Slavic 2230 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
Vampires, Monstrosity, and Evil: From Slavic Myth to Twilight
Offered: Autumn, Spring | 3 credit units
Russian 2250 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
Masterpieces of Russian Literature
Offered: Autumn, Spring | 3 credit units
Russian 2250H
Honors Masterpieces of Russian Literature
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Reading great works of Russian literature (including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, Ulitskaya); developing analytical writing & discussion skills. Taught in English. Prereq: Honors standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 2250 (250 and 251), 250H, or 251H. GE literature and diversity global studies course.
Russian 2335 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
Magnificence, Mayhem and Mafia: Russian Culture
Offered: Autumn, Spring, Summer (online only) | 3 credit units
Russian culture from its foundations to the 21st century through analysis of literature, film, music, visual arts, beliefs, and customs. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 135 or 235. GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.
Russian 2345
Russian Fairy Tales and Folklore
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Slavic 2345
Introduction to Slavic and East European Literature and Culture
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
Slavic 2365 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
Sports, Socialists, and Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.
Slavic 2367
The East European Immigrant Experience in America
Offered: Autumn, Spring | 3 credit units
Slavic 2995.99 (online)
Race and Gender in Eastern Europe and the US: A Transatlantic Comparison
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
By studying how identities (racial, ethnic, gender, and religious) exist as cultural constructs, this course will examine and compare the experiences of Russian and East European ethnic and racial minorities in their respective countries and African Americans in the US regarding racialization and marginalization through cultural and social constructs. Taught in English.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for CompStd 2995. GE foundation race, ethnicity and gender div course. Cross-listed in CompStd 2995.
Slavic 3310
Science Fiction: East vs. West
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Slavic, American, and British sci-fi on page and screen as reflection of major cultural concerns: progress, utopia, human perfectibility, limits of science and knowledge, gender, identity. Taught in English. GE Visual and Performing Arts, GE Diversity: Global Studies
Slavic 3333 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
The Soviet Space Age
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Exploration of Space Age as a technological/cultural phenomenon, focusing on the Soviet period and the Space Race, in historical context and in a comparative perspective. Taught in English.
GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.
Russian 3350
Russian Culture and Politics
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Russian 3355.99 (online)
Vodka in Russian Society and Culture: Deconstructing Myths
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Vodka in Russia is important to virtually all social functions, is used as a home remedy for ailments, and is a frequent theme of jokes, folk songs, films, and literature. It also has an important political history, having long been used by the Russian (and Soviet) state as a form of social control. This course explores Russian culture and history through its most famous drink.
GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.
Russian 3460 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
Modern Russian Experience through Film
Offered: Autumn, Spring | 3 credit units
Russian 3470 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
Anna Karenina Goes to Hollywood
Offered: Spring | 3 credit units
GE VPA and diversity global studies course.
Russian 3480 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
The Russian Spy: Cultures of Surveillance, Secret Agents, & Hacking from the Cold War through Today
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
This course explores the concept of the spy in the cultural imaginations of both Russia and the West from the early-20th century through the present. Topics will include stereotyping in popular culture, the relationship between fiction and the political imagination, Western (especially American) and Russian views of each other, the Cold War, privacy, security, fear, and war.
Russian 3490 (.01 classroom, .99 online)
Russian Youth Culture
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
In this class, students will learn about different decades, from 1950s till present, in the life of Russian youth. Ideology, political activism and political inertia, Western influence and national patriotism, fashion and popular bands.
Russian 3530
History of Russian Cuisine
Offered: Autumn, Spring | 3 credit units
Slavic 3800
Bilingualism: Life in Two Worlds
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
The majority of the world population is becoming increasingly bilingual and bilingualism is viewed as the rule rather than the exception in the 21st century. This course explores the multifaceted aspects of a bilingual individual, i.e., the reasons to become bilingual, cognitive and social advantages of bilingualism, attitudes to people with accents, personality and bilingualism, etc. Through the instructor’s lectures, assigned readings, engaging discussions and a course project students will be exposed to numerous aspects of bilingualism, both at the individual and societal levels.GEC: Social Diversity in the United States (Social Sciences).
