Slavic Aab. Beginning Russian (Intensive)
Catalog Number: 4441
Natalia Reed and others
Full course (fall term; repeated spring term). Meets eight hours per week: Section Meeting Times: Fall: M. through F., at 9; M., W., F., at 10; F., at 1; Th., at 1; Spring: M. through F., at 9; M., W., F., at 9; M., W., F., at 1; and Speaking Practice: M., W., F., at 9 or 1. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 2, 11; Spring: 3, 12
Covers the same material as Slavic A but in one semester.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Slavic Ac. Intermediate Grammar and Vocabulary Review I
Catalog Number: 0496
Alfia A. Rakova
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10, with an additional hour Tu., at 10 or 11. EXAM GROUP: 3
For students who would benefit from additional work on grammar before continuing on to more advanced courses. Oral and written exercises focus on speaking and writing accurately and on developing confidence with vocabulary.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: One or more years of college-level Russian or equivalent and consultation with the instructor.
Slavic B. Intermediate Russian
Catalog Number: 3262
Natalia Reed (spring term) and others
Full course. M., W., F., at 9 or 10 with two additional hours of speaking practice: Tu., Th., at 10, 11, or 1. EXAM GROUP: 1
Major emphasis on the development of vocabulary and oral expression with continuing work on difficult grammar topics. Vocabulary thematically organized to include such topics as self and family, education, work, human relationships, politics, and national attitudes. Includes practice in the etiquette of common social situations. Vocabulary reinforced through film and the reading of classical and contemporary fiction and history. Computer exercises on selected topics.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic A, Aab, Ac, or placement at the intermediate level. Familiarity with fundamentals of Russian grammar, particularly case endings of the noun, pronoun, and adjective. One year’s practice in spoken Russian.
Slavic Ba. Intermediate Russian: First Semester
Catalog Number: 0638
Natalia Reed and others
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10, with two additional hours of speaking practice Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Covers the material of the first semester of Slavic B.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic A, Aab, Ac, or placement at the intermediate level. One year’s practice in spoken Russian.
Slavic Bab. Intermediate Russian (Intensive)
Catalog Number: 1657
Helen Martikainen, Vladimir Y. Gitin and others
Full course (fall term; repeated spring term). Meets eight hours per week. M., through F., at 9, with three additional hours of speaking practice M., W., F., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 2, 11
Covers essentially the same material as Slavic B, but in one semester. Readings may vary.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic A, Aab, Ac, or placement at the intermediate level.
Slavic Ca. Beginning Czech I
Catalog Number: 2173
Natalia Reed and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10; Th., at 9, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 3
An introductory course in modern Czech for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Emphasis on the development of oral proficiency as well as on reading and listening comprehension skills. Written work for practice and reinforcement. Reading of simple poetry and prose.
Slavic Cb. Beginning Czech II
Catalog Number: 7117
Natalia Reed and assistant
Half course (spring term). Th., at 9, M., W., F., at 12, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 5, 11
Continuation of modern Czech grammar and the further development of reading, writing, and oral skills. Reading and discussion of simple literary texts by Hasek, Capek, Havel, and Kundera.
*Slavic Cr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Czech
Catalog Number: 0847
Natalia Reed and assistant
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 4
Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial based on student course proposals.
Note: Interested students should contact Professor Chaput before the first day of class to apply. No applications accepted after the third day of classes.
Slavic Da. Beginning Polish I
Catalog Number: 8158
Anna Baranczak
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 9; M., at 10, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 2
Introduction to the fundamentals of Polish designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Emphasis on oral practice of essential grammar structures in naturally occurring conversational patterns. Reading and discussion of simple prose and/or poetry.
Slavic Db. Beginning Polish II
Catalog Number: 6907
Anna Baranczak
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 9; M., at 8, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 2
Continuation of Slavic Da. Continued work on Polish grammar with increasing emphasis on reading. Continued oral work and writing for practice and reinforcement.
*Slavic Dr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Polish
Catalog Number: 1096
Natalia Reed and assistant
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: Spring: 4, 5, 6
Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial based on student course proposals.
Note: Interested students should contact Professor Chaput before the first day of class to apply. No applications accepted after the third day of classes.
Slavic Ea. Beginning Croatian and Serbian I
Catalog Number: 3163
Ellen Elias-Bursać
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10; Tu., at 12; F., at 11, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 3
Formerly called Serbo-Croatian. An introductory course for students with no prior knowledge of these languages. Fundamentals of grammar; work on listening and reading comprehension. Students will choose either Serbian or Croatian for their oral and written work; listening and reading comprehension will include both variants.
