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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Patterns 1-2 The courses are topically organized and designed to encourage communication and to offer insight into the culture of the speakers of Russian. Information is provided on the geo-political areas in which Russian is spoken and the cultural habits and orientation of its speakers.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or These courses promote communication through a knowledge of Russian and Russian culture. They involve further study of the structural and lexical features of Russian based upon topical subjects. They enhance understanding of the in-depth culture of Russia through presentations on its traditions of art, music, and literature.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or Romanticism and Realism in Russian literature. Readings from Pushkin, Griboedov, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Ostrovsky, Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Leskov, Chekhov, Kuprin, Bunin, and Andreev.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or Socialist realism as a doctrine of art and literature in the Soviet Union. Readings from Gorky, Mayakovsky, Babel, Olesha, Leonov, Zamyatin, Zoshchenko, Sholokhov, Ilf and Petrov, Simonov, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, Solzhenitsyn, and others.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option This course involves conversations on topical subjects and in-depth analyses of structural, lexical, and grammatical features of Russian. The conversations are drawn on the cultural activities and perspectives of the speakers of Russian (holidays, work habits, plight of ethnic minorities, church, and family).
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option Theory and practice in translating scientific and technical texts. Selected readings in economics, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geology, anatomy, and astronomy.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or Selected readings of 19th- and 20th- century Russian prose and verse. Translation of selected scientific articles. Intensive exercises in translating standard English prose into Russian.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option Historical background for an understanding of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of modern Russian.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option Selected readings from the epic, annalistic, and hagiographic literature from the 11th to the 17th centuries with special emphasis on Igor Tale and the Primary, Kievan, and Galician-Volynian chronicles. The beginnings of fiction.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Lectures and readings on independent nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, plus the Tatars and the Jews. An in-depth view of the territory, demography, culture, media, education, language, and national attitudes of the various nations of this new union.
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