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Elementary Russian Language 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice.

Elementary Russian Language 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian Language; continuation of RUSS 210.

Elementary Russian Language Intensive 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An intensive introduction to the Russian language which covers the first year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 210/RUSS 211 in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Russian for Heritage Speakers 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on grammatical structure and syntax, the formalities of written Russian and appreciation of the language's stylistic diversity. Multi- media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, television news broadcasts, films and cartoons.

Russian for Heritage Speakers 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on complex grammatical structures, syntax, and stylistically differentiated uses of vocabulary in written and spoken Russian. Multi-media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, Internet sources, and films.

Intermediate Russian Language 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, translation, conversation.

Intermediate Russian Language 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, translation, conversation.

Intermediate Russian Language Intensive 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 this course covers the second year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 310/RUSS 311, in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Reading Russian Poetry.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to Russia's major poets and bards of the 19th and 20th centuries. Selected works from Pushkin to Brodsky and 20th century bards will be read in Russian.

Readings in Russian.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A general introduction to Russian prose, poetry and drama in the 19th Century. Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.

Advanced Russian Language Intensive 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 and RUSS 316, students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems.

Advanced Russian Language and Syntax.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.

Russia's Eternal Questions.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.

Russian Literature and Revolution.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary caf茅, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition.

Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors鈥� relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.

Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov.

Introduction to Soviet Film.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course aims to familiarize undergraduates with the topics, figures, and concerns of Soviet film history. Students will watch and analyze films by Soviet directors including Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, Kira Muratova, Larisa Shepitko, and many others in the context of their historical periods, movements, and writings. Students will learn to analyze images and cinematic techniques, as well as assess their historical, ideological, and cultural significance.

Introduction to Russian Folklore.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An introduction to Russian folklore and folk belief: "dual-faith," traditional mentality, fairy tales, calendar rituals, folk songs, witches, healers and house spirits. The course will explore classic approaches to folklore studies as well as the influence of folk culture on Russian "high art."

The Central European Novel.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of the culture of Central Europe through the lens of novels, including the history, culture, and literature of the region.

Chekhov without Borders.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Chekhov鈥檚 short stories and plays. The genre of the short story and its relationship to realist, modernist, and postmodernist aesthetics. Chekhov鈥檚 influence in Russia and abroad.

Petersburg: City of Myth.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

In Russian culture, the two major cities, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, represent the two sides of Russian culture: its past in Orthodoxy and Russianness and its future in European culture and internationalism. The culture of Saint-Petersburg both reflects the city and redefines the meaning of the city for the future. This class will examine Russian culture within the context of the city itself, providing students with a holistic look at an embedded culture.

Vladimir Nabokov.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Cross sampling of short stories and major novels by Vladimir Nabokov; his life-long love affair with language and "aesthetic bliss"; his flouting of convention from Russia's Silver Age to post-McCarthy America. Lolita in and beyond the Russian context.

Russian Short Story.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian stories that encompass the major aesthetic and thematic concerns of the short story genre. Recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual, and artistic memory.

Late and Post-Soviet Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The re-invention of Russian culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Featuring Soviet beatniks, dissidents, and cultural iconoclasts; covering pop-culture, Pepsi and PR, perestroika, and the encounter with Western postmodernism. In literature, the emergence of 'new鈥� voices (women鈥檚 prose, 茅migr茅 writers), new or newly rediscovered genres (detective fiction, sci-fi, bard or sung poetry, the essay). In the visual arts, points of contact, overlap and competition with film, conceptualist or concrete poetry, installations, memes). For over two and a half centuries, Russian literature was seen as the cornerstone of cultural identity and national pride. How does it confront today the challenges of a post-literary age and, tenuously, post-Soviet age?

Central European Film.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The development of film in the Central European area, alongside the history and culture of the region.

Leo Tolstoy.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An in-depth exploration of the literature and thought of Leo Tolstoy. This course will cover his major works of fiction as well as non-fiction essays, diary entries, and letters, with the majority of the semester devoted to his great masterpiece, War and Peace.

Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An in-depth study of the writing and thought of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through reading Dostoevsky's major novels as well as some of his short fiction and journalism in the context of his times, this course will explore Dostoevsky's contributions to literature and philosophy.