Slavic Eb. Beginning Croatian and Serbian II
Catalog Number: 2683
Ellen Elias-Bursać
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 9; Tu., at 12; F., at 10; F., at 12, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 2
Continuation of Slavic Ea. Continued work on vocabulary expansion with further development of written and oral skills. Readings and discussion of simple or adapted poetry and prose.
*Slavic Er. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Croatian and Serbian
Catalog Number: 7413
Natalia Reed and assistant
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 8, 17
Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial based on student course proposals.
Note: Interested students should contact Professor Chaput before the first day of class to apply. No applications accepted after the third day of classes.
Slavic Ga. Beginning Ukrainian I
Catalog Number: 5536
Vladimir Y. Gitin and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 9, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 2
Introduction to the fundamentals of Ukrainian designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Emphasis on oral practice of essential grammar structures in naturally occurring conversational patterns. Reading and discussion of simple prose and/or poetry. Writing for practice and reinforcement.
Slavic Gb. Beginning Ukrainian II
Catalog Number: 7126
Volodymyr Dibrova
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 9, and an additional hour for speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 2
Continuation of Slavic Ga. Continued work on Ukrainian grammar with further development of vocabulary, oral expression and comprehension. Readings of short stories and poems with discussion of texts in Ukrainian.
*Slavic Gr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Ukrainian
Catalog Number: 1260
Natalia Reed and assistant
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 6, 7
Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial based on student course proposals.
Note: Interested students should contact Professor Chaput before the first day of class to apply. No applications accepted after the third day of classes.
Slavic 101. Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation
Catalog Number: 7234
Alfia A. Rakova
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: M., W., F., at 9, with two additional hours of speaking practice Tu., Th., at 10 or 11; Spring: M., W., F., at 9, with two additional hours of speaking practice Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 2
Continuing development of speaking and reading proficiency. Vocabulary work emphasizes verbs and verb government as essential to effective communication. Work on word formation to increase reading vocabulary. Texts for reading and discussion include works by Chekhov and Dostoevsky, poetry, and film.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic B, Bab, Bb, or placement at this level.
Slavic 102. Advanced Russian: Introduction to the Russian Press and Historical Writing
Catalog Number: 3280
Helen Martikainen
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 1; M., at 2, and a fourth hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6
Introduction to the language of Russian newspapers, journals, historical writing, and TV programming. Basic vocabulary for areas of current interest, including politics, history, economics, political philosophy, and popular culture. Intended for students who desire a professional level of reading proficiency in the topic areas listed. Supplementary work on oral comprehension. One hour per week devoted to discussion of television and reading.
Note: See sectioning note above. Conducted largely in English.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101, 103, 104, or Slavic B, Bb, or Bab with permission of instructor.
Slavic 103. Advanced Russian: Reading, Composition, and Conversation
Catalog Number: 8638
Natalia Pokrovsky
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: M., W., F., at 11, with two additional hours of speaking practice Tu., Th., at 1. Spring: M., W., F., at 10, with two additional hours of speaking practice Tu., Th., at 10 or 11. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 2; Spring: 3
Continuing work on vocabulary and grammar centering on verbs and verb government. Readings (a satirical tale by Shvartz, poetry of Akhmatova) and film (Bykov’s Scarecrow) address personal and social aspects of Soviet totalitarianism.
Note: See sectioning note above. Strongly recommended for students who plan to continue on in Russian.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101, or placement at the 103 level.
Slavic 104. Advanced Russian: Topics in Russian Culture
Catalog Number: 0795
Alfia A. Rakova
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 1, with two additional hours of speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6
Work on vocabulary, reading, and writing with continued emphasis on verbs. Through literature, non-fiction, and film, this course explores and seeks to identify Russian cultural attitudes. Topics include explorations of attitudes toward the individual in society, gender roles, prestige and success, truth and falsehood, and justice and the law.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 103, 113 or permission of instructor.
Slavic 109. Theater Workshop
Catalog Number: 1221
Natalia Reed and members of the Department
Half course (fall term). M., W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Intensive work on pronunciation, intonation, syntax, and vocabulary of spoken Russian using short plays of the 19th and 20th centuries as a vehicle for practice. Students prepare readings of plays and may stage one short piece. Written work to reinforce vocabulary and composition skills.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or permission of instructor.
Slavic 110. Russian for Business
Catalog Number: 6212
Helen Martikainen
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Introduction to the language of business, both oral and written, and to the etiquette of business situations. Development of vocabulary in the areas of management, economics, and politics. Discussion of cultural attitudes to business, both unofficial and official. Reading and discussion of articles from current periodicals in the areas of business, economics, and politics.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101, 102, or 103, or permission of instructor.
