RUSSIAN 2335.99: Russian Culture (Online)
- Instructor: TBA
Russian culture from its foundations to the 21st century through analysis of literature, film, music, visual arts, beliefs, and customs. Taught in English. Not open to students with credit for 2335, 2335.01, 135, or 235.
GEL Cultures and Ideas, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
RUSSIAN 2250.99: Masterpieces of Russian Literature (Online)
- Instructor: TBA
Reading and analysis of great works of Russian literature from the 19th century to the present by authors such as Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, and Ulitskaya. Taught in English.
GEL Literature, GEL Diversity Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
RUSSIAN 3480.99: The Russian Spy: Cultures of Surveillance, Secret Agents, & Hacking from the Cold War through Today (Online)
- Instructor: Jay Hadfield
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. Not open to students with credit for 3480 or 3480.99.
GEL Visual and Performing Arts, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
RUSSIAN 3355.99: Vodka in Russian Society and Culture: Deconstructing Myths (Online)
- Instructor: TBA
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.
GEL Cultures and Ideas, GEL Diversity: Global Studies
SLAVIC 2230.99: Vampires, Monstrosity, and Evil: From Slavic Myth to Twilight (Online)
- Instructor: Lejla Vesković
Changing approaches to evil as embodied in vampires in East European folk belief & European & American pop culture; function of vampire & monster tales in cultural context, including peasant world & West from Enlightenment to now. Taught in English. Not open to students with credit for 2230 or 2230.99.
GEL Cultures and Ideas, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
SLAVIC 2365.99: Sports, Socialists, and Society in Russia and Eastern Europe (Online)
- Instructor: Andrey Ridling
This course looks at the development of sports as a substitute and arena for battle between countries, as well as the rise of sports culture more generally in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of nationhood, politics, and corporeality. In this course, students will learn about the history and culture of sports, spectatorship, fandom, the Cold War, and Central and Eastern Europe. Not open to students with credit for SLAVIC 2365.01.
GEL Cultures and Ideas, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations