Russian Journalism (in Russian)

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course guides Russian students in developing one of the most important - but most challenging - skills they will need as language learners: navigating the specialized discourse of SMI, or mass media. Students will learn to navigate the changing Russophone media landscape and regularly discuss how various organs present current events in class. In addition, the course will examine how documentary and journalistic modes of knowledge inform Russian artistic culture, from the revolutionary documentary filmmaking of Dziga Vertov to the Nobel Prize-winning writing of Svetlana Alexievich to the influential graphic journalism of the cartoonist Victoria Lomasko.