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Effective Term:
Fall 2019 through Summer 2021

Course Number:
RUS 241
Course Title:
Great Russian Writers-19th Century
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Introduces Russian literature's great writers of the 19th-century including, but not limited to Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Explores themes, genres, style, historical context, and social and cultural issues. Conducted in English and all readings in English. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  1. Use knowledge of Russian cultural concepts and historical events to interpret Russian literary texts and their meaning for the time period of 1825-1900.

  2. Make connections between Russian literary texts written during different Russian historical and political times from 1825-1900.

  3. Recognize literary conventions and use critical vocabulary with which to discuss and write about literature including, but not limited to: romanticism, realism, frame narrative, skaz narration, satire, and ostranenie.

Integrative Learning

Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.

Course Activities and Design

1. Lecture and Powerpoint presentations

2. Small and large group discussions with guided discussion questions

3. Class discussions with guided discussion questions

4. Think-pair-share

5. Collaborative groups

6. Videos

Outcome Assessment Strategies

The following tools may be used to assess students' progress in the course:

1.      Large group discussions

2.      Small group discussions

3.      Response journals

4.      Short analytical essays

5.      Longer analytical essays

6.      Oral presentations

7.      Quizzes

8.      Written or oral exams

9.      Creative project

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

THEMES, CONCEPTS, ISSUES

1.       Literary genres

2.      Literary themes

3.       Literary conventions and allusions

4.       Literary vocabulary

5.       Narrative devices

6.       Analysis and synthesis

7.       Contextualization

8.       Critical reading and thinking

9.       Essay and response writing

10.     Close reading and explication

11.     Cultural and historical influences

12.     欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网ment of early 19th century literature

13.     Romanticism in Russian literature and painting

14.     Peter the Great and the founding of St. Petersburg

15.     Myth of St. Petersburg and its depictions in Russian literature

16.     Peter the Great’s Table of Ranks and role of social rank in tsarist society

17.     The role of the writer in Russian culture

18.     Gambling in Russian literature

19.     Russian superstitions

20.     Russian cultural beliefs about fate and suffering

21.     Oppression of Jews and other ethnic minorities in tsarist Russia

22.     Oppression of Russian serfs as a social class

23.     Effects of 1861 emancipation of serfs on Russian society

24.     Russian culture and society in mid-late 19th century

25.     Urban growth and poverty in mid 19th century

26.     欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网ment of mid to late 19th century literature

27.     Realism in Russian literature and painting

28.     Russian funeral and death traditions

29.     Russian culture and society in mid-late 19th century

30.     Civil unrest at end of 19th century

31.     Russian cultural beliefs about the tsar, fate, suffering, mental illness, the devil, and death.

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

1.       Analysis

2.       Synthesis

3.       Understanding literary texts through contexts such as society, politics, artistic conventions,        multiple interpretations of an author, etc.

4.       Writing about literature using supporting evidence from texts

5.       Close readings

6.       Speaking and listening reflectively

7.       Small-group collaboration