38 courses in the 1977–78 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Russian Workshop
“Total Immersion” Russian Language Workshop. The programme consists of 2 sessions (12 days each) at the Russian Language Seminar in Dyuny (near Leningrad). Instruction is given daily for four hours by Russian professors on different levels according to the proficiency of the students.
Credits: 1 and ‘'/2 (for students who completed: a) first year Russian: 193, 194, 195.
b) second year Russian: 293, 294, 295.
c) third year Russian: 393, 394, 395.
d) fourth year Russian: 493, 494, 495.) \
Students can receive up to six half credits prior to graduation. Prereq: Russ 102 or equivalent
Russ 10 Y 3C 1.0
Reading and Translation
This course is designed to assist graduate students in acquiring a reading knowledge of Russian. Usage and structure of Russian scientific writings. Translation in fields of specialization..
Open to graduate students of all departments
(Arts Oriented) For students with little or no knowledge of Russian. The elements of Russian grammar and composition; with emphasis on oral practice and pronunciation. Language Laboratory and Visual aids. Selected readings of major Russian authors.
Open to all university students, except those who have credit for Russ 111/112.
Prereq: Russ 101 or equivalent
(Science Oriented) For students with little or no knowledge of Russian. Essential grammar, sentence structure. Reading and translation of scientific literature according to the students’ fields of interest.
Open to all university students, except those who have credit for Russ 107/102.
Prereq: Russ111, Russ 107 or equivalent
Course Descriptions 317 Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
A review of the fundamentals of grammar is followed bya more advanced study of the language structure and idiom. Readings and translation from contemporary scientific writing with the aim of helping the student to acquire a greater vocabulary and to master the stylistic difficulties peculiar to technical writing.
Prereq: Russ 102, 112 or equivalent
Prereq: Russ 2017 or equivalent
The course is conducted largely in Russian and provides intensive practice in spoken Russian. Vocabulary building, comprehension, pronunciation and intonation are stressed.
Prereq: Russ 102, 112 or equivalent
As Russ 251.
Prereq: Russ 251 or equivalent
Reading of representative works from Russian Classicism, Romanticism, 19th Century Realism, and various periods of 20th century Russian literature. Prereq: Russ 102 or permission of instructor
As 261.
Prereq: Russ 261
Asurvey of cultural history from 862 to 1861. Lectures will focus on major developments in literature, religion, philosophy, art, architecture, and music as seen against the background of Russia's historical past. Discussion will be devoted primarily to works of Russian literature. This course is taught in English.
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A survey of cultural history from 1861 to the present. Lectures will focus on major developments in literature, philosophy, art, and music as seen against the background of Russia’s historical past. Discussion will be devoted primarily to works of Russian literature.
This course is taught in English.
Note Arts students can take Russ 271 and 272 in their second or subsequent years; students for other faculties, in any year (Chapter 8 for course requirements in the Faculty of Arts).
A survey of selected Soviet films that are adaptations of significant literary works or illustrate important cultural events or movements. Among the films studied will be: War and Peace (Bondarchuk), The Quiet Don (Gerasimov), Uncle Vanya (Konchalovsky), My Universities (Donskoi).
This course is taught in English.
Open to all students.
This course carries Aiii credit, not Aii credit.
Astudy of the form anda detailed examination of Russian short stories by major representative writers.
Prereq: Russ 102 or permission of instructor
As Russ 281.
Prereq: Russ 281
-Russ 341 F 3c 0.5
Russian Drama
Astudy of the origins and development of Russian drama up to 1905. Reading and critical analysis of major works in various genres with emphasis on authors of the nineteenth century.
Prereq: Russ 102 or permission of instructor
Prereq: Russ 341
Written reports on prescribed themes and topics. Oral drill and translation.
Prereq: Russ 252 or equivalent
Course Descriptions Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
As Russ 351.
Prereq: Russ 351
Major Russian dramas will be studied from various points of view, including historical importance, themes, and technique. The course includes theory and selected dramas of such playwrights as Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Gorky, Mayakovsky, and Pogodin.
The course is conducted entirely in English.
Fall term: See Ger 355.
Open to students from all departments.
Not normally open to first year students.
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Reading and interpretation of 19th century novels selected from the works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy. Lectures on social and intellectual background. Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to aif students
Reading and interpretation of 19th and 20th century noveis selected from the works of Dostoevsky, Gorky, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Zamiatin. Lectures on social and intellectual background. Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to alf students
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This course is conducted in Russian and provides _intensive practice in spoken and written Russian on the advanced level.
Prereq: Russ 352 or equivalent
As Russ 451.
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of selected fiction and drama (Andreev, Bunin, Gorky, Kataev, Sholokhov, A. N. Tolstoy).
Prereq: Russ 102
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of selected fiction and drama (Arbusov, Bulgakov, Erenburg, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn). , Prereq: Russ 461
A study of themes and forms of representative authors of Classicism, Romanticism (Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Fet, Tiuchev, etc.). Prereq: Russ 102
A study of themes and forms of representative authors from Symbolism to the present (Blok, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, etc.).
Prereq: Russ 102
This course deals with the emergence of the Russian national literature, emphasizing the cultural and intellectual setting from the beginning to 1917. Literary movements and major representative works not studied in other courses will be discussed.
Prereq: Russ 102
Course Descriptions 319 Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
This second part deals with Russian literature up to the present. Literary movements and major representative works not studied in other courses will be discussed. Prereq: Russ 102
Open to fourth year students only.