLA425H1, SLA435H1, SLA492H1
50.5 credit in Breadth Requirement Category 5: The Physical and Mathematical Universes or another 0.5 credit approved by the Undergraduate Coordinator, to fulfill the Quantitative Reasoning Competency required in the program.
Courses these requirements name
- SLA200H1Culture and Politics in Europe
- SLA201H1Slavic and East European Civilizations
- SLA231H1Analyzing Slavic and East European Cultural Texts
- SLA232H1Language, Politics, Identity
- SLA256H1Firebirds and Other Wonders: The World of Slavic and East European Folklore
- SLA105Y1Elementary Czech
- SLA204Y1Intermediate Czech
- SLA214H1Slavic Languages through Creative Writing
- EST100H1Elementary Estonian I
- EST101H1Elementary Estonian II
- EST200H1Intermediate Estonian I
- EST201H1Intermediate Estonian II
- EST300H1Estonian Language through Contemporary Media
- EST301H1Advanced Estonian
- FIN100H1Elementary Finnish I
- FIN110H1Elementary Finnish II
- FIN200H1Intermediate Finnish I
- FIN210H1Intermediate Finnish II
- FIN300H1Advanced Finnish I
- FIN340H1Advanced Finnish II
- FIN400H1Translation: Finnish-English
- SWE100H1Elementary Swedish I
- SWE101H1Elementary Swedish II
- SLA106H1Polish for Beginners I
- SLA116H1Polish for Beginners II
- SLA206H1Intermediate Polish I
- SLA207H1Intermediate Polish II
- SLA306H1Conversations-Inspirations: Everyday Polish
- SLA336H1Let's Talk! Advanced Polish
- SLA426H1Polish for the 21st Century
- SLA100H1Elementary Russian I
- SLA101H1Elementary Russian II
- SLA210H1Russian for Heritage Speakers
- SLA220Y1Intermediate Russian
- SLA221H1Speak Like a Russian
- SLA320Y1Advanced Russian
- SLA321H1Conversational Russian
- SLA322H1News in Russian
- SLA410H1Russian for Heritage Speakers II
- SLA420Y1Studies in Russian Syntax and Stylistics
- SLA107Y1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- SLA117H1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian I
- SLA118H1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian II
- SLA257H1Intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian I
- SLA277H1Intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian II
- SLA337H1Advanced Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
- SLA109Y1Elementary Macedonian
- SLA209H1Intermediate Macedonian
- SLA213H1Reading Macedonia: A Cultural Exploration
- SLA108Y1Elementary Ukrainian
- SLA208Y1Intermediate Ukrainian
- SLA308H1Advanced Ukrainian
- GER261H1Elementary Yiddish 1
- GER262H1Elementary Yiddish 2
- GER360H1Intermediate Yiddish
- GER460H1Advanced Yiddish
- SLA215H1Czech and Slovak Cultures
- SLA225H1Czech and Slovak Cinema
- SLA254H1Stone Books to Sky Books: The Book as Institution, Commerce and Art last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- JSM354H1Stone Books to Sky Books: The Book as Institution, Commerce and Art
- SLA333H1Animated Film in Europe
- SLA335H1Lifting the Iron Curtain: Czech Culture between 1960 and 1989
- SLA405H1On the Waves of the Avant-garde and Beyond: Czech Literature of the 20th Century
- EST205H1Estonian Cinema
- EST206H1Environmental Humanities in Central and Eastern Europe
- EST207H1Indigenous Cultures of Northern Eurasia
- EST208H1Estonian Cultural History Across Time
- FIN225H1Culture, Society and Politics of the Nordic Region
- FIN240H1Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature
- FIN260H1Scandinavian Cinema
- FIN310H1Finnish Folklore: The Kalevala
- HIS331H1Modern Baltic History
- FIN220H1Nordic Myth and Epic
- FIN230H1Finnish Culture 1800 to Present
- FIN236H1Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature
- FIN238H1The Vikings
- FIN250H1Finnish Cinema
- FIN270H1Modern and Contemporary Finnish Architecture and Design
- FIN280H1Finnish Musical Culture from Sibelius to Heavy Metal
- FIN320H1The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience
- FIN350H1The Finnish Short Story
- FIN360H1Bilingualism in Finland
- FIN415H1Finnish Literature in the 20th Century
- GER361H1Yiddish Literature in Translation (E)
- JJH370H1Soviet Jewish History, Culture, and Diaspora
- SLA202H1Jewish Communities in Slavic and East European Countries
- SLA224H1Russian-Jewish Writing
- SLA268H1Cossacks!
