SAS education educational model majors course catalogue faculty

course catalogue

core courses
course
year
trimester
Fundamentals of National Security
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Health Architecture
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Philosophy and Technology of Thinking
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Professional Identity and Career
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Trivium
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Psychology of Personality
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Foreign language
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Applied Philosophy
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Foundations of Research Protocol 
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Quadrivium
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Cognitive Architecture
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Russian Speech Culture
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
AI Literacy
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Digital Solutions
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Social Design
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Fundamentals of Russian Statehood
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Rationality and Logic 
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Neuroplasticity for Intelligence Development
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
History of Russia
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
AI in Professional Practice
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Data Fundamentals
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Productivity Code
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Project-Based Research
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Data Analytics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Personality Culture
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
The State: Economics and Law 
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
City as Text
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Great Books
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Techniques for Professional Communication
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Evolution of Knowledge and Technology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
major courses for students enrolled in 2026
course
year
trimester
Mathematical Economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Introduction to Microeconomics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Introduction to Macroeconomics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Econometrics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Intermediate Microeconomics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Intermediate Macroeconomics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Machine Learning for Economists
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Dynamic Optimization and Programming
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Time Series and Panel Methods
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Stochastic Processes and Optimal Control
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Applied Machine Learning
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Advanced Microeconomics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Advanced Macroeconomics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Monetary Economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Thesis Pre-defense
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Systems Analysis
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
IT Project Management and Fundamentals of Software Development
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Business Process Design and Organizational Changes
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Mathematical Foundations of Data Analysis
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Academic and Project Work
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Python Programming
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Database Engineering and DevOps
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Multi‑Agent Modeling
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Uncertainty Management, Risk Management, Digital Product Economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Academic and Project Work
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization of Developments
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Thesis Pre-defense
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Theoretic Approaches and Subjects in Musicology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Visual Arts in the 20th–21st Centuries
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Reaching Out in Culture: Lectures, Media, and Curatorial Practices
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Marketing in Culture
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Posthumanism in the Arts
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Journalism and Mass Media in a Field of Academic Culture
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Studies in the 20th Century
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Festival Management in Russia and Europe
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Introduction to Art Studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Academic and Project Work
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Sound, Words, Image in a Dialogue between Music and Literature
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Defining Russia Among World Cultures: Philosophy and Arts
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
From Slovo to Solzhenitsyn and beyond: Introduction to Literary Studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Thesis Pre-defense
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Media Archaeology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
New Media Theory
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Audiovisual Analysis
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Cinema and Theory
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Media Studies and the Philosophy of Technology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Theories of Technological Development
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Media Production Practice
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Global Media Theory
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Academic and Project Work
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Entrepreneurship in Media
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Political Economy of Media
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Media Ecosystems
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Thesis Pre-defense
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Foreign Policy Analysis
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
International Law
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
