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3.00 Credits
H This study-abroad trip offers a survey of Czech art, architecture, literature, theatre, and film from the medieval period to the present with emphasis on the late 19th and 20th centuries. Combines 18 hours of lectures on campus and a ten-day trip to Prague. LEC
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3.00 Credits
H/W A survey of West Slavic Literature and Civilization (Polish and Czech) from its beginnings to the present with emphasis on the most important trends: Renaissance, Romanticism, Positivism/Realism, Modernism and Avant-guard; Socialist realism, and Post-modernism. The course combines lecture, discussion and small group activities. Movie clips, recordings, and slides are used to reflect various cultural dimensions of West Slavic Civilization. No knowledge of Polish or Czech is required. LEC
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3.00 Credits
NW H/W An introductory survey of the literature and culture of the South Slavic peoples: the Slovenes, Croats, Bosniacs, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians and Bulgarians. No language required. LEC
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3.00 Credits
H/W Topics and problems in Russian cultural history as treated in the masterworks of Russian literature. Readings selected from the works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, and other great Russian writers. Readings in English, no prerequisite for non-Russian majors. Russian majors will do some of the readings in Russian. LEC
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3.00 Credits
NW H/W An interdisciplinary course which examines the geography, peoples, resources, history, culture, and the development of Siberia from its beginnings to the present day. Topics to be covered are selected from the following list: topography and natural resources; indigenous and colonial populations; conquest and exploitation by Russian and other European settlers; role as a place of imprisonment and exile; religions and the plastic arts, theatre and drama, music and folklore; science and technology; economic significance; environmental problems; role in Russian-Chinese and Russian-Japanese relations. Siberia is treated as a distinctive cultural entity formed by the mixture of Russian and indigenous elements. LEC
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3.00 Credits
H The course asks how fiction written in Central Europe engaged and grappled with the totalitarian experience imposed by Nazi and Soviet forms of government. The course focuses on the works by 20th-century Polish, Czech, and Hungarian writers that deal with totalitarianism. (Same as HWC 514.) LEC
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of several most representative and best works of 19th- and 20th-century Polish and Czech fiction and drama and their film adaptations. By providing a broad cultural and historical background of the works, the course offers a thorough introduction to modern culture of Poland and the Czech Republic. Readings and discussions are in English, and no knowledge of Polish or Czech is required. LEC
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3.00 Credits
H/W An analysis of the phonological and morphological systems of contemporary standard Russian, including normative and dialectal pronunciation of speech sounds, phonemics, morphophonemic alterations, and nominal and verbal inflections. Graduate students enrolled in this course will be held to a more stringent curriculum and grading system. Prerequisite: Two years of Russian language study or the equivalent. LEC
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3.00 Credits
H/W An analysis of morphosyntax and the lexicon in contemporary standard Russian, with emphasis on the sentence and its elements. Designed as a continuation of SLAV 520. Graduate students enrolled in this course will be held to a more stringent curriculum and grading system. Prerequisite: Two years of Russian language study or the equivalent. LEC
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3.00 Credits
H/W An examination of changes in the Russian language during the course of this century. Topics covered include changes in pronunciation, morphological and syntactic variation, and the impact of foreign borrowings, particularly from English. Graduate students enrolled in this course will be held to a more stringent curriculum and grading system. Prerequisite: Two years of Russian language study or the equivalent. LEC
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