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department SLAVIC Slavic Languages and Literature (X) |
Slavic 102-1 is the first quarter of a three-quarter course for students who have completed 101-3 or have placed into the course by the Language Coordinator of the Slavic department. The aim of this course is to continue to develop students' reading, writing, listening, speaking, and understanding skills in Russian. Classes meet four times a week. Students will review and practice basic grammar, learn new grammatical concepts, and explore Russian culture through reading and video materials from various sources. Students are expected to attend and prepare for class regularly, and to work with the video material independently. Final grades are based on class performance and attendance, homework and compositions, quizzes, unit tests, and a final exam. P-N is not allowed for students who wish to take this course to meet the WCAS language requirement.
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In this course we will explore some of the sociolinguistic issues (that is connections between language and society) in various Slavic speaking countries and areas (such as, the former Yugoslavia, Russia, the former Soviet Union, Upper and Lower Sorbian, which are Slavic languages spoken in Germany, etc.). Issues to be examined include: language policies, minority language rights, language vs. dialect, status and corpus of language, language planning, language and identity, language and nationalism. As the final paper for this course, students will work on any geopolitical area in the world (except for Slavic) and examine the sociolinguistic issues particular to that reason. Some previous papers, for example, have looked at the role of Japanese in Korea; Koreans in Japan and language discrimination issues; the languages of South Africa; the status of African-American Vernacular English (or Black English) in the US and the controversy surrounding it in the 1990s in the Oakland, CA school district; Celtic in Ireland; the revival of Hebrew as the official language of Israel; languages rights in the EU; Kurdish language discrimination in Turkey; etc.
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The course is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of interests. The major objective of the course is to build a solid foundation in the basic grammatical patterns of written and spoken Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, while simultaneously introducing both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. Throughout the duration of the course, students will acquire the basics of oral comprehension, speaking, reading and writing with a strong emphasis on mastering the grammar of the languages. Given the nature of the recent history of the region and the linguistic controversies that have surrounded the Wars of Succession, this course will include a socio-linguistic component, an essential part of understanding the similarities and differences between the languages.
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While focusing on conversation, this year-long course promotes the development of all language skills-speaking, reading, writing, and listening-through a variety of communicative and content-based activities. The goal of this course is to help students to master all of the major structures of Russian and to begin to function in a wide range of settings over a wide range of factual topics. Although the instructor will assign major topics and themes, students will be encouraged to pursue and develop their own interests in Russian contemporary culture.
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Advanced Russian for Russian speakers who grew up in the US and other advanced speakers. Intended to help acquire reading and writing skills, with stress on advanced levels of these skills and speaking. Taught entirely in Russian. Content varies; may be repeated for credit.
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As it is well-known, poetry in Russian culture is a powerful and unique catalyst. This course offers a first part of the survey of the main trends in Russian poetry, which is dedicated to the 19-th century Russian Poetry. Precisely in the 19th century, Russian poetry had become a kind of national symbol due to the works of Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Baratynsky, Lermontov, Tiutchev, and others. Although the topics of this so-called Golden Age of Russian literature were many, particular emphasis was on the genre of elegy. The Russian elegy is a kind of "the glass bead game," if we use this title of Hesse's novel, which each of the Russian poets tried to add with his own brilliance, not with just sorrow and tears. To find out how these brilliance and approach were different in each particular case, is one of the intellectual adventures that this course offers.
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This course offers an introduction to the development of Russian film from the silent era to the World War II. The chosen movies are masterpieces of Russian and Soviet film art: Aelita: Queen of Mars by Yakov Protazanov, The Battleship Potemkin and two parts of Ivan the Terrible by Sergei Eisenstein, The Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, Chapayev by Sergei and Georgi Vasiliev, as well as The Slave of Love by Oscar-winner Nikita Mikhalkov, about Russian "silent" star Vera Kholodnaia. Also, the course offers an introduction to the Socialist Realism in Russian film, represented by Yuri Raizman's The Fall of Berlin and other films. No knowledge of Russian required.
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Introduction to the major themes of Russian literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will focus on four topics: the philosophical questions raised by our texts; how Russian literature reflected social and political developments; the dialogue among works by Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Bunin; and problems of genre and narrative, or how the form of a story affects what an author can say.
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This course is a general survey of Russian Literature, and the interconnections between new ideas in literature, visual arts, and film from 1890s to the late 1930s. Texts include novels "Peterburg" by Andrei Bely, "Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov, and Evgeny Zamiatin's "My"; poetry by Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and others. These major literary works are discussed in the broad cultural and historical context.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most important artists and thinkers of the modern era. His ideas influenced the evolution of philosophy, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and Christian theology in the twentieth century. His writings had a major impact on the writers and artists who followed. In this class, we read his novels as enduring works of art that challenge us to address questions such as: what are the consequences of believing in God and individual immortality? What are the consequences of not believing? What are the spiritual and ethical consequences of different political perspectives?
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Course Description: An introduction to the literature, culture and history of the country Norman Davies has called "the heart of Europe." In the span of a hundred years Poland has undergone an extraordinary range of transformations and traumas: division among three empires (Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian); the brief period of interwar independence; Nazi and then Soviet subjugation; Solidarity and the revolt against Soviet rule; martial law; and finally independence once again. We will explore the relationship between the history and the culture by way of novels, films, essays, memoirs, historical writing, and poetry. Authors and artists to be discussed include: Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, Andrzej Wajda, Adam Michnik, Hanna Krall, and others. All work to be read in translation.
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This survey course includes the poetry of Russian Symbolism (Briusov, Balmont, Blok, Bely, etc.), Russian Futurism (Khlebnikov, Mayakovsky) and Russian Acmeism (Akhmatova, Kuzmin, Mandelstam, Gumilev), as well as the poetic art of Tsvetaeva and Pasternak.
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