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RUS 1. Elementary Russian.
FL
Introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. Study of contemporary
Russian language and important elements of Russian culture. One course.
Van Tuyl
RUS 2. Elementary Russian.
FL
Introduction to understanding, speaking, reading,
and writing. Study of contemporary Russian language and important elements of Russian culture. Second
half of Russian 1, 2. Prerequisite:
Russian 1. One course. Van Tuyl
RUS 4. Elementary Russian Conversation.
FL
Introduction to spoken Russian with emphasis on basic conversational
style and increasing vocabulary. Co-requisite: Russian 1 or Russian 14. Half course. Staff
RUS 5. Elementary Russian Conversation.
FL
Continuation of Russian 4. Prerequisite: Russian 1 or Russian 14. Half course. Staff
RUS 10. Accelerated Russian Language and Culture
I.
FL
Accelerated study of contemporary Russian language and important
elements of Russian culture. Intended for students with no previous
knowledge of Russian interested in achieving significant proficiency
in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension based on cultural
constructs in one semester of study. Includes significant use of
technology to enhance learning. One course. Staff
RUS 11. Accelerated Russian Language and Culture
II.
FL
Continuation of Russian 10. Prerequisite: Russian 1, 10 or 14. One
course. Andrews, Van
Tuyl, and staff
RUS 14. Intensive Russian.
FL
Intensive study of contemmorary Russian language and important elements of Russian culture. Two courses.
Andrews or Maksimova
RUS 49S. First-Year Seminar.
CCI
Topics vary each semester offered but are restricted to the study of
literature, linguistics, and cluture in the Slavic world. One course. Staff
RUS 61S. Intermediate Russian Language and
Culture.
CZ, FL
Intensive classroom practice in phonetics, conversation and grammar.
Focus on literature and films, with museum and theater performance component.
(Taught in St. Petersburg in Russian and
English depending on placement) Prerequisite:
Russian 2 or equivalent. One course. Staff
RUS 62S. Intermediate Russian Language and
Culture.
CZ, FL
Continuation of Russian 61S. (Taught in St. Petersburg in Russian
and English depending on placement) Prerequisite: Russian 61S or
equivalent. One course. Staff
RUS 63. Intermediate Russian I.
FL
Intensive classroom and laboratory practice in spoken and written
patterns. Reading in contemporary literature. Prerequisites: Russian
1, 2 and 63 or equivalent. One course. Flath
RUS 64. Intermediate Russian II.
FL
Intensive classroom and laboratory practice in spoken and written
patterns. Reading in contemporary literature. Prerequisites: Russian
1, 2 and 63 or equivalent. One course. Flath
RUS 66. Russian Conversation.
FL
Consolidation of oral skills. Intensive conversation on a broad
range of topics. Prerequisites: Russian 1 and 2, or equivalent.
Half course. Staff.
RUS 67. Russian Conversation.
FL
Continuation of Russian 66. Prerequisite: Russian 66 or equivalent.
Half course. Staff
RUS 70. Intensive Intermediate Russian.
FL
Russian 63 and 64 combined in one course. Two meetings daily, as
well as daily computer and language laboratory work. Two courses.
Staff
RUS 100. Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced
Special Topics in Russian.
CCI, FL
Intensive in-country study of Russian language and culture. Analysis
of literary and journalistic texts, film, television and popular
culture. Specific body of texts differs by section. One course.
Staff
RUS 101S. Contemporary Russian Composition
and Readings.
CCI, FL
Advanced grammar and syntax with intense composition component.
Analytical readings in the original.
Prerequisites: Russian 63 and 64, or equivalent. One course. Staff
RUS 102S. Contemporary Russian Composition
and Readings.
CCI, FL
Continuation
of Russian 101S. Prerequisite: Russian 101S. One course. Staff
RUS 103S. Studies in Russian Language and Culture.
CCI, CZ, FL
Analytical readings including grammatical and textual analysis.
Additional work in phonetics and conversation. Literature, films,
museums and theater performances central for analysis and written
assignments. (Taught in St. Petersburg in Russian)
Prerequisite: Russian 64 or equivalent. C-L: International Comparative Studies.
One course. Staff
RUS 104S. Studies in Russian Language and Culture.
CCI, CZ, FL
Continuation of Russian 103S. Prerequisite: Russian 103S or equivalent.
C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 105. Third-Year Russian Conversation.
CCI, FL
Conversation course for students enrolled in Rus 101S. Not open to students currently taking Rus 63 or Rus 195. Half course. Staff
RUS 106. Third-Year Russian Conversation.
CCI, FL
Continuation of Russian 105. Conversation course for students enrolled
in Russian 102S. Not open to students currently taking Rus 64 or
Russian 196. Half course.
Staff
RUS 107S. Russian Phonetics.
CCI, FL
Analysis of contemporary standard Russian literary pronunciation,
phonology, and intonational structures. Prerequisite: Rus 64 or
consent of instructor. One course. Staff
RUS 108S. Soviet Civilization: History and
Its Mythologies.
ALP, CCI, CZ
The most significant concepts, events and personages of Russian
and Soviet history through the prism of Soviet and Post Soviet official
and popular culture, literatures, the arts and cinema. Topics include:
proletarian dictatorship and woman’s liberation, the “Russian
idea” and the “struggle for peace,” the October
Revolution, and industrialization, Russian Czars, [post] Soviet
leaders from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Lenin, Stalin
and Gorbachev. Taught in English. CL: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 109. Language Technologies and Culture
Acquisition.
(QID) R,SS,STS
Acquisition and application of sophisticated information technologies
for developing models of language systems and culture. (Computer
technologies include PDF, Unicode, Linux operating systems digitizing,
XML, HTML, metatagging.) Examination of the controversies concerning
the use of technologies in the study and acquisition of languages
and culture. Focus on the impact of such technologies on the educational
systems of the United States and Europe. CL: Linguistics 107, Information
Studies Program. One course. Team taught (Linguistics and Computer
Science Specialist.)
RUS 110. Intensive Russian Composition and
Readings.
FL
Russian 101S and 102S combined in one course. Two meetings daily,
as well as daily language laboratory work. Two courses. Staff
RUS 111S. Senior Honors Seminar.
R, W
Introduction to methods of research and writing, including selection
of thesis topics, preliminary research and organization, and writing
of the thesis. In-depth analysis of russian or other Slavic language texts required. Consent of the Director of Undergraduate Studies
required. One course each. Staff
RUS 112S. Senior Honors Seminar.
R, W
Continuation of Russian 111S. One course. Staff
RUS 113. Studies in Comparative World Cinema.
ALP, CCI, STS
History and theory of film and video technology across nations;
postcolonial patterns and their electronic and mechanical transmission;
economics of distribution, reception, exhibition, and their relation
to aesthetics. The first world defined against the second and third
by means of cultural products. CL: English 122, Film and Video,
German 113, Literature 113. One course. Staff
RUS 114S. Twentieth-Century Women Playwrights.
