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4.00 Credits
As poet, master fiction writer, translator, chess enthusiast, and lepidopterist, Vladimir Nabokov made it his life's work to recognize hidden patterns and sleights of hand, and to play along in his own art. In this course, which is structured as a seminar, students approach a selection of Nabokov's works as "players" and treasure seekerstraining their senses to discern what has been so carefully and lovingly hidden. Students also consider major interpretive strategies: life as design, (auto)biography, memory and its role in art, varieties of translation, aesthetic and ethical implications of patterns and their manipulation, and the usefulness of categories such as modern and postmodern. Significant attention is given to the Russian cultural and literary context that underlies Nabokov's sense of design in both his life and art. Students read-in addition to poems, short stories, and critical articles? ?he Defense, Invitation to a Beheading, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Pnin, and Pale Fire, as well as Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory. The course is conducted in English.
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4.00 Credits
This course consists of reading, discussion, and lexical analysis of Russian literature for and about children. Texts include fairy tales, as well as works by Pushkin, Odoevskii, Tolstoy, Zakhoder Chekhov, Sologub, Chukovsky, Kharms, Marshak, and Mayakovsky. Videotapes and films are used for developing skills in language comprehension. The course is conducted in Russian.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the evolution of Russian dramaturgy in connection with parallel developments in both literature and theater. It offers students an opportunity to explore various aspects of Russian culture by discussing the specifics of Russian drama. Special attention is given to issues of genre and style, tradition and innovation, dramatic criticism, and theory. Readings include Fonvizin, Griboedov, Gogol, Petrushevskaya, Pushkin, Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Erdman, and other playwrights. Students read theoretical texts by Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, and Mikhail Chekhov and attend a performance of a Russian play in New York. No knowledge of Russian is required.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced Russian class for students who wish to increase their language proficiency by watching, discussing, and analyzing in writing Russian/Soviet films of various periods and genres. Discussions are based on the narrative, historical, and aesthetic elements of the films. The focus of weekly writing assignments is on formal clarity, syntactic structures, and development of personal style.
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4.00 Credits
Music The early development of Russian music benefited from appropriation of Byzantine unaccompanied choral singing and, at the same time, suffered from the absence of instrumental music. By comparison, Western European music combined the use of vocal and instrumental faculties and resulted in the creation of numerous forms of musical art, including opera. The flourishing of this genre in Europe had a direct impact on the progress of musical life in Russia. Material studied includes literary texts, musical recordings, and opera performances on video. This course is offered under the auspices of the Bard- Smolny Virtual Campus Project.
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4.00 Credits
This practical and theoretical course consists of regular weekly reading and translation of a variety of literary texts. Students also work on an independent project throughout the semester. Texts include short stories and poems by Bunin, Chekhov, Babel, Tolstaya, Dovlatov, Akhmatova, Pasternak, and others.
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a historical study of Russian versification-the technical aspects of poetry, structural analysis of poetic texts, and translation of selected poems. Poets studied include Pushkin, Lermontov, Baratynsky, Tyutchev, Fet, Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Tarkovsky, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Brodsky, and Rein. The course is conducted in Russian. For a description of the Bard-Saint Petersburg State University exchange program, see the chapter ? ?nternational Programs and Study Abroad."
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to astronomy and astrophysics that covers the current status of knowledge and theories of the solar system, individual stars, galaxies, and the interstellar medium. Theories of particular objects, such as quasars, pulsars, supernovas, X-ray stars, and black holes are discussed in terms of models of stellar, galactic, and cosmic evolution.
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4.00 Credits
A descriptive review of the astrophysical theories of the origin and development of the early universe. The Big Bang theory is examined in detail, with attendant evidence and theories of particles, fields, energy and entropy, and spacetime geometry. Current models of supernovas, quasars, black and white holes, dark matter, quantum foam, and recent alternative models of supersymmetry and superstrings are reviewed. Historical notions of time, space, matter, and cause frame the discussions.
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4.00 Credits
LAIS 140 Latinos in the U.S.A.: Film, Memoir, Fiction An introduction to the history and experience of Latinos in the United States through memoir, film, and history. Readings include diverse Latina/o writers, representing Dominican, Mexican American, Cuban, Salvadoran, and Puerto Rican voices, and contemporary cinematic representations of Latino life and culture are viewed. The course seeks to establish a sophisticated understanding of the issues facing U.S.-based Latinos: assimilation and Americanization, language and bilingualism, immigration, racism, issues of gender and sexuality, and gaining and expanding cultural citizenship in the United States.
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