*Slavic 111. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian/Post-Soviet Studies
Catalog Number: 1594
Alexander Babyonyshev and Natalia Pokrovsky
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Reading and discussion of topics in the areas of history, economics, politics, and current events. Continued work on grammar and vocabulary with written exercises and compositions. TV viewing for comprehension development.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 and 102, Slavic 103, or placement at the level of Slavic 111/113.
*Slavic 112. Advanced Russian: Russian Press and Television
Catalog Number: 3290
Natalia Pokrovsky
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 1; F., at 2, with an additional hour of TV viewing to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6
For students who already have experience reading Russian periodicals. Readings in and analysis of current topics and their presentation in the Russian press. Examination of the history of selected periodicals. Viewing of Russian news programs and analysis of language and content. Class conducted largely in Russian.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 102 plus an additional course at the level of Slavic 101 or above, or Slavic 111.
Slavic 113. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian Literature
Catalog Number: 0955
Natalia Pokrovsky
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 1; M., at 2; M., at 3, and an additional hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6
Reading and discussion of classic and contemporary Russian literature. Continued work on vocabulary expansion and composition. Written exercises for reinforcement. Readings from authors such as Gogol, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Brodsky, and Bitov.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 103 or 104 or placement at this level or above.
[Slavic 116. Stylistics]
Catalog Number: 3480
Vladimir Y. Gitin
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A course in practical stylistics designed to give students a better command of style and register, both for recognition and in their own speaking and writing. The course will cover such topics as conversational speech, formal speech, and such practical tasks as letter writing, among others. Intensive work on vocabulary and phrasing.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Slavic 121.
*Slavic 117r. Advanced Russian: Special Topics
Catalog Number: 4671
Alexander Babyonyshev
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Russian/post-Soviet studies, including the political, economical and judicial system, parliamentary and presidential elections, the role of political parties, domestic affairs (including environmental policy), and foreign policy. Special topics include Russia as a federal state, the status of regions and republics, urban and rural areas. Also religions, human rights problems, the new social structure of the society.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 111, 112, 119, 120, or permission of instructor.
Slavic 118. Readings in Russian Poetry
Catalog Number: 5356
Natalia Reed and others
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Analysis of selections from Russian poetry from the point of view of language, poetic context, and literary tradition. Fet, Tiutchev, Annensky, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 121.
*Slavic 119. Contemporary Issues: Nationalities of the Former Soviet Union
Catalog Number: 0636
Alexander Babyonyshev
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
The former Soviet Union as a multinational state, seen in its historical development and in the light of recent events. Questions of national identity and their political and academic consequences. Introduction to related demographic issues. Reading, discussion, composition, and supplementary written work, as needed.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 102 and 103 or Slavic 111a, 111b, 112, or 120.
*Slavic 120r. Supervised Readings in Advanced Russian
Catalog Number: 7121
Natalia Reed and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: Spring: 6
Reading, discussion, and writing on special topics not addressed in other courses. Conducted as a tutorial with topics determined by student interest. Requires a course proposal to apply; acceptance is not automatic.
Note: See sectioning note above. Interested students should contact Professor Natalia Reed before the first day of class to apply. No applications accepted after the third day of classes.
Slavic 121. Advanced Russian: Reading Literary Texts
Catalog Number: 4812
Vladimir Y. Gitin
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
A course designed to further develop students’ sensitivity to the reading of literary texts. Topics to include the nature of lexical meaning including both denotation and meaning associations, syntactic meaning, aspects of morphology, word order and intonation, and colloquial language. Texts will include both prose and poetry.
Note: Intended primarily for graduate students in the Slavic Department. See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic 103 or placement at this level or above.
*Slavic 96. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 4728
Sue Brown and others
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4.
Note: For concentrators in Russian Literature and Culture.
*Slavic 97. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 7595
Sue Brown (fall term), Julie A. Buckler (spring term) and others
Full course. Fall: Tu., 2–4; Spring: Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 16, 17; Spring: 15, 16
Note: For concentrators in Russian Studies.
*Slavic 98. Tutorial — Junior Year
Catalog Number: 1684
John E. Malmstad (fall term) and Justin Weir (spring term)
Full course. W., 2–4.
Note: Required of junior concentrators in Russian Literature and Culture. Other students may enroll for one or both semesters.
*Slavic 99r. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 5592
Sue Brown (fall term), Julie A. Buckler (spring term) and members of the Department.