The State
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Russia in Global Affairs
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
International Security
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Foreseeing Politics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Middle East and Africa
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
International Politics of Asia
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
International Communications, Part 1
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
International Communications, Part 2
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Academic and Project Work
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
International Politics of Europe
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
International Politics of United States of America
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Thesis Pre-defense
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Ethics and Academic Integrity
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Social Theory for the Digital Age
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Cultural Anthropology: Meanings, Traditions and Digital Practices
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Fieldwork and Qualitative Methods Online and Offline
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Quantitative Methods and Social Measurement Online and Offline
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Contemporary Issues in Anthropology and Sociology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Anthropology of Digital Everyday Life: Artificial Intelligence, Apps and Platforms
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Applied Sociology and Anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Psychology and Sociology of Digital Experience
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Academic and Project Work
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Social Change and Digital Modernity
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Body, Society and Culture
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Urbanism and Society
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
Research Seminar: Thesis Pre-defense
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
major courses
course
year
quarter
Art as a Text: History and Theory
cultural studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Politics and Culture
cultural studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Cultural History: Visual Arts and Music
cultural studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Reaching Out in Culture: Lectures, Media and Curatorial Practices
cultural studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Defining Russia Among World Cultures: Philosophy and Arts
cultural studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Media Archaeology
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Media Studies and the Philosophy of Technology
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Audiovisual Analysis
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Cinema and Theory
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
History and Film
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
New Media Theory
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Theories of Technological Development
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Global Media Theory
film and media studies
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Foreign Policy Analysis
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
The State
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Modern Politics Thoughts
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Russian Foreign Politics
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
International Law
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Great Power Politics
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
International Security
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
International Economics
international relations under uncertainty
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Deep Automation Module
information technology and systems analysis
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
WEB Technologies Module
information technology and systems analysis
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
DevOps Module
information technology and systems analysis
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Anthropological Theory: Introduction
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Introduction to Sociology
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Qualitative Research Methods
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Etnography
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Quantitative Research Methods
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Central Issues in Anthropology
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Anthropology of Everyday Life
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Digital Anthropology
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Field Research
sociology and anthropology
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Principles of Microeconomics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Introduction to Macroeconomics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Computational Methods: Python and MATLAB
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Mathematical Economics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Probability and Statistics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Intermediate Microeconomics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Intermediate Macroeconomics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Econometrics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Monetary Economics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Game Theory
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Machine Learning for Economists
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Dynamic Optimization and Stochastic Processes
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Advanced Microeconomics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Advanced Macroeconomics
economics
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
electives
course
professor
A Little Quadrivium: Classical and Modern Foundations of Arithmetic, Music, Geometry and Astronomy
Dmitry Yakovlev
A Sense of Humor
Peter Jones
Adaptation
Peter Lešnik
Age of the World System
Devin Wangert, Xindi Li
Agile Management
Victoria Vaimer
Agricultural Acarology
Omid Joharchi
An Imperial Affliction: Depression in Literature
John Tangney
Analytic Philosophy: Logical Tools and Analysis of Language
Roman Kochnev
Anthropological Archaeology
Denis Sharapov
Après ’68: An Introduction to Contemporary French Theory
Anne Mulhall
Arctic Encounters: Humans and Other Sentient Beings in the North and Siberia
Anna Varfolomeeva
Artificial Intelligence: Features and Regulatory Framework
Alexei Gudkov
Astropolitics
Rafael Contreras Luna
