45 courses in the 1984–85 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 for a full month at the Russian Language Seminar in Leningrad. Daily instruction by Russian faculty at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels, according to the proficiency of the students.
Prereq: At least one year of Russian language at the University level or equivalent Credits: 1.5 for completion of
1. first year Russian: 193, 194, 195 or
2. second year Russian: 293, 294, 295 or
3. third year Russian: 393, 394, 395 or
4. fourth year Russian: 493, 494, 495.
The Workshop may be attended more than once. However, a maximum of 1.5 credits will normally be granted towards a degree.
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.
Open to ail university students, except those who have credit for RUSS 119/112.
Prereq: RUSS 101 or equivalent
A rapid, intensive course, designed to enable the students to master reading and translating Russian. Special emphasis on international and scientific terminology, ranging over many of the main branches of science. Notwithstanding its simplified approach, the main features of Russian grammar are treated in full.
Taught in English
Open to ail students, except those who have credit for RUSS 101/102.
As RUSS 111. Prereq: RUSS 111 or equivalent Taught in English.
Germanic and Slavic
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
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
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
Prereq: RUSS 261 or equivalent
A survey of cultural history from 862 to 1905. Lectures will focus on major developments in literature, 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.
Taught in English.
Open to ail 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.
Taught in English.
Open to all students.
A study of the form and a detailed examination of Russian short stories by major representative writers.
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
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. Prereg: RUSS 202 or equivalent
Prereq: RUSS 311
Senior language and literature courses in Russian will normally only be offered in alternate years. .
A study of the origins and development of Russian drama up to 1880. Reading and critical analysis of major works in various genres.
Taught in English
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to ail students.
Cross-listed as DRAMA 362..
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A study of the development of Russian drama of the end of the 19th and of the 20th century. Reading and critical analysis of major works in various genres.
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
Cross-listed as DRAMA 353..
Composition
Written reports on prescribed themes
and topics. Orai drill and translation. Prereq: RUSS 252 or equivalent
Prereq: RUSS 351 or equivalent
Major Russian dramas will be studied from various points of view, including historical importance, themes, and techniques. The course includes theory and selected dramas of such playwrights as Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Gorky, Mayakovsky, and Pogodin.
Taught entirely in English.
Fall term: See’ GER 3565.
Open to students from aif departments.
Not normally open to first.year students.
Cross-listed as DRAMA 356..
Especially emphasized will be the study of non-Slav peoples of the Caucasus and Centrai Asia, European Russia 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.
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.
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to aif students.
Reading and interpretation of 19th and 20th century novels selected from the works of Dostoevsky, Gorky, Pasternak, Zamyatin, and Solzhenitsyn. Lectures on social and intellectual background. Taught in English. , Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to ail students.
A study of the origins and development of the Epic tradition in East Slavic Literature.
Taught in English
Open to all students.
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
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of selected fiction and drama (Andreev, Bunin, Gorky, Kataev, Sholokhov, A.N. Tolstoy).
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
analysis of selected fiction and drama (Arbusov, Bulgakov, Erenburg, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn).
Taught 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, Nekrasov, Fet, Tyutchev, 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.
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to aif 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.
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of
Russian majors only.
Open to ail students.
Prereq: Approval of the Department
Cc Descriptio Germanic and Slavic