ALP, CCI
Text analysis of leading international women playwrights of the twentieth century including
Hellman, Stein, Churchill, Fornes, Sontag, Kennedy, Sadur, and Petrushevskaya. Exploration and
analysis of difference among women writers of different cultures and generations. Examination
of political, social, aesthetic, and cultural differences through the study of plays in their historical contexts.
Particular critical attention paid to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, identity, power, and privilege.
CL: Theater Studies 130S, Literature 123AS, Women's Studies.
One course. McAuliffe
RUS 115. Russian Language Studies in St. Petersburg.
CCI, FL
Russian grammar, composition and textual analysis taught only in
St. Petersburg for students participating in the semester program.
Explicit analysis of historical and contemporary cultural representations
and texts in language, literature an the verbal arts. One course.
Staff
RUS 116S. Russian Fiction and Film.
ALP, CCI
Russia’s turbulent history recounted through its literature
and film. Short works by Russia’s most famous authors (Dostoevsky,
Tolstoy, Chekhov) as well as the writings of lesser-known, but equally
important writers (Teffi, Vladimov); comparison of these written works with
films made of the stories. Exploration of the main trends of Russian
culture through its literature and film; focus on the difference
between film and written narratives. One course. Gheith
RUS 117. Languages of the World.
(QID) CCI, SS
The major languages of the world viewed in the context of the communicative
and significant functions of language as parameters that shape and
define society. The role of language in defining and structuring
culturally-based relationships from a semiotic point of view. The
structure, writing systems, phonology, morphology, and lexicon of
languages from the following groups: Indo-European, Semitic, Turkic,
Finno-Ugric, Caucasian, Afroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Kordofanian,
Dravidian, and Native American languages. C-L: Linguistics 102,
Cultural Anthropology 114, English 114.
One course. Andrews or Tetel
RUS 118. Islam and Orthodoxy.
ALP, CCI
The history, doctrines, insitutions, controversies, and influences of Russian Orthodox
Church and Islam in Eurasian Russia. Relationship between Orthodoxy and conceptions of Russia's identity and
place in the world, and the character and socio-political function of Islam in the Turkish regions of Central
Asia, the Caucuses, and the Balkans. Historical surveys beginning with Byzantine and Muslim missions to Volga
region in ninth century CE and ending with the reemergence of Orthodoxy and Islam in the post-Soviet era.
Open only to students in the Focus program. One course. Staff
RUS 120S. Topics in Slavic and Northern European
Languages.
FL, SS
One course. Staff
RUS 121S. Introduction to Russian Literature.
CCI, FL
Major works in Russian literature including prose and poetry. Prerequisites:
Russian 63, 64 or equivalent. One course each. Staff
RUS 122S. Introduction to Russian Literature.
CCI, FL
Major works in Russian literature including prose and poetry. Prerequisites:
Russian 63, 64 or equivalent. One course each. Staff
RUS 123S. Studies in Contemporary Russian Culture
and Cognition.
(QID) CCI, CZ
In-depth exposure to theories of culture and cognition with special
attention to the study of Russian culture and Russian contributions
to cognitive science and linguistics. One course. Andrews
RUS 124S. Russian Language and Culture through
Film.
CCI, FL, SS
Study of Russian cultural paradigms and constructs of self and others
as demonstrated in Russian and Soviet films, primarily from 1960s
to the present. Special attention given to the analysis of linguistic
constructs and their cultural and semantic content as well as comparative
analyses of Soviet and Russian culture and Russian and European/American
culture. Prerequisite 101S or equivalent or consent of instructor.
One course. Maksimova
RUS 125. Eastern Europe in Transition: Market,
Media and the Mafia.
CCI, CZ, SS
The progress of political, economic, and social transformations
in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Topics include: The
Historical Context for Reform in Eastern Europe, Economic Reform
and its Effects, Market Evolution, Eastern European Societies in
Transition: Education and Culture, Eastern European Societies in
Transition: Corruption and the Mafia in Everyday Life, Media and
Democracy in Eastern Europe, Establishing Law-Based States in Eastern
Europe. CL: Sociology 121. One course. Newcity
RUS 126S. Russian Language and Culture through
Film II.
ALP, CCI, FL, SS
Continuation of Russian 124S. Analysis of Russian cultural paradigms
and linguistic issues through contemporary Russian and Soviet film.
Prerequisite: 101S or equivalent or consent of instructor. One course.
Maksimova
RUS 127. Russian Language and Culture through
Theatre.
ALP, CCI, FL, SS
Study of Russian cultural paradigms and constructs of self and others
as demonstrated in Russian and Soviet theatre (texts and performance),
primarily from the 1920’s to the present. Special attention
given to the analysis of cultural, linguistic and semantic constructs
as well as comparative analysis of Soviet and Russian culture and
Russian and European/American culture. Prerequisite: 101S or equivalent
or consent of instructor. One course. Maksimova, McAuliffe and Viktorov
RUS 128. Russian Language and Culture through
Music.
ALP, CCI, FL, SS
Study of Russian cultural paradigms and constructs of self and other
as demonstrated in Russian and Soviet folk, popular and classical
music (texts and performance), primarily twentieth century to the
present. Special attention given to the analysis of cultural, linguistic
and semantic constructs as well as comparative analyses of Soviet
and Russian culture and Russian and European/American culture. Prerequisite:
101S or equivalent or consent of instructor. One course. Andrews
and Mickiewicz
RUS 129. Russian Orthodoxy.
CCI, EI
The belief systems and the history of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The relationship between Orthodoxy and Russian secular culture,
including the response of several Russian writers. Taught in English.
C-L: Religion 126. One course. Pelech
RUS 130. Soviet Cinema.
ALP, CCI
History of Soviet film industry from silent to sound period. Overview
of major theorist-filmmakers: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov. Issues
of reception, audience, politics, form, national and ethnic identities.
Taught in English. C-L: Literature 112A, International Comparative Studies,
Film/Video/Digital, Marxism and Society. One course. Gaines, Jameson, or Staff
RUS 131. Language, Culture, and Myth: The Slavic
Proverb.
ALP, CCI
The sources of the Slavic proverb, the proverb as microtext of national
stereotypes, and its function in modern literature and culture. West, South and East Slavic
proverbs contrasted with other Indo-European language families. Theoretical aspects
include explications of the relationship of language and culture and
problems of translation. Taught in English or Russian. Reaadings in Russian
with excerpts from other Slavic languages. One course. Staff
RUS 132. Culture, Class, and Consumption in
Russia.
CCI, CZ
Reading in anthropology, history, cultural studies, and sociology
to explore the significance of consumption (including survival strategies,
exchange networks, and aesthetics of material culture) in processes
of change from the revolutionary through post-Soviet periods. One
course. Staff
RUS 135. Contemporary Russian Media.
CCI, EI, FL, SS
Analytical readings and study of change and development in all the
primary forms of mass media in the former Soviet Union from 1985
to present (newspapers, journals, and television). Topics include
censorship, TASS, samizdat. Taught in English, readings in Russian.
Prerequisite: Russian 64 or equivalent. C-L: International Comparative Studies,
Film and Video. One course. Andrews
RUS 135A. Contemporary Russian Media.
