RUSS331: This course will introduce students to Russian culture and civilization through the medium of film. It offers a selection of films that reflect, respond to, and document cultural, social, political and ideological shifts, various historical transformations and developments of twentieth and twenty-first century Russia. Learn about major cultural periods including: the late Tsarist period, the October Revolution, Stalinism, Thaw, Stagnation, Perestroika and Glasnost, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet period. Russian is not prerequisite for this class as all the films are available with English subtitles.