Course:

RUS 102  Beginning Russian II

Professor:

Olga Voronina  

CRN:

15535

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

This course is designed to continue refining students’ practice of speaking, listening, reading and writing in Russian. The focus is on the acquisition of grammar at the beginner-intermediate level, pertinent vocabulary as well as reading and conversational skills enabling students to communicate effectively within the topics of everyday importance. Accuracy and fluency in speaking and writing in Russian is pursued and encouraged. Grammar constructions and patterns of conversation are introduced through a wide variety of adapted texts, including poetry, fiction, and film. The students are given substantial written and oral homework assignments as well as engaged in active pair work, role-play, and games in the classroom on the daily basis.

 

Course:

RUS 207  Continuing Russian

Professor:

Oleg Minin  

CRN:

15536

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

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/LIT 220  An Appointment with Dr. Chekhov

Professor:

Marina Kostalevsky  

CRN:

15712

Schedule/Location:

 Tue   Fri   1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 16

Crosslists: Literature

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.

 

 

Course:

HIST 2241  Contemporary Russia

Professor:

Sean McMeekin  

CRN:

15606

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 18

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Political Studies; Russian and Eurasian Studies

 

Course:

LIT 2205  Stalin and Power

Professor:

Jonathan Brent  

CRN:

15720

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 20

Crosslists: Historical Studies; Russian Eurasian Studies

 

Course:

LIT 2227  Dostoevsky Presently: Poetics, Philosophy, Politics, & Psychology

Professor:

Marina Kostalevsky  

CRN:

15721

Schedule/Location:

  Wed Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 16

Crosslists: Russian Eurasian Studies

 

Course:

LIT 2404  Fantastic Journeys and the Modern World

Professor:

Jonathan Brent  

CRN:

15722

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   10:00 AM – 12:20 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 20

Crosslists: Jewish Studies; Russian Eurasian Studies