Supernatural and Absurd in Russian Literature.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Themes of absurd, bizarre, surreal, supernatural, and fantastic in works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kharms, Bulgakov, Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, and others. Focus on the Russian literary imagination and the historical and political conflicts which haunt it. Theories of the gothic, fantastic, and absurd.

Narrative and Memory in Russian Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of literary and cinematic representations of the themes of memory, trauma, nostalgia, family history, and war in modern Russian culture. Exploration of narrative approaches to war and trauma, their effects on cultural identity, Post-Soviet nostalgia, family and childhood, and related subjects.

Russia's Utopia Complex.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

From Zamiatin's We (1921), and Dostoevskii's "Grand Inquisitor" (1880), an examination of the Russian creation of and imprint on the dystopian genre. From prototypes in Russian romanticism and folklore, to dissident masterpieces of the Stalinist era, to sci-fi as rediscovered in the post-Soviet experience. Literature, film, and beyond.

Russian Opera.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course traces the development of the Russian opera tradition from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s. It explores opera's role in Russia's quest for national identity and its place in musical, literary, and political life, as well as responses to European opera trends. No knowledge of music theory required.

Staging Russianness: From Pushkin to Chekhov.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Masterpieces of the Russian stage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emergence of a uniquely Russian dramatic sensitivity against prevailing European trends; the literary word in a public, political and/or avant-garde forum.

Special Topics in Russian.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Soviet Cinema: Art and Politics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course explores the relationship between art and politics in the cinema of the Soviet Union. Students taking this course will gain a familiarity with the films and writings of Soviet directors. They will also learn the basics of formal, textual, and historical film analysis.

Tarkovsky: Cinema and Philosophy.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest directors of all time, Tarkovsky directed such luminary films as Ivan鈥檚 Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). Since their first appearance, these films have challenged viewers with their deep philosophical questions and stunning visual style. This course equips students with the tools necessary to understand and interpret these films including a basis in film theory and Soviet history.

Soviet Women Filmmakers.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Dedicated to the study of under-represented female directors in Soviet cinema, particularly the films of Kira Muratova and Larisa Shepitko. The work of these two directors is nothing short of stunning; in many ways, it surpasses that of their most well-known contemporary - Andrei Tarkovsky. Explores the ways in which these films represent gender, sexuality, and women's issues in the Soviet Union.

Russian Fin de Si猫cle.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian poetry, prose, drama, book design and the visual arts from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis. Not open to students who have taken or are taking RUSS 465.

Russian Avantgarde.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto, street festivals and the explosion of experiment in the visual arts from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde anticipates, transcends, responds and then succumbs to revolution.

High Stalinist Culture 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.

Russia and Its Others.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

In-depth historical approach to cultural construction of Russian national identity and to the concept of the Other as a condition of self-representation: East, West, America, class enemies, dissidents, ethnic and sexual minorities, etc. Introduction to theoretical tools for approaching issues of national identity, alterity, (post)colonialism, exoticism, and orientalism. Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.

Narratives of Desire.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An exploration of desire as it was narrativized in Russian literature 1860-1900. The course draws on comparative examples from European literature as well as various theoretical approaches for conceptualizing love and desire.

Special Topics in Russ Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Special Topics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Focus on a critical theme, author or work, as determined by the current research interests of faculty and visiting faculty.

Topics in Slavic Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Slavic culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Elementary Russian Language 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice.

Elementary Russian Language 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian Language; continuation of RUSS 210.

Elementary Russian Language Intensive 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An intensive introduction to the Russian language which covers the first year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 210/RUSS 211 in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Russian for Heritage Speakers 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on grammatical structure and syntax, the formalities of written Russian and appreciation of the language's stylistic diversity. Multi- media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, television news broadcasts, films and cartoons.

Russian for Heritage Speakers 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on complex grammatical structures, syntax, and stylistically differentiated uses of vocabulary in written and spoken Russian. Multi-media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, Internet sources, and films.

Intermediate Russian Language 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, translation, conversation.

Intermediate Russian Language 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, translation, conversation.

Intermediate Russian Language Intensive 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 this course covers the second year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 310/RUSS 311, in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Reading Russian Poetry.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to Russia's major poets and bards of the 19th and 20th centuries. Selected works from Pushkin to Brodsky and 20th century bards will be read in Russian.

