RJ_750 Contemporary Russia: Humanities Survey

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ksenija Demeneva, CSc. (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable of Seminar Groups
RJ_750/01: Mon 1. 11. to Fri 5. 11. each working day 8:00–11:40 A31
RJ_750/02: Wed 18:00–19:40 Virtuální místnost
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
Course objectives (in Czech)
This course is set to form a conception of the contemporary image of Russia. During the 30-years period there have been several changes in the politics, economy and culture determined by the process of globalization and the movement to democratization and social structures reforming. The course is devoted to the Russian literature and language. It is meant to reveal the problems of the contemporary literature and criticism, and so called post-folklore, the digital projects and digitalization, changes in theatre and drama (including anti-theatre and non-stage reading as a form of a new drama performance). Moreover, it is planned to describe the main changes in the Russian language, to highlight the active process in speech, their sources and the problems of codification. The Russian language picture of the world is to be the center of that part of the course. The priorities and main points of it will be definitely described.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 1. Tourism in Russia. Travel sphere and business.
  • 2. Volunteer sphere in Russia. Projects, problems, perspectives.
  • 3. The “Total dictation” and other non-state (and non-political) actions.
  • 4. Urban studies. City as a multi-space. City multi-talking. Case of multilanguage advertisements in Saint-Petersburg.
  • 5. Gender: theories and problems. The struggle for women rights, the Third wave of feminism (the Russian variant). Family models (cases).
  • 6. Sociology of technology. Technology vs private space. Social networks and their role in the life of common people.
  • 7. The Russian mass-media and their role in the contemporary Russian society. Internet-media, authentic and not. The Internet resources.
  • 8. Education in Russia: effective models and other. The perspectives of private education, homeschooling, unschooling. Digital learning. Movement to online education because of COVID-problem. The private universities and their problems. Cases.
  • 9. Agriculture and country life. Development and social problems. Private traders, markets. Cases.
  • 10. Innovations and technologies in the social life. Theme research in leader companies of digital economics.
  • 11. Big companies, state corporations and “the resource curse”. Cases of big private and state companies.
  • 12. National problems and the Russian society. Islam in Russia. The problem of work migration. Stories of multinational society (victories and failures).
  • 13. Movement from the one-party system to the multi-party system and back. The politics of stability and the bracing-effect. The victory in the Second World War as a national value and a sacral act.
  • 14. The problems of small and medium business. The effect of the “Restaurant day” in Nizhny Novgorod (case). Business-lectures as a sell-tool.
  • 15. Ecological problems. Recycling as a social marker. Chernobyl as experience. The Russian North: work, tourism, the nuclear waste burials.
Teaching methods (in Czech)
The course combines active lections with active seminars as the main forms of teaching. In provides the most effective pedagogical techniques and the digital tools that can be applied in the future courses or disciplines.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
It is planned to organize the colloquium in the end of the course (as the final work). Students are to deal with the cases representing the main themes of the course.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020.
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