SLAVIC 115: Between Europe and Asia: Introduction to Russian Culture
This course offers a short survey of the main stages of the history of Russian statehood from Kievan Rus' to the present, post-Soviet situation. It also covers most important trends in Russian intellectual and religious life, as well as major developments in Russian literature, music, and visual arts from medieval age to 20th century avant-garde, socialist realism and current tendencies in culture. Offered as a part of the "Gateways to the World" program.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVIC 198: Writing Between Languages: The Case of Eastern European Jewish Literature (JEWISHST 148, JEWISHST 348, SLAVIC 398)
Eastern European Jews spoke and read Hebrew, Yiddish, and their co-territorial languages (Russian, Polish, etc.). In the modern period they developed secular literatures in all of them, and their writing reflected their own multilinguality and evolving language ideologies. We focus on major literary and sociolinguistic texts. Reading and discussion in English; students should have some reading knowledge of at least one relevant language as well.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 199: Individual Work for Undergraduates
Open to Russian majors or students working on special projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
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Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
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Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVIC 235: Late and Post-Soviet Literature
This course will cover major trends and in Russian literature of the late and post-Soviet periods. We will give some consideration of related developments in art and cinema. Readings will be in Russian, and course discussions will be in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Komaromi, A. (PI)
SLAVIC 251: Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory (COMPLIT 219)
In-depth engagement with a range of Dostoevsky's genres: early works (epistolary novella
Poor Folk and experimental
Double), major novels (
Crime and Punishment,
The Idiot), less-read shorter works ("A Faint Heart," "Bobok," and "The Meek One"), and genre-bending
House of the Dead and
Diary of a Writer. Course applies recent theory of autobiography, performance, repetition and narrative gaps, to Dostoevsky's transformations of genre, philosophical and dramatic discourse, and narrative performance. Slavic students read primary texts in Russian, other participants in translation. Course conducted in English. For graduate students; undergraduates with advanced linguistic and critical competence may enroll with consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
SLAVIC 370: Pushkin
Pushkin's poems, prose, and drafts in dialogue with contemporaries and cultural milieu. Emphasis on innovation and controversy in genre, lyrical form and personal idiom, shaping a public discourse. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVIC 398: Writing Between Languages: The Case of Eastern European Jewish Literature (JEWISHST 148, JEWISHST 348, SLAVIC 198)
Eastern European Jews spoke and read Hebrew, Yiddish, and their co-territorial languages (Russian, Polish, etc.). In the modern period they developed secular literatures in all of them, and their writing reflected their own multilinguality and evolving language ideologies. We focus on major literary and sociolinguistic texts. Reading and discussion in English; students should have some reading knowledge of at least one relevant language as well.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 399: INDIVIDUAL WORK
Open to Russian majors or students working on special projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
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Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVIC 802: TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
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Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
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Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Skakov, N. (PI)
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