Readings in Russian.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A general introduction to Russian prose, poetry and drama in the 19th Century. Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.

Advanced Russian Language Intensive 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 and RUSS 316, students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems.

Advanced Russian Language and Syntax.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.

Russia's Eternal Questions.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.

Russian Literature and Revolution.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary caf茅, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition.

Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors鈥� relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.

Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov.

Introduction to Russian Folklore.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An introduction to Russian folklore and folk belief: "dual-faith," traditional mentality, fairy tales, calendar rituals, folk songs, witches, healers and house spirits. The course will explore classic approaches to folklore studies as well as the influence of folk culture on Russian "high art."

Introduction to Soviet Film.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course aims to familiarize undergraduates with the topics, figures, and concerns of Soviet film history. Students will watch and analyze films by Soviet directors including Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, Kira Muratova, Larisa Shepitko, and many others in the context of their historical periods, movements, and writings. Students will learn to analyze images and cinematic techniques, as well as assess their historical, ideological, and cultural significance.

The Central European Novel.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of the culture of Central Europe through the lens of novels, including the history, culture, and literature of the region.

Chekhov without Borders.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Chekhov鈥檚 short stories and plays. The genre of the short story and its relationship to realist, modernist, and postmodernist aesthetics. Chekhov鈥檚 influence in Russia and abroad.

Petersburg: City of Myth.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

In Russian culture, the two major cities, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, represent the two sides of Russian culture: its past in Orthodoxy and Russianness and its future in European culture and internationalism. The culture of Saint-Petersburg both reflects the city and redefines the meaning of the city for the future. This class will examine Russian culture within the context of the city itself, providing students with a holistic look at an embedded culture.

Vladimir Nabokov.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Cross sampling of short stories and major novels by Vladimir Nabokov; his life-long love affair with language and "aesthetic bliss"; his flouting of convention from Russia's Silver Age to post-McCarthy America. Lolita in and beyond the Russian context.

Russian Short Story.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian stories that encompass the major aesthetic and thematic concerns of the short story genre. Recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual, and artistic memory.

Late and Post-Soviet Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The re-invention of Russian culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Featuring Soviet beatniks, dissidents, and cultural iconoclasts; covering pop-culture, Pepsi and PR, perestroika, and the encounter with Western postmodernism. In literature, the emergence of 'new鈥� voices (women鈥檚 prose, 茅migr茅 writers), new or newly rediscovered genres (detective fiction, sci-fi, bard or sung poetry, the essay). In the visual arts, points of contact, overlap and competition with film, conceptualist or concrete poetry, installations, memes). For over two and a half centuries, Russian literature was seen as the cornerstone of cultural identity and national pride. How does it confront today the challenges of a post-literary age and, tenuously, post-Soviet age?

Central European Film.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The development of film in the Central European area, alongside the history and culture of the region.

Leo Tolstoy.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An in-depth exploration of the literature and thought of Leo Tolstoy. This course will cover his major works of fiction as well as non-fiction essays, diary entries, and letters, with the majority of the semester devoted to his great masterpiece, War and Peace.

Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An in-depth study of the writing and thought of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through reading Dostoevsky's major novels as well as some of his short fiction and journalism in the context of his times, this course will explore Dostoevsky's contributions to literature and philosophy.

Supernatural and Absurd in Russian Literature.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Themes of absurd, bizarre, surreal, supernatural, and fantastic in works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kharms, Bulgakov, Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, and others. Focus on the Russian literary imagination and the historical and political conflicts which haunt it. Theories of the gothic, fantastic, and absurd.

Narrative and Memory in Russian Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of literary and cinematic representations of the themes of memory, trauma, nostalgia, family history, and war in modern Russian culture. Exploration of narrative approaches to war and trauma, their effects on cultural identity, Post-Soviet nostalgia, family and childhood, and related subjects.

Russia's Utopia Complex.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

From Zamiatin's We (1921), and Dostoevskii's "Grand Inquisitor" (1880), an examination of the Russian creation of and imprint on the dystopian genre. From prototypes in Russian romanticism and folklore, to dissident masterpieces of the Stalinist era, to sci-fi as rediscovered in the post-Soviet experience. Literature, film, and beyond.

