| RUSS 100-01 |
Russia and the West
Instructor: Elena Duzs
Course Description:
Taught in English. An introductory and multi-disciplinary survey intended to explore the relationship between Russian culture and Western civilization. In the process, students will be exposed to aspects of Russia's history, literature, religion, philosophical traditions, music and art, politics, and economics. Suitable for those interested in a one semester introduction to Russia, and required for those who choose a major or minor in Russian.
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1500:MR BOSLER 314 |
| RUSS 102-01 |
Elementary Russian
Instructor: Izolda Savenkova
Course Description:
An intensive study of the fundamentals of Russian grammar, with an emphasis on the development of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Short stories and songs will supplement the text.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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0830:MTWRF BOSLER 222 |
| RUSS 102-02 |
Elementary Russian
Instructor: Izolda Savenkova
Course Description:
An intensive study of the fundamentals of Russian grammar, with an emphasis on the development of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Short stories and songs will supplement the text.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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0930:MTWRF BOSLER 222 |
| RUSS 202-01 |
Intermediate Russian II
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description:
Emphasis on the development of reading, speaking, and writing skills. Reading of simple texts to acquaint the student with a variety of styles of the Russian language, concentration on some of the more difficult problems in the Russian grammar, translation, written composition, vocabulary building, and intonation. Prerequisite: 201 or equivalent.
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1030:MTWR BOSLER 211 |
| RUSS 232-01 |
Russian for Narration and Analysis
Instructor: Elena Duzs
Course Description:
Reading and discussion of literary works by representative authors from the pre- and post-Revolutionary periods. Prerequisite: 202 or the equivalent.
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1030:TR BOSLER 308 |
| RUSS 254-01 |
Revolution, War, and Daily Life in Modern Russia
Instructor: Karl Qualls
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 254-01. This course explores Russia's attempts to forge modernity since the late 19th century. Students will explore the rise of socialism and communism, centralization of nearly all aspects of life (arts, politics, economics, and even sexual relations), and opposition to the terror regime's attempts to remake life and the post-Soviet state's attempts to overcome Russia's past.
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1130:MWF DENNY 203 |
| RUSS 270-01 |
Philosophy and Literature
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 222-01 and PHIL 270-01. Taught in English. Dostoevsky's characters lie, steal, scheme, and murder. What is it about Dostoevsky's depictions of their lying, cheating ways that makes his novels not just literary but philosophical? And what is it about philosophical works like Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's that makes them literary? More generally, where do the overlapping realms of literature and philosophy begin and end? This course investigates the intersections of philosophy and literature across different schools of thought, paying special attention to the work of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Plato, Tolstoy, Voltaire, and others. We will pair the treatment of philosophical issues in fiction with their treatment in more traditional philosophical genres, thereby raising and discussing the contentious question of whether philosophy can achieve things that literature cannot, and vice versa. Offered every two years. This course is cross-listed as PHIL 270 and ENGL 222.
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1330:MR BOSLER 313 |
| RUSS 334-01 |
Workshop in Translation
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description:
This course focuses on specific techniques for translating various kinds of texts (business, journalistic, scholarly, epistolary, and literary) from Russian into English, and from English into Russian. Concentrating on the practical matter of reading and writing, the course will also include special grammatical topics which present particular difficulties in translation, discussion of theories of translation, and introduction to technological tools of translation. The goal of the course is to further students' language ability and provide them with useful linguistic skills. Prerequisite: 231, 232 or equivalent. Offered every two years. This course focuses on specific techniques for translating various kinds of texts (business, journalistic, scholarly, epistolary, and literary) from Russian into English, and from English into Russian. Concentrating on the practical matter of reading and writing, the course will also include special grammatical topics which present particular difficulties in translation, discussion of theories of translation, and introduction to technological tools of translation. The goal of the course is to further students' language ability and provide them with useful linguistic skills. Prerequisite: 231, 232 or equivalent. Offered every two years.
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1330:W BOSLER 214 |
| RUSS 360-01 |
Russian for Intelligence Careers
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio, Izolda Savenkova
Course Description:
Permission of Instructor Required.
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1630:R BOSLER 222 |
