Slavic Aab. Beginning Russian (Intensive)
Catalog Number: 4441
Natalia Chirkov, Natalia Reed, and members of the Department
Full course (fall term; repeated spring term). M., through F., at 9, and speaking practice M., W., F., at 10 or 11. EXAM GROUP: 2, 11
Covers the same material as Slavic A but in one term.
Note: See sectioning note above.
Slavic Ac (formerly Slavic Acd). Grammar and Vocabulary Review for Heritage Speakers
Catalog Number: 0496
Patricia R. Chaput and members of the Department
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 1, and speaking practice Tu., at 10 or 11. EXAM GROUP: 6
For students with Russian family background. The course covers all of the cases of Russian verb conjugation, aspect, and other essential grammar topics. Emphasis on reading, writing, spelling, and word formation.
Note: Students with any Russian background who may wish to take Russian language courses in the Slavic Department must take the Placement Exam in August.
Prerequisite: Placement at this level.
Slavic B. Intermediate Russian
Catalog Number: 3262
Natalia Reed, Vladimir Gitin (spring term), and others
Full course. M., W., F., at 9 or 10, and speaking practice Tu., Th., at 9, 10, or 11. EXAM GROUP: 2
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, Acd, 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 Bab. Intermediate Russian (Intensive)
Catalog Number: 1657
Vladimir Y. Gitin and Natalia Chirkov
Full course (spring term). Meets eight hours per week . M., through F., at 9, and speaking practice M., W., F., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 2, 11
Covers essentially the same material as Slavic B, but in one term. Readings may vary.
Note: See sectioning note above. Class hours may be changed by agreement.
Prerequisite: Slavic A, Aab, Ac, or placement at the intermediate level.
Slavic Ca. Beginning Czech I
Catalog Number: 2173
Nora Hampl
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10, 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
Nora Hampl
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10, and an additional hour of speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 3
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 Cc. Intermediate Czech I
Catalog Number: 6028
Nora Hampl
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 11, and speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
Intermediate language and culture study combines further development of vocabulary and oral expression with a comprehensive review of Czech grammar. Vocabulary topics are thematically organized and reinforced through visual media to include cultural perceptions of the self, family, society, and broader ethical and political attitudes prevalent in Czech culture. Selected short texts, movies, and multi-media will familiarize students with contemporary cultural issues and historical and political developments.
Prerequisite: Slavic Ca and Cb or placement at this level.
Slavic Cd. Intermediate Czech II
Catalog Number: 7411
Nora Hampl
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 11, and speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
Second-semester intermediate study consolidates and expands grammar/lexicon, reading, writing and speaking skills in Czech. Grammar review is combined with intensive vocabulary building around literary and film masterpieces. Original literature to include Capek, Havel, Kundera and others, as well as newspaper articles and newscasts, with the objective of further interpreting cultural categories encoded in the language.
Prerequisite: Slavic Ca, Cb, Cc, or placement at this level.
*Slavic Cr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Czech
Catalog Number: 0847
Nora Hampl
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial.
Note: Department application required. No applications accepted after the fifth day of classes. Interested students should submit on-line applications to staff assistant Stuart Robbins-Butcher, preferably by the second day of classes. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources.
Slavic Da. Beginning Polish I
Catalog Number: 8158
Anna Baranczak
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 9, and an additional hour of 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, and an additional hour of 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 Dc. Intermediate Polish I - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 41571
Anna Baranczak
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 11, and speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
Emphasis on vocabulary building, writing, speaking and listening skills with comprehensive review of Polish grammar concentrating on difficult topics. Introduction to Polish literature through fiction and poetry, history and contemporary events.
Prerequisite: Slavic Da and Db or placement at this level.
Slavic Dd. Intermediate Polish II - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 56678
Anna Baranczak
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 11, and speaking practice to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
Intensive development of vocabulary and oral skills. Readings from literary masterpieces from Polish literature from the era of Renaissance to our times including Jan Kochanowski, Wislawa Szymborska, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz and others. Film clips and newspaper articles will introduce students to a variety of styles of contemporary Polish.
Prerequisite: Slavic Dc or placement at this level.
