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1.00 Credits
This writing-centered course acquaints students with major artistic achievements in Russian society from the 10th century to the present day -- in architecture, painting, literature, and music -- and explores particularly Russian manners and customs that define the everyday lives of its people. It examines the possible ways in which these achievements, manners, and customs might be said to define that society in a certain period. The materials are presented historically through films, music, pictures, paintings, readings, and food. Mode of Inquiry: Thinking Historically General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered; Fourth Semester Language Requirement Offering: Alternate years in springs Instructor: Conliffe
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A survey of masterpieces of Russian Film from the 1920s to the present including works by Eisenstein, Vertov, and Tarkovsky. The course will examine the ways in which directors, like authors of novels and other literary genres, create a fictional world; the historical and social context in which these films were made will also be discussed. Taught in English Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Fourth Semester Language Requirement Offering: Alternate falls Instructor: Bishop
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This course will examine masterpieces of Russian short fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to analyzing the individual stores closely, students will consider the tradition of the short story within Russian literary history and will explore the dialogue taking place among the texts. Stories will include the ridiculous tales of Gogol, the classic short prose of Chekhov, and the magical realism of Nabokov. Taught in English. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing-Centered Offering: Alternate falls Instructor: Bishop
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[Crosslisted with LIT 320] The course examines selected works in translation of Russian prose and poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to examining the works in their literary context (style, genre, linguistic peculiarities, rhetorical devices, irony, satire, etc.) the historical and societal viewpoint will also be discussed, so that the student will have a better understanding of the Russian people in each particular period of history. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered; Fourth Semester Language Requirement Offering: Alternate years in fall Instructor: Conliffe
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1.00 Credits
This course enables a student to acquire knowledge of selected authors, genres, and literary periods in Russian literature. Potential texts include Chekhov's plays, Dostoevsky's political novels, Russian fairy tales, Nabokov's prose, and the stories of contemporary women writers in Russia. Taught in English. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts Offering: Alternate years in spring Instructor: Conliffe
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0.50 Credits
This course will introduce students to grammar and devices commonly used in a variety of genres of fictional and non-fictional texts. We will give special attention to how language and communication styles define texts and aspects of cultural interaction. We also will consider challenges that come with translating such texts and examine aspects of translation theory in attempts to understand how meaning might be affected by translation. Prerequisite: RUSS 232 Offering: Fall Instructor: Bishop, Conliffe
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1.00 Credits
In this course the three creative elements of language learning, speech and writing are given foremost attention. Oral and written composition based upon reading of texts emphasizing Russian culture, as well as literary texts enabling the student to become acquainted with the literary vocabulary needed in more advanced letters courses. Exercises in syntax and introductory phonetics. Laboratory exercises stressing comprehension and pronunciation. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisite: RUSS 232 or consent of instructor Offering: Spring Instructor: The Ukraine visiting professor
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1.00 Credits
Studies in geography, history, economics and the chronological development of culture and ideas. Class discussions. Oral and written reports in Russian. Prerequisite: RUSS 331 or consent of instructor Offering: Spring Instructor: Conliffe
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1.00 Credits
Beginning with Tolstoy's controversial novella, "The Kreutzer Sonata," this course will examine love and family in Russian literature, a problem which becomes particularly complicated in the twentieth century. Topics will include androgyny in the writings of the symbolists, the regimentation of sex in Zamiatin's anti-utopia novel We, questions of disease and sterility in Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, adultery in Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and generational conflict in the writings of Tsvetaeva and Petrushevskaia. Taught in English. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts Offering: Alternate springs Instructor: Bishop
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0.50 Credits
The course examines selected works (in Russian) of Russian prose and poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to examining the works in their literary context (style, genre, linguistic peculiarities, rhetorical devices, irony, satire, etc.) the historical and societal viewpoint will also be discussed, so that the student will have a better understanding of the Russian people in each particular period of history. Course to be taught in Russian. Prerequisite: RUSS 331 Offering: Fall Instructor: Conliffe
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