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RUS-3314: Survey of Twentieth-Century Russian Literature in Translation

Description: Masterpieces of the twentieth-century Russian literature. Symbolist, Acmeist and Futurist poetry, modernist and postmodernist prose such as Mikhail Bulgakovs The Master and Margarita, and Viktor Pelevins Life of Insects. Terminology, practice, and standard methods of literary analysis. Interactions between major political events, social and literary movement. Aesthetic and rhetorical strategies. Taught in English.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENGL-1106 or ENGL-1204H

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 9

Average GPA: 3.66 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 56.31%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.97%

Yuliya Minkova201862.8%31.6%1.3%1.3%0.0%2.9%3.563
Trevor T Wilson202285.7%14.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.881
Anna R Stauffer202480.3%15.2%3.0%0.0%1.5%0.0%3.723
Robert O Efird201566.7%33.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.651
Kirsten Rutsala202353.3%46.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.551

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