- SLA302H1The Imaginary Jew
- SLA303H1Literary Imagination and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
- SLA318H1City of Saints and Sinners: Kyiv through the Centuries
- SLA216H1Introduction to Polish Culture
- SLA226H1Film and Ethics: Polish Cinema
- SLA229H1Frames of Memory: The European Graphic Novel
- SLA236H1Polish Culture in 10 Images
- SLA266H1War and Culture
- SLA286H1Russian and East European Science Fiction
- SLA346H1Communism and Culture
- SLA356H1What's New? Polish Culture Today
- SLA406H1Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA427H1Polish Culture for the Curious
- SLA436H1Rebels, Scoffers, and Jesters: Polish Culture from Different Perspectives
- SLA121H1Russian Cultural History in Twelve Images
- SLA194H1Utopia Interrupted: Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA195H1Literature and Painting in Russia and the West
- SLA196H1Russia at War
- SLA203H1Faking It
- SLA212H1The Russian Novel
- SLA234H1Russian and Soviet Cinema
- SLA245H1The Golden Age of Russian Literature
- SLA252H1Russian Short Fiction
- SLA253H1Origins of Russia and Ukraine
- SLA260H1Constructing Space: A History of Russian Art and Architecture
- SLA263H1Studies in Russian-French Cultural History
- SLA272H1Cultural History of the Caucasus
- SLA280H1Introduction to Russian Asia: From Central Asia to Siberia
- JSH300H1Literature and History in Russia last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA300H1Russian Literature in the Age of Empire
- SLA310H1Russian Literature Between Tradition and Modernity
- SLA311H1Gogol
- SLA312H1Nabokov
- SLA314H1Dostoevsky
- SLA317H1Tolstoy
- SLA323H1The Mysteries of Russian Revealed
- SLA330H1Old Church Slavonic
- SLA331H1Modernism and Visual Arts
- SLA334H1Film Genre in Europe
- SLA342H1Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture: From Jesters to Meyerhold
- SLA343H1Studies in Late Soviet Culture
- SLA345H1Russian Modernism
- SLA367H1Global Chekhov
- SLA400H1Medieval and Early Modern Literature of East Slavic Peoples
- SLA404H1Russia Across Centuries I
- SLA412H1History of Russian
- SLA413H1Pushkin
- SLA414H1Russia Across Centuries II
- SLA415H1Studies in Russian Literature of the 18th Century
- SLA423H1War and Peace
- SLA424Y1
- SLA430H1Advanced Russian Writing Skills
- SLA433H1Anna Karenina last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA434H1Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA449H1Russian Thinkers
- SLA463H1Themes in Russian Realism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA217H1Cultural History of the South Slavs
- SLA227H1South Slavic Literature
- SLA235H1After Communism: Literature and Art Post-1989
- SLA247H1Cinema of the Balkans
- SLA347H1The Imaginary Geography of the Balkans last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA357H1Literature of Exile and Immigration
- SLA377H1Revolutionary Visions of Yugoslavia: Art, Power, and Ideology
- SLA380H1Language, Politics, Identity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- SLA199H1Invisible Kingdom, Imaginary Space
- SLA218H1Ukrainian Literature and Culture
- SLA228H120th Century Ukrainian Fiction in Translation
- SLA238H1Literature of the Ukrainian-Canadian Experience
- SLA248H1Women and Women's Themes in Ukrainian Literature
- SLA328H1The Culture of Contemporary Ukraine
- SLA338H1Ivan Franko
- SLA358H1Breaking Away from Empire: Ukrainian Fiction Since Independence
- SLA428H1The Ukrainian Novel
- SLA429H1Shevchenko
- SLA104H1Cities of the Mediterranean
- SLA190H1Losing It
- SLA191H1The Criminal Mind
- SLA192H1On the Road in Eastern Europe
- SLA222H1Forging Identities: The Roms of Central and Eastern Europe last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA340H1Contemporary Women Writers from Eastern Europe
- SLA425H1Docufictions: Cinema, Authenticity, and Theory
- SLA435H1Contemporary East European Cinemas
- SLA492H1Race, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe and Russia
Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Minor
- Arts program
- 4.0 credits
- Open enrolment
- ASMIN1205
Enrolment
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(4.0 credits, with at least 1.0 credit at the 300+ level)
Note 1Please note: Some courses may appear in more than one group thanks to their content. No course, however, may be counted twice for the purposes of program completion.
