RUSS 101 First Year RussianF 3C,1L 0.5
A study of Russian grammar and composition with emphasis on oral practice and pronunciation.
Language lab
Open to all university students with little or no knowledge of Russian
Antireq: RUSS 111, 112
Russian (RUSS)
47 courses in the 1994–95 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Introductory Note
Not all courses listed in this section are available. Please consult the 1994-95 Course Offerings List or the Department for current course information.
Russian Language Study In Moscow
A “total immersion” Russian language course at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, Russia. Daily instruction by Russian faculty at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Duration of program is normally four-six weeks, although longer periods in Russia are possible.
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.
This program may be attended more than once. However, a maximum of 1.5 credits will normally be granted towards a degree.
RUSS 102 First Year RussianW 3C,1L 0.5
RUSS 101
Prereq: RUSS 101 or equivalent
RUSS 111 First Year Scientific Russian 1F,S 3C 0.5
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 with little or no knowledge of Russian
Antireq: RUSS 101, 102
RUSS 112 First Year Scientific Russian 2W 3C 0.5
RUSS 111
Prereq: RUSS 111 or equivalent Taught in English
RUSS 201 Intermediate Scientific RussianF 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 202 Intermediate Scientific RussianW 3C 0.5
RUSS 201
Prereq: RUSS 201 or equivalent
RUSS 251 Conversation, Composition, GrammarF 3C 0.5
and Phonetics
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
RUSS 252 Conversation, Composition, Grammar and PhoneticsW 3C 0.5
RUSS 251
Prereq: RUSS 251 or equivalent
RUSS 261 Introduction to Russian Literary MovementsF 3C 0.5
Reading of representative works from Russian Classicism, Romanticism, 19th Century Realism, and various periods of 20th century Russian literature.
Prereq: RUSS 102 or equivalent
Course Descriptions Germanic and Slavic
RUSS 262 Introduction to Russian Literary MovementsW 3C 0.5
RUSS 261
Prereq: RUSS 102 or equivalent
RUSS 271 Russian Thought and CultureF 3C 0.5
A survey of cultural 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 ail students
RUSS 272 Russian Thought and CultureW 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 311 Theory of TranslationF 3C 0.5
Theory, methodology, and techniques of translation. Patterns and problems in the transiation 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
RUSS 312 Theory of TranslationW 3C 0.5
RUSS 311 Prereg: RUSS 311
RUSS 341 Russian DramaF 3C 0.5
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
Cross-listed as DRAMA 381 (formerly DRAMA 352)
RUSS 342 Russian DramaW 3C 0.5
RUSS 341 Taught in English
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only
Cross-listed as DRAMA 382 (formerly DRAMA 353)
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RUSS 351 Intermediate Conversation and CompositionF 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 352 Intermediate Conversation and CompositionW 3C 0.5
RUSS 351
Prereq: RUSS 351 or equivalent
RUSS 356 The Stage as Forum: Russian Drama in TranslationW 3C 0.5
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
Prereq: Second-year standing or above
Cross-listed as DRAMA 384 (formerly DRAMA 356)
RUSS 361 Russian Short StoryF 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 362 Russian Short StoryW 3C 0.5
As RUSS 361
RUSS 371 Masterpieces of Russian Literature and OperaF 3C 0.5
This course, designed for students of literature and music, offers an interdisciplinary approach to the relationships between literary and musical culture in Russia during the nineteenth century. Central to the course is the comparative study of masterpieces of Russian opera and the classics of literature which inspired their musical intepretations. Among the works discussed as literary text, libretto and music are: Glinka’s Rusian and Ludmila, Borodin’s Prince Igor, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri.
This course is taught via the Waterloo- Guelph Education Link System.
Prereq: Open to all students. Additional requirements apply to students majoring in Russian and Music Programs.
Cross-listed as MUSIC 365
RUSS 381 The Peoples of the Soviet Union3C 0.5
Especially emphasized will be the study of non-Slav peoples of the Caucasus and Centrat Asia, European Russia and Siberia. Czarist and Soviet policy towards national minorities; assimilation and integration problems in the tight of linguistic division; development of literary languages. Some achievements of Soviet anthropology.
RUSS 382 The Peoples of the Soviet Union3C 0.5
As RUSS 381
RUSS 391 Great Russian NovelsF 3C 0.5
Reading and interpretation of 19th century 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
RUSS 392 Great Russian NovelsW 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 441 East Slavic Epic Tradition3C 0.5
A study of the origins and development of
the Epic tradition in East Slavic Literature. Taught in English
RUSS 442 Russian Epic Tradition3C 0.5
RUSS 441 Taught in English
RUSS 451 Advanced Conversation, Grammar andF 3C 0.5
Composition
This course is conducted in Russian and
provides intensive practice in spoken and
written Russian on the advanced level. Prereq: RUSS 32 or equivalent
RUSS 452 Advanced Conversation, Grammar and CompositionW 3C 0.5
RUSS 451
Prereq: RUSS 451 or equivalent
Course Descriptions Germanic and Slavic
RUSS 461 20th-Century Russian LiteratureF 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 462 Twentieth Century Russian LiteratureW 3C 0.5
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of selected fiction and drama (Arbusov, Bulgakov, Erenburg, Nabokov, Pastemak, Solzhenitsyn).
Taught in English
Extra work in Russian required of Russian majors only
RUSS 481 Russian PoetryF 3C 0.5
A study of themes and forms of represen-
tative authors of Classicism, Romanticism
(Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Pushkin.
Lermontov, Nerkrasov, Fet, Tiutchev, etc.). Prereq: RUSS 102 or equivalent
RUSS 482 Russian PoetryW 3C 0.5
A study of themes and forms of representative authors from Symbolism to the present (Blok, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, etc.).
Prereq: RUSS 102 or equivalent
RUSS 485 History of Russian LiteratureF 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 486 History of Russian LiteratureW 3C 0.5
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
RUSS 496 Reading Courses In Approved Topics-498 FW,SJ,A R 0.5
Prereq: Approval of the Department