CRN	14236	Distribution	D
Course No.	RUS 106
Title	Russian Intensive
Professor	Jennifer Day
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 am - 12:00 pm LC 118 Tu Th 10:00 am - 12:00 pm LC 115

8 credits This course is designed for students who have completed Beginning Russian 101 in the previous fall and for those who have had the equivalent of one semester’s beginning Russian here or at another institution. The Russian Intensive culminates in a June program in St. Petersburg that includes twenty-four hours a week of Russian language classes and an extensive cultural program of museum visits, theater performances, and concerts, as well as tours of the St. Petersburg environs. Students will live with Russian families. Successful completion of this program qualifies the student to pursue a semester or year long study in St. Petersburg at Smolny College of the Liberal Arts, a joint educational venture of Bard and St. Petersburg University.

CRN	14235	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	LIT/ RUS 2153
Title	Myth and Variation in Russian Modernism
Professor	Jennifer Day
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 306

Cross-listed: Literature

From fin-de-siècle Decadence to “writing for the desk drawer” under Stalin, Russian literature and arts of the first decades of the twentieth century are marked by a preoccupation with the relationship between art and life. For Russian writers and artists of this period, looking to the future, to another reality, or to a higher state of being—often against the background of catastrophic sociohistorical contexts—implied a creative process that may be best characterized as mythology in the making. This course will trace the interrelationship between various Russian art forms of the Modernist period, including literature, theater and film, visual arts, and architecture, from the turn of the twentieth century to 1940. We will also treat the links between art, gender, and politics as pre-Revolutionary mythologies of “life into art” evolve into their post-Revolutionary versions. Students will read works by Sologub, Bely, Blok, Mandelshtam, Mayakovsky, Zamiatin, Babel, Olesha, Platonov, and Bulgakov as well as Modernist group manifestos and recent critical analysis. Conducted in English.

CRN	14237	Distribution	D
Course No.	RUS 302
Title	Advanced Russian II
Professor	Marina Kostalevsky
Schedule	Tu Wed Th 3:10 pm - 4:10 pm LC 206

Increasing oral proficiency is a primary aim of this course, as is developing reading strategies appropriate to the widest variety of written texts. These texts will include artistic literature, poetry, and newspapers. We will proceed to expand vocabulary and study the syntax of the complex Russian sentence and grammatical nuances. Students will be asked to write short essays on a variety of topics. Audiovisual work in the language laboratory will be an important part of our work. The class will be conducted only in Russian.

CRN	14238	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	RUS 408
Title	Love Stories in Prose & Poetry
Professor	Marina Kostalevsky
Schedule	Wed 10:30 am - 12:50 pm LC 208

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.