*Slavic Dr. Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Polish
Catalog Number: 1096
Anna Baranczak
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial.
Note: Department application required. No applications accepted after the fifth day of classes. Interested students should submit on-line applications to staff assistant Stuart Robbins-Butcher, preferably by the second day of classes. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources.
Slavic Ga. Beginning Ukrainian I
Catalog Number: 5536
Volodymyr Dibrova
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 9, and an additional hour of 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 of 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
Volodymyr Dibrova
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial.
Note: Department application required. No applications accepted after the fifth day of classes. Interested students should submit on-line applications to staff assistant Stuart Robbins-Butcher, preferably by the second day of classes. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources.
Slavic 101. Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation
Catalog Number: 7234
Natalia Pokrovsky and Curt F. Woolhiser
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10 or 11, and speaking practice Tu., Th., at 10 or 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
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 in prose, poetry, and film. Readings include a satirical tale by Shvartz, poetry of Akhmatova, and a film (Bykov’s Scarecrow).
Note: See sectioning note above.
Prerequisite: Slavic B, Bab, Bb, or placement at this level.
Slavic 102. Advanced Russian: Introduction to the Language of History and the Media
Catalog Number: 3280
Curt F. Woolhiser
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 2, and an additional hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 7
Introduction to the language of Russian newspapers, journals, and historical writing. Basic vocabulary for such areas as current events, including politics, history, economics, military issues, society, and the environment. Intended for students who desire a professional level of reading proficiency in the social sciences. Intensive work on morphology and supplementary work on oral comprehension.
Note: See sectioning note above. Conducted largely in English.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or permission of instructor.
Slavic 103. Advanced Russian: Reading, Composition, and Conversation
Catalog Number: 8638
Curt F. Woolhiser and Natalia Reed
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 1; with speaking section Tu., Th., at 1 or 2. EXAM GROUP: 6
Continuing work on vocabulary and grammar centering on verbs and verb government. Readings include works by Chekhov and Dostoevsky, poetry, and film.
Note: See sectioning note above. Strongly recommended for students who plan to continue in Russian.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or placement at the 103 level.
*Slavic 111. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian/Post-Soviet Studies
Catalog Number: 1594
Curt F. Woolhiser
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
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, 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 and an additional course at the level of Slavic 101 or above, or Slavic 111 with permission of the instructor.
Slavic 113. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian Literature I
Catalog Number: 0955
Natalia Pokrovsky
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 1. 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, 115 or placement at this level or above.
Slavic 115 (formerly Slavic 104). Advanced Russian: Topics in Russian Culture
Catalog Number: 0795
Natalia Pokrovsky
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Through readings and film, we explore Russian cultural attitudes, including the individual in society, gender roles, prestige and success, truth and falsehood, and justice and the law. Emphasis on vocabulary building and fluency through speaking practice and written compositions. Topics to take student interests into account.
Prerequisite: Slavic 103, 113, or permission of instructor.
Slavic 117 (formerly Slavic 121). Advanced Russian: Reading Literary Texts
Catalog Number: 4812
Vladimir Y. Gitin
Half course (fall term). M., F., at 1, W., at 3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 8
A course designed to further develop students’ sensitivity to the reading of literary texts. Topics include the nature of lexical meaning, including meaning associations, syntactic meaning, aspects of morphology, word order and intonation, and colloquial language. Texts include both prose and poetry.
Note: Primarily for graduate students in the Slavic Department.
Prerequisite: Slavic 103 or placement at this level or above.
*Slavic 120r. Supervised Readings in Advanced Russian
Catalog Number: 7121
Patricia R. Chaput
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: M., W., F., at 11, and two additional hours to be arranged. Spring: Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 4
Intended for students who have already taken other department offerings. Reading, discussion, and writing on special topics not addressed in other courses. Conducted as a tutorial. Requires a course proposal to apply; acceptance is not automatic. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources.
Note: See sectioning note above. No applications accepted after the third day of classes.
*Slavic 97. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 7595
Julie A. Buckler
Half course (spring term). Th., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 14, 15
An interdisciplinary introduction to major authors and themes of Slavic history and culture (text, image, performance). Theories of literary interpretation (including Russian Formalism and semiotics) as well as different approaches to placing Slavic cultures in their social and political contexts.
