46 courses in the 1990–91 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Introductory Note
Not all courses listed in this section are available. Please consult the 1990-91 Course Offerings List or the Department for current course information.
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.
A study of Russian grammar and composition with emphasis on oral practice and pronunciation.
Language lab
Open to ail university students with little or no knowledge of Russian, except those who have credit for RUSS Wttortt2
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 all students with little or no knowledge of Russian, except those who have credit for RUSS 101 or 102
As RUSS 111. Prereq: RUSS 111 or equivalent Taught in English
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
Course Descriptions Germanic and Slavic
This course is basically a continuation of First-Year Russian. It provides intensive practice in spoken and written Russian. Vocabulary building, comprehension, pronunciation and intonation are stressed.
Prereq: RUSS 102, 112 or equivalent
Prereq: RUSS 251 or equivalent
Movements
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 102 or equivatent
A survey of culturat history from the beginnings 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 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.
Taught in English.
Open to ail 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
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. Taught in English. ‘ Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only. Open to ail students Cross-listed as DRAMA 352
Extra work in Russian required of Aussian majors only Open to all students Cross-listed as DRAMA 353
In principle, this course is a continuation of RUSS 251/252. In terms of vocabulary building, apart from the spoken language, the comprehension of the literary language is especially stressed.
Prereq: RUSS 252 or equivalent
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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.
Taught entirely in English.
Fall term: See GER 355
Open to students from all departments; not normally open to first-year students
Cross-listed as DRAMA 356
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 ail students
As RUSS 361
Especially, emphasized will be the study of non-Slav peoples of the Caucasus and Central 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 sentury novels selected from the works of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Lectures on social and intellectual background.
Taught in English.
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only.
Open to all students.
Reading and interpretation of 19th- and 20th-century novels selected from the works of Gorky, Zamyatin, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn. Lectures on social and intellectual background.
Taught 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.
Taught in English.
Open to aiff students
Course Descriptions Germanic and Slavic
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
Prereq: RUSS 451 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
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of selected fiction and drama (Arousov, 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, Nerkrasov, Fet, Tiutchev, 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
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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 f
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.
Taught in English
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only
Open to alf students
Prereq: Approval of the Department