10.5 credit of Common Core: SLA200H1, SLA201H1 SLA231H1, SLA232H1, or SLA256H1
22.0 credits of language coursework in one language area chosen from the list below:
Czech and Slovak: SLA105Y1, SLA204Y1, SLA214H1
Estonian: EST100H1, EST101H1, EST200H1, EST201H1, EST300H1, EST301H1
Finnish: FIN100H1, FIN110H1, FIN200H1, FIN210H1, FIN300H1, FIN340H1, FIN400H1; SWE100H1, SWE101H1
Polish: SLA106H1, SLA116H1, SLA206H1, SLA207H1, SLA306H1, SLA336H1, SLA426H1
Russian: SLA100H1, SLA101H1, SLA210H1, SLA214H1, SLA220Y1, SLA221H1, SLA320Y1, SLA321H1, SLA322H1, SLA410H1, SLA420Y1
South Slavic (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian): [(SLA107Y1/ SLA117H1, SLA118H1); SLA214H1; SLA257H1; SLA277H1; SLA337H1];/[SLA109Y1, SLA209H1, SLA213H1]
Ukrainian: SLA108Y1, SLA208Y1, SLA308H1
Yiddish (corresponds to the Jewish Cultures in Eastern Europe area): GER261H1, GER262H1, GER360H1, GER460H1
Note 2Note: In consultation with the Undergraduate Coordinator, and based on results in language placement tests, some students may substitute language courses with the equivalent number of credits in requirement 3 (below).
31.0 credit from culture courses corresponding to the student’s chosen language area:
Czech and Slovak: SLA200H1, SLA215H1, SLA225H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA333H1, SLA335H1, SLA405H1
Estonian: EST205H1, EST206H1, EST207H1, EST208H1; FIN225H1, FIN240H1, FIN260H1, FIN310H1; HIS331H1; SLA200H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1
Finnish: FIN220H1, FIN225H1, FIN230H1, FIN236H1, FIN238H1, FIN240H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, FIN270H1, FIN280H1, FIN310H1, FIN320H1, FIN350H1, FIN360H1, FIN415H1; EST202H1, EST204H1, EST205H1, EST206H1, EST207H1, HIS331H1
Jewish Cultures in Eastern Europe (corresponds to the Yiddish language area): GER361H1; JJH370H1; SLA202H1; SLA224H1; SLA268H1; SLA302H1; SLA303H1; SLA318H1
Polish: SLA216H1, SLA226H1, SLA229H1, SLA236H1, SLA266H1, SLA286H1, SLA346H1, SLA356H1, SLA406H1, SLA427H1, SLA436H1
Russian: SLA121H1, SLA194H1, SLA195H1, SLA196H1, SLA203H1, SLA212H1, SLA224H1, SLA234H1, SLA245H1, SLA252H1, SLA253H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA260H1, SLA263H1, SLA268H1, SLA272H1, SLA280H1, JSH300H1, SLA300H1, SLA310H1, SLA311H1, SLA312H1, SLA314H1, SLA317H1, SLA318H1, SLA320Y1, SLA321H1, SLA322H1, SLA323H1, SLA330H1, SLA331H1, SLA334H1, SLA342H1, SLA343H1, SLA345H1, SLA367H1, SLA400H1, SLA404H1, SLA412H1, SLA413H1, SLA414H1, SLA415H1, SLA420Y1, SLA423H1, SLA424Y1, SLA430H1, SLA433H1, SLA434H1, SLA449H1, SLA463H1
South Slavic: SLA200H1, SLA217H1, SLA227H1, SLA235H1, SLA247H1, SLA330H1, SLA347H1, SLA357H1, SLA377H1, SLA380H1/ SLA232H1
Ukrainian: SLA199H1, SLA200H1, SLA203H1, SLA218H1, SLA228H1, SLA238H1, SLA248H1, SLA253H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA268H1, SLA311H1, SLA318H1, SLA328H1, SLA331H1, SLA338H1, SLA358H1, SLA428H1, SLA429H1
Note 3Note: In consultation with the Undergraduate Coordinator, students may take 0.5 credit in history or political science courses corresponding to their chosen language area and taught outside the department.
