Tyler Larsen, Jennifer Bown, Russian Department Introduction “Russian for Professional Purposes” was a project to design a curriculum that would teach students a way to independently specialize their Russian. The course directed students to choose a professional field and then do activities. Activities built vocabulary and confidence in communicating about and for the profession. During the […]
Russian for Professional Purposes: An Experiential and Instruction Based Approach to Advanced Competency Within the Russian Language
David Joseph, Dr. Tony Brown and Dr. Yekaterina Jordan, Department of German and Russian Introduction Originally, this project aimed to increase Russian language fluency in the legal domain by developing an advanced-level course titled “Russian for Professional Purposes.” As progress in course development proceeded, it was moved into conceptualizing the project as a whole and then […]
Bridging Two Fields: Game Theory and Crime and Punishment
Sarah Matthews and Faculty Mentor: Mark Purves, Russian Introduction Many scholars have drawn on the tools of Game Theory to explore the Humanities as a whole, but have failed to make sense of the great contributions of Russian literature. In fact, the only two articles dealing with Russian literary works and Game Theory were made […]
Generational Attitudes Reflected through Soviet Socialist Realism
Herdman, Kelsey Generational Attitudes Reflected through Soviet Socialist Realism Faculty Mentor: Tony Brown, Russian Introduction In his biography “Raising the Banner” artist Geli Korzhev, a Socialist Realist artist, believes that Socialist Realism should have been titled as “social realism”; that “socialism is associated with politics but it should be aimed at social issues,” and that […]