Note: For concentrators in Slavic Literatures and Cultures.
*Slavic 98. Tutorial—Junior Year
Catalog Number: 1684
Svetlana Boym (spring term) and Stephanie Sandler (fall term)
Full course. Fall: Th., 2–4; Spring: W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 16, 17; Spring: 7, 8
In the first term, junior tutorial introduces students to classic works of Russian literature, which are read in the original. The second term is devoted to a single topic and provides concentrators with a more intensive reading experience. In fall, 2009, the focus is on poetry and film; in the spring, 2010, the focus is on the prose of Chekhov and Nabokov. Specific authors and texts change from year to year in each term.
Note: Required of junior concentrators in Slavic Literatures and Cultures. Other students may enroll for one or both terms. Students who wish to concentrate on a different Slavic language may arrange a separate tutorial.
*Slavic 99a (formerly *Slavic 99r). Tutorial--Senior Year
Catalog Number: 9278
Joanna Nizynska and others
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
For senior concentrators in Slavic Literature and Culture. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Note: Required for senior concentrators in Slavic Literature and Culture. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Director of Undergrduate Studies. Honors students must also complete Slavic 99b.
*Slavic 99b (formerly *Slavic 99r). Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 5592
Joanna Nizynska and others
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Students work with a faculty adviser on a senior thesis.
Note: For senior concentrators in Slavic Literature and Culture. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Prerequisite: Slavic 99a.
[Slavic 137. Prague Between Two Empires: Czech Culture from 1914 to 1948]
Catalog Number: 9805
Jonathan H. Bolton
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11.
Introduction to the interplay of modernism and nationalism in Czech culture (literature, journalism, film, art, architecture), focusing on the interwar renaissance and Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945. Examines how writers negotiated between the demands of aesthetics and politics, articulating a Czechoslovak identity while participating in the main currents of European modernism, from dadaism and expressionism through surrealism and existentialism. Readings include Kafka, Milena Jesenska, Hasek, Capek, Olbracht, Seifert, Nezval, Jiri Langer, and others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. All readings in English. No prior knowledge of Czech literature or history necessary. Students who wish to read Czech texts in the original may arrange a special section with the instructor.
[Slavic 140. 18th-Century Russian Literature: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6495
Julie A. Buckler
Half course (spring term). Tu., 12–2.
Major literary authors, movements, and genres (poetry, narrative prose, letters and autobiography, drama), and European influences; cultural practices within courtly, private, and public spheres; pastoral, erotic, and utopian themes; imperial history; architecture and visual arts.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of Russian.
[Slavic 145b. Russian Literature and Revolution]
Catalog Number: 6663
Justin Weir
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3.
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 2010–11. All readings in English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Literature and Arts A.
Slavic 147. Soviet Film After Stalin - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 42948
Justin Weir
Half course (spring term). Th., 2-4, with a film screening Tu., 4-6. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Considers the intersection of film and politics during the "thaw" years after Stalin’s death, as well as themes of sexuality, gender, and violence in Russian culture of the 60’s and 70’s. Examines several films by Kalatozov, Tarkovsky, Paradjanov, and Shepitko which are well known for their innovation in form and narrative.
Slavic 148. Strange Russian Writers
Catalog Number: 7101
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Studies Russia’s rebels, deviants, martyrs, loners, and losers as emblems of national identity. Stories, films and poems that project Russia’s distinctive obsessions with history and religion. Includes Gogol, Tolstoy, Leskov, Kharms, Platonov, Nabokov, Sinyavsky, Petrushevskaya, Prigov; films by Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Muratova, Lungin, Sokurov.
Note: All readings in English. Separate additional section for those able to read texts in Russian. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
Slavic 149. Performance, Theater, Culture, Nation, Self: Russia and Its Others
Catalog Number: 36747
Julie A. Buckler
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Investigates performance and theatricality in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet contexts, in both art and life, through broad exploration of theoretical underpinnings (classical dramatic theory to contemporary performance studies) and case studies from drama, opera, ballet, film, musicals, performance art, religious ritual and folk festival, monarchy and court, mass spectacles, Cold War competitions and diplomacy, subcultures, and contemporary assertions of new orders.
