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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Russian literature, presenting its development and the major literary movements from the earliest period to the middle of the 19th century. Readings will include works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Goncharov, Turgenev, and Tolstoy. No knowledge of Russian necessary. Conducted in English. Offered every other year.
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An introduction to Russian literature, presenting its development and the major literary movements from the middle of the 19th century to the present. Readings will include works by Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky, Blok, Mayakovsky, Babel, Zamiatin, Gladkov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, Trifonov, Shukshin, and Aitmatov. No knowledge of Russian necessary. Conducted in English. Offered every other year.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed for heritage learners who have had little or no formal training in their native language and who desire to improve their reading, writing, and formal communicative skills. Basic rules of orthography and advanced grammar will be reviewed. Texts will be drawn from contemporary Russian press, movie scripts, and fiction. Prerequisite: placement by department. Offered every two years.
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3.00 Credits
Practice in the techniques and patterns of everyday conversation, especially as these reflect different cultural orientation. Reading and discussion of short works by well-known Russian authors. Prerequisite: 200 or the equivalent, with a grade of at least C.
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3.00 Credits
Reading and discussion of literary works by representative authors from the pre- and post-Revolutionary periods. Prerequisite: 200 or the equivalent, with a grade of at least C.
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine a contribution by Russian and East European directors to the development of film as an art form. It will also investigate the role which those film have played in forming the cultural identity of various East European nations in recent times. Films by the following directors may be studied: Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Dovzhenko, Forman, Bacso, Tarkovskij, Mikhalkov, Wajda, Makavejev, Szabo and others. Conducted in English. Offered every other year.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the numerous ways in which Tolstoy, one of the most influential Russian writers and thinkers, transcends his time and through his works speaks to our concerns today. What makes life meaningful? What kind of love lasts? Why do certain attempts to modernize society fail while others succeed? It is worth reconsidering Tolstoy's ideas on these and other issues because he teaches us to see the world more wisely. Students will read and discuss Tolstoy's fiction, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina, as well as his essays on religious, philosophical, social and artistic issues. Students are encouraged to have read War and Peace before the semester begins. Taught in English. Offered every two years.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider how the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky have affected and continue to affect the world today. Readings will include "The Double," Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. The psychological, moral and artistic problems with which Dostoevsky struggled will be discussed in the context of America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Included in the discussion will be works by such American writers as Mailer, Percy, and Vonnegut, and such films as Dogma and Match Point. The course will consider the similarities and differences between Dostoevsky?s ideas and those of the contemporary world. Taught in English. Offered every two years.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine Russian identity as it is expressed in the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Russian attitudes toward Western Europe and the East, which are fundamental to modern Russian culture, will be considered. The course will also focus on two major crises of identity - one caused by emigration, the other by multiculturalism. The latter crisis includes the rise of Jewish identity in Russia from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth, as well as the ambiguous status of Soviet Russia as a multicultural state. Taught in English. Offered every two years.
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3.00 Credits
This is an intensive language laboratory on location in Moscow. Designed to improve students' comprehension and command of spoken Russian, this course initiates the students in everyday verbal and cultural communication prevalent in Russia. A variety of topics, including students' first-hand experience with contemporary Russian culture, will be used to improve comprehension oral skills. A workshop on phonetics is an important component of this course. Prerequisite: 200.
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