printer friendly pageSLAVIC 36: Dangerous Ideas (ARTHIST 36, COMPLIT 36A, EALC 36, ENGLISH 71, ETHICSOC 36X, FRENCH 36, HISTORY 3D, MUSIC 36H, PHIL 36, POLISCI 70, RELIGST 36X, TAPS 36)
Ideas matter. Concepts such as progress, technology, and sex, have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like cultural relativism and historical memory, play an important role in contemporary debates in the United States. All of these ideas are contested, and they have a real power to change lives, for better and for worse. In this one-unit class we will examine these "dangerous" ideas. Each week, a faculty member from a different department in the humanities and arts will explore a concept that has shaped human experience across time and space.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 117: The Eurasian World From Plato to NATO: History, Politics, and Culture (HISTORY 127, POLISCI 142, REES 117, REES 217)
The course explores the history, politics and culture of the Eurasian space, covering themes such as the rise and fall of civilizations; political and ideological movements; literature and art; and geopolitics. See
HISTORY 127 for section schedule details.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Grzymala-Busse, A. (PI)
;
Lawton, D. (PI)
;
Weiner, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Grzymala-Busse, A. (PI)
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Lawton, D. (PI)
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Weiner, A. (PI)
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Kutlu Karasu, R. (TA)
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Song, H. (TA)
SLAVIC 148: Slavic Literature and Culture since the Death of Stalin (REES 348, SLAVIC 348)
The course offers a survey of Soviet and post-Soviet literary texts and films created by Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian artists and marginalized or repressed by the Soviet regime. The first part of the course will focus on the topics of opposition and dissent, generational conflict, modernization, Soviet everyday life, gender, citizenship and national identity, state-published and samizdat literature, "village" and "cosmopolitan" culture, etc. The second part of it will be devoted to the postmodernist aesthetics and ideology in the dismantlement of totalitarian society, as well in the process of shaping post-Soviet identities. The reading materials range from the fictional, poetic, and publicistic works written by Noble-prize (Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, Alexievich) and other major writers of the period to the drama, film, and popular culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Ilchuk, Y. (PI)
;
Page, S. (TA)
SLAVIC 152: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (SLAVIC 252)
Students will study passages of War and Peace in the original Russian.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVIC 194: De-Colonizing Theater in Eastern Europe and Russia (SLAVIC 394)
In "De-Colonizing Theater," we will uncover fertile interactions among the innovative, rebellious drama and theater practices of central-eastern European countries and Russia as they have co-inhabited mobile territories and histories (1824-2024). Texts and their modern performances (filmed or video) will be available to be read and viewed in the original languages (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Czech, Lithuanian), and of course in translation. Mixed lecture/seminar format, with two presentations and one paper.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
SLAVIC 199: Individual Work for Undergraduates
Open to Russian majors or students working on special projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
SLAVIC 230: 18th Century Russian Literature
This course traces major trends in 18th-century Russian literature, from baroque and neoclassical poetry to sentimentalist prose. Although the course introduces students to the major historical and literary contexts of the period, it is primarily concerned with developing students' close-reading strategies. We focus mainly on connected questions of genre, prosody and style, thematics and also narrative voice, particularly from the perspectives of gender and class.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Lawton, D. (PI)
SLAVIC 252: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (SLAVIC 152)
Students will study passages of War and Peace in the original Russian.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVIC 348: Slavic Literature and Culture since the Death of Stalin (REES 348, SLAVIC 148)
The course offers a survey of Soviet and post-Soviet literary texts and films created by Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian artists and marginalized or repressed by the Soviet regime. The first part of the course will focus on the topics of opposition and dissent, generational conflict, modernization, Soviet everyday life, gender, citizenship and national identity, state-published and samizdat literature, "village" and "cosmopolitan" culture, etc. The second part of it will be devoted to the postmodernist aesthetics and ideology in the dismantlement of totalitarian society, as well in the process of shaping post-Soviet identities. The reading materials range from the fictional, poetic, and publicistic works written by Noble-prize (Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, Alexievich) and other major writers of the period to the drama, film, and popular culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Ilchuk, Y. (PI)
;
Page, S. (TA)
SLAVIC 394: De-Colonizing Theater in Eastern Europe and Russia (SLAVIC 194)
In "De-Colonizing Theater," we will uncover fertile interactions among the innovative, rebellious drama and theater practices of central-eastern European countries and Russia as they have co-inhabited mobile territories and histories (1824-2024). Texts and their modern performances (filmed or video) will be available to be read and viewed in the original languages (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Czech, Lithuanian), and of course in translation. Mixed lecture/seminar format, with two presentations and one paper.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
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