39 courses in the 1979–80 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 1/2 (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 three 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 101/102.
Prereq: Russ 111, Russ 101 or equivalent
A review of the fundamentals of grammar is followed by amore 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 201 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
Course Descriptions
Russian
Reading of representative works from Russian Classicism, Romanticism, 19th Century Realism, and various periods of 20th century Russian literature. Prereq: Russ 102 or equivalent
As 261.
Prereq: Russ 261 or equivalent.
A survey of cultural history from 862 to 1905. 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.
Open to all students.
A survey of cultural history from 1905 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.
Open to all students.
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 Alii credit, not Aii credit.
A study of the form and a detailed examination of Russian short stories by major representative writers. Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to all students.
As Russ 281.
Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to all students.
A study 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.
Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to all students. .
Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to all students.
Written reports on prescribed themes and topics. Oral drill and translation.
Prereq: Russ 252 or equivalent
As Russ 351.
Prereq: Russ 351 or equivalent.
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.
Course Descriptions 323 Russian
Especially emphasized will be the study of non-Slav peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia, European Russian and Siberia. Czarist and Soviet policy towards national minorities, assimilation and integration problems in the light of linguistic division; development of literary languages. Some achievements of Soviet anthropology.
Open to all students.
As 381.
Open to all students.
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 Russion majors only. Open to all students.
Reading and interpretation of 19th and 20th century novels selected from the works of Dostoevsky, Gorky, Pastenak, Solzhenitsyn, and Zamiatin. Lectures on social and intellectual background. Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
A study of the origins and development of the Epic tradition in East Slavic Literature.
Conducted in English. Open to all students.
As Russ 441.
Conducted in English. Open to all students.
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.
Prereq: Russ 451 or equivalent
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of selected fiction and drama (Andreev, Bunin, Gorky, Kataev, Sholokhov, A. N. Tolstoy). Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majorsonly.
Open to all students.
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of selected fiction and drama (Arbusov, Bulgakov, Erenburg, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn). Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
A study of themes and forms of representative authors of Classicism, Romanticism (Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Nerkrasov, Fet, Tiuchev, etc.). Prereq: Russ 102 or equivalent.
A study of themes and forms of representative authors from Symbolism to the present (Blok, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, etc.).
Prereq: Russ 102 or equivalent.
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. Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majorsonly.
Open to all students.
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. Conducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
Open to fourth year students only.
Course Descriptions Russian / Polish