Winter 2020 Class Schedule
Course | Title | Instructor | Day/Time | |
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POLISH 108-2 | Elementary Polish | Kinga Kosmala | MTWF 12-12:50pm | |
POLISH 108-2 Elementary PolishSlavic 108-2 is the second part in a three-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to Polish language and culture. We will continue to learn the basic grammar of Polish, building on the material acquired in first quarter. Our focus will be on speaking, reading, writing, and listening. | ||||
POLISH 208-2 | Intermediate Polish: Language and Culture | Kinga Kosmala | MTWF 2-2:50pm | |
POLISH 208-2 Intermediate Polish: Language and CultureIn Winter Quarter of Second Year Polish, the students expand their speaking, reading and writing skills by building on grammar and vocabulary. As a complement to the linguistic side of the course, the students will gain a greater familiarity with Polish history and culture through varied means including readings of literary works, articles from contemporary Polish newspapers and movies. | ||||
RUSSIAN 101-2-20 | Elementary Russian | Natalia Malinina | MTWF 9-9:50am | |
RUSSIAN 101-2-20 Elementary RussianWelcome to continuing Elementary Russian! This is the second part in a three-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the Russian language and contemporary Russian culture. Students will continue to develop the fundamentals of speaking, listening, writing, and reading through a variety of communicative and content-based activities. Emphasis will be placed on practical communication so that students should be able to function at a basic level in authentic situations by the end of the year. | ||||
RUSSIAN 101-2-21 | Elementary Russian | Natalia Malinina | MTWF 2-2:50pm | |
RUSSIAN 101-2-21 Elementary RussianWelcome to continuing Elementary Russian! This is the second part in a three-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the Russian language and contemporary Russian culture. Students will continue to develop the fundamentals of speaking, listening, writing, and reading through a variety of communicative and content-based activities. Emphasis will be placed on practical communication so that students should be able to function at a basic level in authentic situations by the end of the year. | ||||
RUSSIAN 102-2 | Intermediate Russian | Nadia Vinogradova | MTWF 12-12:50pm | |
RUSSIAN 102-2 Intermediate RussianДобро пожаловать! Welcome back to Intermediate Russian! This is the second part in a three-quarter sequence focusing on the Russian language and contemporary Russian culture. Students continue to develop the skills of speaking, listening, writing, and reading through a variety of communicative and content-based activities. Emphasis will be placed on practical communication so that students should be able to function in many authentic situations by the end of the year. | ||||
RUSSIAN 302-2 | Russian Language and Culture | Natalia Malinina | MWF 11-11:50am | |
RUSSIAN 302-2 Russian Language and CultureWhile focusing on conversation, this year-long course promotes the development of all language skills-- speaking, reading, writing, and listening--through a variety of communicative and content-based activities. The goal is to help students to master all of the major structures of Russian and to begin to function in a wide range of settings over a wide range of topics. Beyond assigned topics and themes, students will be encouraged to pursue and develop their own interests in Russian contemporary culture. | ||||
SLAVIC 210-1 | Introduction to Russian Literature | Max Gordon | MW 2-3:20pm | |
SLAVIC 210-1 Introduction to Russian LiteratureBefore Tolstoy and Dostoevsky came three canonical nineteenth-century Russian writers: Pushkin, Gogol, and Lermontov. In this early era, Russia was heavily in dialogue with Western European culture, which introduced Russia to a new genre of writing—the novel. Steeped in poetry, the gothic, and the Romantic, these writers' groundbreaking works resounded through the generations that followed. We explore the history, culture, and society that produced these long-studied classics of Russian literature. | ||||
SLAVIC 211-2-0 | Gender and Revolution in Soviet Russian Culture | Clare Cavanagh | MW 11:00-12:20 | |
SLAVIC 211-2-0 Gender and Revolution in Soviet Russian Culture(Co-listed with CLS 202-0-22) The Russian Revolution of 1917 was, among other things, a grand experiment in family, sex and marriage. How did the backwards Russia of the early twentieth century become the most advanced nation in the world in gender and family legislation by the 1920's? How did Soviet government attempt to translate Marxist theories of the “woman question” into social practice? What happened when revolutionary visions were replaced by the "Utopia in Power" of Joseph Stalin? What becomes of utopian dreams in first a post-utopian and then a post-Soviet reality? How did the state regulate gender representation in the arts? And how did literature and the arts shape, resist or reflect key transformations in Soviet society as the century progressed? We will examine both state-sanctioned and oppositional works, including poetry, short stories, novellas, novels, memoirs, film, and the visual arts as we explore these questions. | ||||
