Spring 2019 Class Schedule
Course | Title | Instructor | Day/Time | |
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SLAVIC 101-3 | Elementary Russian | Jae Kyu Lee | MTWF 9am-9:50am | |
SLAVIC 101-3 Elementary RussianElementary Russian 101-3 is the third part in a three-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the Russian language and contemporary Russian culture. In this course, students will continue to develop the fundamentals of speaking, listening, writing, and reading through a variety of communicative and content-based activities. Emphasis will be placed on practical communication so that students should be able to function at a basic level in several authentic situations by the end of the year. | ||||
SLAVIC 101-3 | Elementary Russian | Anthony Topoleski | MTWF 2-2:50pm | |
SLAVIC 101-3 Elementary RussianElementary Russian 101-3 is the third part in a three-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the Russian language and contemporary Russian culture. In this course, students will continue to develop the fundamentals of speaking, listening, writing, and reading through a variety of communicative and content-based activities. Emphasis will be placed on practical communication so that students should be able to function at a basic level in several authentic situations by the end of the year. | ||||
SLAVIC 102-3 | Intermediate Russian | Christopher Pike | MTWF 12pm-12:50pm | |
SLAVIC 102-3 Intermediate RussianIntermediate Russian 102-3 is the continuation of a two-year sequence that enables students to acquire intermediate-level proficiency. It proposes the further development and command of skills and abilities in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Emphasis is also placed on vocabulary expansion, especially in the areas of speaking and writing. A great deal of attention will be devoted to the learning of grammar in conjunction with the immediate activation of it in conversation. | ||||
SLAVIC 108-3 | Introduction to Polish | Kinga Kosmala | MTWF 10:00 - 10:50am | |
SLAVIC 108-3 Introduction to PolishThis is the third of a three-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to Polish language and culture. We continue to learn the basic grammar of Polish, focusing on speaking, reading, writing, and listening. | ||||
SLAVIC 208-3 | Intermediate Polish: Language and Culture | Kinga Kosmala | MTWF 1pm-1:50pm | |
SLAVIC 208-3 Intermediate Polish: Language and CultureIn Spring Quarter of Second Year Polish, students expand their speaking, reading and writing skills by building on grammar and vocabulary learned during prior quarters. As a complement to the linguistic side of the course, the students will gain a greater familiarity with Polish history and culture through varied means, including readings of literary works, articles from contemporary Polish newspapers and movies. | ||||
SLAVIC 210-3 | Introduction to Russian Literature | Susan McReynolds | MW 2:00 - 3:30pm | |
SLAVIC 210-3 Introduction to Russian LiteratureIn this course, Spiritual Autobiography and Russian Literature, we will read classic works of Russian literature that explore the challenges of achieving spiritual growth in an individual life, with focus on moments of heightened experience and consciousness. Students will have the (optional) opportunity to write a spiritual autobiography. Works by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Bunin. | ||||
SLAVIC 211-2 | 20th-Century Russian Literature: Doctor Zhivago | Christopher Pike | TTh 2:00 - 3:20pm | |
SLAVIC 211-2 20th-Century Russian Literature: Doctor Zhivago(Co-listed with CLS 202-0-20) This course is designed as a following sequence to SLAV211-1, a general survey of early 20c. Russian Literature, focused on the interconnections between new ideas in culture and politics. It explores the legendary novel Doctor Zhivago (1957), written by the Noble Laureate Boris Pasternak. This work is discussed in the Russian and European cultural and historical context of the Cold War era; we follow and compare the paths of literary heroes and their real-life prototypes: Pasternak himself and his long-time companion Olga Ivinskaya. Doctor Zhivago was harshly criticized and censored in Soviet Union, then smuggled to the West with the help of the CIA to be preserved and published for the first time, finally becoming a literary sensation and winning the Nobel Prize. | ||||
SLAVIC 303-3 | Modern Russian Readings and Language | TBA | MWF 11-11:50am | |
SLAVIC 303-3 Modern Russian Readings and LanguageThis course is the third part of a three-quarter sequence focusing on communication, cultural understanding, connections of Russian language and culture with other disciplines (such as history and sociology), and comparisons of Russian and American culture and language. It is a combined third- and fourth-year all skills language and culture class. This course includes topics in grammar, a focus on developing discussion and conversational skills and writing, and readings from a range of contemporary Russian writers. It is taught in Russian and is intended for students who have completed the SLAVIC 302 series and/or the SLAVIC 102 series. | ||||
SLAVIC 311 | Dostoevsky | Max Gordon | MW 12:30-1:50 | |
SLAVIC 311 DostoevskyIntroduction to Dostoevsky’s life and works: Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov. | ||||
SLAVIC 359 | Russian Prose | Nina Gourianova | T 2pm-4:50pm | |
SLAVIC 359 Russian ProseSelected works of Russian masters: Early 20th century. Russian modernist prose and socialist realism. | ||||
SLAVIC-361 | Survey of 20th-Century Russian Poetry | Ilya Kutik | TBD | |
SLAVIC-361 Survey of 20th-Century Russian PoetryIntroduction to the major currents of Russian 20th-century lyric poetry and basic techniques for its study: Tsvetaeva, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Pasternak, Brodsky. | ||||
SLAVIC 390-0 | Lit. & Politics in Central & Eastern Europe | Ian Kelly | TTh 3:30 - 4:50pm | |
SLAVIC 390-0 Lit. & Politics in Central & Eastern Europe(Co-listed with Int St 390-0-22) This course examines the roots and the drivers of Putin’s foreign policy. We will look at factors leading to the USSR’s disintegration and resulting ethnic conflicts, security issues and responses. The U.S. faced four nuclear powers (Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus), under-secured nuclear weapons, and armed secessionist conflicts in the Caucasus and Moldova. We will examine the post-Cold War security environment, focusing on Russia’s efforts to assert a sphere of influence, and its efforts to undermine Western solidarity and confidence in the liberal democratic system. | ||||
SLAVIC 392-0 | East European Literature and Visual Arts: Postwar Polish Film | Kinga Kosmala | W 3:00 - 5:50pm | |
SLAVIC 392-0 East European Literature and Visual Arts: Postwar Polish Film(Co-listed with RTVF 351-0-21) This course will explore post-World War II film from Poland (with English subtitles). We will watch films by Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrzej Munk, Roman Polanski, and others. We will assess what the end of WWII, followed by joining the Eastern Bloc, the fall of communism, and the entry into post-Soviet Europe have meant for the film culture and the Polish national film tradition. |