Current Courses
404 - 1,2,3 ADVANCED RUSSIAN (Russians: New and Old Values)
405 - RUSSIAN TEACHING METHODOLOGY
411 - PROSEMINAR
422 - OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC
430 - STUDIES IN OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE
433 - STUDIES IN 17-TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
434 - STUDIES IN 18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
436 - STUDIES IN 19TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
437 - POETRY SEMINAR
438 - STUDIES IN 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
439 - THEORIES OF FICTION AND FICTIONALITY
440 - STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERARY CRITICISM
441 - 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
442 - BAKHTIN'S PROSAICS
490 - INDEPENDENT READING
499 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
590 - RESEARCH
404 - 1,2,3 ADVANCED RUSSIAN (Russians: New and Old Values)
Advanced course designed to develop skills in using spoken and written Russian in the intellectual arena. Original materials from periodicals focus on contemporary issues. Prerequisite: four years of Russian study or equivalent.
405 - RUSSIAN TEACHING METHODOLOGY
A graduate level seminar that addresses the complexities of teaching Russian language. The group explores teaching methods with an emphasis on communicative approach to language teaching, working with groups and individuals, and demonstrating and presenting ideas. This seminar is geared toward the student interested in teaching assistantships as well as professional education.
411 - PROSEMINAR
Introduction to the study of Slavic languages and literatures at the graduate level. The course is meant to familiarize students with some of the most important contemporary modes of literary criticism (both Western and Russian) in the field of Slavic Languages and Literatures through close comparative analyses of literary and critical texts. The 1999 seminar will focus on Slavic and Western modernism and postmodernism.
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422 - OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC
Description of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Old Church Slavonic with readings and analysis of texts.
430 - STUDIES IN OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
433 - STUDIES IN 17-TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
434 - STUDIES IN 18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
A seminar in 18th Century Russian literature. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.The student will study this period under the guidance of the instructor. The topics to be studied are: The emergence of the Russian literary language; the poetics of classicism and preromanticism; the rise and fall of different genres; the contribution of the eighteenth century to the "Golden Age" of Russian literature. The student must have a reading knowledge of Russian.
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436 - STUDIES IN 19TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Content varies. Recent offerings include the role of translation in Russian culture, the Poema, The Brothers Karamazov. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Some recent topics have included:
- An intensive examination of Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. The mainemphasis will be on a close reading of the text. Questions to be considered include; the theory of the novel as illuminated or challenged by this work; the role of ideas in fiction; the nature of time and its representation; novelistic discourse; the relation of the work to the thought and literature of its time, both Russian and Western.
- Russian narrative between the Great Reforms and the Revolution, with consideration of historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts. Readings include novels or short stories by Garshin, Chekhov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Leskov, Merezhkovsky, Sologub, Briusov, Remizov, and Belyi.
- An intensive reading of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov in the context of his other works, particularly Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed. While the course shall focus intensively on Brothers Karamazov, a reasonable acquaintance with these other novels is expected. Taught in English.
437- POETRY SEMINAR
Close study of Poetic texts from the Russian and/or Slavic traditions. Topics vary, but past seminars have been devoted to Joseph Brodsky, Evgeny Baratinsky and Romanticism, and the poetic book. May be taken taken multiple times for credit
438 - STUDIES IN 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Content varies. Recent offerings include recovered literature, Russian 20th-century autobiography.
438 -Theories in Fiction and Fictionality
Content varies.
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440 - STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERARY CRITICISM
Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
441 - 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Major trends and texts of literary criticism, literary politics, and general intellectual debate.
442 - BAKHTIN'S PROSAICS
An examination of Bakhtin's theories of the novel, culture, and time. Topics include Bakhtin's key concepts: novelistic language, polyphony, the chronotope, menippean satire, dialogue, the non-alibi for responsibility. We will read his texts closely, with attention to literary examples and consideration of their broader implications for cultural theory.
490 - INDEPENDENT READING
Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
499 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Permission of instructor and department required.
590 - RESEARCH
Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation.
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