Courses

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Spring 2022- Slavic Department Courses
Courses in Polish
Course Name | Day & Time | Instructor |
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PLSH-002: First-Level Polish II | MWF 12:00–12:50 PM | Iwona Sadowska |
PLSH-102: Second-Level Polish II | MWF 9:00–9:50 AM | Iwona Sadowska |
Courses in Russian
Course Name | Day & Time | Instructor |
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RUSS 011: First-Level Russian I | MTWRF 2:00 PM + F 1:00 PM | Svetlana Moser and Iwona Sadowska |
RUSS 012: First-Level Russian II | MTWRF 11:00 AM + F 12:00 PM MTWRF 3:00 PM + F 2:00 PM | Elena Boudovskaia and Anna Pechnikova Svetlana Moser and Iwona Sadowska |
RUSS 111: Second-Level Russian I | MTWRF 10:00 AM + F 11:00 AM | Elena Boudovskaia and Anna Pechnikova |
RUSS 112: Second-Level Russian II | MTWRF 12:00 PM + F 11:00 AM | Elena Boudovskaia and Jill Neuendorf |
RUSS 211: Third-Level Russian I | MTWRF 2:00 PM + F 3:00 PM MW 12:30–1:45 PM | Olga Meerson |
RUSS 214: Russia(n) in Context (A continuation of RUSS-213). This course focuses on developing students’ oral and reading proficiency and intercultural competence. It incorporates a review of grammar covered in the first two levels. A variety of materials, including selections from Russian literature and contemporary press, as well as films and TV broadcasts will be employed to introduce topics of discussion and enhance the students’ ability to converse on daily topics and debate cultural, political and social issues in Russian life today. | TR 3:30–4:45 PM | Jill Neuendorf |
RUSS 356: Russian Through Culture This course develops students’ Russian language skills by reading, watching, analyzing, and discussing authentic cultural documents. We will read great (short) works of literature in the original Russian, watch classic Russian and Soviet films, analyze contemporary cultural trends and historical movements, and even annotate a few recent Russian music videos. Students will not only sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in Russian, they will engage with a broad survey of important Russian culture. They will develop the intercultural sensitivity and understanding they need for careers or further study in Russia or the Russophone world. | TR 12:30–1:45 | Bradley Gorski |
RUSS 358: The Russian Internet This course will study Russian Internet as a unique phenomenon with its own cultural status, history, ethical codes, and even grammatical rules. Students will get acquainted with the major literary and scholarly magazines, fiction and non-fiction libraries, and collections of films and music. They will learn to navigate Russian sites and identify reliable information sources. We will discuss the issues of intellectual property and censorship on the Internet, and study the peculiarities of Russian social networks, Internet memes and myths. The course is taught in Russian and expects students to do substantial research of Russian web space. (HALC) | MW 3:30–4:45 | Milla Fedorova |
RUSS 398: Professional Russian II Designed for graduate students in CERES and MSFS who will be using Russian in their professional lives, this course aims to enhance the participants’ command of the language in both the oral and written forms. The course will focus on the preparation, delivery and discussion of oral presentations and written essays on topics related to the students’ professional interests. Topics will range from international relations, politics and economics to Russian literature and popular culture. | MW 5:00–6:15 PM | Elena Boudovskai |
RUSS 495: Sixth-Level Russian The goal of this course is to develop participants’ professional command of Russian speech in oral and written forms. Special attention will be paid to the grammatical and lexical precision of the ideas and opinions on sophisticated professional topics. The focus is of this course is on the preparation, delivery, and discussion of oral presentations and written essays on topics related to participants’ professional interests. Topics will range from the fields of international relations, economics and politics, to Russian and Soviet culture and literature. | TR 5:00–6:15 PM | Jill Neuendorf |
Courses in English
Course Name | Day & Time | Instructor |
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RUSS 116: Russia A-Z II This one-credit course is a survey of major topics in Russian culture from its beginnings to the present. It will acquaint students with various issues and fields of inquiry in Russian language, literature, linguistics and culture and help provide the necessary background for further study, both in the U.S. and in the Russian Federation. It is also intended as an introductory course for interested students with little or no background in these subject areas. The course will be team-taught by members of the Department of Slavic Languages and will be primarily in lecture format. In the final three classes of the semester, a professor will be reporting on his or her individual research. All lectures and readings are in English. (No prerequisites. Students need not have taken Russia A to Z I.) | R 2:00–2:50 PM | Irina Denischenko, Milla Fedorova, Bradley Gorski, Olga Meerson |
RUSS 411: Russian Literature Fights Xenophobia The course will address various ways the poetics of Russian Fiction address prejudices—head on. First, they are put in the foreground as the motifs in the plots—e.g., motifs of racism or othering/ de-othering the Other in Russia’s Imperial Islamic invasions and government of territories; the motif of objectifying prisoners or women, or pre-assigning gender roles and functions in family/society, or that of religious sects and schismatics in Russia, the latter motif, including anti-Semitism, although it involves aspects of racism and cultural / linguistic Xenophobia as well. (HALC, DIV-Global) | MW 2:00–3:15 PM | Olga Meerson |
