Beginning Russian II

 

Professor: Olga Voronina  

 

Course Number: RUS 102

CRN Number: 10130

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 206

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

 

 

This course is designed to continue refining students' practice of speaking, listening, reading and writing in Russian. The focus is on the acquisition of grammar at the beginner-intermediate level, pertinent vocabulary as well as reading and conversational skills enabling students to communicate effectively within the topics of everyday importance. Accuracy and fluency in speaking and writing in Russian is pursued and encouraged. Grammar constructions and patterns of conversation are introduced through a wide variety of adapted texts, including poetry, fiction, and film. The students are given substantial written and oral homework assignments as well as engaged in active pair work, role-play, and games in the classroom on the daily basis.

 

Continuing Russian

 

Professor: Oleg Minin  

 

Course Number: RUS 207

CRN Number: 10131

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 304

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

 

 

This course is designed to continue refining students’ practice of speaking, listening, reading and writing in Russian. The focus is on the continuing acquisition of advanced grammar, pertinent vocabulary as well as reading and conversational skills enabling students to communicate effectively within the topics of everyday importance. Accuracy in using basic grammar constructions in speaking and writing in Russian is pursued and encouraged. Advanced grammar constructions are introduced through a wide variety of adapted texts and contexts. In addition to textbook material, students will be assigned readings of authentic and adapted Russian literary and journalistic texts: pertinent discussions, assignments as well as written and oral responses will entail elements of literary analysis and critique.

 

Letters of Russian Writers

 

Professor: Marina Kostalevsky  

 

Course Number: RUS 328

CRN Number: 10132

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       1:30 PM - 3:50 PM Olin Languages Center 210

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

 

 

This advanced-level Russian language course is dedicated to the study of the professional and confessional, of business and love letters by famous Russian writers of the nineteenth century. We will look at the everyday life, literature, and culture of their time through the epistolary lens -- a fascinating and enlightening tool for those who have already encountered great Russian classics either in translation or in the original. The letters of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov will be among the documents offered for reading comprehension, translation practice, and socio-historical analysis. Pre-requisite: a 200 or 300-level Russian language course. Conducted in Russian.

 

Cross-listed Courses:

 

Russia, Turkey and the First World War

 

Course Number: HIST 224

CRN Number: 10310

Class cap: 18

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Sean McMeekin

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Albee 106

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

Global & International Studies; Russian and Eurasian Studies

 

Hope in the Dark: Eurasian Fantasy and Folklore

 

Course Number: LIT 164

CRN Number: 10261

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Olga Voronina

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 115

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Russian and Eurasian Studies; Written Arts

 

Russian Laughter

 

Course Number: LIT 2117

CRN Number: 10383

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Marina Kostalevsky

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 206

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

 

Crosslists:

Russian and Eurasian Studies

 

Stalin and Power

 

Course Number: LIT 2205

CRN Number: 10384

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Jonathan Brent

 

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 201

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

Historical Studies; Russian and Eurasian Studies