Course:

RUS 101  Beginning Russian

Professor:

Olga Voronina  

CRN:

90224

Schedule:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

This course is designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of Russian. The course focuses on the fundamentals of the spoken and written language, and introduces students to Russian culture. Emphasized are such essential aspects of language learning as speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and written proficiency as well as the acquisition of new vocabulary and grammatical accuracy. Creative expression in autobiographical and fictional compositions is encouraged. In addition to regular class meetings, students are required to attend weekly one-hour tutorials. Students who complete Beginning Russian will be able to take a 4-credit sequence course in the spring.

 

Course:

RUS 206  Continuing Russian

Professor:

Oleg Minin  

CRN:

90225

Schedule:

Mon Tue Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin 307

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

This course is designed to continue refining students' practice of speaking, listening, reading and writing in Russian. The focus is on the continuing acquisition of advanced grammar, pertinent vocabulary as well as reading and conversational skills enabling students to communicate effectively within the topics of everyday importance. Accuracy in using basic grammar constructions in speaking and writing in Russian is pursued and encouraged. Advanced grammar constructions are introduced through a wide variety of adapted texts and contexts. In addition to textbook material, students will be assigned readings of authentic and adapted Russian literary and journalistic texts: pertinent discussions, assignments as well as written and oral responses will entail elements of literary analysis and critique.

 

Course:

RUS 225  Russian Art of the Avant-Garde

Professor:

Oleg Minin  

CRN:

90227

Schedule:

 Mon Wed    3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 102

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

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.

 

Course:

ECON 213  Transition from Socialism to a Market-Based System

Professor:

Liudmila Malyshava  

CRN:

90178

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

Class cap:

19

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies; Russian Studies

 

Course:

HIST 203  Russia under the Romanovs

Professor:

Sean McMeekin  

CRN:

90153

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

Class cap

20

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies; Russian Studies

 

Course:

HIST 2701  The Holocaust, 1933-1945

Professor:

Cecile Kuznitz  

CRN:

90159

Schedule:

 Mon  Wed     2:00 PM - 3:20 PM  Campus Center Weis Cinema

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  German  Studies; Human Rights; Jewish Studies; Russian Studies

 

Course:

LIT 2311  St. Petersburg: City, Monument, Text

Professor:

Olga Voronina  

CRN:

90271

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Albee 106

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Environmental & Urban Studies; Russian Studies