WGST 351: Women & Resistance in Russia What is the nature of resistance? How can resistance be distinguished from civil disobedience, dissent, and revolt? Does female resistance differ from masculinist paradigms of opposition to power? Structured in reverse chronological order, this course first considers Putin-era manifestations of women’s resistance in Russia, including performance art, journalism, and political activism. We then investigate the genealogy of these contemporary protests in underground activism of the late Soviet period, in women’s involvement in WWII, and in the Bolshevik sexual revolution of the 1920s. Next, we turn to figures of resistance in pre-Revolutionary Russia, from female terrorists to medieval saints. Students engage with a broad range of cultural artifacts, including historical texts, literature, zines, journalistic work, visual art, film, in an effort to create historical narratives in light of missing sources. The final project invites students to grapple with issues raised in this course by curating a museum exhibit. No knowledge of Russian required. (DIV-Global) | TR 3:30–4:45 PM | Irina Denischenko |
Russian
Language Learning
RUSS-011 Intensive First-Level Russian I
Professors E. Boudovskaia, G. Mihaychuk, M. Morris, J. Neuendorf, and I. Sadowska
RUSS-012 Intensive First-Level Russian II
Professors E. Boudovskaia, M. Morris, J. Neuendorf, and I. Sadowska
RUSS-111 Intensive Second-Level Russian I
Professors E. Boudovskaia, G. Mihaychuk, and J. Neuendorf
RUSS-112 Intensive Second-Level Russian II
Professors E. Boudovskaia, G. Mihaychuk, and J. Neuendorf
Upper-Division Courses
RUSS-211 Third-Level Russian
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-213 Russia(n) in Context I
Professors S. Grenier and G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-214 Russia(n) in Context II
Professor S. Grenier
RUSS-301 Tutorial: Russian
Staff
RUSS-355 Fourth-Level Russian
Professor L. Fedorova
RUSS-397 Professional Russian I
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-398 Professional Russian II
Professor E. Boudovskaia
RUSS-400 Tutorial: Senior Honors Thesis
Staff
RUSS-494 Sixth-Level Russian
Professor J. Neuendorf
RUSS-495 Sixth Level Russian II
Professor J. Neuendorf
Literature and Culture (Taught in English)
RUSS-115 Russia A-Z I
Professors D. Andrews, L. Fedorova, S. Grenier, O. Meerson, G. Mihaychuk, and M. Morris
RUSS-116 Russia A-Z II
Professors D. Andrews, L. Fedorova, S. Grenier, O. Meerson, G. Mihaychuk, and M. Morris
RUSS-372 Modernism in Russian Literature
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-380 Terrorism and Ethnic Strife in Russian Literature
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-441 Tolstoy: Literature of Love and Life
Professor M. Morris
RUSS-450 Literature of the Other Europe
Professors G. Mihaychuk and I. Sadowska
RUSS-451 Family and Its Demons in the 19th-Century Russian and English Novel
Professor S. Grenier
RUSS-463 Dostoevsky
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-466 Chekhov: Simple Deception
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-473 19th-Century Heroines and Antiheroes
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-478 Literature of Prison and Exile/Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Professor L. Fedorova
RUSS-481 19th-Century Russian Literature: The Crisis Within
Professor M. Morris
RUSS-486 Madness and Madmen in Russian Literature
Professor M. Morris
RUSS-487 Imaginary Worlds in Literature and Film
Professor L. Fedorova
WRIT-015-01 Writing and Culture Seminar
Professor G. Mihaychuk
WRIT-015-02 Writing and Culture Seminar
Professor M. Morris
Literature and Culture (Taught in Russian)
RUSS-358 Russian Internet
Professor L. Fedorova
RUSS-367 Translating the Untranslatable
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-455 Russia(n) in Cinema
Professor L. Fedorova
RUSS-461 Pushkin: Eugene Onegin
Professor S. Grenier
RUSS-462 Chekhov: Prose and Drama
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-464 Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Professor S. Grenier
RUSS-465 Poetry Inside Out
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-492 Master and Margarita
Professor L. Fedorova
Russian Linguistics
RUSS-393 Russian Phonology
Professor D. Andrews
RUSS-491 History of the Russian Language
Professor D. Andrews
Polish
PLSH-001 Beginning Polish I
Professor I. Sadowska
PLSH-002 Beginning Polish II
Professor I. Sadowska
PLSH-101 Intermediate Polish I
Professor I. Sadowska
PLSH-102 Intermediate Polish II
Professor I. Sadowska
PLSH-397 Tutorial: Professional Polish I
Professor I. Sadowska
PLSH-398 Tutorial: Professional Polish II
Professor I. Sadowska
PLSH-399 Tutorial: Advanced Oral and Written Polish I
Professor I. Sadowska
PLSH-400 Tutorial: Advanced Oral and Written Polish II
Professor I. Sadowska
Ukrainian
UKRN-301 Tutorial: Beginning Ukrainian I
Professor G. Mihaychuk
UKRN-302 Tutorial: Beginning Ukrainian II
Professor G. Mihaychuk
UKRN-303 Tutorial: Intermediate Ukrainian I
Professor G. Mihaychuk
UKRN-304 Tutorial: Intermediate Ukrainian II
Professor G. Mihaychuk
UKRN-397 Tutorial: Professional Ukrainian I
Professor G. Mihaychuk
UKRN-398 Tutorial: Professional Ukrainian II
Professor G. Mihaychuk