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Russian Current Courses

Fall 2025

Course Code Title/Instructor Meets
RUSS 101-01 Elementary Russian
Instructor: Elena Duzs, RUSS STAFF
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.
08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 222
RUSS 101-02 Elementary Russian
Instructor: Elena Duzs, RUSS STAFF
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.
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 222
RUSS 201-01 Intermediate Russian
Instructor: RUSS STAFF, 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.
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 308
RUSS 201-02 Intermediate Russian
Instructor: RUSS STAFF, 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.
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 308
RUSS 224-01 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature in Translation
Instructor: Samuel Driver
Course Description:
Course taught in English. An introduction to major literary movements and developments in 20th century Russian literature. Readings may include works by Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Trifonov, and Pelevin. The course may also include important texts of 20th C. art and film. No knowledge of Russian necessary. Conducted in English. Offered every other year.
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 314
RUSS 231-01 Russian for Discussion
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio, RUSS STAFF
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.
11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 211
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. Course taught in English. 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.
12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 203
RUSS 335-01 Popular Culture and New Media
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description:
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.
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
BOSLER 211
RUSS 500-01 Russian for Advanced Discussion
Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio
Course Description: