17057 |
RUS 102 Beginning
Russian II |
Olga Voronina |
M
T W
Th 9:00am-10:00am |
OLINLC 206 |
FL |
FLLC |
This 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. Successful
completion of the sequence qualifies students to enroll in a 4-week June
program in
17060 |
RUS 225 Russian Art
of the Avant-Garde |
Oleg Minin |
M W 3:10pm-4:30pm |
PRE 110 |
FL |
AART |
Cross-listed: Art
History This course will address
major developments in Russian modern and avant-grade art in the first three
decades of the 20th c. The course is multidisciplinary and will allow
students to study particular movements, ideas and seminal names from Mikhail
Vrubel and Symbolism to Vladimir Tatlin and Constructivism. Students will gain
an insight into the aesthetic, theoretical and cultural concerns of the
practitioners of Russian experimental arts that will supplement and enhance
their knowledge of the more familiar movements in modern art history. This
course aims to offer students an important methodology and context for the
appreciation of the intrinsic evolution of Russian visual culture and its
contribution to the international art arena. Major paintings, applied designs
and architectural monuments form the visual material essential to this course,
and they will be examined in chronological sequence. These artifacts will be
described and analyzed for their own sake and also as symbols and
manifestations of social, political, and philosophical developments in Russian
modern history. Class
size: 22
17061 |
RUS 327 Russian
Opera: staging History, shaping Myths |
Marina Kostalevsky |
M 3:30pm-5:50pm |
OLINLC 120 |
FL |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Music This course
will offer the opportunity to explore Russian history through the medium of
Russian opera. Russian culture represents an inseparable part of European
cultural experience. And yet, it has a distinctly original character. Initially
shaped by the Orthodox Christian tradition passed on from Byzantium, it
eventually came into contact and conflict with the flow of West European ideas.
It absorbed and confronted, transformed and blended the major creative
achievements of the Old World with the unique Russian experience. Predictably,
the history of Russian music followed that path. The early development of
Russian music benefited from appropriation of the Byzantine unaccompanied
choral singing and at the same time suffered from the absence of instrumental music.
By comparison, the Western European music combined the use of vocal and
instrumental faculties and resulted in the creation of numerous forms of
musical art, including the most elaborate one: opera. The flourishing of this
genre in Europe consequently had a direct impact on the progress of Russian
musical culture. During the nineteenth century, opera became a powerful agent
in Russia’s search for national identity. The list of operas includes
such masterpieces as A Life for the Tsar
by Glinka, Boris Godunov and
Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky, The
Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov, The
Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, War and Peace by Prokofiev, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich. The assigned material will
also include selected literary texts as well as video and audio recordings. You
will also have a chance to attend a live performance of a Russian opera at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York. No training in music is required. Conducted in
English. Class
size: 15
17063 |
RUS 408 Love
Stories:Prose & Poetry |
Marina Kostalevsky |
M W 11:50am-1:10pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FL |
FLLC |
Close reading of selected
short stories and poems by Russian writers from the eighteenth century to our days.
Examination of artistic meditations on the subject of love, of erotic desires,
of psychological and cultural conflicts in romantic relationship. Special
emphasis on the role of language and literary form, as the themes of love are
introduced in works by Karamzin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Turgenev,
Dostoevsky, Gippius, Kuzmin, Blok, Nabokov, Tolstaya, and Ulitskaya. Conducted in Russian. Class size: 12
Cross-listed course:
17442 |
HIST 203 Russia under
the Romanovs |
Sean McMeekin |
M W 11:50am-1:10pm |
RKC 102 |
HA |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Russian &
Eurasian Studies Class
size: 22
17450 |
HIST 332 Grand
Strategy/Byzantine Empir |
Sean McMeekin |
M W 3:10pm-4:30pm |
HEG 201 |
HA |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Medieval Studies;
Middle Eastern Studies; Russian & Eurasian Studies Class size: 15
17582 |
IDEA 130
Chernobyl: the meaning of Man-Made Disaster |
Jonathan
Becker Matthew
Deady |
T Th 11:50am-1:10pm LAB: W 10:20am-12:10pm |
HEG 102 HEG 107 |
LS SA |
SCI SSCI |
Cross-listed: Environmental
& Urban Studies; Human Rights; Political Studies; Russian & Eurasian
Studies; Science
17430 |
JS 115 Yiddish
Language, Lit & Cultur |
Cecile Kuznitz |
T Th 3:10pm-4:30pm |
OLIN 309 |
HA D+J |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Jewish Studies; Russian & Eurasian Studies Class size: 18
17058 |
LIT 253 Isaac Babel
& Revolution |
Jonathan Brent |
F 3:00pm-5:20pm |
OLIN 202 |
LA |
ELIT |
Cross-listed: Human Rights; Jewish Studies; Russian & Eurasian
Studies Class size: 22
17059 |
LIT 2117 Russian
Laughter |
Marina Kostalevsky |
T Th 3:10pm-4:30pm |
OLINLC 115 |
LA |
|
Cross-listed: Russian & Eurasian Studies Class
size: 22