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Science and Society 469
Pushkin, Delvig, Baratynsky, Lermontov, Nekrasov,
Tjutchev, and Fet. Conducted in Russian. Offered in
alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum.
128. Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry (4)
Discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite:
course 6. Introduction to principles of Russian versification
followed by historical and poetic analysis of
the following figures: Brjusov, Blok, Akhmatova,
Mandelshtam, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Pasternak,
Evtushenko, Voznesensky, and Brodsky. Conducted
in Russian. Offered in alternate years. GE
credit: ArtHum.—III.
129. Russian Film (4)
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper; film viewing—3
hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A
requirement. History of Russian film; film and social
revolution, the cult of Stalin, dissident visions; film
and the collapse of the Soviet empire; gender and
the nation in Russian film. In English; films with English
subtitles. Offered in alternate years. GE credit:
ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—II.
130. Contemporary Russian Culture (4)
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: upper
division standing or consent of instructor. Current
trends in Russian culture and the relationship
between artists and the government. Topics include
history of censorship, official and dissident art,
recent changes in the cultural scene. Knowledge of
Russian not required. Offered in alternate years. GE
credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(III.)
131. Literature of Revolution (4)
Lecture—3 hours; essays. Prerequisite: History 3 or
4C, and/or any introductory literature course. Study
of impact of revolution on society and culture; the
major artistic, political and historical works surrounding
the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
132. Nature and Culture in Russia (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
any introductory course in environmental studies.
History of the environmental movement in Russia
from the 1920’s to the present, showing the influence
of Stalinism on environmental ethics; concepts
of society and nature in Russian literature and film;
international implications of Russian environmental
policy. Knowledge of Russian is not required. GE
credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(I.)
138. Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (4)
Lecture/Discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite:
course 101C, or consent of instructor. Detailed
analyses of Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin; its style,
syntax, and links to Russian History and culture. GE
Credit: ArtHum, Div, Wri.—II.
139. Pushkin (in English) (4)
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. The life
and works of Pushkin, the most prominent poet of
Russia. Evaluations of Pushkin by both Russian and
Western scholars. Images of Pushkin and the official
myths that surround him. No knowledge of Russian
required. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(I.)
140. Dostoevsky (in English) (4)
Lecture—3 hours. Reading and analysis of Dostoevsky’s
principal works such as Crime and Punishment,
The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and The
Diary. Study of social and political views as reflected
in Dostoevsky’s works. Offered in alternate years.
GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(III.)
141. Tolstoy (in English) (4)
Lecture—3 hours. Study of Leo Tolstoy’s literary evolution
and moral quest. Readings include his Confession,
a major novel such as War and Peace or Anna
Karenina, and representative shorter fiction. Offered
in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I.
142. Women’s Autobiography (in English)
(4)
Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour; term paper.
Prerequisite: any introductory course in literature. An
examination of Russian women’s autobiography
from the 18th through the 20th centuries, emphasizing
the way in which the genre of autobiography
serves as a means of the writer’s creation of herself,
as opposed to her definition by others. Offered in
alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.
143. Alexander Solzhenitsyn (4)
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite:
any introductory literature course or consent of
instructor. Examination of the literary and political
writings of the major Russian dissident in the biographical
context in which they were created.
Knowledge of Russian not required. GE credit:
ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(II.)
144. Christ and Literature (4)
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Consideration of the
intersection of literature, culture, and (at times heretical/blasphemous)
theology in Russia and elsewhere.
Analysis of texts; discussion of historical contexts
and related philosophical approaches to the New
Testament. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.)
150. Russian Culture (4)
Discussion—3 hours; term paper. Knowledge of Russian
not required. Study of Russian culture in nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Brief introduction of
the beginnings up to nineteenth century. Russian art,
music, philosophy, church, traditions, and daily life.
Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div,
Wrt.—II. (II.)
151. Writers and Censorship in Russia and
the Soviet Union (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
any introductory literature course or consent of
instructor. Literature and censorship in Russia. Personal
responsibility of the author vs. conformism to
state morality. Russian myths and Russian realities.
GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—I.
154. Russian Folklore (4)
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Knowledge of Russian
not required. Russian folklore, rituals, and history
will be analyzed and compared with folklore of
other peoples. Sociological implications of attitudes
toward family unit, children, etc. Influences of folklore
on Russian literature and historiography.
Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div,
Wrt.—II. (II.)
