020 Course in Reading Russian (2) For graduate students wishing to use Russian as a scholarly tool. Emphasis on basic grammar and reading skills. Graded CR/NC.
025 Course in Reading Russian (2) Continuation of 020. Reading of authentic materials from Russian press and students' areas of interest. For graduate students only. Graded CR/NC. Prerequisite: SLL 020.
120 Beginning Russian I (4, Fa) Introduction to the Russian language with emphasis on basic conversational skills, major points of grammar, and reading.
121 Introductory Serbo-Croatian I (4) Basic grammar; oral drills and written exercises; analysis of structural differences between the Croatian and Serbian usages.
122 Elementary Polish I (4) Structure of the language, pronunciation, basic communication, and reading in modern Polish.
125ab Elementary Russian I (2-2, FaSp) (Individualized Instruction) Basic grammar; oral drills and written exercises. Concurrent registration permitted. Prerequisite: departmental approval. (Duplicates credit in SLL 120)
150 Elementary Russian II (4, Sp) Continuation of SLL 120. Prerequisite: SLL 120.
151 Introductory Serbo-Croatian II (4) Continuation of SLL 121. Prerequisite: SLL 121.
152 Elementary Polish II (4) Continuation of SLL 122. Prerequisite: SLL 122.
155ab Elementary Russian II (2-2, FaSp) (Individualized Instruction) Basic grammar; oral drills and written exercises. Concurrent registration permitted. Prerequisite: departmental approval. (Duplicates credit in SLL 150)
185 Russian Utopian Fiction and Thought (4) The ideal of a perfect world, and its detractors, in Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Readings and lectures in English.
190m Cultural Diversity in the Russian Context (4, Fa) The function of ethnic identity, language, literature, and gender in Russian culture, with explicit discussion of parallels and contrasts with American cultural experience.
200g Russian Moral Dilemmas in the 20th Century (4) Examines the primary moral experiences of Russian society in its transition from tsarism through communism and beyond.
201 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society (4) (SS only) Introduction to the culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Russia. Offered only as part of the International Summer Session in Russia. Prerequisite: SLL 120.
210g Masterpieces of the Russian Short Story (4) Critical reading of selected masterpieces of the Russian short story; works by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and others. In English.
220 Intermediate Russian I (4, Fa) Development of thematic conversational skills with emphasis on extended dialogue. Review of basic morphology with special attention to verbs of motion. Reading of authentic material is emphasized. Prerequisite: SLL 120, SLL 150.
221 Intermediate Serbo-Croatian (4) Practice in conversation and composition. Readings in the Croatian and Serbian literatures, and the Yugoslav national epic. Prerequisite: SLL 151.
222 Readings in Polish Literature I (4) Continuation of elementary Polish and introduction to outstanding works in Polish literature. Prerequisite: SLL 122 and SLL 152.
225ab Intermediate Russian (2-2) (Individualized Instruction) Development of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing; emphasis on grammar and syntax. Concurrent registration permitted. Prerequisite: departmental approval. (Duplicates credit in SLL 220)
250 Intermediate Russian II (4, Sp) Continuation of SLL 220. Development of proficiency in conversation skills, reading, and writing. Prerequisite: SLL 220.
252 Readings in Polish Literature II (4) Continuation of SLL 222. Prerequisite: SLL 222.
300g The Russian Novel (4) The rise of the novel as the dominant form in Russian literature of the 19th century. Major works by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. In English.
301 Russian Literary Avant-Garde (4) Russian modernism and the avant-garde: development of modern sensibility in literature and the arts from 1880 to 1930. Readings in Chekhov, Sologub, Bely, Mayakovsky, and others. Conducted in English.
302g Modern Russian Literature (4) Survey of the major developments in Russian literature during the 20th century, from modernism to the post-Soviet era. Readings in English.
303 Contemporary Russian Literature (4) Developments in Russian Literature from the 1960's to the present. Literature of moral resistance directed against official cultural models. In English.
320 Advanced Russian I (4, Fa) Advanced conversation topics based on literature, the press, films, and broadcasts. Advanced syntax. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisite: SLL 250.
321 Russian Culture (4) Survey of Russian civilization from the beginnings to the Soviet period focusing on major cultural and artistic trends. Lectures and readings in Russian. Prerequisite: four semesters of Russian.
325 Advanced Russian II (4, Sp) Continuation of SLL 320. Prerequisite: SLL 320.
330g Russian Thought and Civilization (4) Development of Russian cultural identity from the beginnings to 1890. Russian philosophical, religious, political thought and its relationship to Western civilization. Conducted in English.
344g Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist (4) Tolstoy's major works in the context of his ethical views. Readings and lectures in English.
345g Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsky (4) Dostoevsky's novels as psychological and philosophical analyses of modern alienated man. Readings in Dostoevsky and selections from Gide, Kafka, Camus, and Sartre. Conducted in English.
346 Russian Drama and the Western Tradition (4) Representative plays from the 18th century to the present. Development of the Russian theater in the European context.
348g Nabokov's Novels: Art and Exile (4) Survey of Vladimir Nabokov's novels written in Europe and America from the 1920s-1960s. Primary focus on the structure of the novels and their themes of art and emigration. Readings in English.
378g Modern Russian Art (4) Changing concepts of aesthetic value as expressed in the development of 19th and 20th century Russian art (painting and architecture).
380g Literature and Philosophy: The Wisdom of the Modern Age (4) Contemporary values and ideas in the light of philosophical systems and literary works of art in the 19th and 20th centuries; Emerson, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Kafka, Sartre, others.
390 Special Problems (1-4) Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
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