Note: Reading knowledge of Russian desirable, but not required. An additional weekly session will be conducted for those who wish to consider texts in the original. Open to reasonably advanced undergraduates and graduates.
[Slavic 150. One Writer ]
Catalog Number: 7644
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4.
Topic for 2006–07: The Short Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol. Primary emphasis on close reading with some attention to the development of the critical legacy.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Readings in Russian, discussion in English.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or its equivalent, and above.
Slavic 151. Experiments in Reading: Chekhov and Nabokov
Catalog Number: 2505
Svetlana Boym
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Literary close reading of Chekhov and Nabokov with special attention to narrative experimentation as well as to the cultural and historical contexts. The main reading is Nabokov’s Drugie berega/Speak Memory, a text that combines fiction and autobiography, literature and criticism, English and Russian.
Note: Readings in Russian (with English double-texts). Alternative to Slavic 98. Tutorial--Junior Year.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.
[Slavic 152. Pushkin]
Catalog Number: 8023
William Mills Todd III
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A.
Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of Russian.
[Slavic 153. Short Russian Prose]
Catalog Number: 1743
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5.
Readings in Russian short forms from Gogol to Nabokov. Primary emphasis on close reading.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Readings in Russian, discussion in English.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or its equivalent, and above.
Slavic 154. Introduction to Russian Poetry
Catalog Number: 6038
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
An introduction to the major genres of Russian verse from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Primary emphasis on close reading of lyrics.
Note: First Meeting Wednesday, September 9. Readings in Russian; discussion in English.
[Slavic 155. Dostoevsky]
Catalog Number: 6850 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
William Mills Todd III
Half course (fall term). M., 1-3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
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: Expected to be given in 2011–12. No knowledge of Russian required.
[Slavic 159. Approaches to Tolstoy]
Catalog Number: 4018
Justin Weir
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4.
Tolstoy and his major fiction from diverse cultural and theoretical perspectives. To what extent do the texts themselves seem to invite such approaches?
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to instructor.
[Slavic 165. Survey of 19th-Century Ukrainian Literature ]
Catalog Number: 0410
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (fall term). M., 1-3, and a third hour for those who wish to consider the texts in the original language.
An introduction to Ukrainian literary and intellectual culture, from pre-Romanticism to Modernism. Readings from Kotljarevs’kyj, Shevchenko, Kulish, Drahomanov, Franko, Lesja Ukrajinka, Kociubyns’kyj, and Stefanyk.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. 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 (fall term). Th., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 14, 15
Examines Russian-Ukrainian literary relations from 1798 to 1905, with special focus on canon formation, ethnic, national and imperial identity, and the interrelation of literature, society, and ideology. Topics include Decembrist historicism, Romantic poetics and folklore, Slavophilism and populism, literature as subversion (kotljarevshchyna), the uses of translation, the reception of major writers (Gogol, Shevchenko, and others), and the imperial attempt to suppress “Ukrainophilism.”
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian.
[Slavic 170. Polish Literature from 1945 to the Present]
Catalog Number: 5555
Joanna Nizynska
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys the literary movements of Communist and post-Communist Poland. Topics include the interplay between literature and ideology, private and public spaces, "Polish complex," and consumerist culture. Readings from Konwicki, Milosz, Herbert, Szymborska, Mrozek, and others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. All readings in English. Students who wish to work in the original may arrange it with the instructor.
[Slavic 174. Romantic Word, Romantic Deed]
Catalog Number: 1188
Joanna Nizynska
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Did Polish Romantic writers compensate for their country’s political failures by fashioning new identities? How did the redemptive narratives spun by Mickiewicz and Slowacki shape the national and cultural identity of their readers? This course focuses on Polish Romantic literature and its complex aspirations to historical, political, and aesthetic critique and explores how the literature’s national idiosyncrasies reflected (and clashed with) the larger philosophical and aesthetic principles of the Romantic era.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. All readings in English. Students who wish to work in the Polish original may arrange a special section with the instructor.