Russian Opera.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course traces the development of the Russian opera tradition from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s. It explores opera's role in Russia's quest for national identity and its place in musical, literary, and political life, as well as responses to European opera trends. No knowledge of music theory required.

Staging Russianness: From Pushkin to Chekhov.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Masterpieces of the Russian stage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emergence of a uniquely Russian dramatic sensitivity against prevailing European trends; the literary word in a public, political and/or avant-garde forum.

Special Topics in Russian.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Soviet Cinema: Art and Politics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course explores the relationship between art and politics in the cinema of the Soviet Union. Students taking this course will gain a familiarity with the films and writings of Soviet directors. They will also learn the basics of formal, textual, and historical film analysis.

Tarkovsky: Cinema and Philosophy.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest directors of all time, Tarkovsky directed such luminary films as Ivan鈥檚 Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). Since their first appearance, these films have challenged viewers with their deep philosophical questions and stunning visual style. This course equips students with the tools necessary to understand and interpret these films including a basis in film theory and Soviet history.

Soviet Women Filmmakers.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Dedicated to the study of under-represented female directors in Soviet cinema, particularly the films of Kira Muratova and Larisa Shepitko. The work of these two directors is nothing short of stunning; in many ways, it surpasses that of their most well-known contemporary - Andrei Tarkovsky. Explores the ways in which these films represent gender, sexuality, and women's issues in the Soviet Union.

Russian Fin de Si猫cle.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian poetry, prose, drama, book design and the visual arts from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis. Not open to students who have taken or are taking RUSS 465.

Russian Avantgarde.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto, street festivals and the explosion of experiment in the visual arts from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde anticipates, transcends, responds and then succumbs to revolution.

High Stalinist Culture 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.

Russia and Its Others.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

In-depth historical approach to cultural construction of Russian national identity and to the concept of the Other as a condition of self-representation: East, West, America, class enemies, dissidents, ethnic and sexual minorities, etc. Introduction to theoretical tools for approaching issues of national identity, alterity, (post)colonialism, exoticism, and orientalism. Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.

Narratives of Desire.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An exploration of desire as it was narrativized in Russian literature 1860-1900. The course draws on comparative examples from European literature as well as various theoretical approaches for conceptualizing love and desire.

Special Topics in Russ Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Special Topics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Focus on a critical theme, author or work, as determined by the current research interests of faculty and visiting faculty.

Topics in Slavic Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Slavic culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Advanced Russian Language and Syntax 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.

Advanced Russian Language and Syntax.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.

Honours Seminar 01.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course is intended to allow students to bring together their knowledge of the general area of Russian Slavic Studies and produce a synthesis appropriate to their level of development. The major exercise will consist of the writing of a research paper displaying their competence.

Honours Seminar 02.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course is intended to allow students to bring together their knowledge of the general area of Russian Slavic Studies and produce a synthesis appropriate to their level of development. The major exercise will consist of the writing of a research paper displaying their competence.

Elementary Russian Language 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice.

Elementary Russian Language 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian Language; continuation of RUSS 210.

Elementary Russian Language Intensive 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An intensive introduction to the Russian language which covers the first year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 210/RUSS 211 in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Intermediate Russian Language 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, translation, conversation.

Intermediate Russian Language 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Reading, translation, conversation.

Intermediate Russian Language Intensive 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 this course covers the second year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 310/RUSS 311, in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.

Advanced Russian Language Intensive 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 and RUSS 316, students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems.

Introduction to Soviet Film.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course aims to familiarize undergraduates with the topics, figures, and concerns of Soviet film history. Students will watch and analyze films by Soviet directors including Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, Kira Muratova, Larisa Shepitko, and many others in the context of their historical periods, movements, and writings. Students will learn to analyze images and cinematic techniques, as well as assess their historical, ideological, and cultural significance.

Russia's Eternal Questions.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.

Russian Literature and Revolution.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary caf茅, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition.

Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors鈥� relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.

Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov.

Introduction to Russian Folklore.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An introduction to Russian folklore and folk belief: "dual-faith," traditional mentality, fairy tales, calendar rituals, folk songs, witches, healers and house spirits. The course will explore classic approaches to folklore studies as well as the influence of folk culture on Russian "high art."

The Central European Novel.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of the culture of Central Europe through the lens of novels, including the history, culture, and literature of the region.

