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3.00 Credits
Conversational skills continue to be developed, especially for narration and dialogue in the past and future tenses.Writing skills will be developed; expositionwill be used as amain formin development ofwriting skills. Conversational topics will incorporate authenticmaterials. Prerequisite: 201. Offered in alternate years.
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A course designed to strengthen grammar for reading and writing. Authentic texts will include newspapers and expository prose about history and politics. Prerequisite: 202. Offered in alternate years.
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Opportunities for students to apply linguistic and cultural skills in a professional context in a wide variety of professional areas and locations including local, domestic, and international sites. Prerequisites: career education 300Y and language proficiency at the 302 level. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
A major research project related to the study of Russian language, culture, or literature under the close supervision of a facultymember. Prerequisite: consent of instructor required. Offered as needed.
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This course will examine the intellectual traditions that influenced the growth and development of Yiddish culture between 1800 and the present. The focus will be placed on traditional values in the life of the Jewish community in Russia and Eastern Europe, their positive as well as restrictive impact on individual Jewish experience. The study of the intellectual traditions will be reflected through three major areas of human experience: literature, arts, and film. Texts will be read in English translation. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course will acquaint students with Russian cultural history focusing on the tremendous changes in the country from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the present. The films selected for viewing and class discussions demonstrate cultural and socio-political conditions unique to Russia. Covers major events in the history of Soviet culture and the rapid and unpredictable changes in contemporary Russia. Offered in alternate years, fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the ethical and philosophical values expressed through the early forms of culture-myth and folklore. It analyzes the transformation of the fairy tale into the literature, film, and popular beliefs of the 20th Century. Discussions are based on Russian fairy tales, literary texts, art,music and film, as well asWestern interpretations of the traditional fairy tale values. All lectures and discussions are in English. Offered in alternate years.
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This course will examine in translation "dangerous texts" of the 19th and 20th century. Students will learnwhich characteristics of texts and their authors were seen as threats, how these threats were dealt with, and how all of these factors affected the very nature of writing and reading in Russia. The reading list includes works by: Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Bulgakov, andMayakovsky. Offered in alternate years, fall semester.
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This course traces the development of utopian thought in the 19th and 20th centuries as it manifested itself in Russia and later in East Germany. Special attention will be given to the dialogue between utopia, dystopoia, and anti-utopia in Russia and (East) German literature, political texts, flm, art and music, as well as examples from the United States and England. The future of the utopian ideal will be discussed as well in the contexts of post-communist culture. All lectures, readings, and discussions are in English. Offered in alternate years, spring semester.
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Leo Tolstoy considered his primary task as a writer to influence and to shape the morality of the Russian nation. He viewed the family as the primary source of the moral development of the human being. The course will examine two of his works, Anna Karenina, and The Kreutzer Sonata and focus on family values-the questions of love, adultery, and moral responsibility-as they are expressed in these works. All lectures and discussions are in English. Offered occasionally.
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