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
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
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
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
15049 |
LIT 130 Anna Karenina |
Elizabeth Frank |
. . W Th . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
ASP 302 |
ELIT |
15050 |
LIT 2159 INTO THE WHIRLWIND: Literary Greatness and Gambles |
Jonathan Brent |
. . . . F |
3:00pm-5:20pm |
OLIN 202 |
ELIT |
15425 |
HIST 102 Europe since 1815 |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
M . W . . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
HEG 106 |
HIST |
15358 |
HIST 2241 Contemporary Russia |
Sean McMeekin |
M . W . . |
10:10am- 11:30am |
HEG 204 |
HIST |
15426 |
HIST 242 20th C Russia: from Communism to Nationalism |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
. T . Th . |
3:10pm-4:30pm |
OLIN 305 |
HIST |
15427 |
HIST 347 1917 Revolution in Russia |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
M . . . . |
4:40pm-7:00pm |
OLIN 301 |
HIST |