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  • RUSSIAN 410: Topics in Russian Culture:The Art of Political Discourse

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. All modern states and political movements, whether liberal-democratic or authoritarian, elitist or populist, agrarian or industrial, speak the language of mass persuasion. The seven decades that formed the lifespan of the Soviet state saw the aggressive development of forms of mass communication aimed at shaping and controlling public opinion, popular support, and nonoppositioin. This seminar studies a range of Soviet propaganda media, from Agitprop, worker poetry, labor novel, factography, to the labor camp "conversion" tale and the propaganda poster, with particular attention to didactic, tropes, and myths designed to insure social cohesion and promote participation in the life of the nation. We explore the theoretical bases of Soviet propaganda in political theory, Russian theology, Marxist-Leninist ideology, and Russian modernism. One component of the course focuses on researching and documenting the Cooley Gallery's archival collection of late USSR propaganda posters and preparing materials for exhibition. Conference. Students taking the course for Russian credit meet in extra sessions. Cross-listed as Literature 410. Not offered 2009-10.
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  • RUSSIAN 419: Horror and Sublime in Russian Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. This course examines the emergence, meanings, and functions of the concept of "horror" and the aesthetic category of the sublime in modern (i.e., post-Petrine) Russian literature and art. We proceed from the premise that these categories enter Russian discourse as a consequence and symptom of Westernization and, as elements of "high" culture, are constitutive of a secular morality. We investigate how under the influence of Western philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic ideas, Russian writers and artists map and remap the realms of the acceptable and the unacceptable in Russian reality, framing the latter as the "horrible" both in tradition and in innovation. Finally, we study the ways in which they adapt the Western aesthetic category of the sublime to the task of insinuating exposés and critiques of the "horrid" into the discourse of repressive regimes. Our theoretical framework draws on canonical Western theories of the sublime. Primary texts include Radishchev, Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Herzen, Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Leskov, Chekhov, Garshin, Bely, Babel, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Evgeniia Ginzburg, Lidiia Ginzburg, Shalamov; painting s of the Peredvizhniki (The Wan derers), and 20th-century documentary photographers. Students who take the course for Russian credit meet for an additional weekly session to read parts of the texts in the original. Prerequisite for Russian credit: at least four semesters of Russian language. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 419. Not offered 2
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  • RUSSIAN 425: 20th Century Russian Jewish Literature and Culture:Text,Canvas,Screen

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. This course examines the problem of Jewish literature and the Jewish artist in the 20th century through investigating the Russian Jewish literary, artistic, and intellectual imagination since the early 1900s. While the Russian Jewish 20th-century artists felt themselves to be completely in and of the Russian tradition, shaping and revising it, their understanding of this tradition and the role of the Russian writer was challenged and complicated both by their sense of their Jewishness, and the overall project of modern Jewish artistic self-fashioning. We examine how these artists creatively approached their Jewishness and conceived of their place in Russian (and Soviet) literature and culture. We ask whether the Russian Jewish texts can be seen as forming a separate tradition and scrutinize various methodologies of defining a literary text in a non-Jewish language as Jewish. We pay close attention to ideological, historic, cultural, linguistic, and aesthetic contexts of the discourses involved: Russian modernist, Hebrew and Yiddish modernist, Soviet, dissident, and post-Soviet. Readings from Jabotinsky, Knut, Dubnow, Mandelshtam, Bagritsky, Babel, Ehrenburg, Grossman, Gorenshtein, Slutsky, and others. Prerequisite: students who wish to take the course for Russian credit must have completed Russian 220 or obtain the consent of the instructor. Lecture-conference. Cross-listed as Literature 425. Not offered 2009-10. Literature 425 Description
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  • RUSSIAN 435: Introduction to Russian Film

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. The course provides an introduction to the history and poetics of Russian film from the perspectives of Russian cultural contexts and the development of cinema as an artistic medium. While studying the masterpieces of Russian film, we pay special attention to silent cinema, from Bauer and Protazanov to Kuleshov, Pudovkin, Vertov, and Dovzhenko. Sergei Eisenstein's films are considered in detail, as are those by Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Paradzhanov, and Nikita Mikhalkov. The readings focus on film theory and film history. Prerequisite: students who wish to take the course for Russian credit must have completed Russian 220 or obtain the consent of the instructor. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 435. Not offered 2009-10. Literature 435 Description
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  • RUSSIAN 470: Thesis

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    One-half or full course for one year.
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  • RUSSIAN 481: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    One-half or full course for one semester. Prerequisite: approval of instructor and division.
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  • Sociology 211: Introduction to Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. An introduction to sociological perspectives on patterns of human conduct ranging from fleeting encounters in informal gatherings to historical processes of institutional persistence and change. Topics of discussion and research include the stratification of life chances, social honor and power in human populations, and the differentiation of these populations by gender, race, age, ethnicity, and other characteristics both achieved and ascribed; the integration of differentiated roles and statuses into systems capable of maintaining their structure beyond the life span of living individuals, and capable as well of revolutionary and evolutionary social change; and the interrelationships of familial, economic, political, educational, and religious institutions in the emerging world system of late modernity. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or consent of the instructor. Lecture-conference and computer lab.
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  • Sociology 242: Organizations,Stratification,and Race

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. Economic sociologists view economic activity as socially structured via networks, corporate hierarchies, associations, and state bureaucracies, as well as by systems of impersonal exchange. This course examines the social and institutional structures of economic life, and their effects on stratification, race, and the African American community. Topics include the rise of the corporation and "internal labor markets"; the role of unions, ethnic enclaves, and employment networks in allocating economic resources; the effects of civil rights law on corporate practice; the creation and transformation of welfare states; and how markets, public bureaucracies, and community organizations shape economic and political opportunities for African Americans. Prerequisite: Sociology 211 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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  • Sociology 244: Race and Ethnicity

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. This course is an introduction to the sociology of race and ethnic relations, with particular emphasis on the socially structured situations of African Americans. The course surveys general theoretical approaches to race and ethnicity, and applies them to specific historical developments in American race relations and the African American community. A central objective is to understand the conditions under which segregation, racial hierarchies, and racial conflict emerge. Topics include identity formation and assimilation; ethnic competition, internal colonialism, and split labor markets; the development of the racial state; residential segregation and the "underclass"; the role of schools and prisons in regulating labor markets; and the civil rights movement and the welfare state. Prerequisite: Sociology 211 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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  • Sociology 280: Social Movements

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. Why do some social movements fail, while others succeed The goal of this course is to introduce students to sociological theories of social movement success and failure. Through a review of classical and contemporary theories and case studies of women's liberation, gay liberation, abortion, civil rights, environmentalism, and the peace and disarmament movements, we will identify key analytical questions and research strategies for studying contemporary social movements in depth. Among the perspectives reviewed will be classical approaches (de Tocqueville, "mass society," and "relative deprivation"), as well as more recent perspectives that focus on rational choice, resource mobilization, political process, and new social movements. Prerequisite: Sociology 211 or consent of the instructor. Conferen
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