CCI, EI, FL, SS
Same as Russian 135 but taught only in St. Petersburg. Taught in Russian. Prerequisite:
Russian 64 or equivalent. C-L: International Comparative Studies, Film/Video/Digital. One course. Staff
RUS 136. Eastern European Cultures in Transition.
CCI, CZ
Aspects of cultures and mentalities in the Eastern
European culture after the fall of communism: the Eastern European
culture in search of individual and regional identity; Eastern Europe
and globalization. Consideration of particular countries (Poland,
Romania, Russia). One course. Staff
RUS 137. Multinationalism and Multiculturalism
in the Slavic World.
CCI, CZ
The twentieth century aspiration that peoples of different nationalities,
different religions, and different cultural and linguistic backgrounds
can live in harmony within same borders. Great Power policies at
beginning of century in Habsburg Empire, in Imperial Russia. Post-World
War I experiments such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, failed Polish
East European federalism and Soviet Union's "solution"
to multi-nationalism. The fragmentation of the end of the century
and resultant problems of ethnic rights on political and economic
stability. CL: History 140B. One course. Lerner
RUS 138S. Russia, Turkey and the Cultures of Eurasia.
ALP, CCI
Examination of connections between Russian and Ottoman/Turkish culture and identity as reflected in literature and film.
Focus on comparative aspects of imperial rule, cultural revolution, gender, national identity and aesthetic understanding.
Open only to students in the Focus program. CL: Turkish 138S. One course. Gheith and Goknar
RUS 139. Law and Constitutional Reform in Eurasia.
ALP
In this course we will study law reform in Eurasia, examining the strategies followed and assessing how effective these strategies have been in introducing a respect for the rule of law and constitutionalism,
new concepts of property ownership, market economics, foreign investment, and greater protection of human rights. We will also examine the problem of criminal behavior and terrorism and how these nations combat them. We will study the cultural, historical, and other factors that explain why some of these countries appear to have reformed their legal systems much more effectively than others. Open only to students in the Focus program.
CL: International Compartive Studies 161E, Political Science 135S. One course. Newcity
RUS 140. Law and Constitutional Reform in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.
CZ, CCI
Russia's efforts to create a constitutional government from a variety of perspectives, with particular emphasis on the political, historical, and legal aspects.
Legal and constitutional changes in Russia compare or contrast with reforms in other transitional states. CL: International Comparative Studies 161C, Political Science 105. One course. Newcity
RUS 141. Teaching Practicum.
FL
Introduction to teaching Russian. Practical classroom teaching experience
in local elementary schools. Weekly sessions on teaching methodology.
Consent of instructor required. One course. Andrews
RUS 142. Teaching Practicum.
FL
Continuation of Russian 141. One course. Staff
RUS 143. Contemporary Russian Culture: Detective
Novels and Film.
ALP, CCI, CZ, FL
Popular novelists and film/television form 1990s-early twenty first century
Russia. Theories of genre, anthropological approaches to defining
cultural trends, mass cultural phenomena, and impact of globalization.
Authors include Marinina, Dashkova, Dontsova, Kunin, Ustinova, and
Serova. Readings and films in Russian. One course. Andrews
RUS 144. Tolstoy and the Russian Experience.
ALP, CCI, CZ, EI
Historical approach to Tolstoy's depictions of major societal and
ethical issues (e.g., war, peace, marriage, death, religion,
relationships). Culture of salons, print culture, censorship, and
changing political climate. Central questions on the relationship
of fiction and history: uses of fiction for understanding history
and dangers of such an approach. Readings include selected fiction
of Tolstoy, excerpts from journals and letters, and critical and
historical accounts of nineteenth-century Russia. CL: History
144B. One course. Gheith
RUS 145. Theory and Practice of Translation.
CCI, FL
Detailed study of the American, European and Slavic
scholarly literature on translation combined with close analysis
of existing literary and journalistic translations and a program
of practical translation projects from English to Russian and Russian
to English. One course. Flath
RUS 146S. Tennessee Williams and Anton Chekhov.
ALP, CCI
Cross-cultural exploration through performance of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Tennessee Williams's
A Streetcar Named Desire. Focus on text analysis, research, theatrical modernism, technique, examination and
development of performance/critical choices. For actor and directors. CL: Theater Studies 177S. One course each. McAuliffe
RUS 147. Imagining the Slumbering Lands: Siberia and Central Asia Through Native and Russian Eyes
ALP, CCI, CZ
Comparative survey of Siberian and Central Asian culture through Russian and native literatures (fiction, travel writing,
oral literature, biography, religious texts). The region's history and religions (Shamanism, Buddhism, and Islam) and
Russian encounters with region circa 1850-1990. Issues of identity and culture. CL: Religion 161M. One course. Need
148. Ethnography of Postsocialism.
CCI, FL, IAA
Fundamental questions resulting from the collapse of the Soviet
Union: the influence of socialist-era institutions and ideologies
on efforts to create (or adapt to) a new kind of society; the “transition
to capitalism” as perceived by particular groups of people.
Focused primarily, though not exclusively, on Russia. One course.
Staff
RUS 149S. Russian Culture in the Era of Terror:
A Reexamination.
ALP, CCI, CZ, R
Reading from various sources, such as recently published diaries
and literary works; film; critical and historical material. The
“era of the great terror” (1934-39) seen through cultural
production, its reception through everyday life narratives and contemporary
ideology critique. Taught in English. CL: International Comparative Studies
and History 195S.90. One course. Staff
RUS 150. Russian Revolutionary Cinema.
CCI, CZ
The origins and development of the revolutionary and experimental
cinema in Russia during the last years of the Empire and after the
seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Films include the classics
of the silent Soviet cinema directed by Eisenstein as well as other
films by other influential directors. The transition into the Stalinist
cinema of the 1930s and comparisons with Hollywood films of that
era. CL: History 150E; Film and Video. One course. Miller
RUS 151. Fourth Year Russian Conversation.
CCI, FL
Conversation course for students who are enrolled in, or have completed,
Rus 195. Half course. Staff
RUS 152. Fourth Year Russian Conversation.
CCI, FL
Conversation course for students who are enrolled in, or have completed,
Rus 196. Half course. Staff
RUS 153. Plays into Films.
ALP
Relationship between theater and cinema; the influence of theater on cinema. The adaptation
of dramatic literature to the film medium with readings to include plays and screenplays.
Authors include Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, Pinter, Shepard, and Williams.
CL: Theater Studies 175. One course. McAuliffe and Lentricchia
RUS 154. Soviet Propaganda.
ALP, CCI, CZ
The manipulation of all types of soviet media from the origins of
the Bolshevik state to the start of World War II. The influences
from Tsarist propaganda, key themes from the Soviet era such as
the cults of Lenin and Stalin; ideas about progress and technological
change as well as the Soviet place in the modern world; the development
of a new type of citizen; and ethnic relations in the USSR. Readings
and discussion in English. CL: History 154A. One course. Staff
RUS 155. Special Topics in Russian and American
Culture.
CCI
Addresses the broad, interdisciplinary issue of identity and otherness
while studying specifically what happens when the cultures of Russian
and the United States come into contact. Taught in English. C-L:
International Comparative Studies. One course. Gheith
or Van Tuyl
RUS 156. Twentieth Century Russian Women.
ALP, CCI, CZ
Issues of gender and society in Russia in the Twentieth century.
Readings include autobiographical writings, works of fiction, and
selected historical sources. Taught in English. One course. Staff
RUS 157S. Law, Culture, and the Russian Legal
Tradition.
CCI, CZ, EI
The development of the Russian legal tradition, with
particular emphasis on the historical, ethical and cultural factors
that have contributed to its emergence, comparing the Russian tradition
with the Western legal tradition. How law, lawyers, and legal institutions
have been portrayed and perceived in Russian popular culture, especially
Russian literature, including the relationship between secular legal
institutions and the Russian Orthodox Church. Taught in English. CL: Public Policy 131S. One course. Newcity
158. The Russian Novel
ALP, CCI, R
Close reading of Tolstoy’s Anna
Karenina, Dostoevsky’s Possessed,
Andrey Bely’s Petersburg,
Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita,
Nabokov’s The Gift,
and Makine’s Memoirs of my
Russian Summers. Discussions will focus
on these representative writers’ changing perceptions of,
and responses to social and ethical issues and of creativity, itself,
as the genre evolved in the modern times between the 1870s and now.
Final research paper required and can include in-depth discussion
of one of the works or the comparison of one or more aspects of
several texts. Taught in English. One course. Mickiewicz
RUS 159. Women’s Autobiographies in European
Contexts: Telling the Self in Russia, France, and Britain.
ALP, CCI
A comparative approach to women’s autobiography (in England,
France, and Russia) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, using
texts from approximately the same time periods. CL: International Comparative
Studies and Women’s Studies. One course. Gheith
RUS 160. The Classics of Russian Twentieth-Century
Literature.
ALP, CCI, CZ
Prose works that marked the canon and anticanon of twentieth-century
Russia. Readings include: Petersburg
(A. Bely), Mother
(M. Gorky), Envy
(Yu. Olesha), How the Steel Was
Tempered (N. Ostrovsky), The
Master and Margarita (M. Bulgakov), Doctor
Zhivago (B. Pasternak), One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (A.
Solzhenitsyn), and The Long Goodbye
(Yu. Trifonov). Taught in English. CL: International Comparative Studies.
One course. Staff
RUS 161. Masterpieces of Nineteenth Century
Russian Literature I.
ALP, CCI, W
Selected nineteenth century authors, works, and genres. Authors
include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Herzen, Gonsharov,
and Dostoevsky. Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies.
One course. Staff
RUS 162. Masterpieces of Nineteenth Century
Russian Literature II.
ALP, CCI, W
Selected authors, works, and genres from the second half of the
nineteenth century. Authors include Turgenev, Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky,
Tolstoy and Chekhov. Comparative analysis of Russian, European and
American literature of the period. Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 163. Art and Dissidence: The Films of Tarkovsky,
Kubrick, Kurosawa, and Lynch.
ALP, CCI, CZ
Post-World War II Soviet and United States identity and culture
explored through the lens of dissident film art; the use of inter-textuality
and contrasting media to critique culture; film and visual art studied
in relation to other modern, post-modern, positivist modes of expressing
and constructing knowledge. CL: English118, Film/Video/Digital. One course. Gheith
RUS 164. Symbolist Movement in Russia.
ALP, CCI
History and theory of the philosophy, poetry, prose and criticism
of the Russian variant of the interdisciplinary and international
movement. The momentous movement spawned a variety of other creative
schools that constitute what we now see as Twentieth Century Russian
modernism. Taught in English. One course. Mickiewicz
RUS 165S. Old Russian Literature.
ALP, CCI
Literary works from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Taught in English. One course. Staff
RUS 166. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
ALP, CCI
Selected representative short works and most of the major novels
of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The great issues and their
vivid dramatization will be considered in the light of the author’s
irreconcilable approaches to the human condition, culture, artistic
goals, and narrative technique. Not open to students who have taken
this course as 49S or have taken Russian 175 or 176. One course. Staff
RUS 167. The Devil in Russian Literature.
ALP, CCI
The symbolic and metaphorical system that surrounds the image of
the Fiend; the figure of the Devil in his various manifestations
through Russian folklore, culture, and literature. Taught in English.
One course. Staff
RUS 168S. Russian Classical Literature and
Music.
CCI
The interaction of literary and musical tests. Includes literary
texts by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Leskov and musical texts (operas)
by Chaikovsky, Borodin, Glinka, Musorgskiy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rubin-stein,
and Shostakovich. Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies.
One course. Staff
RUS 169. Women and Russian Literature.
ALP, CCI
Issues of gender and society in women’s writing in Russia
from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Both autobiographical writings
and prose fiction. Discussions of whether Russian women’s
writings constitute a tradition and what role these works have played
in Russian literature and culture. Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies and Women’s Studies. One course. Gheith
RUS 170. Russian Dissident and Emigré
Literature.
ALP, CCI
The literature of opposition in Russia during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, from Chaadaev and Chernyshevsky to Grossman,
Solzhenitsyn, and Zinoviev. Taught in English or Russian. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 171S. Bunin: Mystery of the Russian Soul and Metaphysical Memory.
ALP, CCI, FL
Prose works of Ivan Bunin; emphasis on elements of tragedy, metaphysical representations, phenomenoligical novel and modernim, synthesis or verbal and visual art forms. Works include "The Life of Arsenyer, Village, Sun Stroke, Light Breathing, Grammar of Love, Transformations, Pure Monday" and autobiographical and critical writings. Taught in Russian. Primary readings in Russian, secondary readings in Russian and English. One course. Maksimova
RUS 172S. Pushkin and His Time.
ALP, CCI, W
Pushkin and the literary revolution around 1830. Prose works (The
Tales of Belkin, The
Queen of Spades, The
Captain’s Daughter) and major lyrical
poetry. Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course.
Gheith or Van Tuyl
RUS 173S. Gogol.
CCI
Life, works, and criticism. Readings include Dead Souls, The Inspector
General, Petersburg Tales, and other short fiction. Taught in English.
C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 174. Gender and Language.
(QID) CCI, R, SS
Theoretical approaches to the question of the interrelationship of gender and language including neurobiology, psychology, semiotics, feminist critical theory, philosophy of language, discourse analysis and linguistic theory. Taught in English. CL: Cultural Anthropology 174, English 115, Linguistics 174 and Women's Studies 174. One course. Andrews
RUS 175. Tolstoy.
ALP, EI, W
Introduction to life, works and criticism. Readings
include War and Peace,
Anna Karenina,
the shorter fiction, dramatic works and essays. Analysis of Tolstoy’s
views on the importance of ethics and the structure of society.
Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Gheith
or Van Tuyl
RUS 176. Dostoevsky.