Russian/Slavic 4191
Internship for Russian/Slavic Majors
Offered: By arrangement | 1-3 credit units
Russian 4220
Love and Death in Russian Literature and Film
Offered: Rarely | 3 credit units
Russian 4221
Revolution and Restoration in Russian Literature
Offered: Rarely | 3 credit units
Slavic 4520H
Slavic and East European Cities
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
Slavic 4560H
Gender and Women in Western and Eastern Europe
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
The complementary nature of feminists' notions in Western and Eastern European societies and cultures via literature and film. Taught in English. Films will have English subtitles. Prereq: Enrollment in an honors program or by permission of department or instructor.
Russian 4575
Capstone Course for Russian Majors
Offered: Spring | 3 credit units
Slavic 4597
The Politics of Language in Southeast Europe
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
Slavic 4998
Undergraduate Supervised Project
Offered: By arrangement | 1-3 credit units
Russian 5225
Russian Emigre Literature
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
Analysis of the three "waves" of Russian emigration -- post-Revolutionary, post-WWII, and the so-called "third wave" in the 1970s and 80s through the poetry, fiction, and memoirs by such writers as: Ivan Bunin, Vladislav Khodasevich, Vladimir Nabokov, Nina Berberova, Sergei Dovlatov, Vasily Aksyonov, and Joseph Brodsky. Prereq: English 1110 or equiv, or any 4000-level Russian literature, culture or linguistics course.
Polish 5230
Polish Literature
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
Polish cultural and intellectual history as represented in the major works of Polish literature and in contemporary media. Taught in English. Readings in English, but students of Polish will do portions of the readings in the original. Prereq: 6 credit hours of Literature courses at the 2000 level or above, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 630 and 631.
Russian 5230
Utopia and Dystopia in Russian Literature
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
Russian writers of the past two centuries have been fascinated with both the idea of utopia and its reverse image of a dystopian society whose aim of perfection has led to the very opposite. In this course, we will explore realist, modernist, Soviet, and post-Soviet utopian and dystopian novels, stories, plays, and essays.
Prereq: 2250 or another course on Russian literature or culture is recommended for undergraduates.
Russian 5250.01 (.02, .03, ...)
The Russian Writer
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Slavic 5450
Global Human Trafficking: Realities and Representations
Offered: Occasionally I 3 credit hours
This course will introduce students to the development of human trafficking as it has been understood and represented by governments, policymakers, the media, and popular culture. The objective of this course is to scrutinize common understandings and representations of trafficking and to consider the advantages and disadvantages of such understandings and representations.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for WGSSt 5450. Cross-listed in WGSSt.
Slavic 5457
Ideology and Viewers: East European Film and Media
Offered: Occasionally I 3 credit hours
This course explores the complex dynamics between ideology, propaganda, and the ways Russian, East European, and U.S. films and media 'tap into the political unconscious' of viewers. With the aid of audience studies and reception theory, the course examines film and media reception and the ideological factors which impact it from the early Soviet and socialist times to the present.
Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours.
Russian 5460
Russian Media
Offered: Occasionally I 3 credit hours
This course will examine Russian media and communication within the context of media analysis and communication studies. The course will briefly review the history of Soviet and post-Soviet media in the late 20th-21st centuries, but will focus primarily on contemporary Russian media. Taught in English with the option of completing extra course work in Russian for an additional credit hour.
Russian 5530
Madness and Power in Russia
Offered: Occasionally | 3 credit units
Russian 5601
Structure of Russian I
Offered: Every two years | 3 credit units
Systematic synchronic description of the structure of Contemporary Standard Russian, focusing on phonetics, phonology, and morphology, and associated theoretical issues. Taught in English. Prereq: 3102, or graduate standing in Slavic, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Russian 640 or Russian 6601.
East European 5627
Reading Course in a Balkan or East European Language
Offered: Annually | 3 credit units
Russian 5630
Russian Translation: Theory, Practice, and the Profession
Offered: Every other year | 3 credit units
Theory and practice of translating Russian literary, cultural, political, scientific, and business texts into English.
Recommended prereq: Russian 2250.
Prereq: Russian 3102 or 3122.
Russian 5701
History of Russian I
Offered: Every two years | 3 credit units
Survey of the most important developments in the Russian writing system, phonology, morphology, and syntax from Old East Slavic to modern times; Russian among the Slavic languages; main methodologies in historical linguistics. Prereq: 3102 or 503, or graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Russian 720 or Russian 6701.