Department of Russian and Slavic Studies Condemns Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Feb. 26, 2022

The Department of Russian and Slavic Studies condemns Russia’s assault on Ukraine. The University of Arizona is the home of many scholars and students who have spent their lives studying Ukraine, Russia, and other nations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Many of us are from the region, have family and friends suffering there, and are heartbroken by the war and its toll on Ukraine and Eastern Europe. As a department within the College of Humanities, we are dedicated to educating students to become concerned, global citizens. We abhor war and violence and urge leaders and citizens around the world to do everything in their power to put an end to this war, help those affected by it, promote peace in the region, and end the humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine.

RSSS 910 - Thesis

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Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing).

Units
1-6
Grade Basis
Alternative Grading: S, P, F

RSSS 699 - Independent Study

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Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.

Units
1-5
Grade Basis
Alternative Grading: S, P, F

RSSS 696E - Post-Soviet Literature and Culture of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia

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This course provides an in-depth overview of the major literary and artistic trends of the late 20th Century to the present day, surveying the transition from the Soviet to post-Soviet period, with a special focus on how Postmodernism interacts with and/or reflects the Post-Soviet condition. Students will explore a variety of responses to the legacy of state communism and the transition to a new political and economic regime. We will discuss the rise of Postmodernism in the late 20th century and its relation to the period of transition in the 1990s. Students will be able to discuss recurrent themes in this multinational literature (such as paranoia, carnival, dislocation, corporeal experience, crime and mafia, nostalgia) and the varied literary techniques employed (palimpsest texts, unreliable narrators, misdirection and mystification, use of popular genres, metanarrative). Finally, we will consider how the literary traditions of the region evolve and respond to contemporary events and trends in the 21st century as the various nations in the region embark on a search for a post-Soviet national identity.

Units
3
Grade Basis
Regular Grades

RSSS 696A - Topics in Slavic Literature and Culture

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The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.

Units
3
Grade Basis
Regular Grades
Course Attributes
GIDP: Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR)
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