Slavic 176. Between Avant-Garde and Catastrophism: The Interwar Period in Polish Literature
Catalog Number: 9878
Joanna Nizynska
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This survey of the varied manifestations of modernism in independent Poland between the wars also investigates the artistic and ideological tension between the international and the local in the activities (including visual arts) of the First and Second Vanguard, Futurism, Skamander, and other movements. Readings include prose, poetry, drama by Gombrowicz, Schulz, Witkacy, Tuwim, Przybos,and others.
Note: All readings in English.
Slavic 177. Polish Literature After 1989: the Arrival of the Others - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 66961
Joanna Nizynska
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4; F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
With the fall of Communism, Polish communal identity suffered a traumatic breakdown. This course investigates the emergence and treatment of otherness in Polish literature from 1989 to the present, discussing the forms of nostalgia and aggression that arise when a culture responds to new forms of otherness: ethnic (e.g, Jewish and German), gender and sexuality (feminism and queer), social and generational groups (e.g., the post-communist "McDonalds generation"). Readings from Chwin, Huelle, Maslowska, Stasiuk, Tryzna, Tulli.
Note: All readings in English.
[Slavic 180. Russian Symbolist Poetry]
Catalog Number: 6333
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5.
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 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to instructor.
[Slavic 181. Russian Poetry of the 19th Century]
Catalog Number: 3307
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to instructor.
Slavic 182. Problems in 20th-Century Poetry: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 3489
John E. Malmstad
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
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.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to the instructor.
[Slavic 186. Poetry after Brodsky: How Russian Is It?]
Catalog Number: 9918
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4.
Studies poetic practice since 1970. Includes Brodsky, Fanailova, Khersonskii, Khvostenko, Kibirov, Krivulin, Mnatsakanova, Petrova, Prigov, Sedakova, Shvarts, and Tsvetkov. Considers issues of translation, emigration, diaspora, audience, and connections to other art forms.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor.
Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of Russian.
[Slavic 192. Literature as Institutions: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6120 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
William Mills Todd III
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3.
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: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Open to advanced undergraduates and graduates. Students must pick up a syllabus in Barker 374 before the term begins, as there will be a brief assignment for the first class meeting.
[Slavic 195. Myths of Central Europe after World War II: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 4701
Jonathan H. Bolton
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4.
For Milan Kundera, Central Europe was the kidnapped conscience of the West; for Gyorgy Konrad it was “a subversive dream,” for Josef Kroutvor a “melancholy grotesque.” Considers major authors (Kundera, Kis, Milosz, Havel, Manea, Albahari) and key motifs and situations (war, Nazi and Soviet occupations, interrogation, censorship, dissidents, "anti-politics") that have defined a “Central European” literature and identity in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia since World War II.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. All readings in English.
[Slavic 196. Literature and Nationalism in Central Europe: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 1449
Jonathan H. Bolton
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4.
Interdisciplinary, comparative introduction to construction of national identity through literature in 19th-century Central Europe (Czech lands, Poland, Hungary), with comparative study of Germany and Britain. How do authors come to see themselves as "embodying" or "representing" nations - and how do they escape from the shackles of a narrow national interest? Readings include Herder, Tales of Ossian, Macha, Neruda, Zeromski, Kafka, as well as Anderson, Gellner, Jameson, Bakhtin, and other theorists.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. All readings in English.
[Slavic 197. Rebels With A Cause: Dissident Culture in Central Europe: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 8810
Joanna Nizynska and Jonathan H. Bolton
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4.
Who were the people who brought down the Berlin Wall? From dissident philosophy to dissident fashion, this course examines the ideology, genealogy, semiotics, and cultural background of opposition movements such as Solidarity in Poland, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, and others; we discuss "anti-politics," civil society, collaboration and the "gray zone," samizdat, women’s perspectives, and other themes. Readings from Havel, Kolakowski, Kundera, Michnik, Milosz, Zagajewski; films by Menzel, Kieslowski and others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2011–12. All readings are in English.
