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Russian 101: Elementary Russian I
By the end of this course, you will be able to carry on basic conversations in Russian on many topics from your daily life. You will be able to write notes or simple letters to Russian friends or keep a journal in Russian. You will also have the skills to read basic texts. In addition to becoming a proficient speaker of Russian, we hope that you will become a skilled language learner and develop a curiosity about and love for Slavic cultures.
Russian 101.51: Individualized Instruction
Elementary Russian I: Individualized
Development of oral and written language skills.
Russian 102.01: Elementary Russian II
Continuation of Russian 101. By the end of this course, you will be able to carry on basic conversations in Russian on many topics from your daily life. You will be able to write notes or simple letters to Russian friends or keep a journal in Russian. You will also have the skills to read basic texts. In addition to becoming a proficient speaker of Russian, we hope that you will become a skilled language learner and develop a curiosity about and love for Slavic cultures.
Russian 102.51: Individualized Instruction.
Elementary Russian II: Individualized.
Development of oral and written language skills.
Russian 103.01: Intermediate Russian I.
Continuation of Russian 102. By the end of this course, you will be able to carry on basic conversations in Russian on many topics from your daily life. You will be able to write notes or simple letters to Russian friends or keep a journal in Russian. You will also have the skills to read basic texts. In addition to becoming a proficient speaker of Russian, we hope that you will become a skilled language learner and develop a curiosity about and love for Slavic cultures.
Russian 103.51: Individualized Instruction.
Intermediate Russian I: Individualized.
Reading, oral, and written practice, grammar review.
Russian 104.01: Intermediate Russian II.
Continuation of Russian 103. By the end of this course, you will be able to carry on basic conversations in Russian on many topics from your daily life. You will be able to write notes or simple letters to Russian friends or keep a journal in Russian. You will also have the skills to read basic and simplified texts. In addition to becoming a proficient speaker of Russian, we hope that you will become a skilled language learner and develop a curiosity about and love for Slavic cultures.
Russian 104.51: Individualized Instruction.
Intermediate Russian II: Individualized.
Reading, oral, and written practice, grammar review.
Russian 110: Intensive Elementary Russian.
Russian 101 and 102 combined. Development of oral and written language skills.
Russian 111: Intensive Intermediate Russian
Russian 103 and 104 combined into one 10-hour course. Reading, oral, and written practice, grammar review. Students who have already taken Russian 103 may enroll in this course for 5 credits.
Russian 135: Introduction to Russian Culture
Russian literature in its cultural context, survey of the relationship of literature, art, music, and drama from the beginning to the present.
Russian 235: Modern Russian Culture: Magnificence, Mayhem, and Mafia
Russia has always been a fascinating place, with its mixture of globe-shaking politics and world-class culture. The future -- whatever it holds -- promises nothing less. Through analysis of literature, film, and visual arts we will learn about Russia and the USSR in the twentieth century and its impact on the world; try to understand the present of post-Soviet Russia; and imagine Russia in the future. In an attempt to comprehend the Western puzzlement in dealing with unique Russian contradictions we will discuss the magnificence of Russian culture as well as look into the dark side of the Russian tradition, the destructive impulses of Stalinism and most recently of Russian Mafia.
Russian 250: Masterpieces of 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation
Introduction to 19th century Russian literature in its cultural context. We will study the works of authors such as Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and learn techniques of literary analysis. Reading, classroom discussion, examinations and/or papers.
Russian 251: Masterpieces of 20th and 21st Century Russian Literature in Translation
Introduction to 20th and 21st century Russian literature in its cultural context. Authors to be studied include Nobel and Booker prizewinners Bunin, Nabokov, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Brodsky, Makanin and Ulitskaya. We will examine the Soviet and post-Soviet historical circumstances that shaped these outstanding authors and their works. Reading, classroom discussion, examinations and/or papers
Russian 360: Russian Dreams and Nightmares: The Modern Russian Experience through Film
This course explores some of the most revealing hopes and disappointments of Russian people presented in internationally acclaimed Russian films. (Knowledge of Russian not necessary; all films are with English subtitles.) We examine how the Revolution and socialism encouraged people to dream and to believe in the "bright future" of socialism, and how reality crushed their dreams. In the second part of the course we focus on the transition to democracy after the collapse of the Soviet system and discuss why freedom brought the rise of nationalism, crime, violence, and the Russian Mafia. The course includes Academy Award nominated films and Winners by Menshov, Tarkovsky, and Balabanov, and we will attempt to decipher the cinematic medium and study how to read these films.