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: May be divided upon petition. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. If, for any reason, students do not submit an honors thesis, they must hand in a special course paper in order to receive credit for Slavic 99 in the spring term.
Slavic 126a. Structure of Modern Russian: Phonology and Morphology
Catalog Number: 3083
Sue Brown
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Introduction to Russian phonetics, phonemics, morphophonemics, and inflectional and derivational morphology. Course goal is to give a deeper understanding and appreciation of the regularities and complexities of Russian through a close study of its sounds and words.
Prerequisite: Slavic B, Bab or placement at the third-year level. No knowledge of linguistics required.
[Slavic 126b. Structure of Modern Russian: Morphosyntax]
Catalog Number: 3508
Sue Brown
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the syntax of Russian from a formal/comparative perspective. After a brief introduction to generative approaches to grammar (in the framework of Noam Chomsky), students perform close readings of important articles in the field of Slavic syntax, in both the traditional and generative frameworks, on such topics as negation, quantifier expressions, agreement, Case marking, reflexives, and interrogation.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Slavic B, Bab, or placement at the third-year level. Linguistics 112a helpful, but not required.
Slavic 130a. Heretics, Hussites, and Holy Women: Identity, Culture, and Society in Medieval and Early-Modern Bohemia
Catalog Number: 1484
Alfred Thomas
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11; W., at 12, with a third hour for those who wish to consider the texts in the original. EXAM GROUP: 4
Explores relationship between identity, culture, and society in medieval and, early-modern Bohemia with special emphasis on the “body” in the representation of gender, sexuality, and religion. Texts include: “The Prayer of Kunhuta,” “The Ointment Seller,” “The Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria,” “The Wycliffite Woman,” and Komenský’s “The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart.”
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 130b. Forging Czechs: Questions of Identity in Modern Czech Culture
Catalog Number: 2258
Alfred Thomas
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Examines emergence of post-1774 Czech cultural and political identity in relation to nationalism, feminism, socialism, and modernism. Texts include the Forged Manuscripts; Mácha’s “May,” Nemcová’s “Granny,” Neruda’s “Lesser Town Tales;” Hasek’s “The Good Soldier S‘vejk,” Capek’s “R.U.R.,” Kundera’s “The Joke,” and Havel’s “Largo Desolato.”
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 131. Imagining Prague: The City in Literature, Art, and Film
Catalog Number: 1388
Alfred Thomas
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Like Venice, Prague is as much a state of mind as it is a real place. This course examines the representation of the Czech capital as a nationalist myth, a modernist icon, a surrealist fantasy, and a totalitarian prison in modern poetry, prose, painting, photography, and cinema. Selected works by Apollinaire, Bachmann, Celar, Germain, Hrabal, Kafka, Kisch, Kundera, Meyrink, Neruda, Nezval, Perutz, Rilke, Seifert, and Tsvetaeva. Includes Paul Wegener’s silent film classic “The Golem” and Alexander Hackenschmied’s “Aimless Walk.”
Note: All readings in English.
[Slavic 132. Czech and Slovak Film]
Catalog Number: 3925
Alfred Thomas
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Traces development of Czech and Slovak cinema from the 1930s, through the New Wave of the 1960s to the present. Films include: Machatý’s “Erotikon,” Weiss’s “Romeo, Juliet, and Darkness,” Menzel’s “Closely Watched Trains,” Chytilová’s “Daisies,” Kadar’s “Shop on Main Street,” as well as shorts by Hackenschmied and Svankmajer.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. No knowledge of Czech required.
[Slavic 133. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Slavic Literatures]
Catalog Number: 0988
Alfred Thomas
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6
Explores “classical” Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic approaches to selected works of 19th- and 20th-century Czech, Polish and Russian literature by Capek, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kriseová, Kundera, Lem, Mácha, Nemcová, Pushkin, Reymont and Zamyatin with special reference to theoretical readings by Bersani, Borch-Jacobsen, Cixous, Freud, Kristeva, Lacan and others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. No knowledge of Slavic languages required.
[Slavic 134. Bohemian Rhapsodies: Czech Literature and Music from the Middle Ages to the Present]
Catalog Number: 3101
Alfred Thomas
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Czech music is more famous than its literature, yet the two have often coexisted as operatic adaptations of plays and vocal or orchestral settings of lyrical and narrative poems. Addresses creative interplay between word and music in the formation of religious, nationalist and modernist identities with particular reference to texts by Bridel, Capek, Erben, Heyduk, Komenský, Michna z Otradovic, Preissová, Zeyer and the Kralice Bible, and music by Dvorák, Fibich, Foerster, Janácek, Martinu, and Smetana.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. All readings in English. No musical background required.
