RUSSIAN

RUSSIAN

CRN	92126	Distribution	D
Course No.	RUS 101
Title	Beginning Russian
Professor	Marina Kostalevsky
Schedule	Tu Wed Th Fr 9:00 am - 9:50 am LC 206

A course for students with little or no previous knowledge of Russian that introduces the fundamentals of spoken and written Russian. We will emphasize conversational, reading and written proficiency and encourage creative expression in autobiographical and fictional compositions. Audio-visual materials will be an integral part of the learning process. Beginning Russian will be followed by an intensive 8 credit course in the spring semester and a four credit summer language and culture program in St. Petersburg, Russia. See description of RUS 106 in the Spring 2003 section of this catalog for more information on this opportunity.

CRN	92127	Distribution	D
Course No.	RUS 206
Title	Continuing Russian
Professor	TBA
Schedule	Tu Th Fr 11:00 am - 12:00 pm LC 115

Increasing oral proficiency is a primary aim of this course as well as developing reading and viewing strategies appropriate to the widest variety of written texts and Russian television and film. We will proceed to expand vocabulary and study the syntax of the complex Russian sentence and grammatical nuances. Students will be expected to keep a weekly diary and to write short essays on a variety of topics. The class will be conducted only in Russian.

CRN	92313	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	LIT R210
Title	Body, Mind and Spirit in Dostoevsky
Professor	Marina Kostalevsky
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 107

See Literature section for description.

CRN	92314	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	RUS 408
Title	Love Stories in Prose & Poetry
Professor	TBA
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm LC 206

Close reading of selected short stories and poems of Russian writers from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Examination of artistic meditations on paradoxes of love, on erotic behavior, on psychological and cultural conflicts of the period. Special emphasis on the role of language and literary form, as the erotic themes are developed in texts by Karamzin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gippius, Kuzmin, Blok, Nabokov, Tolstaya, and Petrushevskaya. Conducted in Russian.