Summer 2024 Courses

 

RUSSIAN 1102.02 ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN II (Online Synchronous)

  • Section 0010, MTWR 12:30-2:45PM

Continued development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in cultural context. Not open to native speakers of this language through regular course enrollment or EM credit.

Prereq: 1101.01, or 4 credit hours of 1101.51 or 1101.61. Not open to students with 4 credit hours of 1102.51 or 1102.61. This course is available for EM credit. 4 credit hours.

GE Foreign Language (4 credit hours)

 

RUSSIAN 2230.99 Vampires, Monstrosity, and Evil: From Slavic Myth to Twilight (Online Asynchronous)

  • Instructor: TBA

Continued development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in cultural context. Not open to native speakers of this language through regular course enrollment or EM credit. 3 credit hours.

Prereq: 1101.01, or 4 credit hours of 1101.51 or 1101.61. Not open to students with 4 credit hours of 1102.51 or 1102.61. This course is available for EM credit.

Level 1 CCP course GE Cultures and Ideas GE Diversity: Global Studies Ohio Transfer Module - Arts and Humanities

 

Russian 2335.99 Magnificence, Mayhem, and Mafia: Russian Culture (Online Asynchronous)

  • Instructor: Helen Myers

Through an analysis of literature, films, and the visual arts, we will learn about Russia and the USSR in the twentieth century and its impact on the world; try to understand the present of post-Soviet Russia; and imagine Russia in the future. 3 credit hours.

Level 1 CCP course GE Cultures and Ideas GE Diversity: Global Studies Ohio Transfer Module - Arts and Humanities

 

Russian 3355.99 Vodka in Russian Society and Culture: Deconstructing Myths (Online Asynchronous)

  • Instructor: Derek Peterson

Vodka in Russia is important to virtually all social functions, is used as a home remedy for ailments, and is a frequent theme of jokes, folk songs, films, and literature. It also has an important political history, having long been used by the Russian (and Soviet) state as a form of social control. This course explores Russian culture and history through its most famous drink. 3 credit hours.
Level 1 CCP course GE Cultures and Ideas GE Diversity: Global Studies Ohio Transfer Module - Arts and Humanities

 

Russian 3480.99 The Russian Spy: Cultures of Surveillance, Secret Agents, & Hackign from the Cold War through Today (Online Asynchronous)

  • Instructor: Lejla Veskovic

This course explores the concept of the spy in the cultural imaginations of both Russia and the West from the early-20th century through the present. Topics will include stereotyping in popular culture, the relationship between fiction and the political imagination, Western (especially American) and Russian views of each other, the Cold War, privacy, security, fear, and war. 3 credit hours
Level 1 CCP course GE Cultures and Ideas GE Diversity: Global Studies Ohio Transfer Module - Arts and Humanities