Slavic 136. Comparative History of South Slavic Literatures
Catalog Number: 3394
Tomislav Z. Longinović
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30, and a third hour for those who wish to consider the texts in the original. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
Surveys the national canons of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin literatures from the medieval period until today. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Slovene literatures only mentioned in passing. Texts examined include early chronicles, hagiographies, popular oral tradition, and poetry and prose in the modern period. The comparative nature of the course consists in the in-depth examination of different religious and cultural traditions (Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic, Islamic, Jewish) in the Balkans.
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 138. The Fate of “Minor Literatures”
Catalog Number: 3128
Dubravka Ugrešić
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
Examines the concept of “minor literature” and explores the ways a literary text can be “used and abused.” Among the issues addressed are the thematization of the notion of minor literature in literary texts, the problem of the changed context of reception, the role of intellectual in minor literatures, and the understanding of literature in general. Discussion is based on close reading of such major southeastern European writers as Miroslav Krleza and Danilo Kis.
[Slavic 140. 18th-Century Russian Literature: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6495
Julie A. Buckler
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of period literature emphasizing generic diversity and cultural context. Discussion of major intellectual and literary movements, cultural practices, court life, urban landscape, origins and education of the Russian intelligentsia, public and private spheres. Examines European models for Russian literary production and the evolving tradition for Russian literature.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of Russian.
[Slavic 142. Authorship and the Post-Revolutionary Russian Novel]
Catalog Number: 5524
Justin Weir
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Considers theories of authorship, literary tradition, and the novel in the context of 1920-1950 Russian prose literature, and examines in particular how modernist creations of literary tradition functioned as a means of self-presentation. Essays by Bakhtin, de Man, Foucault, Gadamer, Tynianov, and others. Novels by Bulgakov, Pasternak, and Nabokov.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. All readings in English.
Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of Russian.
Slavic 143. Russian Formalism
Catalog Number: 0724
Justin Weir
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Considers works of Russian formalist theoryby Bakhtin, Eikhenbaum, Jakobson, Shklovsky, Tynianov, and othersand their relationship to Russian literature, film, and psychology. Also evaluates more broadly the role of formalist influences in contemporary literary theory.
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 145a. Russian Literature in Translation: The 19th-Century Tradition
Catalog Number: 5191
Timothy Crocker Harte
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Examines the major prose works of 19th-century Russian literature, focusing on the development on the Russian novel within the context of romanticism in the first half of the century through later concerns with realism and Russia’s pressing social issues. Works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2002–03.
[Slavic 145b. Russian Literature and Revolution]
Catalog Number: 6663
Justin Weir
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the 20th-century Russian literary tradition and its attempts alternately to inspire, record, and undermine the great social upheaval of October 1917. Considers a broad range of modernist literary genres and movements and the official aesthetics of socialist realism. Works by Babel, Bely, Blok, Bulgakov, Gorky, Kataev, Kharms, Mandelshtam, Mayakovsky, Nabokov, Olesha, Pasternak, Platonov, and Solzhenitsyn.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. All readings in English.
Slavic 147. Russian Psychological Fiction: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6168
Justin Weir
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Considers the central stories and novels that established a Russian tradition of probing the depths of the human mind in and through literature. Works include short stories by Pushkin, Gogol, and others, as well as Dostoevsky’s The Double, Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Also evaluates three twentieth-century theoretical approaches to psychology and its representation in fiction: Foucault’s Madness and Civilization, Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, and Ginzburg’s On Psychological Prose.
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 148. Strange Russian Writers
Catalog Number: 7101
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
Studies tales of rebels, deviants, dissidents, loners, and losers. Mostly fictional texts, with some memoir and poetry, by writers who whose projected self-image is self-consciously idiosyncratic, if not bizarre. Includes works by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Leskov, Kharms, Platonov, Nabokov, Sinyavsky, Petrushevskaya, Brodsky. The goal is less to construct a canon of strangeness than to consider how estranged women, men, animals, and objects become the center of narrative or poetic attention.
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 152. Pushkin
Catalog Number: 8023
William Mills Todd III
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A survey of the lyrics, narrative poems, fiction, and critical prose of Russia’s “national poet.” Close reading of the texts; attention to contemporary cultural issues. Lecture and discussion.
Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of Russian.
Slavic 155. Dostoevsky
Catalog Number: 6850 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
William Mills Todd III and Robert Nozick
Half course (spring term). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Reading of Dostoevsky’s major works, with a view to showing how the problems they contain (social, psychological, political, metaphysical) are inseparable not only from his time but from the distinctive novelistic form he created.
Note: No knowledge of Russian required.
[Slavic 156. Vladimir Nabokov: A Cross-Cultural Perspective]
Catalog Number: 8650
Svetlana Boym
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines Nabokov’s poetry, fiction, film scripts, and essays from Russian, European and American periods. Attention to issues of literary modernism, cultural translation and memory. Additional readings from Chekhov, Proust, Bergson, Borges and others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian desirable but not required.
Slavic 162f. Survey of Polish Literature, 1795–1890
Catalog Number: 1117
Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles) (fall term only)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 8:30–10. EXAM GROUP: 10, 11
Introductory course to analyze selected works from Polish Romantic and Positivist literature, up to the years of anti-Positivist crisis. Special emphasis on representative works for the formation of modern historical consciousness in Polish literature.
Note: No knowledge of Polish required.
[Slavic 162h. Survey of Polish Literature, 1939–Present]
Catalog Number: 3293
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Analysis of selected works representing literature of the World War II period, literature written in Poland under Communist rule as well as in exile between 1944 and 1989, and literature of the most recent years.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. No knowledge of Polish required.
Slavic 162r. Readings in Polish Literature: 1945-2000, Between Literary Tradition and Sociopolitical Realities
Catalog Number: 8395
Anna Baranczak
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A close-reading course to analyze selected works, in the original, of the Polish post-WWII period. The selection of reading material will range from the Nazi-deathcamp stories of T. Borowski, to excerpted fiction of fiction of W. Gombrowicz and S. Lem, to the poetry of C. Milosz, Z. Herbert and W. Szymborska, to the poets of the “Generation ’68” and new fiction in the 90s.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Polish.
Slavic 165. Survey of Modern (19th- and 20th-Century) Ukrainian Literature
Catalog Number: 0410
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An introduction to Ukrainian literary and intellectual culture with a special focus on literature as a social and cultural institution, on its central role in articulating ethnic awareness and shaping national identity, and its function, in various periods of Ukrainian history (the late 19th century, the 1920s, the late Soviet period) as the prime medium of political discourse. Students are introduced to films of related interest such as “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,” “Arsenal,” “Babyi Yar,” and others.
Note: No knowledge of Ukrainian required.
[Slavic 166. Russian-Ukrainian Literary Relations in the 19th Century: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 3513
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of the broad gamut of Russian-Ukrainian literary relations from 1798 to 1905, with special focus on canon formation, the formation of ethnic and national identity, the movement from a unified imperial frame to separate national literary contexts, and the interrelation of literature, society, and ideology. Topics include early historicist concerns (the Decembrists), the role of Romantic poetics, folklore and ethnographism, the role of ideology (Belinsky, the Slavophiles, populism), the functions of bilingualism and the uses of translation, the reception of major writers (Gogol, Ševcenko, and others), official suppression and the debate over “Ukrainophilism” and the place of Ukrainian literature within “all-Russian” literature, literature as subversion (kotljarevscyna) and as social, political, and aesthetic program.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.
Slavic 179. Literature as Institutions: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6120 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
William Mills Todd III
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
A study of literary production, dissemination, and reception in selected periods of Russian literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Readings in social theory, cultural studies, literary criticism, and imaginative literature.
Note: Please pick up a syllabus in Barker 374 before the term begins, as there will be a brief assignment for the first class meeting. Open to advanced undergraduates and graduates. Recommended for potential teaching fellows for Literature and Arts C-30.
[Slavic 180. Russian Symbolist Poetry]
Catalog Number: 6333
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of the history of the Symbolist movement in Russia with emphasis on close reading of poetry by its major figures.
Note: Expected to be given in 2003–04.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to instructor.
Slavic 181a. Russian Poetry of the 19th Century
Catalog Number: 3307
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
The major themes and modes of Russian poetry from pre-Romanticism to “pure art.” Selections from Zhukovsky, Batiushkov, Baratynsky, Yazykov, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Nekrasov, Fet, and others.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to instructor.
[Slavic 181b. 20th-Century Russian Poetry]
Catalog Number: 5560
John E. Malmstad
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the major trends of post-Symbolist poetry, with emphasis on the poets traditionally called the “Futurists” or “avant-garde.” Selections from Khlebnikov, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Burliuk, Guro, and others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Russian required.
[Slavic 182. Problems in 20th-Century Poetry: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 3489
John E. Malmstad
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of the poetry and poetics of three writers—Annensky, Kuzmin, and Khodasevich—whose works raise questions about the validity and usefulness of the ways in which scholarship categorizes early 20th-century poetry in terms of “isms” like Symbolism and Acmeism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to the instructor.
[Slavic 185. Two Poets: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 1115
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Compares two poets in their aesthetic inclination and temperament, response to public and private events, and reactions to other poets and to each another. Asks what kind of theories help read each poet, and how they in turn read others’ work. In 2000—2001, the poets were Joseph Brodsky and Ol’ga Sedakova.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian required.
Slavic 191. Gender and Nation After Yugoslavia
Catalog Number: 1444
Tomislav Z. Longinović (University of Wisconsin, Madison (fall term only))
Half course (fall term). Tu., W., 3–4:30, and a third hour for those who wish to consider the texts in original. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Features a critical analysis of Yugoslav “warring cultures” that have redefined the notions of identity both locally and globally. Besides literature, the materials examined include film, video, and music produced around the Wars of Yugoslav Succession (1991-1995). Works by Kis, Pavic, Albahari, Ugresic, Kusturica, Paskaljevic, Mancevski and others. Emphasis placed on the theories of gender (Kristeva, Braidotti, etc) and nationalism (Wolff, Todorova, Zizek, etc).
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 192. Balkan Imagery in Film and Literature
Catalog Number: 6281
Dubravka Ugrešić
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 1–2:30, and a third hour for those who wish to consider the texts in the original. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Considers the notion of “the Balkans,” using Maria Todorova’s book Imagining the Balkans as a point of departure. Investigates the Balkan myth and image-making in works of art. Examines the cultural strategy of rebalkanization following the recent war in the former Yugoslavia. The image of the Balkans is viewed from internal as well as external perspectives. Readings of theoretical, fictional and non-fictional works and the interpretation of feature and documentary films.
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 193. Constructing Slavic Identities: An Introduction to Slavic Civilization
Catalog Number: 9029
Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles) (fall term only)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 2:30–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Examines the history and national mythologies of Slavic peoples through the prism of twentieth-century novels and films. The course runs on two tracks: historical (present to past) and national (East, West, and South Slavs). Nations to be profiled are Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia in conjunction with such topics as Central/East European post-colonialism, Stalinism, panslavism, romanticism, Baroque, religious heterogeneity, the Slavic conversions, and prehistory.
Note: All readings in English.
[Slavic 211. History of Muscovite Literature, 1400-1700: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 3019
Michael S. Flier
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of Muscovite literary works, translated and original, in various genres, with some attention to Kievan and other antecedents. Includes reference to contemporary developments in religion, social and political history, linguistics, art, and architecture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. All readings in original languages.
Prerequisite: A firm command of Modern Russian, Linguistics 250, or permission of instructor.
[Slavic 222. 20th-Century Ukrainian Poetry, 1905 to World War II]
Catalog Number: 8407
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Slavic 223. 19th-Century Ukrainian Poetry]
Catalog Number: 2097
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Slavic 250. Structure of Ukrainian]
Catalog Number: 3547
Michael S. Flier
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of modern Ukrainian.
Note: Expected to be given in 2003–04.
Prerequisite: Slavic 201 and reading knowledge of Ukrainian.
Slavic 269. Structure of Russian for Instructors
Catalog Number: 7807
Patricia R. Chaput and Natalia Reed
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Survey of the structures and rules of Russian from the viewpoint of the instructor. Linguistic description of basic structures and its translation into pedagogical form. Discussion of the nature of grammatical “rules” and their formulation at different levels of study. Consideration of problems of identification of acceptable versus unacceptable usage and questions of varying and changing norms. Includes practice in difficult constructions.
[Slavic 280r. Slavic Culture: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1909
Michael S. Flier
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Topic for 2002–03: The Culture of Medieval Rus’: Art, architecture, ritual, literature.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Recommended for potential teaching fellows for Literature and Arts C-28.
[Slavic 283. Commemorating Pushkin: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 4002
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Studies Russia’s myth of a national poet beginning with elegies on his death in 1837 and concluding with the anniversary celebration in 1999. Attention to poems, essays, films, literary museums, and cultural spectacles that have created public myths of the poet, and to the creative responses to these myths by such figures as Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Sinyavsky, and Bitov.
Note: Expected to be given in 2003–04. Open to qualified undergraduates with the permission of instructor.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian required.
[Slavic 284. Tolstoy and Modernism: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2923
Justin Weir
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Considers Tolstoy’s major fiction as proto-modernist, and compares the reception of his works by Russian modernist authors to contemporary critical views. Works include Sevastopol Stories, Anna Karenina and several early and late stories.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. All primary readings are in Russian.
