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Take aRussian, East Europeanand Eurasian Studies Coursein Spring2027!Checkthe courses below that will be offered by the Program in Russian, East Europeanand Eurasian Studiesin spring2027. Courses listed below are taught in English and are open to all CU-Boulder students.Visit and search for "REES" for culture classes taught in English, and“RUSS” for classes taught in Russian in spring2027.  REES 2222 - Sports & the Cold War Arts Sci Core Curr: Historical Context  REES 2241 - Death and the Undead in Slavic and Nordic Cultures  REES 3221 - Space Race in Russian and American Culture Explores facts and fantasies of American and Soviet cultural narratives accompanying the Space Race, focusing on the production of recorded history as a process of mythmaking during the Cold War. Ponders the significance of presenting astronauts as national heroes and constructing national identities around the triumphs and failures of the competing space programs in science, art, music, film, and journalism. Formerly RUSS 3221.  REES 3241– Red Star Trek: Russian Science Fiction Between Utopia and Dystopia Examines Russo-Soviet science fiction in literature and film. Within this popular genre, writers conceive and criticize social utopias, thus creating works situated between the poles of utopia and dystopia. Through discussions of Soviet and post-Soviet science fiction the course introduces a Russo-Soviet "alternative modernity" and studies its historical development. All readings are in English. Taught in English.  REES 3251– Arctic Thrillers: Environment, Landscape and Literature of the Far North Explores 19th- and 20th-century Russian and Nordic literature, film and television with a special emphasis on the role of extremes of geography and climate and physical space on the development of plot and character. Taught in English.  REES3333 - Spies Like Us: Espionage in the Culture of the Cold War and Beyond Arts Sci Core Curr: Contemporary Societies  REES 4251 - Russian and Soviet Queer Culture Explores the contributions to Russian/Soviet literature, film, and the performing arts by such LGBTQ cultural icons as Nikolai Gogol, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sergei Eisenstein, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The course also surveys the history of social and legal restrictions on non-heteronormative behaviors in Russia from the medieval period to the present, with an emphasis on the emergence of LGBT rights activism and the reactionary rise of homophobia as a tool of nationalist politics in Putin's Russia. Formerly RUSS 4251.  REES 4481 - Rogues to Revolutionaries: Russian Rebels, Past and Present Surveys Russian intellectual and political history and introduces students to the Russian, European, and American ideas that have fueled Russian revolt from the medieval period to the present day. From the eighteenth-century uprisings of enslaved peasants and national minorities to the nineteenth-century revolutionary terrorism and the oppositional activism in the Putin era, the course traces the shifting ideology of dissent. Starting from the eighteenth-century popular uprisings, this course goes systematically through Russia’s major rebels until the present day: Cossacks, Decembrists, Populists, Anarchists, Socialists, Soviet-era Dissidents, LGBTQ+ activists, and contemporary liberals and leftists of different stripes. Course materials include a variety of media: historical documents, literary texts, films, paintings, newspaper articles, songs, internet videos, as well as readings in Russian history. All readings are in English. No previous knowledge of Russian language or culture is required. Formerly RUSS 4481. RUSS 1010 - Beginning Russian 1 For students with no previous training in Russian. Visit and search for “RUSS” for other Russian language courses. |