Watching too much television is thought by some to be bad for you. That is, unless you’re a student in Assistant Professor of Russian Elena Prokhorova’s senior research seminar class.
Students in the class are studying the cultural significance of television programs, like the Russian version of Fran Drescher’s sitcom “The Nanny” – but this is no mere classroom exercise. The course is designed around an end-of-semester scholarly symposium organized by the students themselves.
Jacob Lassin ’12, a Russian Studies major, has been working hard on organizing the conference, including the design for the official conference T-shirt. He’s in a three-member group that’s researching, writing and presenting a paper about the Russian version of “The Nanny.”
