Undergraduate Courses

Russian (Arts): Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Given in English
• Restriction: Permission of the instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Laura A Beraha

Russian (Arts): The Russian twentieth-century literary dynamic up to the watershed of Stalin's death (1953). Carving out cultural territory against ideological polemics, revolutionary versus traditional values, the explosion of avant-garde experimentation under mounting critical conformism as reflected in major works and authors (Mayakovsky, Babel, Bulgakov, Platonov and others).

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall or Winter
• Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful
• Given in English

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Laura A Beraha

Russian (Arts): Rediscovering the Russian literary heritage, both traditional and avant-garde, after Stalin's death (1953). The Thaw, Soviet beatniks, Solzhenitsyn-style dissidents against cultural iconoclasts, the challenge and decline of perestroika, raising the literary Iron Curtain to include women writers, émigrés, Western influence and the angst of pluralism.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful
• Given in English

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Russian literature from Pushkin and Gogol to early Dostoevsky. More than a sequence of representative works featuring superfluous men, fallen women and other literary types, it is a coherent tradition developing in a dialogue with itself and its historical and cultural context.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Given in English

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Anna A Berman

Russian (Arts): Russian literature in transition between the Age of the Novel and Symbolism. From Turgenev's and Tolstoy's psychological realism to Dostoevsky's fantastic realism; from Chekhov's breaking genre rules of the short story and the drama to Bely's experimental prose.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Given in English

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Anna A Berman

Russian (Arts): A general introduction to Russian prose, poetry and drama in the 19th Century. Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Prerequisite: RUSS 316 or equivalent, or permission of the Department.
• Texts to be read in the original Russian; analysis and discussion to be conducted in English and/or Russian.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Chekhov’s short stories and plays. The genre of the short story and its relationship to realist, modernist, and postmodernist aesthetics. Chekhov’s influence in Russia and abroad.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Course will be given in English.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Cross sampling of short stories and major novels by Vladimir Nabokov; his life-long love affair with language and "aesthetic bliss"; his flouting of convention from Russia's Silver Age to post-McCarthy America. Lolita in and beyond the Russian context.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Given in English.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Russian stories that encompass the major aesthetic and thematic concerns of the short story genre. Recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual, and artistic memory.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Lyudmila Parts

Russian (Arts): An in-depth exploration of the literature and thought of Leo Tolstoy. This course will cover his major works of fiction as well as non-fiction essays, diary entries, and letters, with the majority of the semester devoted to his great masterpiece, War and Peace.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): An in-depth study of the writing and thought of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through reading Dostoevsky's major novels as well as some of his short fiction and journalism in the context of his times, this course will explore Dostoevsky's contributions to literature and philosophy.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Taught in English

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Lyudmila Parts

Russian (Arts): Masterpieces of the Russian stage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emergence of a uniquely Russian dramatic sensitivity against prevailing European trends; the literary word in a public, political and/or avant-garde forum.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Prerequisite: Permission of the Department
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 410,411.

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Lyudmila Parts

Russian (Arts): Exploration of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Russian poetry, prose, drama, book design and the visual arts from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis. Not open to students who have taken or are taking RUSS 465.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Course offered in English.
• Prerequisite(s): At least 2 courses (6 credits) in literature and/or cultural studies.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RUSS 465.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto, street festivals and the explosion of experiment in the visual arts from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde anticipates, transcends, responds and then succumbs to revolution.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Prerequisite(s): At least 2 courses (6 credits) in literature and/or cultural studies.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RUSS 466.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 510
• Given in English

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): In-depth historical approach to cultural construction of Russian national identity and to the concept of the Other as a condition of self-representation: East, West, America, class enemies, dissidents, ethnic and sexual minorities, etc. Introduction to theoretical tools for approaching issues of national identity, alterity, (post)colonialism, exoticism, and orientalism. Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Prerequisite(s): At least 2 literature/cultural studies courses at the 200 or 300 level; or permission of the Department.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): An exploration of desire as it was narrativized in Russian literature 1860-1900. The course draws on comparative examples from European literature as well as various theoretical approaches for conceptualizing love and desire.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Prerequisite(s): At least two literature courses at the 200 or 300 level or permission of the department.

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Anna A Berman

Russian (Arts): Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Zaure Kadyrbekova

Russian (Arts): Russian Language; continuation of RUSS 210.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: RUSS 210 or equivalent

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Izabela Zdun

Russian (Arts): An intensive introduction to the Russian language which covers the first year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 210/RUSS 211 in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken RUSS 210, RUSS 211 or equivalent

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on grammatical structure and syntax, the formalities of written Russian and appreciation of the language's stylistic diversity. Multi- media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, television news broadcasts, films and cartoons.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Prerequisite: Permission of the Department
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 210, RUSS 211, RUSS 215, RUSS 310, RUSS 311 and RUSS 316.
• Given in Russian

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Reading, translation, conversation.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Prerequisite: RUSS 210 and RUSS 211 or equivalent
• Restriction: Not open to students who are taking RUSS 316

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Vladimir V Ivantsov

Russian (Arts): Reading, translation, conversation.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: RUSS 310 or equivalent
• Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken RUSS 316

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Vladimir V Ivantsov

Russian (Arts): Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 this course covers the second year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 310/RUSS 311, in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: RUSS 215 or equivalent
• Restriction: Requires departmental approval
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 310, RUSS 311 or are taking RUSS 311

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Introduction to Russia's major poets and bards of the 19th and 20th centuries. Selected works from Pushkin to Brodsky and 20th century bards will be read in Russian.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Prerequisite: RUSS 316 or equivalent, or permission of the department.
• Texts to be read in the original Russian, analysis and discussion to be conducted in English and/or Russian.

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Laura A Beraha

Russian (Arts): Advanced practical Russian grammar and composition. May include reading a variety of texts and media from classical to contemporary (literature, newspapers, TV, film, etc.).

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Prerequisite: RUSS 310 and RUSS 311 or equivalent or permission of the Department
• Given in Russian

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Advanced practical Russian grammar and composition. May include reading a variety of texts and media from classical to contemporary (literature, newspapers, TV, film, etc.).

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: RUSS 400 or equivalent
• Given in Russian

• Terms
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 and RUSS 316, students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Fall
• Prerequisite: RUSS 215/RUSS 316 or RUSS 310/RUSS 311
• Requires departmental approval

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215/RUSS 316, students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems. Besides developing an oral facility in the language, this course introduces the student to the study of literature by analysing literary texts of prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia to see the use and verbal systems, syntax, stylistic levels, historical changes.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: RUSS 415
• Requires departmental approval

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Russian (Arts): Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.

Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures

• Winter
• Prerequisite: RUSS 415 and RUSS 416 or equivalent or permission of the department

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.