MA-level elective courses hosted by CEU Departments in the 2026/2027 Academic Year:
Please note: course lists are constantly being updated. If you are unsure about some details provided here, please first check the course list attached here (and below) and/or consult us by e-mail (romanistudies@ceu.edu) and/or ask the department who offers the course.
If a CEU course currently being taught is NOT on this year's list but is on previous lists (see below), it WILL be counted towards your ACRS credits.
2026-27 Fall term:
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5723 Eastern Europe and the (geo)politics of belonging: Nation, Gender, and Race (2 credits) Instructor: Elissa Helms
GENS5078 - Reimagining Social Movements (2 credits) Instructor: Hadley Zaun Renkin
Department of History:
HISU5306 Inclusion and Exclusion Perspectives on Humanity and Race in Modern European History of Ideas and Science (Credits: 2; Instructors: Emese Lafferton)
Department of Legal Studies:
LEGS5199 German Constitutional Law and Its Historical and Political Context (Credits: 2; Instructor: Markus Böckenförde )
Department of Nationalism Studies:
NATI5078 Understanding Ethnic Prejudice: Sociological and Social Psychological Approaches (Credits: 4; Instructor: Luca Váradi)
Department of Public Policy:
DP/SO5030 Post-Cold-War Inequalities in Central Eastern Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai)
DOPP5184 Skills for Impact - Managing Cultural Diversity (Credits: 1; Instructor: Kinga Göncz)
DOPP5442 Equality Policy in Comparative Approach (Credits: 2; Instructor: Andrea Krizsan)
Department of Sociology:
SP/SO5033 Post-Cold-War Inequalities in Central Eastern Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai)
2026-27 Winter term:
Department of Historical Studies:
HISU5306 Inclusion and Exclusion Perspectives on Humanity and Race in Modern European History of Ideas and Science (Credits: 2; Instructors: Emese Lafferton)
HISU5606 Comparative Genocide Studies: An Introduction (Credits: 2; Instructors: Constantin Iordachi)
Department of Legal Studies
LEGS5314 US Constitutional Law (Credits: 3; Instructor: Maciej Kisilowski)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5777 Economic and Political Inequality (Credits: 4; Instructor: Björn Bremer)
POLS5153 Introduction to Political Theory (Credits: 4; Instructor: Zoltan Miklos
Department of Public Policy
DOPP5661 Migration, Governance and Inequality (Credits: 2; Instructors: Cagla Guner, Natalia Dziadyk)
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
SOCL5025 Common Marginalisations: Refugees and Other Subaltern Populations (Credits: 2; Instructor: Prem Kumar Rajaram )
SOCL5220 Colonialism and Post-Colonialism (Credits: 4; Instructor: Prem Kumar Rajaram )
2026-27 Spring term:
Department of Legal Studies:
LEGS5389 Identity and Rights (Credits: 2; Instructor: Yussef Al Tamimi )
LE/RS5172 Critical Race Theory: Race and Law from the United States to Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Angéla Kóczé, Mathias Moschel)
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Courses offered during the previous academic years:
2025/26 Fall term:
Department of Political Science:
POLS5678 Global Justice (Credits: 2; Instructor: Anca Gheaus)
POLS5201 Illiberalism: Politics and Ideologies (Credits: 4; Instructor: Zsolt Enyedi)
Department of International Relations:
INTR5010 Nationalisms in Eastern Europe (Credits: 2; Instructor: Liliia Sablina )
Department of Legal Studies:
LEGS5199 German Constitutional Law and Its Historical and Political Context (Credits: 2; Instructor: Markus Böckenförde )
Department of Philosophy:
PHIL6497 Dehumanization (Credits: 2; Instructor: Maria Elisabeth Kronfeldner )
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5723 Eastern Europe and the (geo)politics of belonging: Nation, Gender, and Race (2 credits) Instructor:
Elissa Helms
Jewish Studies Program:
JEWS5021 The Holocaust and Its Aftermath (2 credits) Instructor: Ines Koeltzsch
2025/26 Winter term:
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5195 Writing Lives, Writing Otherness: Self, Gender, Race, and Dislocation (Credits: 2; Instructor: Petar Odak)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5777 Economic and Political Inequality (Credits: 4; Instructor: Björn Bremer)
POLS5821 - The Comparative Politics of Political Polarization (2 credits; Instructor: Andreas Schedler
Department of International Relations:
INTR5440 Orders of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, Sex (Credits: 4; Instructor: Michael Merlingen)
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
SOCL5025 Common Marginalisations: Refugees and Other Subaltern Populations (Credits: 2; Instructor: Prem Kumar Rajaram )
