Vermont Summer Session Courses

Review a listing of graduate courses at the School of Russian in Vermont. Course descriptions and required texts are subject to change.
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- Advanced Russian for Graduate Students
- Difficult Moments in Russian Vocabulary
- Intellectual Conversation: Advanced Speaking
- Philosophical Thought and Discussion
- Advanced Creative Writing in Russian
- Russian Idiomatic Syntax
- Language/Anti-Language of Social Media
- Reading Dovlatov in Wartime: Text, Context, Intertext
- Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukraine and Russia
- Contemporary Russia in the Mirror of Literature
- Russian Literature in Exile: Experience of the 20th Century
- Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment
- Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin
- Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
- Decolonization & War in Post-Soviet Space: Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia, Central Asia
- Russia’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
- Russia & Europe in the 21st Century
- Post-Soviet Cinema
- Ideology on the Screen: Cinematic Adaptations of Russian and Soviet Literature
- History of Rock in the USSR & Russia
- Politics, Culture, Ecology: Youth Protest in Russia of the 21st Century