Russian 405.01: Russian Conversation and Composition
Continuation of Russian 104. By the end of this course, you will be able to carry on basic conversations in Russian on many topics from your daily life. You will be able to write notes or simple letters to Russian friends or keep a journal in Russian. You will also have the skills to read basic texts. In addition to becoming a proficient speaker of Russian, we hope that you will become a skilled language learner and develop a curiosity about and love for Slavic cultures.
Russian 405.51: Individualized Instruction
Russian Conversation and Composition
Drill in everyday patterns of conversation and elementary practice in writing.
Russian 407.01: Intermediate Russian Conversation and Composition
Continuation of Russian 405. By the end of this course, you will be able to carry on basic conversations in Russian on many topics from your daily life. You will be able to write notes or simple letters to Russian friends or keep a journal in Russian. You will also have the skills to read basic texts. In addition to becoming a proficient speaker of Russian, we hope that you will become a skilled language learner and develop a curiosity about and love for Slavic cultures.
Russian 407.51: Individualized Instruction
Russian Conversation and Composition
Drill in everyday patterns of conversation and elementary practice in writing.
Russian 511: Russian Language Maintenance
The objective of this course is to help students maintain and further develop conversational skills in Russian. The classes will be conducted in the atmosphere of a round the table discussion. A variety of topics will be offered by the instructor. Students are welcome to bring in topics of their interest.
Russian 520: Russian Literature in English Translation.
Introduction to the Russian novel, drama, and poetry; major contributions of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol', Ostrovsky, and Turgenev.
Russian 521: Russian Literature in Translation: From Dostoevsky to Chekhov.
Reading and analysis of Father and Sons by Turgenev, the great works of Leo Tolstoy, The Idiot by Dostoevsky, and The Kiss and other stories by Chekhov.
Russian 522: 20th-c. Russian Literature in English Translation.
This course addresses decadent, modernist, and avant-garde currents in Russian literature and culture in the beginning of the 20th century. It also offers an introduction to Russian culture during an exceptionally active and creative period. We will discuss several major literary texts (including prose, drama, poetry) together with exemplary works from the performing and visual arts (such as painting, film, ballet). Our examination of this period will focus particularly on the rise of modern artistic consciousness and the polemics focusing on the utopian projections of the early Soviet period.
Russian 523: Survey of Russian Literature, 1928-Present
This course offers a more in-depth look at Russian literature from the advent of Socialist Realism until the present day. Texts include such classics as Ilf and Petrov's Twelve Chairs, Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Petrushevskaya's The Time: Night, as well as several important poems, films, and a contemporary novel. Reading, classroom discussion, analytical essays
Russian 560: Contemporary Russian in Cultural and Literary Contexts I
The objective of this course is to further develop conversational, reading, and writing skills as well as grammar competence in 3rd year Russian majors. The main focus will be on communicative activities while reading and writing assignments will remain as mandatory homework. All classes will be conducted in Russian. The textbook for this course offers a variety of contemporary topics that will become the main topics of our discussion in class. Three-five class meetings will be devoted to each topic and related language activities. The number of classes devoted to each topic as well as the number of topics themselves may vary depending on the class progress.
Russian 561: Contemporary Russian in Cultural and Literary Contexts II
Continuation of RUS 560. The objective of this course is to further develop conversational, reading, and writing skills as well as grammar competence in 3rd year Russian majors. The main focus will be on communicative activities while reading and writing assignments will remain as mandatory homework. All classes will be conducted in Russian. The textbook for this course offers a variety of contemporary topics that will become the main topics of our discussion in class. Three-five class meetings will be devoted to each topic and related language activities. The number of classes devoted to each topic as well as the number of topics themselves may vary depending on the class progress.