Reading Russian Poetry.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to Russia's major poets and bards of the 19th and 20th centuries. Selected works from Pushkin to Brodsky and 20th century bards will be read in Russian.

Readings in Russian.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A general introduction to Russian prose, poetry and drama in the 19th Century. Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.

Chekhov without Borders.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Chekhov鈥檚 short stories and plays. The genre of the short story and its relationship to realist, modernist, and postmodernist aesthetics. Chekhov鈥檚 influence in Russia and abroad.

Petersburg: City of Myth.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

In Russian culture, the two major cities, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, represent the two sides of Russian culture: its past in Orthodoxy and Russianness and its future in European culture and internationalism. The culture of Saint-Petersburg both reflects the city and redefines the meaning of the city for the future. This class will examine Russian culture within the context of the city itself, providing students with a holistic look at an embedded culture.

Vladimir Nabokov.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Cross sampling of short stories and major novels by Vladimir Nabokov; his life-long love affair with language and "aesthetic bliss"; his flouting of convention from Russia's Silver Age to post-McCarthy America. Lolita in and beyond the Russian context.

Russian Short Story.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian stories that encompass the major aesthetic and thematic concerns of the short story genre. Recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual, and artistic memory.

Late and Post-Soviet Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The re-invention of Russian culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Featuring Soviet beatniks, dissidents, and cultural iconoclasts; covering pop-culture, Pepsi and PR, perestroika, and the encounter with Western postmodernism. In literature, the emergence of 'new鈥� voices (women鈥檚 prose, 茅migr茅 writers), new or newly rediscovered genres (detective fiction, sci-fi, bard or sung poetry, the essay). In the visual arts, points of contact, overlap and competition with film, conceptualist or concrete poetry, installations, memes). For over two and a half centuries, Russian literature was seen as the cornerstone of cultural identity and national pride. How does it confront today the challenges of a post-literary age and, tenuously, post-Soviet age?

Central European Film.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The development of film in the Central European area, alongside the history and culture of the region.

Leo Tolstoy.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An in-depth exploration of the literature and thought of Leo Tolstoy. This course will cover his major works of fiction as well as non-fiction essays, diary entries, and letters, with the majority of the semester devoted to his great masterpiece, War and Peace.

Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An in-depth study of the writing and thought of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through reading Dostoevsky's major novels as well as some of his short fiction and journalism in the context of his times, this course will explore Dostoevsky's contributions to literature and philosophy.

Supernatural and Absurd in Russian Literature.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Themes of absurd, bizarre, surreal, supernatural, and fantastic in works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kharms, Bulgakov, Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, and others. Focus on the Russian literary imagination and the historical and political conflicts which haunt it. Theories of the gothic, fantastic, and absurd.

Narrative and Memory in Russian Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of literary and cinematic representations of the themes of memory, trauma, nostalgia, family history, and war in modern Russian culture. Exploration of narrative approaches to war and trauma, their effects on cultural identity, Post-Soviet nostalgia, family and childhood, and related subjects.

Russia's Utopia Complex.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

From Zamiatin's We (1921), and Dostoevskii's "Grand Inquisitor" (1880), an examination of the Russian creation of and imprint on the dystopian genre. From prototypes in Russian romanticism and folklore, to dissident masterpieces of the Stalinist era, to sci-fi as rediscovered in the post-Soviet experience. Literature, film, and beyond.

Russian Opera.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course traces the development of the Russian opera tradition from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s. It explores opera's role in Russia's quest for national identity and its place in musical, literary, and political life, as well as responses to European opera trends. No knowledge of music theory required.

Staging Russianness: From Pushkin to Chekhov.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Masterpieces of the Russian stage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emergence of a uniquely Russian dramatic sensitivity against prevailing European trends; the literary word in a public, political and/or avant-garde forum.

Special Topics in Russian.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Tarkovsky: Cinema and Philosophy.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest directors of all time, Tarkovsky directed such luminary films as Ivan鈥檚 Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). Since their first appearance, these films have challenged viewers with their deep philosophical questions and stunning visual style. This course equips students with the tools necessary to understand and interpret these films including a basis in film theory and Soviet history.

