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Academic Year 2000/2001

Women in Russia: 1825-2000
RUSS 257 FA

This course looks at the conditions of women in Russia today and then traces how these conditions have evolved during the past two centuries. It is an interdisciplinary course, combining literary studies with the relatively new field of Russian women's history. In both fields, students will address topics that historians and literary scholars have only recently addressed: traditional family structure of Russian peasants, 19th-century gentry family structure, changes in women's roles and women's consciousness as a result of modernizing trends (urbanization, exposure to western cultures), women's liberation as an aspect of the Russian Revolution and Soviet society, modern Russian literature's focus on relations between men and women, the emergence of women authors (Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam, and Akhmatova) as leading authorities of contemporary Russia.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RUSS    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): White,Duffield   

Times: ..T.... 02:40PM-04:00PM; ....T.. 02:40PM-04:00PM;     Location: FISK114

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 19)

SR. major: X   Jr. major: X

SR. non-major: X   Jr. non-major: X   SO: X   FR: 19

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Speaking, Writing, Focused Inquiry Course

FYI:    First Year Initiative:Seminar

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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