Russian 562: Current Events Through the Russian Media
An introduction to the Russian mass media with an emphasis on current events; focuses on developing skills for approaching written and oral native Russian texts.
Russian 571: Basic Russian for Graduate Students
Basic elements of Russian grammar. 5 cl. Prereq: Grad standing. Credit does not apply to the minimum hours required for the master's or doctoral degrees.
Russian 572: Russian for Research I
Completion of this course with a grade of A or B may be accepted by the student's department as evidence of a thorough reading knowledge of Russian.
Russian 573: Russian for Research II
Russian 580.51: Reading Russian I
Readings from a variety of sources with special emphasis on contemporary materials.
Russian 581.51: Reading Russian II.
Readings from a variety of sources with special emphasis on contemporary materials.
Russian 582.51: Reading Russian III.
Readings from a variety of sources with special emphasis on contemporary materials.
Russian 609: Advanced Reading, Conversation, and Composition I.
Reading of contemporary prose and verse, presentation of oral and written reports, drill in intonation patterns, translation from English into Russian.
Russian 610: Advanced Reading, Conversation, and Composition I.
Reading of contemporary prose and verse, presentation of oral and written reports, drill in intonation patterns, translation from English into Russian.
Russian 617: Business Russian
The objective of this course is to introduce the basic knowledge of business Russian as it is used in different aspects of contemporary Russian life. Students are expected to master the vocabulary pertaining to each topic, to learn basic principles of business correspondence, to simulate business negotiations. Basic principles of translation will be introduced and practiced in class. In addition, grammar specific to business communication will be introduced.
Russian 631: Introduction to Russian Linguistics
Russian 631 and its co requisite Russian 660 serve as "proseminars"-prolegomena to graduate study in Russian/Slavic. Russian 631 has several aims:
- To acquaint students at the beginning of their graduate career with some of the fundamental methodologies and descriptive concepts of linguistic study;
- To introduce students to some of the currents of linguistic thought that have made major contributions to Russistic and Slavistic scholarship;
Russian 635: Practical Russian Pronunciation.
The objective of this course is to introduce basic principles of phonetics and phonology in Russian pronunciation system and to correct students' accent in Russian (intonation, stress, mispronunciation of particular sounds, etc.). Students will have a chance to practice small pieces of authentic Russian material (poetry and prose) which helps to practice pronunciation skills, and do a variety of other exercises.
Russian 640: Introduction to the Structure of Russian
This course has two main goals: first, to explain how we establish a systematic description of Russian and what the theoretical issues are, and second, to give a concrete description of selected aspects of the structure so that working with Russian becomes easier.
Russian 644: Russian Folklore
From the beginning to present; proverbs, the oral epic, historical songs, folktales, the folk theater; analysis of the folklore component in modern Russian literature.
Russian 650: Dostoevsky
Analysis of major works. For Autumn 1999, this course will be taught primarily in Russian.
Russian 651: Tolstoy
Analysis of all major works including the novels, plays, stories, and important polemical works.
Russian 653: Russian Drama
Emphasis on the period from 1850 to present day: Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Gorky, Andreyev, Blok, and Soviet writers Leonov and Kataev. Given in English, but undergrad majors in Slavic will do prescribed portions of the reading in the original; grad students in Slavic must read in the original items starred on the departmental M.A. reading list.
Russian 656: Russian Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
In this interdisciplinary course we study cultural constructions of images of Russian women, their roles in society, and the male vision of them. We discuss literature, film, and non-fiction in an attempt to follow cultural and social changes women have undergone from the beginning of Russian history to the present. In order to decipher the myth and reality behind the construction of gender stereotypes we will consider the interplay between psychoanalytic theory and feminist responses to it.
Russian 657: Russian Film.
Course description coming soon!
Russian 660: Introduction to Research in Russian.
Introduction to graduate study in Russian literature and Slavic linguistics. A review of basic concepts and overview of the major 20th-century developments in literary and linguistic theory with particular attention to Russian and Slavic schools of thought (e.g., Russian Formalism, Prague Structuralism) and theorists (e.g., Jakobson, Bakhtin, Lotman).
