| RUSS 101-01 |
Elementary Russian
Instructor: Ekaterina Ausheva, Elena Duzs
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.
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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 222 |
| RUSS 101-02 |
Elementary Russian
Instructor: Elena Duzs, Ekaterina Ausheva
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.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 222 |
| RUSS 201-01 |
Intermediate Russian
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio, Samuel Driver
Course Description:
Advanced grammar review incorporating controlled reading and composition. Emphasis on speaking competence continued through oral reports and conversational topics. Prerequisite: 102 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 211 |
| RUSS 223-01 |
19th Century Russian Literature in Translation
Instructor: Samuel Driver, Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description:
An introduction to major literary movements and developments in 19th century Russian literature. Readings may include works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, as well as important theoretical and cultural texts from and about the period. No knowledge of Russian necessary.Conducted in English. Offered every other year.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 214 |
| RUSS 231-01 |
Russian for Discussion
Instructor: Ekaterina Ausheva
Course Description:
Practice in the techniques and patterns of everyday conversation, especially as these reflect different cultural orientations. Reading and discussion of short works by well-known authors. Prerequisite: 202 or the equivalent.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
BOSLER 222 |
| RUSS 241-01 |
Russian Film of the Putin Era
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-04. For Lenin, cinema was the most important art; for Stalin, it was the greatest medium of mass motivation. Since Vladimir Putins inauguration as leader of the Russian Federation in 2000, film has held an equally important role. We will track and analyze major themes in Russian cinema since 1991, including the rise of the Russian blockbuster, popular culture under Putin, festival films, and the intersections of politics and film art. Course taught in English. No prior knowledge of Russian culture required.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 208 |
| RUSS 253-01 |
Autocracy, Uprisings, and Daily Life in Medieval Ukraine, Russia, and its Empire
Instructor: Karl Qualls
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 253-01. This course will survey the first 1000 years of the eastern Slav lands that are now Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus and the expanding empire of the former into Central Asia and the Caucasus. Students will gain a better understanding of the regions political, economic, social, and cultural development and how it can inform our understanding of Russia today. We will examine the early formation of multi-ethnic clans into a large multinational empire while highlighting state formation, the role of women, church power, the arts, and nationality conflict. The course concludes with the impending collapse of the Russian empire under Tsar Nicholas II.This course is cross-listed as HIST 253.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 203 |
| RUSS 282-01 |
Russian Conversation in Context
Instructor: Ekaterina Ausheva
Course Description:
This course is aimed at developing students skills and proficiency in the conversational and interactive aspects of the Russian language. Students will learn vocabulary and grammatical constructions as well as typical phrases to use in different communicative situations of everyday life. Students will be able to solve various communicative tasks in real-life situations. Special attention will be given to mastering typical linguistic constructions for greetings, expressing gratitude, making requests, extending invitations, offering assistance, giving consent, refusing, discussing time and place, giving reasons, and more. As a result, students will learn to speak and understand their interlocutor, maintain a conversation, and feel more confident in everyday situations in a Russian-speaking environment. Students will be split into groups based on proficiency level and may take this course multiple times at various levels, as their proficiency develops. May be offered as a full or half credit.
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04:30 PM-05:45 PM, R
BOSLER 319 |
| RUSS 335-01 |
Popular Culture and New Media
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-04. This course will examine one or several elements and/or genres in Russian popular culture, including folk tales, detective novels, anecdotes, film, television, music, the Internet, and new media. Students will practice close reading and analysis of authentic texts through the study of analytic genres specific to these fields in Russia and the US.
Prerequisite: 231, 232 or equivalent.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
BOSLER 313 |