FEATURED SEMINAR Spring 2010

RUSI 2001 Introduction to Russian Studies
TTh 11-12:15 (35311)
What are the basic patterns of Russian culture, and how different/similar are they to American experience and Western civilization?
 
Russian Land, People and History  · Language and Literature  · Intellectual Thought and Religion  · Wars and Revolutions  · Youth and Education  · Family and Gender · Cuisine, Holidays and Customs · Folklore and Popular Culture  · Art and Architecture · Music, Theatre and Dance  · Media and Film
 
Taught in English. No knowledge of Russian required.
 
 
HNRS 2116 Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar in the Humanities
 
"At the Boundaries of the Permissible: Art, Politics, and Entertainment in Russian and American Contexts"
001 W 2-5 Bate 2011 (35316)
Through famous but once banned or partially censored books and films such as Doctor Zhivago, Lolita, Master and Margarita, Ivan the Terrible, Andrey Rublev, Solaris, The Russians Are Coming, and Borat, to name a few, we will try to understand why civilization is inseparable from censorship of all kinds (political, aesthetic, religious, erotic, etc.), and why from antiquity to the modern digital age, "thought control" has been a tool of authoritarian and liberal democracies alike.

with Dr. Elena Murenina
murneinae@ecu.edu
313 Austin · (252) 328-5521