RUSSIAN CULTURE
CULTURA RUSSA
The milestones of Russian culture
Gli snodi fondamentali della cultura russa
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| 2020/2021 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Giuseppe Ghini | Please contact the professor by email |
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Course partially taught in a foreign language
Russian
This course is taught partially in Italian and partially in a foreign language. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to present the milestones of Russian culture, which embody longue-durée values, the so-called konstanty russkoj kul'tury.
At the same time, the course aims to enable the students to effectively communicate what they have learnt and to argue for their own view.
Program
1. Culture. Russian culture: periodization.
2. The Slavs before Baptism. The Zadruga.
3. Christianization and its cultural consequences.
4. The long Russian Middle Age. The rise of Moscow. Moscow the Third Rome.
5. Power and Russian culture in XVI-XVII centuries.
6. Characters of XVII century: samozvanstvo. Avvakum and the schism.
7. The renovatio Petri. Russian neoclassicism and baroque.
8. Russia after Peter the Great. Catherine II and her influence on Russian culture. The rise of Russian intelligencija.
9. Čaadaev. The Occidentalists. The Slavophiles. Ideological radicalization during 19th c.
10. Culture and art in 19th c. The Russian writer and his status. The great Russian literature.
11. Life at the eve of Russian Revolution. The Revolution as a cultural event.
12. The culture of the "new Soviet man". "Differently-thinking-people". A day in the life of a Soviet boy.
13. The raspad. The savage Nineties.
14. The new Russian conscience of the 2000's.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding
Knowledge of a culture approach
Awareness of the relationship between truth and prejudice
Applying knowledge and understanding
Ability to recongnize one's own cultural prejudices
Awereness of the dialectic between universal and particular values
Making judgements
Ability to create and independent view of the cultural processes in Russia
Learning skills
Independent interpretation of the cultural events in Russia
Communication skills
Ability to convey clearly and coherently the contents of the lessons to specialists and non-specialists interlocutors
Ability to convey with accuracy and effectiveness the contents of the lessons to specialists and non-specialists interlocutors
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lessons with audiovisual support
- Course books
P. Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. Dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
Extra materials will be given out in class.
- Assessment
The exam consists of a brief essay (about 1200 words) in which the students have to apply what they have learnt to a partially new topic. The exam lasts 2 hours.
In addition to the content, the evaluation will also specifically consider the students' ability of clearly, coherently, and effectively communicating and arguing for his own views.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Independent study
- Course books
F. Conte, Gli Slavi. La civiltà dell'Europa centrale ed orientale, Torino, Einaudi, tutto tranne i segg. capitoli: Libro A, V; Libro E, I, II, III; Libro F, II, IV.1 e 2; Libro G, II.4. P. Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. Dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi, 2013. V. Zaslavsky, Storia del sistema sovietico. L'ascesa, la stabilità, il crollo, Roma, NIS, 1995. F. Benaroya, L'economia della Russia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
- Assessment
The exam consists of a brief essay (about 1200 words) in which the students have to apply what he learned to a partially new topic. The exam lasts 2 hours.
As an evaluation criteria, apart from the content, will be considered the student's ability of clearly, coherently and effectively communicating and arguing for his own views.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Notes
During the course specific activities will be devoted to enabling the students to write the final essay.
Beginning from academic year 2014-15 the course lasts one academic year.
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