36 courses in the 1981–82 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Russian Workshop in the USSR
A “Total Immersion” Russian language workshop consisting of 2 sessions (12 days each) at the Russian Language Seminar in the Soviet Union, usually in Dyuny near Leningrad. Daily instruction by Russian faculty at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels, according to the proficiency of the students.
Prerequisite: At least one year of Russian language | at the university level or equivalent.
Course Descriptions a , 347 Dutch . . oO Russian
Credits: 1.5 for completion of a) first year Russian: 193, 194, 195, or _ b) second year Russian: 293, 294, 295, or
‘c) third year Russian: 393, 394, 395, or
d) fourth year Russian: 493, 494, 495.
Note.
The Workshop may be attended more than once. However, a maximum of 1.5 credits will normally be granted towards a degree.
(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.
As Russ 101.
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.
As Russ 111.
Prereq: Russ 111, Russ 101 or equivalent.
A review of the fundamentals of grammar is followed by a 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.
As Russ 201.
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.
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 277 and 272 in their second or subsequent years; students for other faculties, in any year (See Chapter 7 for course requirements in the Faculty of Arts).
Course Descriptions Russian
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..
Theory, methodology, and techniques of translation. Patterns and problems in the translation of scholarly texts from the arts and sciences, with special emphasis on idiom and structure as compared with the target language.
Prereq: Russ 202 or equivalent.
As Russ 311.
Prereq: Russ 311.
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.
As Russ 341.
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 361.
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.
Especially emphasize 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 Russian majors only.
Open to ali students.
Reading and interpretation of 19th and 20th century novels 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 all students.
A study of the origins and development of the Epic tradition in East Slavic Literature.
Conducted in English. Qpen to all students.
As Russ 441.
Conducted in English. Open to all students.
Course Descriptions 349 Russian
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). Gonducted in English. Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
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 ail students.
A study of themes and forms of representative authors of Classicism, Romanticism (Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Nerkrasov, Fet, Tiuchey, 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 majors only.
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. -