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AHUM 1416 --
FOUNDATIONS IN WORLD CULTURES: LOST LOVE IN THE RUSSIAN NOVEL (4 cr).
This course studies those dramatic Russian tales of love won and lost.
Love, though,
requited or not, can take myriad forms ranging from love for an ideal
to love for an ideology. We will be
examining these works as templates for what the Russian novel is and
how it discusses something that many daydream
about. And no, not everyone dies at the end. PREQ.: none.
CORE 2504 -- IMPERIAL RUSSIA: BETWEEN EAST
AND WEST (Self and Identities; 4 cr). This course focuses on
the development of Russian culture and literature from its beginnings
to the late 1800s, when political and cultural changes were about to
unleash a revolution. The course covers all eras of
traditional Russian culture and society, and places them in the global,
and specifically Byzantine, Asian, and West European context.
PREQ.: foundational courses.
CORE 2604 --
RUSSIA: REVOLUTIONS AND UTOPIAS (Change and Continuity; 4 cr).
This course examines Russian culture and society from the late
1800s to the 1930s, when Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Petrograd
were synonymous with cutting-edge and avantgarde,
staging revolutions -- and dreaming of utopias -- in politics,
art, sex, and science, to name but a few areas. The course
compares the ideals of those times with Russia today as well as with
developments in Western Europe and North America.
PREQ.: foundational courses.
CORE 2407 -- THE PARADOX OF RUSSIA IN OUR
TIME (Communities and Environments; 4 cr).
This course looks at a vast and productive period of Russian culture,
literature, and societal change spanning the years from 1917 to
the present, including two revolutions and two world wars.
Traditional Soviet classics ("boy meets tractor"), as well as works
which were banned by the Soviet authorities, are covered. Emigre
literature and culture is placed within the Soviet and
post-Soviet context. As well, we'll look at present-day culture and
society, much of it shocking to Western sensibilities because of its
graphic, and at times gratuitous, sex and violence, now often couched
in new nationalist terminologies. PREQ.: foundational courses.
You may
obtain additional information on courses offered at all levels in the
Russian Language and Literature Program by returning
to the main program
page, or by going to the Russian Program's example
course sequence.
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