RUSSIAN SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and debate major turning points in the social and intellectual history of the Russian empire. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain why imperial Russian subjects - and contemporary observers - were so preoccupied with the question of whether the country was a part of Europe. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze the relationship between the social conditions and intellectual trends that developed in the Russian empire to consider how they shaped one another. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop your own answer to the following question: how does the social and intellectual history of the Russian empire help you to situate the country, its conditions, and its peoples in the wider world? Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Communicate ideas, questions, and conclusions clearly in written and spoken form to make compelling arguments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Delineate and evaluate key historiographical debates in the social and intellectual history of the Russian empire. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and debate major turning points in the social and intellectual history of the Russian empire. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain why imperial Russian subjects - and contemporary observers - were so preoccupied with the question of whether the country was a part of Europe. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze the relationship between the social conditions and intellectual trends that developed in the Russian empire to consider how they shaped one another. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop your own answer to the following question: how does the social and intellectual history of the Russian empire help you to situate the country, its conditions, and its peoples in the wider world? Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Communicate ideas, questions, and conclusions clearly in written and spoken form to make compelling arguments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Delineate and evaluate key historiographical debates in the social and intellectual history of the Russian empire. Audience: Graduate