Course	RUS 101 Beginning Russian
Professor	Jennifer Day
CRN	95071
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Fr 10:30 -11:30 am OLINLC 210
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

A course for students with little or no previous knowledge of Russian that introduces the fundamentals of the spoken and written language as well as Russian culture. We will emphasize conversation, 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. In addition to regular class meetings, students are required to attend a one-hour-per-week tutorial. Beginning Russian will be followed by an intensive 8-credit course in the spring semester and a 4-credit summer language and culture program in St. Petersburg, Russia. For more information on this opportunity, see description of RUS 106 in the Spring 2005 section of this catalog or see instructor.

Course	RUS 206 Continuing Russian
Professor	Marina Kostalevsky
CRN	95072
Schedule	Tu Wed Th 2:55 -3:55 pm OLINLC 118
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

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.

Course	RUS 240 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
Professor	Marina Kostalevsky
CRN	95074
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLINLC 118
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

This course will examine contrasts and parallels between two great authors of Russia: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. The works will include Notes from Underground, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, and War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy. Close readings and discussion of literary texts will go along with exploration of historical, religious, political and cultural context. Conducted in English.

Course	RUS 320 Detskii mir / A Child's World
Professor	Marina Kostalevsky
CRN	95073
Schedule	Wed 9:30 -11:50 am Library 202
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

Reading, discussion, and lexical analysis of Russian literature for children and about children. Texts include folk fairy tales, works by Pushkin, Odoevskii, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Sologub, Maiakovskii, Chukovskii, Kharms, Marshak, and Zakhoder. Weekly compositions or translations, reviews of grammar and syntax. Videotapes and films will be used for developing skills in language comprehension. Conducted in Russian.

Course	FLCL 405 CAPSTONE COURSE: THE ESTHETICS OF DISSIDENCE
Professor	Maria Rybakova
CRN	95469
Schedule	Mon 4:00-6:20 pm OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

Cross-listed: Human Rights

Russian Nobel-prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky had "esthetical differences" with Communist rule, for which he was imprisoned, exiled and denied citizenship. He believed that ethics and esthetics are the same, that "esthetics are ethics." This course will examine the philosophical implications of this statement. We will read Brodsky's two English-language collection of essays, some of which deal with his biography and the meaning of being a poet and being a Jew in a totalitarian state. Others examine the work of poets such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvetayeva, Auden, Cavafy, Dostoyevsky and Walcott. Another focus of the class will be exile and the classical tradition. Akhmatova, Mandelstam, and Brodsky all had their own intense relation to the classical world, and Mandelstam even entitled one book "Tristia," alluding to Ovid's post-exile poem, "Tristia ex Ponto." Certainly once one-man rule was reestablished in Rome with Augustus, and especially under Nero, Roman poets had to deal with the relation of ethics to esthetics in an increasingly oppressive context. Former Soviet dissident Vasily Rudich's studies of literary dissidence under Nero will help us to see parallels between the world of antiquity and the modern world. Discussion will include Maria Rybakova’s "A Fraternity of Losers," in which the characters try to surpass ethics by estheticising the world. Students will write essays or stories reflecting their perception of ethics equaling esthetics.