FEATURED SEMINAR Fall 2011

RUSS 2120 Introduction to Russian Culture (FC:HU)
MW 2-3:15 Bate 1009 (82552), also available in Honors section 299 (82554)
This interdisciplinary course will introduce you to one of the most exciting and mysterious cultures in the world. By examining masterpieces of Russian literature, art, music, and film you will learn how to appreciate and analyze literary and visual texts in the complexity of their historical, political and aesthetic contexts.
 
Among the topics covered will be Russian avant-garde art and cinema; medieval hagiography writings and icon painting of Kiev and Muscovy; baroque and neo-classical architecture and parks of St. Petersburg within the cultural origins of Russian poetry; Russian prose of the "Golden Age," and its impact on the emotional content of national opera and ballet; Chekhov's drama and Stanislavsky’s theatre; animated cartoons inspired by Russian folk tales and traditional decorative crafts, and more.
 
No knowledge of Russian is required. All Russian films will be shown with English subtitles. May count toward either Humanities/Cultural Diversity or Russian Studies major/minor requirements.
 
 
RUSS 1001 Russian Level I
 
I would like to share with you my admiration for the artistic traditions and culture of this beautiful land. Pushkin and Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, Eisenstein and Tarkovsky, Kandinsky and Chagall, Pavlova and Nijinsky, Nabokov and Brodsky… Russian culture is amazing! The gateway to them all is Russian 1001. Russian will be the official language of the 2014 Games in Sochi and the 2018 World Cup in Moscow.
001 MWF 11-11:50 Bate 1024 (82550) with

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