SOCL5220 Colonialism and Post-Colonialism (Credits: 4; Instructor: Prem Kumar Rajaram )
Department of Legal Studies
LEGS5314 US Constitutional Law (Credits: 2; Instructor: Mathias Möschel)
Department of Historical Studies:
HISU5537 Human Rights in History (2 credits) Instructor: Michael Ignatieff
2025/26 Spring term:
Department of Legal Studies
LEGS5389 Identity and Rights (Credits: 2; Instructor: Yussef Al Tamimi )
Academic Writing Center
CAW5021 Make It New: Artistic Rebellion in Modernist Culture and Literature (Credits: 1; Instructor: Vera Eliasova)
2024/2025 Fall Term:
RSP5070 Literatures of the Roma (Gypsies); From Imagination to Self-Representation (Credits: 2; Instructor: Sanjay Kumar)
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5674 Race and "Eastern Europe" (Credits: 4; Instructor: Elissa Lynelle Helms)
Department of History:
HISU5306 Inclusion and Exclusion Perspectives on Humanity and Race in Modern European History of Ideas and Science (Credits: 2; Instructors: Laszlo Kontler, Emese Lafferton)
Deaprtment of Nationalism Studies:
NATI5182 Anthropological Approaches to Nationalism, Racism and Ethnicity (Credits: 2; Instructor: Michael Stewart)
NATI5002 Nationalism and National Feeling: the Sociological and Social-psychological Approach (Credits: 4; Instructor: Ana Mijic)
NATI5078 Understanding Ethnic Prejudice: Sociological and Social Psychological Approaches (Credits: 4; Instructor: Luca Váradi)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5153 Introduction to Political Theory (Credits: 4; Instructor: Zoltan Miklosi)
POLS5156 Political Theory: Justice and Equality (Credits: 4; Instructor: Anca Gheaus)
Department of Public Policy:
DP/SO5030 Post-Cold-War Inequalities in Central Eastern Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai)
DOPP5305 Mobilizing Contention? Social Movements as Democratic Actors (Credits: 2; Instructor: Felix Butzlaff)
DOPP5184 Skills for Impact - Managing Cultural Diversity (Credits: 1; Instructor: Kinga Göncz)
DOPP5442 Equality Policy in Comparative Approach (Credits: 2; Instructor: Andrea Krizsan)
2024/25 Winter Term
Bard College (OSUN Online course):
Introduction to the Literature/s of the Roma (Credits: 4; Instructor: Anita Tarnai)
Term: January 27 – May 20, 2025
Monday; Wednesday 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM EDT ( New York time)
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5504 Decolonial Aesthetics ( Credits: 4; Instructor:Jelena Petrovics)
GENS5959 Gendering Illiberalism (Credits: 4; Instructor: Andrea Pető)
GENS5621 Multiple Inequalities, Multiple Struggles: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1990 ( Credits: 2; Instructor: Eszter Szilvia Varsa)
Department of Nationalism Studies:
NATI5055 Romany Social Organisation and Culture in a comparative, cross-cultural and transnational perspective (Credits: 2; Instructor: Michael Stewart)
Department of Public Policy:
DOPP5661 Migration, Governance and Inequality (Credits: 2; Instructor: Violetta Zentai)
Department of International Relations:
INTR5440 Orders of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, Sex (Credits: 4; Instructor: Michael Merlingen)
Department of Sociology:
SOCL5025 Common Marginalisations: Refugees and Other Subaltern Populations (Credits: 2; Instructor:Prem Kumar Rajaram)
SOCL5121 Nature's Production (Credits: 4; Instructor: Claudio Sopranzetti)
2024/25 Spring term
Department of Political Science:
POLS5237 Identity and Prejudice (Credits:2; Instructor: Gábor Simonovits)
2023/2024 Fall Term:
Department of History:
HISU5306 Inclusion and Exclusion Perspectives on Humanity and Race in Modern European History of Ideas and Science (Credits: 2; Instructors: Laszlo Kontler, Emese Lafferton)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5153 Introduction to Political Theory (Credits: 2; Instructor: Zoltan Miklosi)
POLS5156 Political Theory: Justice and Equality - Group 1 (Credits: 2; Instructor:
Andres Moles) Note: This course is offered in Group 1 (Fall) & 2 (Winter)
Department of Public Policy:
DOPP5184 Skills for Impact - Managing Cultural Diversity (Credits: 1; Instructor: Kinga Göncz)
DOPP5442 Equality Policy in Comparative Approach (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai, Andrea Krizsan)
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5116 Intersectionality & Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies Research (Credits: 2; Instructor: Adriana Qubaia-ova)
Department of Sociology:
SP/SO5033 Post-Cold-War Inequalities in Central Eastern Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai)