SLAVIC 255-0 | Slavic Civilizations: The Balkans | Elisabeth Elliott | TTh 12:30-1:50pm | |
SLAVIC 255-0 Slavic Civilizations: The Balkans(Co-listed with LING 222) Students will examine and analyze political and identity issues in terms of the languages and dialects of the Balkans (particularly Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romani, and Serbian). Topics include: linguistic nationalism, language laws, rights of minority languages, language discrimination, language and religion, alphabet issues, language and dialect as ethnic identity, standard language, and others. We explore key issues that have plagued the Balkans and continue to shape its future. Area IV, Historical Studies, in SLAVIC 255 and Area V, Ethics and Values, in LING 222. | ||||
SLAVIC 360 | Survey of 19th-Century Russian Poetry | Clare Cavanagh | Th 3:00 - 5:50pm | |
SLAVIC 360 Survey of 19th-Century Russian PoetryPoetry in Russian culture is a powerful and unique catalyst. This course offers a survey of the main trends in 19th Century Russian poetry, which, at the time, became a national symbol through the works of Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Baratynsky, Lermontov, Tiutchev, and others. Although the topics of this so-called Golden Age of Russian literature were many, particular emphasis was on the genre of elegy. | ||||
SLAVIC 390 | Introduction to Polish Literature | Kinga Kosmala | MW 3:30-4:50pm | |
SLAVIC 390 Introduction to Polish LiteratureThis course investigates the richness and complexity of historical and cultural aspects, myths, and multi-religious traditions that have shaped Polish literature in the modern period (1800-2010) —especially the works of Polish-Jewish writers, such as Bruno Schulz, Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg), and Julian Tuwim. Readings are offered both in English translation and original Polish. Discussion in class is in English, with optional Polish discussion section. | ||||
SLAVIC 392 | East European Literature and Visual Arts: Czech New Wave Film | Martina Kerlova | Th 3-5:50pm | |
SLAVIC 392 East European Literature and Visual Arts: Czech New Wave FilmThe Czech New Wave was one of the most fertile and original periods in Central European cinematography. In the 1960s a young generation of directors captured the imagination of audiences and critics at home and abroad. The New Wave encompassed a variety of revolutionary styles that have made their way into the repertoire of directors around the world. Produced under a reforming but still repressive regime, the films elegantly pushed the boundaries of the permissible by subtly weaving their messages into dramas of daily life and romantic love. Over time the directors, and the new generation of actors who worked with them, ventured into politically more accented topics like critisism of social realism and the consequences of communist policies for ordinary people. The Wave filmmakers included Věra Chytilová, Ivan Passer, Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Jaromil Jireš, and, the most famous of the group, Miloš Forman, who fled communsit Czechoslovakia to become of the leading directors in Hollywood. Two New Wave productions garnered the Academy Award Oscar for Best Foreign Film (Shop on Main Street and Closely Watched Trains). Others were locked away by Communist censors after the Soviet invasion of August 1968 and had to wait 20 years until the 1989 Velvet Revolution for their first screenings. | ||||
SLAVIC 396 | Economics & the Humanities: Understanding Choice | Gary Saul Morson; Morty Schapiro | TTh 12:30-1:50pm | |
SLAVIC 396 Economics & the Humanities: Understanding Choice(Co-listed with HUM 260) This course offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the concept of alternatives and choices. At any given moment, how many alternatives are possible? Is there really such a thing as chance or choice? On what basis do we choose? How does our understanding of the past affect the future? Can we predict the future? Professor Gary Saul Morson, a specialist in literature, and Professor Morton Schapiro, a labor economist specializing in the economics of higher education, will themselves offer alternative approaches to these questions based on the presuppositions of their disciplines. | ||||
SLAVIC 405 | Russian Teaching Methodology | Elisabeth Elliott | M 11am - 1:50pm | |
SLAVIC 405 Russian Teaching MethodologyA graduate level seminar that addresses the complexities of teaching Russian language. The group explores teaching methods with an emphasis on communicative approach to language teaching, working with groups and individuals, and demonstrating and presenting ideas. This seminar is geared toward the student interested in teaching assistantships as well as professional education. |