ALP, CCI, W
Introduction to life, works, and criticism. Readings include: Crime
and Punishment, The
Idiot, and The
Brothers Karamazov. Taught in English.
C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Flath,
Gheith, or Van
Tuyl
RUS 177S. Chekhov.
ALP, CCI, W
Drama and prose works. Taught in English. Not open to students who
have taken Drama 157S/Russian 174S (Chekhov). C-L: Theater Studies
122S and International Comparative Studies. One course. Flath
and Staff
RUS 178A. Russian Short Fiction.
ALP, CCI
The history, development, and shifts of Russian short fiction in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Authors include Dostoevsky,
Vovchok, Leskov, Chekhov, Gippius, and Zoshchenko, Topics include
gender, genre, and national identity in historical/cultural context.
Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 178B. Russian Short Fiction in the Original.
ALP, CCI, FL
Same as Russian 178A except taught in Russian. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 179S. Selected Topics in Russian Literature.
ALP, CCI
Women writers of the twentieth century, Soviet film, Samizdat/Tamizdat,
the Petersburg Paradigm in Russian literature and culture. Taught
in English. One course. Staff
RUS 180. Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature:
From Symbolism to the 1920s.
ALP, CCI
Symbolism, acmeism, futurism, imaginism, proletarian literature.
Authors include Bely, Sologub, Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Akhmatova,
Mandelshtam, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Gorky, Bogdanov, Gastev. Taught
in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 181. The Soviet 1920s: The Road to a New
Synthesis.
ALP, CCI
The literary struggle of the 1920s; Proleterian literature from
the Smithy to RAPP, LEF and the fate of the avant-garde, the aesthetic
conception of Pereval, the literature of the absurd, Oberiu and
the Serapion Brothers. Authors include Kirillov, Gladkov, Babel,
Pilnyak, Olesha, Zamyatin, Platonov, Kharms, and Pasternak. Taught
in English. Not open to students who have taken the former Russian
181, Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. C-L: International Comparative Studies and History 185A. One course. Staff
RUS 182. Socialist Realism: Soviet Literature
of the 1930s and 1940s.
ALP, CCI
The Stalin era of Russian literature, the genesis and development
of socialist realism, Soviet literature and the theme of boundaries
and war. Authors include Sholokhov, Ostrovsky, Fadeev, Azhaev, Babaevsky,
Kochetov, and Simonov. Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies and History 185A. One course. Staff
RUS 183. Post-Stalinist and Contemporary Soviet
Literature.
ALP, CCI
Literature of the thaw after Stalin, the young prose, little realism,
new modernism, and rural prose. Authors include Aksyonov, Trifonov,
Baranskaya, Bitov, Solzhenitsyn, Rasputin, Shukshin, and Zalygin.
Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 184. Late- and Post-Soviet Literature.
ALP, CCI
From the “recovered” avant-garde to the new literature
during the Gorbachev era and beyond. The unmasking of Soviet history
and its aestheticization. Underground literature and Soviet postmodernism.
Authors include Rybakov, Pietsukh, Petrushevskaya, Kuraev, Tolstaya,
Viktor Erofeyev, Makanin, Prigov, and Narbikova. Readings in English.
C-L: International Comparative Studies and Linguistics. One course. Gheith
RUS 185S. Introduction to Slavic Linguistics.
(QID) CCI, FL
Introduction to linguistic terminology; emphasis on synchronic linguistic
theory in the East, West, and South Slavic areas. Phonological,
morphological, and syntactic structure of contemporary standard
Russian. Readings in English and Russian. C-L: International Comparative Studies and Linguistics. One course. Andrews
RUS 186S. History of the Russian Language.
(QID) ALP, CCI, FL
The development of the Russian language from the eleventh century,
with consideration of the origins of modern literary and dialectical
features. Contrastive analysis of Old Russian to contemporary Russian.
Comparative study of the constructions of other Slavic literary
languages. Readings in Russian and English. Prerequisite: second
year Russian or consent of instructor. C-L: International Comparative Studies
and Linguistics. One course. Staff
RUS 187. Intensive Advanced Russian.
CCI, FL
Advanced grammar review with an emphasis on the refinement of oral
and written language skills. Development of writing style through
compositions and essays. Prerequisite: Russian 102S or consent of
instructor. Two courses. Andrews
RUS 188S. Advanced Russian Language and Culture.
CCI, CZ, FL
Advanced grammar review with additional emphasis on phonetics and
conversation. Literature, films, museums and theater performances.
Prerequisite: Russian 102S or equivalent. (Taught in St. Petersburg
in Russian.) C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 189S. Advanced Russian Language and Culture.
CZ
Advanced grammar review with additional emphasis on phonetics and
conversation. Literature, films, museums and theater performances.
Prerequisite: Russian 102S or equivalent. (Taught in St. Petersburg
in Russian.) C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Staff
RUS 190S. Introduction to Russian Civilization.
CCI, CZ
Basic knowledge of Russian society, the history of ideas, the folklore
tradition, orthodoxy, and the history of Russian readership. Taught
in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies and History 146. One course.
Pelech
RUS 191. Independent Study.
Directed reading in a field. Open only to qualified students by
consent of Director of Undergraduate Studies. One course each. Staff
RUS 192. Independent Study.
Directed reading in a field. Open only to qualified students by
consent of Director of Undergraduate Studies. One course each. Staff
RUS 193. Research Independent Study.
R
Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision
of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive
paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation
of a previously approved topic. Consent of instructor and Director
of Undergraduate Studies required. One course. Staff
RUS 194. Research Independent Study.
R
Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision
of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive
paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation
of a previously approved topic. Consent of instructor and Director
of Undergraduate Studies required. One course. Staff
RUS 195. Advanced Russian.
CCI, FL
Intensive exposure to Russian word formation with an emphasis on
the students’ refinement of oral and written language skills.
Development of discourse strategies and writing style through textual
analysis, compositions and essays. Taught in Russian. Prerequisite:
Russian 102S or consent of instructor. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies. Andrews
RUS 196. Advanced Russian: Readings, Translation,
and Syntax. CCI, FL
Intensive reading and conversation with emphasis on the analysis
of twentieth century Russian literary and cultural texts. Russian
media, including television and films. Prerequisite: Russian 195
or consent of instructor. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course.
Andrews
RUS 197. Russian Poetry.
ALP, CCI, FL
Focus on nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the Golden
Age and the Silver Age. Authors include Pushkin, Lermontov, Bely,
Blok, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam, Pasternak, and Mayakovsky.
Taught in English or Russian, according to students’ Russian
language proficiency. Russian texts. One course. Staff
RUS 198. Russian Stylistics and Conversation.
ALP, CCI, FL, W
Refinement of stylistic control and range in spoken and written
Russian through intensive textual analysis, including literary (prose
and poetry) texts, popular and scholarly journals, and film. Emphasis
on fluent discursive skills, as well as development of expository
prose style and rhetorical strategies. Taught in Russian. Prerequisites:
195 and 196, or consent of instructor. One course. Maksimova
RUS 199. Russian Stylistics and Conversation.