Slavic 223. 19th-Century Ukrainian Poetry
Catalog Number: 2097
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
A survey of the major poets: Kotljarevs’kyj, Hulak and the pre-Romantics, Shevchenko, Kulish, Rudans’kyj, Franko, and Lesja Ukrajinka.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Ukrainian.
[Slavic 224. Pavlo Tychyna and His Age]
Catalog Number: 6177
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4.
The poetry of Pavlo Tychyna, from the pre-Sonjashni klarnety period to posthumous rediscovery; his reception; his interaction with major contemporaries (Zerov, Bazhan and others); his impact on other major poets (Barka).
Note: Expected to be given in 2012–13.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Ukrainian.
Slavic 269. Structure of Russian for Instructors
Catalog Number: 7807
Patricia R. Chaput
Half course (fall term). Tu., F., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 16, 17
Survey of the structures and rules of Russian from the viewpoint of the instructor. Linguistic description, translation into pedagogical form, formulation at different levels of study, questions of usage, changing norms. Includes practice in difficult constructions.
Note: To be taken the first semester of language teaching.
Slavic 280r. Slavic Culture: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1909
Michael S. Flier
Half course (spring term). Th., 10–12.
Topic for 2009-10: The Culture of Medieval Rus’: Art, Architecture, Ritual, Literature.
[Slavic 281. Literature, Film, and Visual Arts in Russia, 1920-1930]
Catalog Number: 1058
Svetlana Boym
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4.
Examines poetry, prose and visual arts together with cultural theory. Explores issues of innovation and cultural memory, art and politics, bilingualism and exile. Works by Mayakovsky, Malevich, Mandelshtam, Tsvetaeva, Babel, Shklovsky, Nabokov, Vertov, and Eisenstein.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Most texts available in English. Open to qualified undergraduates.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.
Slavic 282 (formerly Slavic 141). Literature, Film, and Visual Art in Contemporary Russia
Catalog Number: 1286
Svetlana Boym
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examines Russian culture from socialist realism to postcommunism. Topics: Socialist realist film, literature of the Gulag, writers’ trials, non-confirmist art and rethinkingof history, utopia and kitsch. Works by Shalamov, Nabokov, Sinyavsky-Tertz, and others.
Note: Most materials also available in English. Open to qualified undergraduates.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.
[Slavic 285r. Modern Russian Literature: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5182
John E. Malmstad
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5.
Topic for 2008-09: The culture of Russian avant-garde.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to the instructor.
Slavic 289. Elegy: The Art of Losing - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 56141
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Poems, films, visual artifacts, and music alongside theories of loss. Focuses on non-narrative forms, with examples from Pushkin, Baratynsky, Fet, Brodsky, Shvarts; Tarkovsky, Shemiakin, Sokurov; Silvestrov, Sebald.
Note: Open to qualified undergraduates.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.
[Slavic 291. Problems in the History of Early Ukrainian Literature]
Catalog Number: 0643
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4.
Examines Kievan and early Ukrainian literature. Topics include the system of genres of Kievan literature, the Renaissance and interaction with Polish literature, the confraternities, Vyshens’kyj, the Baroque, the Mohyla Academy, Skovoroda.
Note: Expected to be given in 2011–12.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Ukrainian.
[Slavic 292. 20th-Century Ukrainian Prose]
Catalog Number: 5733
George G. Grabowicz
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4.
A survey of Ukrainian prose focusing on the avant-garde of the 1920s-1940s (Khvyl’ovyj, Johansen, Domontovych, Kosach) and the most recent period (Andijevs’ka, Andrukhovych, Izdryk and others).
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Ukrainian.
*Slavic 299. Proseminar
Catalog Number: 7972
Justin Weir
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Introduction to graduate study in Slavic. Selected topics in literary analysis, history, and theory.
Note: Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
*Slavic 301. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 3385
Jonathan H. Bolton 4892 (on leave 2009-10), Svetlana Boym 1926, Julie A. Buckler 2960, Patricia R. Chaput 6222, Michael S. Flier 2878, George G. Grabowicz 4511, John E. Malmstad 1219, Joanna Nizynska 4891, Stephanie Sandler 1343, William Mills Todd III 1634 (on leave 2009-10), and Justin Weir 3407
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.