Russian 664: Imagining the West
This course explores Russia's fearful adjustment towards the expansion of Western capital, using the political, economic, and cultural contexts of Russia's national cinema as the foundation of its investigation. Russian film is a mass cultural phenomenon, one that in both its creation and perception exposes the intriguing dynamics of societal psychological conditions. We will use our discussions of films by some of the most powerful and influential Russian directors as well as other relevant projects by lesser-known talents to raise the following pressing questions: How is Russian identity formation affected by the cultural and economic presence of the (western) Other? How does the most recent expansion of Western capital and culture inform Russian film production?
Russian 675: Writing Seminar on Topics of Russian Literature, Language, and Life.
Junior-senior seminar explores issues of Russian language and literature, focusing on reading in Russian and on honing English oral and writing skills. Sp Qtr. 2 2-hr cl. Prereq: GEC 2nd writing course; junior or senior standing; or permission of instructor. Not open to grad students in Slavic. Repeatable to a maximum of 15 cr hrs.
Russian 693: Individualized Studies
Prerequisite: Permission of department chairperson. Repeatable to a maximum of 30 credit hours in any combination of decimal subdivisions. These courses are graded S/U.
- 693.20 Literature
- 693.30 Linguistics
- 693.40 Language
- 693.50 Unspecified
Russian 695, 695X, 695Y: Study Abroad
Russian 711: Advanced Russian Linguistic Stylistics.
Advanced study of Russian morphological, syntactic and semantic features and their stylistic function in a literary text. 2 2-hr cl. Prereq: 610 or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 10 cr hrs.
Russian 720: History of the Russian Language
This course serves as a survey of the most important developments in the Russian writing system, phonology, morphology, and syntax from the beginning of literacy to modern times. Course goals include: developing enough knowledge of the older stages of Russian to read texts of the eleventh-eighteenth centuries with the help of a dictionary; and learning the historical causes of irregularities and variants in Contemporary Standard Russian.
Russian 723: Topics in Russian Poetry.
Topics vary: the history of Russian poetry, versification theory; literary schools such as Symbolism, Formalism, or Futurism; study of individual poets from any period. A flyer is available for this course.
Russian 750: Pushkin and His Time.
Analysis of Eugene Onegin as poetry and an encyclopedia of the times; social, political, and cultural trends in the 1820s and 1830s; romantic poets.
Russian 751: Gogol' and 19th-Century Satire.
Satire in the works of Nikolai Gogol', Nikolai Leskov, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin studied in the context of Russian literary and social development.
Russian 752: Aspects of Russian Realistm.
This course will study Russian prose outside of the satirical genre, including works from Turgenev through Bunin. The course will focus on the history of Russian realism, recurring themes, political and philosophical subjects, as well as some of the more common stylistic devices..
Russian 801: College Teaching of Russian
The essential objective of this course is to extend upward your level of competence as a teacher. To this end, students will:
- Understand basic issues and current trends related to language education
- Gain insight into teaching/learning processes in foreign language education
- Critically reflect on their own attitudes, opinions, and beliefs concerning foreign language teaching and learning
Russian 823: History of the Russian Literary Language
The formation of Russian as a literary language; the role of Church Slavonic elements in its formation and Western influences on Russian.
Russian 826: Topics in the Structure of Russian
Topics vary: analysis and description of the structure of contemporary standard Russian.
Russian 827: Topics in the History of Russian.
Topics vary: analysis and description of aspects of the development of Russian from Common Slavic to contemporary standard Russian with consideration of its place within East Slavic.
Russian 829: Russian Literature: 15th-17th centuries.
Study of literary works of various genres cultivated in this period.
Russian 831: Russian Literature, 1650-1800.
The baroque period, classicism, and sentimentalism; emphasis on the classical period of the 18th century.
Russian 851: Seminar in Russian Literature: 1820-1917
Repeatable to a maximum of 15 cr. hours.
Russian 852: Seminar in Russian Literature: 1917-present
Repeatable to a maximum of 15 cr. hours.
Russian 895: Study Abroad
Formal language instruction 30 hrs per week by faculty of the Institute; in Russia only Russian will be spoken.
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