ALP, CCI, FL, W
Continuation of Russian 198. Prerequisites: 195 and 196, or consent
of instructor. One course. Maksimova
For Seniors and Graduates:
RUS 201S. A-D. Topics in Comparative Slavic
Linguistics.
(QID) CCI, R, SS
A cycle of survey courses on the phonology, morphology and dialects
of the Slavic languages. Each course has a comparative Slavic component.
Taught in English. Readings in Russian, French, German and English.
A. East Slavic
B. West Slavic
C. South Slavic
D. Common Slavic
C-L: Linguistics. One course. Andrews
RUS 202. Semiotics of Culture.
ALP, CCI, CZ, R
The theory of literature, arts, ethnicity, modernity and culture
from a cross-cultural perspective. Texts include the critical works
of Lotman and the Tartu School, Bakhtin, Eco, Kristeva, Voloshinov,
Medvedev, Barthes, Todorov, Jakobson, Ivanov, and Sebeok, as well
as authentic culture texts from Slavic and European traditions.
Research project required. CL: Cultural Anthropology 202 and English
206. One course. Andrews
RUS 203S. Old Church Slavonic.
(QID) FL
Introduction to the language of the earliest Slavic texts. Close
study of phonological and morphological systems, reading of texts
and discussion. Taught in English. Prerequisite: Russian 101S or
100-level proficiency. C-L: Linguistics and Religion 229S. One course.
Staff
RUS 204S. Russian Folklore and Popular Culture.
CCI, CZ, FL
Work-songs and ritual songs, lamentations, riddles and proverbs.
Tales and later forms of popular creation (chastushki, anecdotes,
urban romance) and their function in Russian culture. Taught in
Russian. One course. Staff
RUS 205. Semiotics and Linguistics.
(QID) ALP, CCI, R
A survey of modern semiotics, particularly the works of C.S. Peirce,
Roman Jakobson, Yury Lotman, Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco. Analysis
of semiotic works directly related to questions of the construction
of cultural and linguistic meaning, and linguistic sign theory.
Emphasis on semiotic theories from a multi-cultural perspective,
especially the European, Tartu, Soviet, and American schools. Research
project required. C-L: English 205 and Linguistics 205. One course.
Andrews
RUS 206. Russian Modernism.
ALP, CCI
Russian culture between the 1890s through the 1920s, including visual,
musical, literary arts and developments ranging from Neo-Christian
mysticism, cosmism, synthesis of the arts and revolutionary activism.
Focus on literary-philosophical thought of that period. Taught in
English. One course. Mickiewicz
RUS 207S. Semantics.
(QID) R, SS
Survey of modern semantic theory, including a range of theoretical
approaches: communication theory, structuralism, markedness, formal,
cognitive and generative semantics. Emphasis on lexical meaning
in two or more languages with strong comparative semantic component.
Examples for the world’s languages. Final research project
required. Taught in English. C-L: Linguistics 207S. One course.
Andrews
RUS 208. Stylistic and Compositional Elements
of Scholarly Russian
CCI, FL
Intensive study of Russian scholarly and scientific texts from a
variety of disciplines, including biology, business, anthropology,
economics, law, history, mathematics, physics, political science,
sociology, psychology, linguistics and literary criticism. Mastery
of stylistic and discourse strategies. Analysis of cultural patterning
in textual construction in the humanities, social and natural sciences.
Taught in Russian. Prerequisites: Russian 64 or consent of instructor.
One course. Maksimova
RUS 209. Intensive Advanced Stylistics.
ALP, CCI, FL
Refinement of stylistic control and range in spoken and written
Russian. Emphasis on fluent discursive skills, as well as development
of expository prose style. Prerequisites: Russian 195 and 196, or
consent of instructor. Two courses. Maksimova
RUS 210. Literature and Criticism of Socialist
Realism.
ALP, CCI
The genesis and development of Soviet socialist realism. A survey
of Soviet literary theories from Lunacharsky to Ovcharenko, and
contemporary Western criticism (for example, K. Clark, R. Robin).
A critical approach to the dialogic alternative to monologic literature
through literary illustration (selected Soviet literary works from
the 1930s to the present day). Taught in English. One course. Staff
RUS 211. Legal and Business Russian.
CCI, CZ, EI, FL
Introduction to Russian language and culture
in the era of legal studies and conducting business in or with Russia
and other Commomwealth of Independent States countries. Primary
materials include contracts, advertising, and financial documents.
Prerequisites: Russian 102S or equivalent. One course. Andrews
or Maksimova
RUS 212S. Proseminar.
ALP, CCI, R
Introduction to research methodologies, professional skills (including
discussions of teaching), as well as a theoretical basis for students
in Slavic linguistics and literature. Mandatory for all graduate
students and open to upper-level undergraduates. Team taught; taught
in English and Russian. One course. Staff
RUS 213. Silver Age of Russian Literature.
CCI
A study of the poetics of symbolism, Acmeism, Futurism,
Imagism and Formalism. Representative world views and critical and
artistic methods will be examined. Students of Slavic and Russian
will read the materials in the original language. One course. Mickiewicz
RUS 214. Gender, Nationalities and Russian
Literary Traditions.
ALP, CCI, CZ
Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries compared
with both “Western” and “Eastern” literature
of the same time period, including questions of national identity.
Readings include: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tur, Aitmatov and Iskander.
C-L: Literature 214 and Women’s Studies. One course. Gheith
RUS 215. Theory and Methods of Comparative
Linguistics.
(QID) CCI, R
Diachronic and synchronic approaches to the study of comparative
linguistics in phonology, morphology, morphophonemics, syntax and
lexical categories in the context of the world’s languages.
Both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages will be included.
Topics include theories of reconstruction, language in contact,
abductive processes and questions of linguistic typology. One course.
Andrews
RUS 216. Cognitive Linguistics.
(QID) NS, R, SS
Focuses on the interrelationship between language and brain as described
and analyzed in cognitive linguistics. Topics for analysis include
localization theories, hemispheric dominance in language , language
disorders, encoding and decoding of language at the phonological,
morphological, syntactic and semantic levels. Readings include scholarship
for theoretical and cognitive linguistics, neurobiology, neuropsychiatry
and neuropsychology. CL: Linguistics 201. One course. Andrews
RUS 218S. The Russian Intelligentsia and the
Origins of the Revolution.
CZ, R
Origin and dynamics of the Russian revolutionary movement, the intelligentsia,
and the emergence of the labor movement. C-L: History 201S and International Comparative Studies. One course. Miller
RUS 230. Soviet Cinema.
ALP, CCI
History of the soviet film industry from silent to sound period. Overview of major theorist-filmmakers: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov. Issues of reception, audience, politics form, national and ethnic identities. Taught in English. One course. Gaines, Jameson or Staff
RUS 240S. Russian Literary Discourse Analysis.
ALP, CCI, FL
Nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literary theory, with close
readings in the original. Application in fiction. Taught in English.
One course. Staff
RUS 243. Contemporary Russian Culture: Detective
Novels and Film.