Behind the Frame: Cinema and Meaning in the 20th Century
Roman Kochnev
Beyond the Kitchen Table
Course design by Excellence Track students: Najma Layali, Yulia Arkhipova, Nastya Volubueva
Biopolitics Today
Aleksandra Zorina
Black Atlantic 2
Joanna Longden
Black Atlantic. Part 1
Joanna Longden
Blockchain
Denis Zmeev
Bodies, Cultures, Societies 
Stanimir Panayotov
C# programming fundamentals
Pavel Egorov
Career Choice Trajectories in the Evolving Labor Market: Perspectives and Opportunities
Ulyana Ravedovskaya
Cinema 1: the Movement Image
Devin Wangert
Colonial Studies
Ksenia Gerasimova
Communication and Leadership
Ulyana Ravedovskaya
Compared Political Systems in the New World Order
Consciousness, Cognition, Rationality
Louis Vervoort
Consciousness, Emotions, and Decision Making
Krishna K
Contemporary Film Genres
Peter Lešnik
Contemporary Music: Crossing the Boundaries
Irina Makalovskaia
Contemporary Philosophy of Science
Louis Vervoort
Corporate Finance
Ashraf Ismail
Crafting Character and Storyline 
 Neal Bryan
Criminolgy
Kimberly Mc Cabe
Crisis Ordinariness
Devin Wangert
Curating Contemporary Art
Henry Davidson
Decision-Making Under Historical Challenges
Alexey Larionov
Decisions under Uncertainty 
 Kocourek Pavel
Developing an Educational Approach
Ulyana Ravedovskaya
Documentary Cinema
Peter Lešnik
Doors and the Constitution of Inner Space 
Siyaves Azeri
Ecology Without Nature
Xindi Li
Ecology, Technology and Anime
Duskin Drum
Economics, Society and Law
Dmitry Kurnosov
Economics: Brain, Behavior and Institutions
Alexander Didenko
Educational Research 
Marko Turk
Emerging from the Shadows: 21st century African Politics
David Dusseault
English Oracy Skills
Melina Aarnikoivu
Environmental Sociology: How Ideology, Politics and Social Conflict Change the Earth
Matvey Lomonosov
Environmental Thinking
Margret Grebowicz
Epistemologies, Ideologies, Education
Asya Filatova
Epistemology and Metaphysics
Giacomo Andreoletti
Evolutionary Psychology
Ayla Arslan
Existential Narratives in Cinema: Deconstruction and Creative Practices with Artificial Intelligence
Albert Brand
Exogeography: Astronomy and Astropolitics
Rafael Contreras Luna
Experiments with Artificial Intelligence in Education
Ulyana Ravedovskaya
Fashion and Philosophy
Devin Wangert, Xindi Li
Fate, Time, and Language. The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
Giacomo Andreoletti
Financial Law
Tamara Ivanova
Forecasting Politics
Birol Baskan
Formal Logic 1 
Giacomo Andreoletti
Formal Logic 2
Giacomo Andreoletti
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 
Louis Vervoort
Fragility and Resilience in Twenty-First Century Culture
Anne Mulhall
Free Will in Philosophy and Neuroscience 
Krishna K
From Script to Storyboard
Nata Pokrovskaya
Geopolitics in an Age of Multipolarity: Russia and Asia
Rafael Contreras Luna
Geopolitics of Asia
Rafael Contreras Luna
Great Educators
Marko Turk
Heraldy
Dmitry Baiduzh
Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Basic Concepts
Louis Vervoort
History and Memory through Cinema
Evgeny Grishin
History of Capitalism
Natalya Savelyeva
History of Economic Thought
Anil Aba
History of Energy
Tomasz Blusiewicz
History of Photography: Technology, Document, Art
Erika Wolf
History of Russia’s Religions
Evgeny Grishin
How Do We Learn? School of Thoughts in Education
Marko Turk
Image Scavengers: Collage, Montage, and Appropriation in 20th Century Art
Erika Wolf
Images
Peter Lešnik
Implications of a Non-polar World 
David Dusseault
Indigenous Ecologies
Duskin Drum
Individual and Society: Socialization, Education, Violence
Svetlana Erpyleva
Industrial Organization
Alexander Usvitskiy
International Business
Gordana Pesakovic
Introduction to Advanced Mathematics
Aleksandra Rembolovich
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Munesh Chauhan
Introduction to Culture
Jay Silverstein
Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization with Python
Vitaly Nikolaev
Introduction to Economic Growth
Taisia Pogodaeva
Introduction to Economic History
Ksenia Gerasimova
Introduction to Enneads: I-III
Emile Alexandrov
Introduction to Finance
Ashraf Ismail
Introduction to Game Studies
Maxim Alyukov
Introduction to Mathematical Analysis
Konstantin Kim
Introduction to phylogenetic inference based on molecular data
Almir Pepato, Pavel Klimov
Introduction to Post-human Politics
David Dusseault
IT Security
Ruslan Gasseev
Juvenile Delinquency and Child Abuse
Kimberly Mc Cabe
Language and Ethics
Margret Grebowicz
Language and Society
Melina Aarnikoivu
Law and Love
Zachary Reyna
Law In Social Order: What Is The Norm? Introduction To The Theory Of Law
Tamara Ivanova
Legal Personhood and Liability of Artificial Intelligence
Nikita Kalashnikov
Lifestyle Photography
Shakhlo Makhmudova
Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Konstantin Kim, Sviatoslav Perelevskii
Literature and Nature
Anne Mulhall, Margret Grebowicz
Love, Friendship and Beauty
Emile Alexandrov
Making Ends (Of the World) Meet
Course design by Excellence Track students: Alsu Battalova, Iulia Volokhova, Nikolai Kravchenko
Mathematical Analysis in Economics
Irina Takmasheva
Mathematics for Economists
Alexander Usvitskiy
Media Production
Andrey Zubov
Media Production 1
Dmitrii Kolobov, Peter Lešnik
Media Production. Live-Action Film.
Andrey Pshenichnikov, Dmitry Kolobov
Media Theories of Labour
Devin Wangert
Medical Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medicine and Society
Corinne Doria
Memories, Dreams, Confessions: Writing the Inner Life
John Tangney
Metamorphoses of Innovation as a Synthesis of Biological Evolution, Industrial Revolution, and Social Transformation
Albert Brand
Metaphilosophy: How the Philosophical Concept Works
Denis Maslov
Microeconomics of social relations
Denis Davydov
Middle East Peace 1
Birol Baskan
Motivational Design in Education
Asya Filatova
Music and the Mystical
Emile Alexandrov, Vladimir Orlov
Normality and Abnormality in Human Corporeality
Ivan Iapryncev, Aleksandra Zorina
Oriental Metaphysics
Emile Alexandrov
Peculiarities of international taxation
Tamara Ivanova
People and Things: Everyday Life in the Ancient World
Alexander Tkachev
Performance in Tyumen
Duskin Drum
Performativities
Devin Wangert
Perso-Arabic Neoplatonism from the Second Aristotle to the Son of Plato
Emile Alexandrov
Phenomenology of Love in Music
Vladimir Orlov
Philosophy and Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Louis Vervoort
Philosophy of Love. Friendship. Beauty
Emile Alexandrov
Philosophy of Physics, or How to Invent New Science
Louis Vervoort
Photography and Russia
Erika Wolf
Political Communication
Maxim Alyukov
Power in History
Dmitrii Baiduzh
Prediction's Predicates
Devin Wangert
Production in Film and Media
Alina Kochulu, Andrey Pshenichnikov
Profession of a Scriptwriter
Ksenia Chilimova
Project Development in Film and Media
Alina Kochulu, Andrey Pshenichnikov
Project Management
Tamara Ivanova
Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Happiness
Julie Reshe
Psychoanalysis: Then and Now
Julie Reshe
Psychological Aspects of Decision-Making
Julie Reshe
Public Speaking: Engaging Your Audience in English
Melina Aarnikoivu
Quantum Mechanics and Buddhism: a possible link? 
