Courses Offered
RUSS
101. Elementary Russian 1. 3 Hr. No prior study of the language. Introduction to the sound and writing systems of the language, with emphasis on listening, reading, speaking, and writing. (Counts for GEC 8 and 9)
102. Elementary Russian 2. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 101. Continued introduction to the sound and writing systems of the language, with emphasis on listening, reading, speaking, and writing. (Counts for GEC 8 and 9)
203. Intermediate Russian 1. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 102. Continued development of basic skills in listening, reading, speaking, and writing Russian. (Counts for GEC 8 and 9)
204. Intermediate Russian 2. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 203. Continuation of RUSS 203. End course in the 101-204 sequence and foundation for advanced Russian study. Continued development of basic skills in listening, reading, speaking, and writing Russian. (Counts for GEC 8 and 9)
301. Conversation and Composition 1. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Emphasis on development of written and oral communication skills of contemporary Russian.
302. Conversation and Composition 2. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Continuation of RUSS 301. Emphasis on development of written and oral communication skills of contemporary Russian.
303. Advanced Structure and Reading. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Development of communication skills, with emphasis on reading authentic texts and review of Russian language structures.
304. Advanced Structure and Reading 2. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Development of communication skills, with emphasis on reading authentic texts and review of Russian language structures.
331. The Russian Short Story 1. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Reading, discussing, and writing in Russian about short stories of selected nineteenth-century Russian writers.
332. The Russian Short Story 2. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Reading, discussing, and writing in Russian about short stories of selected contemporary Russian writers.
341. Survey of Russian Literature in Russian 1. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Reading, discussing, and writing in Russian about major prose works of selected Russian authors of the nineteenth century.
342. Survey of Russian Literature in Russian 2. 3 Hr. PR: RUSS 204. Reading, discussing, and writing in Russian about major prose works of selected Russian authors of the nineteenth century.
FLIT
272. Russian Fairy Tales. 3 Hr. Introduces a wide selection of Russian Fairy Tales and examines the aesthetic, social, and psychological values that they reflect; general introduction to the study of folklore with a broad spectrum of approaches (psychoanalysis, structuralist, feminist). In English. Lecture/discussion. (Available as a Writing class) (Counts for GEC 5 and 9)
273. Russian Literature in Translation 1. 3 Hr. Major works of Russian authors from the beginning to 1880, including those of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol’, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. In English. Lecture/Discussion. (Counts for GEC 5 and 8)
274. Russian Literature in Translation 2. 3 Hr. Major works of twentieth-century Russian and Soviet Literature. In English. Lecture/discussion. (Counts for GEC 5 and 8)
275. Sci Fi: East/West. 3 Hr. Comparison of science fiction texts, film, and TV from Eastern and Central Europe and the US and UK, analyzing works that posit “fantastic” spatial, temporal, social, and biological explorations beyond those currently verified by science. In English. Lecture/discussion. (Available as a Writing class) (Counts for GEC 5 and 6)
276. Vampire: Blood and Revolution! 3 Hr. This course examines the phenomenon of vampirism in verbal and visual culture from different periods in various cultures from a variety of perspectives and contextualizes the works in the cultures that produced them. In English. Lecture/discussion. (Counts for GEC 5 and 6)
371. The Holocaust in East European Film and Literature . 3Hr. Extending beyond familiar representations of the Holocaust, this course examines verbal and visual texts testifying to events and experiences of the Nazi Holocaust in the context of several nations of Eastern Europe. In English. Lecture/discussion. (Available as a Writing class) (Counts for GEC 5 and 6)
372. Contemporary Polish Cinema. 3 Hr. This course studies contemporary Polish cinema from World War II to the present, examining films in both their aesthetic and socio-historical contexts as part of European and Polish national cinematic traditions. In English. Lecture/discussion. (Available as a Writing class) (Counts for GEC 5 and 8)
373. Polish Cinema: Kieślowski’s. 3 Hr. Studies the cinematic career of one of Poland’s most important directors of the past fifty years; designed to allow both cinema devotees and untrained filmgoers to appreciate Kieślowski’s oeuvre. In English. Lecture/Discussion. (Available as a Writing class) (Counts for GEC 5 and 8).