40.5 credit from the pool of comparative courses offered by the Department: EST205H1, EST206H1, EST207H1, FIN225H1, FIN238H1, FIN240H1, FIN260H1, SLA104H1, SLA190H1, SLA191H1, SLA192H1, SLA200H1, SLA201H1, SLA202H1, SLA203H1, SLA222H1, SLA229H1, SLA231H1, SLA232H1, SLA235H1, SLA254H1/ JSM354H1, SLA268H1, SLA272H1, SLA286H1, SLA302H1, SLA303H1, SLA318H1, SLA330H1, SLA331H1, SLA333H1, SLA340H1, SLA380H1/ SLA232H1, SLA425H1, SLA435H1, SLA492H1
Courses these requirements name
- SLA200H1Culture and Politics in Europe
- SLA201H1Slavic and East European Civilizations
- SLA231H1Analyzing Slavic and East European Cultural Texts
- SLA232H1Language, Politics, Identity
- SLA256H1Firebirds and Other Wonders: The World of Slavic and East European Folklore
- SLA105Y1Elementary Czech
- SLA204Y1Intermediate Czech
- SLA214H1Slavic Languages through Creative Writing
- EST100H1Elementary Estonian I
- EST101H1Elementary Estonian II
- EST200H1Intermediate Estonian I
- EST201H1Intermediate Estonian II
- EST300H1Estonian Language through Contemporary Media
- EST301H1Advanced Estonian
- FIN100H1Elementary Finnish I
- FIN110H1Elementary Finnish II
- FIN200H1Intermediate Finnish I
- FIN210H1Intermediate Finnish II
- FIN300H1Advanced Finnish I
- FIN340H1Advanced Finnish II
- FIN400H1Translation: Finnish-English
- SWE100H1Elementary Swedish I
- SWE101H1Elementary Swedish II
- SLA106H1Polish for Beginners I
- SLA116H1Polish for Beginners II
- SLA206H1Intermediate Polish I
- SLA207H1Intermediate Polish II
- SLA306H1Conversations-Inspirations: Everyday Polish
- SLA336H1Let's Talk! Advanced Polish
- SLA426H1Polish for the 21st Century
- SLA100H1Elementary Russian I
- SLA101H1Elementary Russian II
- SLA210H1Russian for Heritage Speakers
- SLA220Y1Intermediate Russian
- SLA221H1Speak Like a Russian
- SLA320Y1Advanced Russian
- SLA321H1Conversational Russian
- SLA322H1News in Russian
- SLA410H1Russian for Heritage Speakers II
- SLA420Y1Studies in Russian Syntax and Stylistics
- SLA107Y1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- SLA117H1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian I
- SLA118H1Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian II
- SLA257H1Intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian I
- SLA277H1Intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian II
- SLA337H1Advanced Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
- SLA109Y1Elementary Macedonian
- SLA209H1Intermediate Macedonian
- SLA213H1Reading Macedonia: A Cultural Exploration
- SLA108Y1Elementary Ukrainian
- SLA208Y1Intermediate Ukrainian
- SLA308H1Advanced Ukrainian
- GER261H1Elementary Yiddish 1
- GER262H1Elementary Yiddish 2
- GER360H1Intermediate Yiddish
- GER460H1Advanced Yiddish
- SLA215H1Czech and Slovak Cultures
- SLA225H1Czech and Slovak Cinema
- SLA254H1Stone Books to Sky Books: The Book as Institution, Commerce and Art last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- JSM354H1Stone Books to Sky Books: The Book as Institution, Commerce and Art
- SLA333H1Animated Film in Europe
- SLA335H1Lifting the Iron Curtain: Czech Culture between 1960 and 1989
- SLA405H1On the Waves of the Avant-garde and Beyond: Czech Literature of the 20th Century
- EST205H1Estonian Cinema
- EST206H1Environmental Humanities in Central and Eastern Europe
- EST207H1Indigenous Cultures of Northern Eurasia
- EST208H1Estonian Cultural History Across Time
- FIN225H1Culture, Society and Politics of the Nordic Region
- FIN240H1Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature
- FIN260H1Scandinavian Cinema
- FIN310H1Finnish Folklore: The Kalevala
- HIS331H1Modern Baltic History
- FIN220H1Nordic Myth and Epic
- FIN230H1Finnish Culture 1800 to Present
- FIN236H1Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature
- FIN238H1The Vikings
- FIN250H1Finnish Cinema
- FIN270H1Modern and Contemporary Finnish Architecture and Design
- FIN280H1Finnish Musical Culture from Sibelius to Heavy Metal
- FIN320H1The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience
- FIN350H1The Finnish Short Story
- FIN360H1Bilingualism in Finland
- FIN415H1Finnish Literature in the 20th Century
- EST202H1Estonian Culture in the 21st Century last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- EST204H1Introduction to Estonian Culture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- GER361H1Yiddish Literature in Translation (E)
- JJH370H1Soviet Jewish History, Culture, and Diaspora
- SLA202H1Jewish Communities in Slavic and East European Countries
- SLA224H1Russian-Jewish Writing
- SLA268H1Cossacks!