ALP, CCI, CZ, FL
Popular novelists and film/television form 1990s-early 21st century
Russia. Theories of genre, anthropological approaches to defining
cultural trends, mass cultural phenomena, and impact of globalization.
Authors include Marinina, Dashkova, Dontsova, Kunin, Ustinova, and
Serova. Readings and films in Russian. Research paper of publishable
quality required. One course. Andrews
RUS 244. Tolstoy and the Russian Experience.
ALP, CCI, CZ, EI
Historical approach to Tolstoy's depictions of major societal and
ethical issues (e.g., war, peace, marriage, death, religion,
relationships). Culture of salons, print culture, censorship, and
changing political climate. Central questions on the relationship
of fiction and history: uses of fiction for understanding history
and dangers of such an approach. Readings include selected fiction
of Tolstoy, excerpts from journals and letters, and critical and
historical accounts of nineteenth-century Russia. Similar to Russian 144 but requires additional assignments. One
course. Gheith
RUS
245. Theory and Practice of Translation.
CCI, FL
Detailed study of the American, European, and Slavic scholarly literature on translation combined with close analysis of existing literary and journalistic translations and a program
of practical translation exercises and projects from English to Russian and Russian to English. Prerequisites: three years of Russian language study or consent of instructor. One course. Flath
RUS 250. Trends in Russian and East European
Literary Criticism, and Beyond.
ALP, CCI, FL
An introduction to the major critical movements in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries in Russia, East-Central Europe, and the
West. Authors and theories include: the Belinsky school, formalism,
Bakhtin, structuralism, semiotics, and psycho-analytic and feminist
theory. Taught in English or Russian. Readings in English or Russian.
One course. Gheith
RUS 256. Twentieth Century Russian Women.
ALP, CCI, CZ
Issues of gender and society in Russia in the Twentieth century.
Reading include autobiographical writings, works of fiction, and
selected historical sources. Taught in English. One course. Staff
RUS 257. Law, Culture, and the Russian Legal
Tradition.
CCI, CZ, EI
study of the development of the Russian legal tradition, with particular
emphasis on the historical and cultural factors that have contributed
to its emergence, comparing the Russian tradition with the Western
legal tradition. How law, lawyers, and legal institutions have been
portrayed in Russian popular culture, especially Russian literature.
Taught in English. One course. Newcity
RUS 258. The Russian Novel.
ALP, CCI, R
Close reading of Tolstoy’s Anna
Karenina, Dostoevsky’s Possessed,
Andrey Bely’s Petersburg, Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita,
Nabokov’s The Gift,
and Makine’s Memoirs of my
Russian Summers. Discussions will focus
on these representative writers; changing perceptions of, and responses
to social and ethical issues and of creativity, itself, as the genre
evolved in the modern times between the 1870s and now. Final research
paper required and can include in-depth discussion of one of the
works or the comparison of one or more aspects of several texts.
Taught in English. Readings in Russian. One course. Mickiewicz
RUS 261. Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century
Russian Literature I.
ALP, CCI, FL
Selected nineteenth-century authors, works, and genres. Authors
include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy,
and Cheknov. Taught in English. Readings in Russian . One course
each. Staff
RUS 262. Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century
Russian Literature II.
ALP, CCI, FL
Selected nineteenth-century authors, works, and genres. Authors
include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy,
and Cheknov. Taught in English. Readings in Russian . One course
each. Staff
RUS 264. Symbolist Movement in Russia.
ALP, CCI
History and theory of the philosophy, poetry, prose and criticism
of the Russian variant of the interdisciplinary and international
movement. The momentous movement spawning a variety of other creative
schools that constitute Twentieth Century Russian modernism. Taught
in English. Readings in Russian. One course. Mickiewicz
RUS 265S. Literature of Early Russia.
CCI, FL
Works from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Works include
Ilarion’s Sermon on Law and
Grace, The
Tale of Bygone Years, The
Igor Tale, Domostroi,
Avvakum’s Life.
Readings in Russian. One course. Staff
RUS 266S. The Sources of Modern Russian Literature:
The Eighteenth Century.
CCI, FL
Development of the major forms of Russian literature, including
verse, drama and the beginnings of the prose tradition. Authors
include Kantemir, Lomonosov, Sumarokov, Trediakovsky, Fonvizin,
Derzhavin and Karamzin. Readings in Russian. One course. Gheith
RUS 269. Women and Russian Literature.
ALP, CCI, FL
Issues of gender and society in women’s writing in Russian
from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Both autobiographical writings
and prose fiction. Discussions of whether Russian women’s
writings constitute a tradition and what role these works have played
in Russian literature and culture. Taught in English. Readings in
Russian. C-L: Women’s Studies. One course. Gheith
RUS 271S. Bunin: Mystery of the Russian soul and Metaphyscial Memory.
ALP, CCI, FL, R
Same as Russian 171S but includes additional assignments. Taught in Russian. Readings in Russian. Intensive critical component. One course. Maksimova
RUS 272S. Pushkin and His Time.
CCI, FL
Pushkin and the literary revolution around 1830. Prose works (The
Tales of Belkin, The
Queen of Spades, The
Captain’s Daughter) and major lyrical
poetry. Readings in Russian. One course. Gheith
or Van Tuyl
RUS 273S. Gogol.
ALP, CCI, FL
Life, works and criticism. Readings include Dead
Souls, The
Inspector General, Petersburg
Tales, and other short fiction. Readings
in Russian. One course. Staff
RUS 275. Tolstoy.
ALP, EI, FL
Introduction to life, works and criticism. Readings include War
and Peace, Anna
Karenina, the shorter fiction, dramatic
works and essays. Taught in English. Readings in Russian. One course.
Van Tuyl
RUS 276. Dostoevsky.
ALP, CCI, FL
Introduction to life, works, and criticism. Readings include: Crime
and Punishment, The
Idiot, and The
Brothers Karamazov. Taught in English.
Readings in Russian. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course.
Flath, Gheith,
or Van Tuyl
RUS 277S. Chekhov.
CCI, FL
Drama and prose works. Readings in Russian. One course. Flath
RUS 278. Russian Short Fiction.
ALP, CCI, FL
The history, development and discontinuities of Russian short fiction
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Authors include Dostoevsky,
Vovchok, Leskov, Chekhov, Gippius, and Zoshchenko. Topics include
gender, genre, and national identity in historical/cultural context.
Taught in English. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course. Gheith
RUS 279S. Literature of the Former Soviet Republics.
ALP, CCI, FL
Ukrainian realism of the nineteenth century, futurism, neoclassicism
and the literary struggle of the 1920s; Belorussian literature;
Lithuanian psychological prose; the Estonian experimental novel;
Georgian literature from Rustaveli to the philosophical novel of
the 1970s; the work of Chingiz Aitmatov; Soviet “recent literacy”.
Taught in Russian. One course. Staff
RUS 280. Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature:
From Symbolism to the 1920s.
CCI, FL
Symbolism, acmeism, futurism, imaginism, proletarian literature.