DOPP5661 Migration, race/ethnicity, and equality (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai)
2023/2024 Winter Term:
Department of Gender Studies
Multiple Inequalities, Multiple Struggles: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1990 (Credits: 2; Instructor: Eszter Varsa)
Department of International Relations:
INTR5440 Orders of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, Sex (Credits: 4; Instructor: Michael Merlingen)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5156 Political Theory: Justice and Equality - Group 2 (Credits: 2; Instructor:
Zoltan Miklosi) Note: This course is offered in Group 1 (Fall) & 2 (Winter)
Department of Sociology:
SOCL 5373 Social Movements (Credits: 2; Instructor: Jean-Louis Fabiani)
SOCL5025 Common Marginalizations: refugees and other subaltern populations (Credits: 2; Instructor: Prem Kumar)
2023/2024 Spring Term:
LE/RS5172 Critical Race Theory: Race and Law from the United States to Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Angéla Kóczé, Mathias Moschel)
- Day/Time: Tuesdays/Thursdays 13:30 - 15:10
- Location: QS C-207
LEGS5177 European Anti-Discrimination Law
(Credits: 2; Instructors: Mathias Moschel)
- Day/Time: Tuesdays/Thursdays 8:50-10:30
- Location: QS A-420
2022/2023 Fall Term:
Department of History:
HIST5008 Inclusion and Exclusion Perspectives on Humanity and Race in Modern European History of Ideas and Science (Credits: 2; Instructors: Laszlo Kontler, Emese Lafferton)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5153 Introduction to Political Theory (Credits: 4; Instructor: Zoltan Miklosi)
POLS5156 Political Theory: Justice and Equality (Credits: 2; Instructor:
Andres Moles) Note: This course is offered in Group 1 (Fall) & 2 (Winter)
Department of Public Policy:
DOPP5442 Equality Policy in Comparative Approach (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai, Andrea Krizsan)
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5116 Intersectionality & Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies Research (Credits: 2; Instructor: Adriana Qubaia-ova)
Department of Sociology:
DP/SO5030 Post-Cold-War Inequalities in Central Eastern Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Violetta Zentai)
2022/2023 Winter Term:
Department of History:
HIST5387 Nationalism and Modernity in Central Europe around 1900 (Credits: 2; Instructor: Elena Shapira)
Department of International Relations:
INTR5440 Orders of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, Sex (Credits: 4; Instructor: Michael Merlingen)
Department of Nationalism Studies:
NATI5182 Anthropological Approaches to Ethnicity, Racism and Nationalism - With Special Reference to Roms and Romany Peoples (Credits: 2; Instructor: Michael Stewart)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5156 Political Theory: Justice and Equality (Credits: 2; Instructor:
Andres Moles) Note: This course is offered in Group 1 (Fall) & 2 (Winter)
Department of Sociology:
SOCL 5373 Social Movements (Credits: 2; Instructor: Jean-Louis Fabiani)
2022/2023 Spring Term:
NONE ON OFFER
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MA-level courses hosted by CEU Departments in the 2021/2022 Academic Year:
2021/2022 Fall Term:
Department of History:
HIST5008 Inclusion and Exclusion Perspectives on Humanity and Race in Modern European History of Ideas and Science (Instructors: Laszlo Kontler, Emese Lafferton)
Department of Political Science:
POLS5154 Introduction to Political Theory: Justice and Equality (Credits: 4; Instructor: Anca Gheaus)
Department of Public Policy:
DOPP5654 Roma Inclusion Policies in Europe: Policy Puzzles (Credits: 2; Instructor: Violetta Zentai)
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS6300 Intersectionality & Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies Research (Credits: 2; Instructor: Hannah Loney)
Department of Nationalism Studies:
NATI5210 Law and Ethnicity (Credits: 4; Instructor: Andras Pap)
2021/2022 Winter Term:
Department of Gender Studies:
GENS5139 Bodies Across Borders: Global Migrations in Historical Perspective (Credits: 4; Instructor: Nadia Jones-Gailani)
Department of Sociology:
SOCL5220 Colonialism and Post-Colonialism (Credits: 2; Instructor: Prem Kumar Rajaram)
Nationalism Studies Program:
NATI5138 War and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict, War and Genocide ( Credits:2; Instructor: Michael Stewart)
Department of History:
HIST5330 Political Radicalism in the Twentieth Century (Credits: 2; Instructor: Constantin Iordachi)
2021/2022 Spring Term:
Department of Legal Studies:
LEGS5172 Critical Race Theory: Race and Law from the United States to Europe (Credits: 2; Instructors: Angéla Kóczé, Mathias Möschel)
