Academics
Departments and Classes
Students who are interested in Russian studies can major in different fields and take classes in a range of departments. We encourage students to explore the following:
SCHOOL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY GLOBAL STUDIES
Credit(s): 3
Area study courses are multi-disciplinary in nature and deal with one or more countries
of a region. Each course combines some measure of political, economic, historical,
religious, geographic, anthropological, and sociological analysis in dealing with
salient features and current problems.
Instructor: Dr. Golfo Alexopoulos
Credit(s): 3
Studies political systems with common elements. Structure, process, domestic and foreign
politics, and regional roles are considered.
Instructor: Dr. Golfo Alexopoulos
Credit(s): 3
Interdisciplinary studies with course content dependent on student demand and instructor’s
interest.
Instructor: Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Credit(s): 3
A survey of social, political, economic, and cultural development in the Russian Empire
from Peter the Great to Nicholas II. Topics include the expansion and modernization
of the Empire, the culture of the Imperial court, peasant rebellions, social and legal
reforms, the role of the West, and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty.
Instructor: Dr. Kees (Case) Boterbloem
Credit(s): 3
A study of Soviet society under communism from the Revolution to the collapse of the
USSR. Topics include the origins and development of revolutionary socialism, the Bolshevik
seizure of power, Stalinism and the Great Terror, popular dissent and resistance,
the treatment and experience of ethnic minorities, Gorbachev and the dissolution of
the Soviet Union.
Instructor: Dr. Kees (Case) Boterbloem
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an exposure to the discipline of history by examining a specific
historical issue and its relation to at least one of the following dimensions: race,
gender, ethnicity and international or environmental perspectives. Classes may focus
upon issues such as biography, labor, race relations or women's history.
Instructor: Dr. Golfo Alexopoulos
DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LANGUAGES
Credit(s): 3
Development of basic conversational skills.
Prerequisite(s): RUS 2221
Instructor: Dr. Victor Peppard
Credit(s): 3
A survey of the cultural history of Russia.
Instructor: Dr. Victor Peppard
Credit(s): 3
Development of conversational skills.
Prerequisite(s): RUS 3240 or equivalent.
Instructor: Dr. Victor Peppard
Credit(s): 3
Masterpieces of 19th Century Russian Literature in English. Works by Pushkin, Gogol,
Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov.
Restriction(s):
Junior Standing
Instructor: Dr. Victor Peppard
Credit(s): 3
Survey of the major authors of 20th Century Russian literature in English. Major works
of Babel, Bulgakov, Olesha, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Zamyatin.
Instructor: Dr. Victor Peppard