Authors include Bely, Sologub, Bryusov, Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov,
Khodasevich, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Gorky,
Bogdanov, Gastev. Readings in Russian. One course. Staff
RUS 281. The Soviet 1920s: The Road to a New
Synthesis.
ALP, CCI, FL
The literary struggle of the 1920s; Proleterian literature from
the Smithy to RAPP, LEF and the fate of the avant-garde, the aesthetic
conception of Pereval, the literature of the absurd, Oberiu and
the Serapion Brothers. Authors include Kirillov, Gladkov, Babel,
Pilnyak, Olesha, Zamyatin, Platonov, Kharms, and Pasternak. Readings
in Russian. One course. Staff.
RUS 282. Socialist Realism: Soviet Literature
of the 1930s and 1940s.
ALP, CCI, FL
The Stalin era of Russian literature, the genesis and development
of socialist realism, Soviet literature and the theme of boundaries
and war. Authors include Sholokhov, Ostrovsky, Fadeev, Azhaev, Babaevsky,
Kochetov, and Simonov. Readings in Russian. One course. Staff
RUS 283. Post-Stalinist and Contemporary Soviet
Literature.
ALP, CCI, FL
Literature of the thaw after Stalin, the young prose, little realism,
new modernism, and rural prose. Authors include Aksyonov, Trifonov,
Baranskaya, Bitov, Solzhenitsyn, Rasputin, Shukshin, and Zalygin.
Readings in Russian. C-L: International Comparative Studies. One course.
Staff
RUS 284. Late- and Post-Soviet Literature.
ALP, CCI, FL
From the “recovered” avant-garde to the new literature
during the Gorbachev era and beyond. The unmasking of Soviet history
and its aestheticization. Underground literature and Soviet postmodernism.
Authors include Rybakov, Pietsukh, Petrushevskaya, Kuraev, Tolstaya,
Viktor Erofeyev, Makanin, Prigov, and Narbikova. Readings in Russian.
One course. Gheith
RUS 285. Babel and the Russian-Jewish Cultural
Dialogue of the Twentieth Century.
CCI, FL
The Jews and the Russian revolution. The Odessa school in the literature
of the 1920s. Works include Red
Cavalry, Odessa
Stories and The
Sunset. Readings in English or Russian.
One course. Staff
RUS 286S. Zamyatin.
ALP, CCI, FL, R
The novel WE
short fiction, and essays. Taught in English. Readings in English
or Russian. Not open to students who have taken the former Russian
177S/277s (Zamyatin). One course. Andrews
or Maksimova
RUS 287S. Platonov.
ALP, CCI, FL
The novels Chevengur,
The Foundation Pit,
and shorter fiction. Taught in English. Readings in English or Russian.
One course. Staff
RUS 288AS. Apocalyptic Visions and diabolic
Drama: The Works of Mixail Bulgakov.
ALP, CCI, FL
Critical analysis of Bulgakov’s short stories,
novellas, plays and novels. In-depth exposure to major critical
works on Bulgakov and influential figures. Taught in Russian. Readings
in Russian. One course. Andrews
RUS 288BS. Apocalyptic Visions and diabolic
Drama: The Works of Mixail Bulgakov.
ALP, CCI, R
Critical analysis of Bulgakov’s short stories, novellas, plays
and novels. In-depth exposure to major critical works on Bulgakov
and influential figures. Taught in English. Readings in English.
One course. Andrews
RUS 290. Trifonov, or the Life and Death of
the Soviet Intelligentsia
ALP, CCI, FL
The Russian and Soviet intelligentsia, its role and historical responsibility,
depicted by one of the most visible representants of the “generation
of the sixties.” Works include The
Exchange, Taking
Stock, The
Long Goodbye, Another
Life, The
House on the Embankment, The
Old Man. Readings in Russian. One course.
Staff
RUS 297. Russian Poetry.
ALP, CCI, FL
Focus on nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the Golden
Age and the Silver Age. Authors include Pushkin, Lermontov, Bely,
Blok, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam, Pasternak, and Mayakovsky.
Readings in Russian. One course. Van Tuyl
or Staff
RUS 298. Akhmatova
ALP, CCI, FL
The works and times of Anna Akhmatova, the most prominent woman
poet in Russian history. Focus on Akhmatova’s works and the
Russian political and artistic milieu of the 1910s and 1920s, socio-literary
issues of later periods. Readings include the lyric poems of 1910-60,
Requiem, and Poem Without a Hero. Readings in Russian. One course.
Van Tuyl
RUS 299S. Special Topics.
CCI
Seminars in advanced topics, designed for seniors and graduate students.
One course. Staff
RUS 299. Special Topics.
CCI
Non-seminar version of Russian 299S. One course. Staff
For Graduates Only:
RUS 301, 302. Elementary Russian.
Introduction to understanding, speaking, reading and writing. Audiolingual
techniques are combined with required recording-listening practice
in the language laboratory. 3 units each. Staff.
RUS 303, 304. Intermediate Russian.
Intensive classroom and laboratory practice in spoken and written
patterns. Reading in contemporary literature. Prerequisites: Russian
301, 302 or permission of instructor. 3 units each. Staff.
RUS 305, 306. Advanced Russian Conversation
and Readings. Nineteenth and twentieth
century literature in the original. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisites:
Russian 303 and 304 or permission of instructor. 3 units each. Staff.
RUS 307. Advanced Russian.
Advanced grammar review with an emphasis on the refinement of oral
and written language skills. Development of writing style through
compositions and essays. Prerequisite: Russian 306 or consent of
instructor. 3 units. Andrews
RUS 308. Advanced Russian: Readings, Translation,
and Syntax.
Intensive reading and conversation with emphasis on contemporary
Russian literary and Soviet press texts. English-Russian translation
stressed. Russian media, including television and films. Prerequisite:
Russian 307 or consent of instructor. 3 units. Andrews
RUS 309, 310. Russian Stylistics and Conversation.
Refinement of stylistic control and range in spoken and written
Russian. Emphasis on fluent discursive skills, as well as development
of expository prose style. Prerequisites: Russian 307 and 308, or
permission of instructor. 3 units each. Maksimova
RUS 311S, 312S. Advanced Russian Language and
Culture.
Advanced grammar review with additional emphasis on phonetics and
conversation. Culture component includes literature, films, museums
and theater performances. Prerequisite: Russian 306S or equivalent.
(Taught in St. Petersburg in Russian). 3 units each. Staff
RUS 335. Contemporary Russian Media.
Analytical readings and study of change and development in all the
primary forms of former Soviet mass media from 1985 to present (newspapers,
journals, and television). Topics include censorship, TASS, samizdat.
Taught in English, readings in Russian. Prerequisite: Russian 64
or equivalent. 3 units. Andrews
RUS 350. Methods in Teaching Russian.
The theory and practice of teaching Russian language to English
speaking students. 1 unit. Andrews
RUS 351. Topics in Teaching Methodology.
Application of linguistic principles in the classroom. No prior
knowledge of linguistics required. Two units. Staff
RUS 399. Special Readings.
Advanced Readings in 19th and 20th century Russian literature in
the original. 3 units. Staff
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