159. Yiddish Literature in Translation (4)
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Major writers
of Yiddish in English translation; major genres of
Yiddish literature from the mid-19th century to the
present. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.—III.
166. Representations of Sexuality in
Russian Literature (4)
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Women’s
Studies 50 or introductory psychology. Sexuality in
Russian oral and written literature from a dual, feminist-psychoanalytic
perspective. Monogamy, free
love, sexism, homosexuality, incest, androgyny, and
others as depicted by such writers as Pushkin,
Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Blok, Tolstaia,
and others. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.
192. Research Essay (2)
Prerequisite: a Russian literature course (may be
taken concurrently). A research essay, based on primary
and secondary sources, dealing in depth with
a topic arising from or related to the prerequisite literature
course. May be repeated for credit.
194H. Special Study for Honors Students
(4)
Independent study—4 hours. Prerequisite: open only
to majors of senior standing who qualify for honors
program. Guided research, under the direction of a
faculty member, leading to a senior honors thesis on
a topic in Russian studies.
195H. Honors Thesis (4)
Independent study—4 hours. Prerequisite: course
194H. Writing an honors thesis, under the direction
of a faculty member, on a topic in Russian studies.
198. Directed Group Study (1-5)
(P/NP grading only.)
199. Special Study for Advanced
Undergraduates (1-5)
(P/NP grading only.)
Science and Society
(College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
David M. Rizzo, Ph.D., Program Director
Program Office. 156 Hutchison Hall
(530) 754-9506
Committee in Charge
Thomas R. Gordon, Ph.D., Professor
(Plant Pathology)
Susan B. Kaiser, Ph.D., Professor
(Textiles and Clothing)
Kathryn Radke, Ph.D., Associate Professor
(Animal Science)
David S. Reid, Ph.D., Professor
(Food Science and Technology)
Carl K. Winter, Ph.D., Specialist in Cooperative
Extension (Food Science and Technology)
Faculty
Arnold Bloom, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Sciences)
Richard M. Bostock, Ph.D., Professor
(Plant Pathology)
George Bruening, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Pathology)
James Carey, Ph.D., Professor (Entomology)
Douglas R. Cook, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Pathology)
Edward Caswell-Chen, Ph.D., Professor
(Nematology)
Douglas R. Cook, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Pathology)
Peter Cranston, Ph.D., Professor (Entomology)
Randy Dahlgren, Ph.D., Professor
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)
R. Michael Davis, Ph.D., Professor and Specialist in
Cooperative Extension (Plant Pathology)
Lynn Epstein, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Pathology)
Albert Fischer, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Sciences)
Graham Fogg, Ph.D., Professor
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)
Thomas R. Gordon, Ph.D., Professor
(Plant Pathology)
Penny Gullan, Ph.D., Professor (Entomology)
Peter Hernes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)
Marie Jasieniuk, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
(Plant Sciences)
Susan B. Kaiser, Ph.D., Professor
(Textiles and Clothing)
Annie King, Ph.D., Professor (Animal Science)
James D. Murray, Ph.D., Professor (Animal Science)
Terrence Nathan, Ph.D., Professor
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)
Donald Nevins, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Sciences)
Dan E. Parfitt, Ph.D., Professor (Pomology)
Gregory Pasternack, Ph.D., Associate Professor
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)
Kathryn Radke, Ph.D., Associate Professor
(Animal Science)
David S. Reid, Ph.D., Professor
(Food Science and Technology)
David Rizzo, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Pathology)
Pamela C. Ronald, Ph.D., Professor (Plant Pathology)
Wendy Silk, Ph.D., Professor
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)
Barry W. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor
(Animal Science, Environmental Toxicology)
Carl K. Winter, Ph.D., Specialist in Cooperative
Extension (Food Science and Technology)
The Program. Science and Society is an interdepartmental
teaching program administered by the
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
that offers students throughout the campus the opportunity
to discover the connections that link the social,
biological, and physical sciences with societal issues
and cultural discourses. Course work examines discovery
processes in relation to societal values, public
policy and ethics, including issues associated with
cultural diversity. Whenever possible, opportunities
outside the classroom are included as part of the
learning experience.
The Science and Society teaching program serves
students of all majors and interests. It can allow
lower division students who have not yet declared a
major a meaningful context for exploring diverse
Quarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2009-2010 offering in parentheses
General Education (GE) credit: ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Social-Cultural Diversity; Wrt=Writing Experience