Slavic 285r. Modern Russian Literature: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5182
John E. Malmstad
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5; Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Topic for 2001–2002: The culture of Russian avant-garde.
Note: Recommended for potential teaching fellows for Literature and Arts C-51.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to the instructor.
Slavic 286 (formerly Slavic 176). Autobiographical Experiments in Literature and Art
Catalog Number: 3550
Svetlana Boym
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines autobiographical experiments in twentieth-century poetry, fiction, theory and visual arts. Close reading/analysis of texts and artistic works from modernism and avant-garde to contemporary art with attention to the issues of cultural self-fashioning, national and sexual identity, bilinqualism and exile. Texts by Mayakovsky, Shklovsky, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Tsvetaeva, Mandel’shtam, Nabokov, Brodsky, Iskrenko and Prigov. Artworks by Malevich, Goncharova, Popova, Kabakov, Komar and Melamid and others.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian required.
Slavic 287. Poetic Self-Creation in 20th-Century Russia: Seminar
Catalog Number: 8028
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Examines how poems create self-images for poets working in and after Russian modernism, with special attention to the emergence of strong women poets in this century. Concentrates on Khlebnikov, Mandel’shtam, Tsvetaeva, Zabolotskii, Petrovykh, Brodsky, followed by the reactions and self-inventions of contemporary poets, including Sedakova, Shvarts, Iskrenko, Zhdanov, and Dragomoshchenko. Includes literary and psychoanalytic theories of poetic self-creation.
Note: Open to qualified undergraduates by permission of instructor.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian required.
[Slavic 288. Sex, Self, and Russia: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 0106
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the relationship among ideas of sexuality, identity, and desire in the cultural debates and creative psyches of modern Russian literary figures. Concentrates on three periods, roughly 1820-1840; 1890-1917; and 1930-1953; informed by recent feminist literary, historical, post-modern, and psychoanalytic criticism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian required.
Slavic 290. 19th-Century Ukrainian Prose: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1548
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
[Slavic 291. Problems in the History of Early Ukrainian Literature]
Catalog Number: 0643
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of the major developments and phases of Kievan and early Ukrainian literature. Topics include the interrelation of written and oral literature, the system of genres of Kievan literature (with special focus on hagiography), the Renaissance and the interrelation with Polish literature, the confraternities, Vyshens’kyj, the Baroque, the Mohyla Academy, Skovoroda.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Ukrainian.
Slavic 292. 20th-Century Ukrainian Prose
Catalog Number: 5733
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A survey of the major figures and tendencies in Ukrainian prose from the period of modernism to the 1990s. Special attention to be paid to the avant-garde of the 1920s–1940s (Khvyl’ovyj, Johansen, Domontovych, Kosach) and of the most recent period (Andijevs’ka, Andrukhovych, and others).
Slavic 296r. Slavic Linguistics: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5196
Sue Brown
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Topic for 2001-02: Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax. Covers important issues in Slavic morphosyntax, including case, word order, interpretive effects, negation, interrogativity, indefiniteness, WH-movement, anaphora, null subjects, predication, and voice, among others. Focus on cross-linguistic variation and similarity within Slavic, as well as between Slavic and non-Slavic languages.
Note: Students are expected to choose one of the Slavic languages and to gather data relating to the given topic.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 112a or its equivalent (112b preferred but not mandatory) or permission of instructor. Knowledge of a Slavic language helpful but not required.
*Slavic 299. Proseminar
Catalog Number: 7972
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Introduction to graduate study in Slavic. Selected topics in literary analysis, history, and theory.
Note: Open to qualified undergraduates by permission of the chairman.
*Slavic 301. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 3385
Svetlana Boym 1926 (on leave spring term), Sue Brown 2926 (on leave 2002-03), Julie A. Buckler 2960 (on leave fall term), Patricia R. Chaput 6222 (on leave 2001-02), Michael S. Flier 2878, George G. Grabowicz 4511, John E. Malmstad 1219 (on leave spring term), Natalia Reed 3911 (spring term only), Stephanie Sandler 1343 (on leave 2002-03), Alfred Thomas 1344, William Mills Todd III 1634, and Justin Weir 3407 (on leave spring term)
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: Th., 6–8 p.m.
*Slavic 302. Language Teaching: Content and Conduct
Catalog Number: 5961
Patricia R. Chaput 6222 (on leave 2001-02)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Required in the first year of language teaching. Includes orientation, discussion of topics in teaching language at the college level, and supervised teaching.