Louis Vervoort
Radically Withdrawn
Xindi Li
Realism in World Cinema
Peter Lešnik
Russia and the Asian Century
Rafael Contreras Luna
Sanctions Policy: Methodology, Directions, and Forecasting
Tamara Ivanova
Science Communication
Olga Dobrovidova
Selected Topics in Biopsychology
Ayla Arslan
Selected Topics in Life Sciences
Dmitry Andreev
Selected Topics on Mathematics
Serious and Popular Muciсs in Their Attractions and Antinomies
Vladimir Orlov
Sociological Imagination
Matvey Lomonosov
Sound Experiments in the First Half of the 20th Century
Lidia Ader
Soviet Music “Outside the Box”: from 1917 until the Death of Stalin
Vladimir Orlov
Soviet Visual Propaganda
Erika Wolf
Spanish in Use: Developing Core Language Competencies
Ekaterina Tkacheva
Spanish in Use: Developing Core Language Competencies (for Intermediate Learners)
Ekaterina Tkacheva
Species concepts and species delimitation employing molecular data
Almir Pepato, Pavel Klimov
State Building and State Failure
Birol Baskan
Still moving? Comparative Diasporas
Matvey Lomonosov
Storytelling: The Art of Public Speaking
Alexey Golomolzin, Valentina Sharova
Strategies and Forms of Co-existence in the World of Classical Music: From Their Origins to Today's Crisis
Georgy Kovalevsky
Structure of the Literary Text
Elena Grigorieva
Sustainability, Power, and Profits
David Dusseault
Sustainable Agenda in Economics and Finance
Olga Miroshnichenko
Sustainable Development: Theory and Practice
Ksenia Gerasimova
Symbioses: Physical and Behavioral Interactions among Species
Richard Hofshtetter, Karen London
Technomodifications and Models of Experience
Evgenii Bykov
The Commonplace of Humanity: On Cosmism and Its (Un)certainties
Sofya Matveeva
The Ecological Disaster: What to Do?
Louis Vervoort
The Golden Age of Russian Literature
Elena Grigorieva
The Historical Epistemology of Sensory Failure
Devin Wangert
The Making of Economic Society
Anil Aba
The Making of Europe: Medieval Culture, c.500–1500
Peter Jones
The Problem of Free Will: When Philosophy Meets Modern Science
Louis Vervoort
The Rise and Fall of Complex Societies
Jay Silverstein
The Seven Deadly Sins: A Journey into the Medieval Mind
Peter Jones
The Theory of Market Organization
Mikhail Drugov
The tragic fate of Sabina Spielrein
Julie Reshe
The University in Crisis
Michael Schapira
The Witch Kitchen of Galapagos 
Erzsebet Pasztor
Theories and Practice of Effective Communication
Tamara Ivanova
Thinking on Paper: Efficient and Elegant Professional English
Melina Aarnikoivu
Time Travel and Philosophy of Time
Giacomo Andreoletti
Topics in Genetics: The Strange World of the Nucleus and its Social Implications
Juliette Colinas
Topics in Metaphysics
Giacomo Andreoletti
Trauma, Depression, Anxiety in Life and Learning
Julie Reshe
Turning to Color
Peter Lešnik
Unconventional Thinking and the Progress of Science
Jay Silverstein
Utopias
Peter Lešnik, Siyaves Azeri
Vibeology: Harmonies and Dissonances of Human Experience
Course design by Excellence Track students: Anatolii Stepanov, Ivan Kashcheev, Sofya Matveeva
Victimology
Kimberly Mc Cabe
Video Art: From History to Contemporary Art
Olesya Turkina
What Does it Mean to Be Nobody?
Stanimir Panayotov
What If? Counterfactual & Alternate Histories
Corinne Doria
What is the Anthropocene?
Zachary Reyna
Work Stories
Anne Mulhall