- SLA302H1The Imaginary Jew
- SLA303H1Literary Imagination and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
- SLA318H1City of Saints and Sinners: Kyiv through the Centuries
- SLA216H1Introduction to Polish Culture
- SLA226H1Film and Ethics: Polish Cinema
- SLA229H1Frames of Memory: The European Graphic Novel
- SLA236H1Polish Culture in 10 Images
- SLA266H1War and Culture
- SLA286H1Russian and East European Science Fiction
- SLA346H1Communism and Culture
- SLA356H1What's New? Polish Culture Today
- SLA406H1Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA427H1Polish Culture for the Curious
- SLA436H1Rebels, Scoffers, and Jesters: Polish Culture from Different Perspectives
- SLA121H1Russian Cultural History in Twelve Images
- SLA194H1Utopia Interrupted: Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA195H1Literature and Painting in Russia and the West
- SLA196H1Russia at War
- SLA203H1Faking It
- SLA212H1The Russian Novel
- SLA234H1Russian and Soviet Cinema
- SLA245H1The Golden Age of Russian Literature
- SLA252H1Russian Short Fiction
- SLA253H1Origins of Russia and Ukraine
- SLA260H1Constructing Space: A History of Russian Art and Architecture
- SLA263H1Studies in Russian-French Cultural History
- SLA272H1Cultural History of the Caucasus
- SLA280H1Introduction to Russian Asia: From Central Asia to Siberia
- JSH300H1Literature and History in Russia last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA300H1Russian Literature in the Age of Empire
- SLA310H1Russian Literature Between Tradition and Modernity
- SLA311H1Gogol
- SLA312H1Nabokov
- SLA314H1Dostoevsky
- SLA317H1Tolstoy
- SLA323H1The Mysteries of Russian Revealed
- SLA330H1Old Church Slavonic
- SLA331H1Modernism and Visual Arts
- SLA334H1Film Genre in Europe
- SLA342H1Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture: From Jesters to Meyerhold
- SLA343H1Studies in Late Soviet Culture
- SLA345H1Russian Modernism
- SLA367H1Global Chekhov
- SLA400H1Medieval and Early Modern Literature of East Slavic Peoples
- SLA404H1Russia Across Centuries I
- SLA412H1History of Russian
- SLA413H1Pushkin
- SLA414H1Russia Across Centuries II
- SLA415H1Studies in Russian Literature of the 18th Century
- SLA423H1War and Peace
- SLA424Y1
- SLA430H1Advanced Russian Writing Skills
- SLA433H1Anna Karenina last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA434H1Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA449H1Russian Thinkers
- SLA463H1Themes in Russian Realism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA217H1Cultural History of the South Slavs
- SLA227H1South Slavic Literature
- SLA235H1After Communism: Literature and Art Post-1989
- SLA247H1Cinema of the Balkans
- SLA347H1The Imaginary Geography of the Balkans last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA357H1Literature of Exile and Immigration
- SLA377H1Revolutionary Visions of Yugoslavia: Art, Power, and Ideology
- SLA380H1Language, Politics, Identity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- SLA199H1Invisible Kingdom, Imaginary Space
- SLA218H1Ukrainian Literature and Culture
- SLA228H120th Century Ukrainian Fiction in Translation
- SLA238H1Literature of the Ukrainian-Canadian Experience
- SLA248H1Women and Women's Themes in Ukrainian Literature
- SLA328H1The Culture of Contemporary Ukraine
- SLA338H1Ivan Franko
- SLA358H1Breaking Away from Empire: Ukrainian Fiction Since Independence
- SLA428H1The Ukrainian Novel
- SLA429H1Shevchenko
- SLA104H1Cities of the Mediterranean
- SLA190H1Losing It
- SLA191H1The Criminal Mind
- SLA192H1On the Road in Eastern Europe
- SLA222H1Forging Identities: The Roms of Central and Eastern Europe last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- SLA340H1Contemporary Women Writers from Eastern Europe
- SLA425H1Docufictions: Cinema, Authenticity, and Theory
- SLA435H1Contemporary East European Cinemas
- SLA492H1Race, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe and Russia
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