Independent Study

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All majors complete a one-semester Independent Study project in junior year and a two-semester senior I.S. thesis.Working closely with a faculty advisor, each senior has the opportunity to develop his or her interests through the process of writing a unique major paper and defending it in an oral exam with the advisor and a second faculty member. For their junior and senior I.S. projects, majors have worked with members of the Russian studies and other departments on topics as diverse as the environmental movement in Siberia, feminine literary perceptions of Stalin’s purges, vodka in Russian culture, and Dostoevsky’s novels and the literary theory of Bakhtin.