ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN
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.
INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN
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.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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.
SOVIET LITERATURE
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.
CONVERSATION AND COMPOSITION
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).
SCIENTIFIC RUSSIAN
3 credits
Concentration Option
Theory and practice in translating scientific and technical texts. Selected readings in economics, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geology, anatomy, and astronomy.
ADVANCED READINGS AND COMPOSITION
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.
HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
3 credits
Concentration Option
Historical background for an understanding of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of modern Russian.
OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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.
RELATED STUDIES
THE CULTURES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
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.
UKRAINIAN
3 credits
The study of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of a second Eastern Slavic language, Ukrainian, by noting the differences that exist between it and Russian.
POLISH
3 credits
The study of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of a Western Slavic language, Polish, by noting the differences that exist between Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
