RUSN: Russian

RUSN 1998  Individualized Studies in Russian (RUSN)  (1-8 Credits)  

Students have the opportunity to develop individualized studies with their mentor in Russian (RUSN). Please contact your mentor/advisor for more details.

RUSN 2998  Individualized Studies in Russian (RUSN)  (1-8 Credits)  

Students have the opportunity to develop individualized studies with their mentor in Russian (RUSN). Please contact your mentor/advisor for more details.

RUSN 3998  Individualized Studies in Russian (RUSN)  (1-8 Credits)  

Students have the opportunity to develop individualized studies with their mentor in Russian (RUSN). Please contact your mentor/advisor for more details.

RUSN 4005  Leo Tolstoy’s Later Works  (4 Credits)  

This course will focus on Tolstoy’s famous later works ('The Death of Ivan Ilych,' The Kreutzer Sonata,' and the late great novella of Chechen courage, Hadji Murad), as well as polemical essays on art and religion ('A Confession'), and the last novel Resurrection . Students will unravel Tolstoy's radical ideas on narrative, history and the formation of a moral self, as well as poetics of his novelistic prose. This is course is an elective, advanced writing skills are required.

Attributes: Humanities Gen Ed, Liberal

RUSN 4010  Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace & Anna Karenina  (4 Credits)  

'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' are two major novels of Leo Tolstoy. Being masterpieces of realistic fiction, they, at the same time, undermine many literary conventions. Tolstoy’s ideas about narrative, history, causation, and the formation of a workable moral self will be explored. Such topics as political and social reform; evolving societal attitudes towards women; family and sexual relations; marriage and divorce; religion and spirituality; Russian attitudes towards nature and national consciousness will be also addressed. Prerequisites: advanced writing skills This is course is an elective, advanced writing skills are required.

Attributes: Humanities Gen Ed, Liberal

RUSN 4015  Masterpieces of Russian 19th & 20th Century Literature  (4 Credits)  

This course is a study of some of the celebrated works of the Russian 19th and 20th century, from Pushkin through Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Akmatova to Solzenitzyn. Topics that will be addressed include love, family, sexuality and gender, living through Stalinist terror, forms of resistance to terror. Prerequisites: advanced writing skills This is course is an elective, advanced writing skills are required.

Attributes: Liberal

RUSN 4998  Individualized Studies in Russian (RUSN)  (1-8 Credits)  

Students have the opportunity to develop individualized studies with their mentor in Russian (RUSN). Please contact your mentor/advisor for more details.