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15048 |
RUS 106 Russian Intensive |
Marina Kostalevsky |
. T W Th F |
11:00am-1:00pm |
OLIN 307 |
FLLC |
8 credits This intensive
course is designed as a continuation for students who have completed Beginning
Russian 101. Our focus on speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills
continues through cultural context, video materials, songs, and literary
analysis. This course culminates in a 4-week June program in St. Petersburg,
where students will attend classes (earning an additional 4 credits) and
participate in a cultural program while living in Russian families. Successful
completion of the intensive sequence qualifies the student to pursue semester
or yearlong study in St. Petersburg at Smolny College
of the Liberal Arts, a joint educational venture of Bard and St. Petersburg
University. Class size: 18
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15051 |
RUS 220 Appointment with Dr. Chekhov |
Marina Kostalevsky |
. T . Th . |
3:10pm-4:30pm |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Russian and Eurasian Studies Anton
Pavlovich Chekhov began writing simply to earn much needed money while studying
to become a doctor at Moscow University.
His connection to the medical profession, and the natural sciences, is
not mere biographical fact. As Chekhov
himself later admitted, "there is no doubt that
my study of medicine strongly affected my work in literature." Moreover,
he claimed that "the writer must be as objective as the
chemist." This course will give
students the opportunity to analyse how Dr. Chekhov's
"general theory of objectivity" impacted his writing and how his
"treatment" of human nature and social issues, of love and family,
all the big and “little things in life,” has brought an entirely new dimension
to Russian literature and culture.
Readings include Chekhov's prose, plays, and letters. Also, attention will be given to contemporary
interpretations of his work, new biographical research, and productions of his
plays on stage and screen. Conducted in English. Class size: 18
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15052 |
RUS 321 Russian in Academic Context |
Oleg Minin |
M T . Th . |
11:30am- 12:30pm |
OLINLC 115 |
FLLC |
Designed
to accommodate the needs of advanced second- and third-year students of
Russian, this course focuses on such aspects of communication in the Russian
academic context as listening comprehension, clarity and stylistic variety of
self-expression in oral speech and in writing, and idiomatic competence. The
readings include non-fiction texts representing academic writing in a wide
array of disciplines, from political studies to art history, and from
psychology to environmental and urban studies, as well as poetry and fiction.
The goal of the course is to help students acquire vocabulary and build
language skills that will allow them to participate in a semester-long program
at a Russian college or university as well as conduct independent research in
Russian. Class size: 15
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15053 |
RUS 416 THE Language OF THE Russian SILVER AGE AND Avant-Garde |
Oleg Minin |
M . W . . |
1:30pm-2:50pm |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
This
course provides insight into the language, innovative linguistic
experimentations, theoretical expositions and thematic preoccupations of
writers, poets and artists personifying major literary and artistic movements
of the Russian Silver Age and Avant-Garde. It advances by examination of
particular works, ideas and “isms” of the period (e.g. Symbolism, Cubo - and Ego-Futurism, Trans-sense poetry (Zaum’), Acmeism, Imagism and
OBERIU) and covers a period roughly corresponding to the first three decades of
the 20th c. Conducted in Russian, the course also aims to enhance students’
understanding of Russian grammar in context, acquisition of advanced
vocabulary, critical thinking, writing and speaking.
Class size: 15