RUSN 150 - Freshman Seminar

Fall (4) Prokhorov

Taught in English. Seminar focuses on specific Italian Literary and/ or Cultural Studies topics and issues which may vary from semester to semester. Topic and issue will be indicated in the schedule of classes. Topic: This seminar (1) introduces students to feminist theory and gender studies via representative visual and verbal texts in a historical perspective; (2) examines the principles governing the construction of Russian womanhood during the last thirty-five years; (3) analyzes Russian women’s own cultural production (film, literature, art, etc.) during approximately the same period; (4) glances briefly at notions of masculinity and their relevance to recent Russian culture.