Soviet Women Filmmakers.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Dedicated to the study of under-represented female directors in Soviet cinema, particularly the films of Kira Muratova and Larisa Shepitko. The work of these two directors is nothing short of stunning; in many ways, it surpasses that of their most well-known contemporary - Andrei Tarkovsky. Explores the ways in which these films represent gender, sexuality, and women's issues in the Soviet Union.

Russian Fin de Si猫cle.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian poetry, prose, drama, book design and the visual arts from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis. Not open to students who have taken or are taking RUSS 465.

Russian Avantgarde.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto, street festivals and the explosion of experiment in the visual arts from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde anticipates, transcends, responds and then succumbs to revolution.

High Stalinist Culture 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.

Russia and Its Others.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

In-depth historical approach to cultural construction of Russian national identity and to the concept of the Other as a condition of self-representation: East, West, America, class enemies, dissidents, ethnic and sexual minorities, etc. Introduction to theoretical tools for approaching issues of national identity, alterity, (post)colonialism, exoticism, and orientalism. Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.

Narratives of Desire.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An exploration of desire as it was narrativized in Russian literature 1860-1900. The course draws on comparative examples from European literature as well as various theoretical approaches for conceptualizing love and desire.

Special Topics in Russ Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Special Topics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Focus on a critical theme, author or work, as determined by the current research interests of faculty and visiting faculty.

Topics in Slavic Culture.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Slavic culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.

Ethnographies of Post-socialism.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Understanding postsocialism through engagement with ethnography that explores how markets interact with political rule, social forms, and the production of cultural values across different geographies and histories. This course focuses primarily on the former Soviet Union, East Germany, and China.

Introduction to Russian History.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The longue dur茅e of Russian history from its origins in Kievan Rus and the Rurik dynasty, through the Romanov dynasty, the Soviet period, and post-Soviet developments.

East Central and Southeastern Europe in 20th Century.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introductory survey of east central and southeastern European history from the twilight of nineteenth-century imperialism to the most recent expansion of the European Union. Consideration will be given to the two world wars and their consequences; nationalism, fascism, and socialism; and the revolutions of 1989.

East Central Europe, 1944-2004.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An examination of important problems in the postwar history of east central Europe. Topics include: the establishment of Communist regimes; Stalinism and de-Stalinization; everyday life under Communism; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Prague Spring, and Solidarity; political opposition; culture; and the revolutions of 1989.

Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1918.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

History of the central European Habsburg Monarchy from its consolidation in the Thirty Years' War to its demise in the Great War. Topics include: counter-Reformation and the baroque, enlightened absolutism, the partitions of Poland, the revolutions of 1848, the rise of nationalism, and fin-de-si猫cle society and culture.

History of the Russian Empire.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

History of the Russian empire from its formal proclamation by Peter the Great to its eventual collapse in 1917; the rise of the Romanov dynasty, imperial conquest, and the dynamics of imperial Russian society, and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

History of the Soviet Union.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991, examining its origins in the collapse of autocracy, early Soviet utopianism, the rise of Stalin, the Second World War, Khrushchev鈥檚 reforms, the Cold War and the decline and eventual collapse of the USSR, as well as its legacies in the post-Soviet period.

Topics: Russian History.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examination of a selected topic in Russian history from the reign of Peter the Great to the present time.

Seminar: Topics in Russian History.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Topics in Russian history. Topic varies by year.

Seminar: Topics in Russian History.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

See HIST 576D1 for course description.

The Soviet Jewish Experience.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Sovietization both fueled the modernization of Russian Jewry and contributed to its eventual suppression. This experience will be examined from two perspectives: history and literature. The interrelationship between culture and politics and the effects of ideology and censorship on literature will be discussed.

Russian Politics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Broad introduction to contemporary Russian politics. Examination of the Soviet system and its collapse. Exploration of key elements of Russian politics such as formal and informal political institutions; economic transformation and statebusiness relations; nationalism, memory, and identity; civil society and social movements; and Russian foreign policy.

Politics in East Central Europe.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Analysis of recent dramatic changes in East Central Europe in light of the historical development and current structure of these states, their relationship to their societies, with emphasis on diversity and its sources.

Post-Socialist Societies.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The demise of Communist Party rule between 1989 - 1991 throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The societal implications (e.g. class formation, gender relations, nationalism, corruption, religious freedom) of these dramatic economic and political changes.