CollegeTransfer.Net

Course Criteria

Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.

  • RUSS 201-202: Intermediate Russian I and II

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A continuation of Russian 101-102 focusing on vocabulary acquisition and greater control of more complex and extended forms of discourse. Greater emphasis is placed on students' creative use of Russian to express themselves orally and in writing. Prerequisite(s): Russian 102. Conducted in Russian. Open to first-year students. Normally offered every year. J. Costlow.
    ShareRUSS 201-202 - Intermediate Russian I and II
    Favorite

  • RUSS 202: Intermediate Russian II

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A continuation of Russian 201 focusing on vocabulary acquisition and greater control of more complex and extended forms of discourse. Greater emphasis is placed on students' creative use of Russian to express themselves orally and in writing. Prerequisite(s): Russian 102. Conducted in Russian. Open to first-year students. Normally offered every year. J. Costlow.
    ShareRUSS 202 - Intermediate Russian II
    Favorite

  • RUSS 220: Twentieth-Century Russian Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course focuses on major Russian novels from the twentieth century, which may include Bely's Petersburg, Platonov's The Foundation Pit, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle. Students consider the ways these novels explore poetry, revolution, moral life, and cultural continuity in times of war and revolution; how they make innovative or traditional use of literary form and narrative voice; and how their authors shaped challenges to Soviet identity in literary works that were censored or repressed until the late twentieth century. Conducted in English. J. Costlow.
    ShareRUSS 220 - Twentieth-Century Russian Novel
    Favorite

  • RUSS 261: Russian Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A topical survey of Russian culture as realized in a number of social institutions including the family, the church, the popular media, and the arts. Particular attention is given to texts emphasizing both the real and imagined role the urban environment plays in shaping Russian identity. Conducted in English. Open to first-year students. [W2] D. Browne.
    ShareRUSS 261 - Russian Culture
    Favorite

  • RUSS 270: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Russia's great prose writers raise "accursed questions" about social justice, religious truth, and the meanings of life. Their critiques of modernity and vividly imagined and often unorthodox characters continue to resonate and challenge. Readings are drawn from such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, and Chekhov. Conducted in English. Open to first-year students. J. Costlow.
    ShareRUSS 270 - Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
    Favorite

  • RUSS 271: Modern Russian Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The Devil comes to Soviet Moscow to do good! A cosmonaut discovers that the Soviet space program is a hoax carried out underground! Jesus Christ leads a march through revolutionary St. Petersburg! Who needs fantastic realism Russian writers of the twentieth century continued to build on a world-class literary tradition established in the nineteenth century. They did so as their country experienced unparalleled political and social revolutions, and even when they were directly targeted by one of the twentieth century's most powerful and terrifying political regimes. This course looks at ways in which writers have responded to political, social, and cultural upheaval, and how they provide spiritual strength to a beleaguered population. Conducted in English. Open to first-year students. D. Browne.
    ShareRUSS 271 - Modern Russian Literature
    Favorite

  • RUSS 276: Dostoevsky and the Culture of Crisis

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The works of Fyodor Dostoevsky describe a world on the edge of catastrophe or transformation, in which madmen, prostitutes, saints, and seekers lay claim to visions of revolution or redemption. This course introduces students to the work of Dostoevsky within the context of Russian cultural and political history. Reading includes two major novels (one of them being The Brothers Karamazov) and a selection of his shorter prose works, memoirs, and polemical pieces. Conducted in English. Open to first-year students. J. Costlow.
    ShareRUSS 276 - Dostoevsky and the Culture of Crisis
    Favorite

  • RUSS 301: Advanced Russian I

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This sequence completes the essentials of contemporary colloquial Russian. Students read short unabridged texts in both literary and journalistic styles, and write one- and two-page papers on a variety of topics. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisite(s): Russian 202. Open to first-year students. Normally offered every year. D. Browne.
    ShareRUSS 301 - Advanced Russian I
    Favorite

  • RUSS 301-302: Advanced Russian I and II

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This sequence completes the essentials of contemporary colloquial Russian. Students read short unabridged texts in both literary and journalistic styles, and write one- and two-page papers on a variety of topics. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisite(s): Russian 202. Open to first-year students. Normally offered every year. D. Browne.
    ShareRUSS 301-302 - Advanced Russian I and II
    Favorite

  • RUSS 302: Advanced Russian II

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This sequence completes the essentials of contemporary colloquial Russian. Students read short unabridged texts in both literary and journalistic styles, and write one- and two-page papers on a variety of topics. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisite(s): Russian 202. Normally offered every year. D. Browne.
    ShareRUSS 302 - Advanced Russian II
    Favorite
To find college, community college and university courses by keyword, enter some or all of the following, then select the Search button.
(Type the name of a College, University, Exam, or Corporation)
(For example: Accounting, Psychology)
(For example: ACCT 101, where Course Prefix is ACCT, and Course Number is 101)
(For example: Introduction To Accounting)
(For example: Sine waves, Hemingway, or Impressionism)
Distance:
of
(For example: Find all institutions within 5 miles of the selected Zip Code)