99122 |
RUS 101 Beginning Russian |
Marina Kostalevsky |
M T W Th . |
3:00 -4:00 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
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.
99119 |
RUS 206 Continuing Russian |
Tamara Mikhailova |
M . W . F |
10:30 - 11:50 am |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
This
course is designed to continue refining and engaging students' practice of
speaking, reading, and writing Russian. Students will expand their vocabulary
and range of stylistic nuance by writing regular response papers and presenting
oral reports. 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 focus on the
syntax of the complex Russian sentence and on grammatical nuances. The class
will be conducted in Russian.
99123 |
RUS 409 Russian Poetry |
Marina Kostalevsky |
. . W . . |
9:30 - 11:50 am |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
This course offers a historical study of Russian
versification, the technical aspects of poetry, structural analysis of poetic
texts, and translation of selected poems. Poets studied include Pushkin,
Lermontov, Baratynsky, Tyutchev, Fet, Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Tarkovsky, Pasternak, Mayakovsky,
Brodsky, and Rein. Conducted in Russian.
99048 |
ECON 214 Economic Transition From Socialism To A Market-Based System |
Tamar Khitarishvili |
M . W . . |
3:00 -4:20 pm |
ALBEE 106 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Russian and Eurasian Studies,
GIS The course investigates the challenges that former
socialist-block countries experienced since the early 1990s in their attempt to
turn their economies into well-functioning market-based systems. We will study
a range of topics, including privatization, price liberalization, inflation,
unemployment, changes in the composition of output, foreign direct investment
(FDI), national debt and budget deficits, informal economy, and the fight
against corruption, among other topics. Particular attention will be paid to
the role of institutional factors in explaining the divergent performance of
countries in this seemingly homogenous group.
99159 |
HIST 140 Intro to Russian Civilization |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
M . W . . |
3:00 -4:20 pm |
OLIN 203 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Medieval Studies, Russian and Eurasian Studies This course examines the origins and evolution of
Russian civilization from the founding of the first Eastern Slavic state
through the eighteenth century, when Russia began to modernize by borrowing
from Western culture. Among the topics to be considered are the ethnogeny of
early Russians, the development of state and legal institutions, the
relationship between kinship and politics, the role of religion in public and
private spheres, economic organization, social institutions, family, gender
relations, sexuality, popular culture, and the impact of the outside world
(both Orient and Occident) upon Russian society. The sources include a variety
of Russian cultural expressions (folk tales, literature, art, film, music),
original documents, and scholarly texts.
99160 |
HIST 279 East Central Europe after WWII |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
. T . Th . |
4:00 -5:20 pm |
OLIN 201 |
HIST |
Cross Listed:
GIS; Russian and Eurasian
Studies The
course will cover the history of East Central Europe from 1945 to the present. After
a brief summary of the history of the region before and during World War II,
the course will concentrate on the region’s evolution since the war. In
addition to surveying the period and examining the turning points in its
evolution (for example, the Berlin uprising of 1953, the Hungarian revolution
and reforms in Poland in 1956, the "Prague spring" of 1968, the
Solidarity movement in Poland, and the revolutions at the end of the 1980s), we
will explore a variety of specific topics, including political systems,
economic organization, ethnic conflicts, and gender relations. Readings will
include a textbook, specialized studies, original sources, and works of
fiction.
99121 |
LIT 2404 Fantastic Journeys and the Modern World |
Jonathan Brent |
. . W . . |
4:30 – 6:50 pm |
OLIN 202 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed: Russian & Eurasian Studies; Related interest: STS The modern world
has been characterized in many ways, as a time of unimaginable freedom, as well
as existential angst, exile, loss of the idea of home, loss of the idea of
positive heroes; a triumphant embracing of the “new” and the future, as well as
the troubling encounter with machines and the menace of
totalitarianism. It was a time when barriers of all sorts began to
crumble—barriers between past and present, foreground and background, high and low
culture, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. Artists and writers
responded in many different ways across the world. The writers we will read in
this class represent the fulcrum of creativity in America, Central or Eastern
Europe and Russia. Each lived at a different axis of modernity—where East
met West, where the Russian Revolution provided a vibrant but terrifying image
of liberation, where modern technological innovation produced endless
possibilities of satirization of both the old world and the new, where ethnic
and genocidal violence was developing under the surface of this innovation into
the foreseeable European Holocaust. These writers have something powerful and
unique to say about the advent of the modern period in the fantastic parallel
worlds they created where machines take on lives of their own, grotesque
transformations violate the laws of science, and inversions of normality become
the norm. Through their fantastic conceptions a vision of modernity
emerges which questions the most basic presumptions of western civilization—in
art, morality, politics, the psyche and social life—a vision for which the West
still has no satisfying response. All readings are in English. We will read The Marvelous Land of Oz (L. Frank Baum), The Metamorphosis (Kafka), RUR
(Capek), War with the Newts (Capek), Street of Crocodiles (Schulz), Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hour
Glass (Schulz), Envy (Olesha) The Bedbug (Mayakovsky). There will be 4
short papers for the course & one final paper.