2013 - 2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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RUSN 150W - Freshman Seminar Fall or Spring (4) Staff
Taught in English. Seminar focuses on specific Russian Cultural Studies topics and issues which may vary from semester to semester.
Topic for Fall
Russian Women’s Culture. (Prokhorov)
This seminar introduces students to gender, sexuality and women’s studies via representative visual and verbal texts in a historical perspective; examines the principles governing the construction of Russian womanhood during the twentieth century; analyzes Russian women’s own cultural production (film, literature, art, etc.) during approximately the same period; and glances briefly at notions of masculinity and their relevance to recent Russian culture.
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