CLSL W4004x. Introduction to Twentieth-Century Central European Fiction. 3 pts.

This course introduces students to works of literature that offer a unique perspective on the tempestuous twentieth century, if only because these works for the most part were written in "minor" languages (Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Serbian), in countries long considered part of the European backwaters, whose people were not makers but victims of historyYet the authors of many of these works are today ranked among the masters of modern literature. Often hailing from highly stratisfied , conservative societies, many Eastern and Central European writers became daring literary innovators and experimenters. To the present day, writers from this "other" Europe try to escape history, official cultures, politics, and end up redefining them for their readers. We will be dealing with a disparate body of literature, varied both in form and content. But we will try to pinpoint subtle similarities, in tone and sensibility, and focus, too, on the more apparent preoccupation with certain themes that may be called characteristically Central European.

SLLT W4015y. Ideology, History, Identity: South Slavic Writers from Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Explores the issue of Yugoslav identity through the representative texts of major Serbian writers, such as Milos Crnjanski, Ivo Andric, Danilo Kis, Milorad Pavic, and Borislav Pekic.

CLCZ W4035x. The Writers of Prague. 3 pts.

A survey of the Czech, German, and German-Jewish literary cultures of Prague from 1910 to 1920. Special attention to Hašek, Čapek, Kafka, Werfel, and Rilke. Parallel reading lists available in English and in the original.

RUSS G4110x. Russian Formalism & Structuralism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Evaluation of the contributions of Russian Formalism and Structuralism to modern critcal thought. Tracing of the characteristic features of both movements in comparison with kindred critcal developments in the West.

RUSS W4331y. Chteniia po russkoi literaturu: Turgenev. 3 pts.

This course is devoted to reading shorter prose works by Ivan Turgenev. The reading list inlcudes stories from his collection Sketches og a Hunter as well as such Masterpieces as The Dairy of a Superfluous Man, First Love and Asia. Classes are conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS W4331y. Chteniia po russkoi literaturu: Turgenev. 3 pts.

The course is devoted to reading shorter prose works by Ivan Turgenev. The reading list includes stories from his collection Sketches of a Hunter as well as such masterpieces as The Diary of a Superfluous Man, First Love, and Asia. Classes are conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS W4332y. Chteniia po russkoi literaturu: Gogol. 3 pts.

This course is devoted to reading the shorter works by Nikolai Gogol. The syllabus includes selections from his collections Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka and Mirgorod, all of his Petersburg Tales, and The Inspector General. CLasses are conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS W4332y. Chteniia po russkoi literaturu: Gogol. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The course is devoted to reading shorter works by Nikolai Gogol, The syllabus includes selections from his collection Sketches of a Hunter as well as such masterpieces as the Diary of a Superfluous Man, First Love, and Asia. Classes are conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS W4339y. Chteniia po russkoi literature: Pushkin. 3 pts.

Poetry and prose of Pushkin. Readings and discussion in Russian.

RUSS W4348x. Chteniia po russkoi kul'ture: Advanced Russian Through the Media. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the equivalent

This course is designed to meet the needs of advanced students of Russian across several fields - the humanities, social sciences, law, arts, and others - who want to further develop their speech, comprehension, reading, and writing and be introduced to the contemporary Russian media. This addition to our series of courses in Advanced Russian through cultural content provides training for research and professional work in Russian.

RUSS W4350x-W4351y. Moving to Advanced-Plus: Language, Culture, Society in Russian Today. Prerequisites: Seven semesters of college Russian

This course is designed to provide advanced and highly-motivated undergraduate and graduate students of various majors with an opportunity to develop professional vocabulary and discourse devices that will help them to discuss their professional fields in Russian with fluency and accuracy. The course targets all four language competencies: speaking, listening, reading, writing, as well as cultural understanding. Conducted in Russian.

RUSS G6042x. In Search of a Vanished Civilization: Soviet Culture , 1940s - 1970s. 3 pts.

The course explores a particular period in Soviet cultural history - from the end of the Second World War to the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia - as a time of consolidation of a peculiar "Soviet Civilization." It was a period when the new social and cultural order has neither needed mass terror for its maintenance, nor shown clear signs of decay. The course's aim is to explore various aspects of this vanished civilization: from its fundamental philosophical ideas, literature, and art, to popular culture and categories of cultural consciousness.

RUSS G8671. The Russian Avant-Garde. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

SLLT G9001x. Doctoral Research Seminar. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Three years of graduate study in the Slavic Department

The seminar provides strategic training in how to conduct scholarship in the field, how to conceptualize and plan a dissertation, how to write and defend a dissertation brief, and how to launch research on a dissertation, as well as in related aspects of the profession (including preparing fellowship and grant proposals, publications and conference papers based on dissertation work in progress). Required of students in their fourth year of the doctoral program.

RUSS V3222y. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky [In English]. 3 pts.

Two epic novels, Tolstoy's War and Peace and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories "Kreutzer Sonata" and "Hadji Murad"; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; "A Gentle Creature," a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required.

CLRS W4190y. Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative, in the Russian/Soviet Empire. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

This course examines the literary construction of ethnic and cultural identity in texts drawn from the literatures of ethnic minorities and non-Slavic nationalities that coexist within the Russian and Soviet imperial space, with attention to the historical and political context in which literary discourses surrounding racial, ethnic, and cultural particularity develop. Organized around three major regions -- the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Russian Far East --readings include canonical "classics" by Aitmatov, Iskander, and Rytkheu as well as less-known texts, both "official" and censored.

RUSS W4309y. Nineteenth -Century Narrative Dilemmas. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

This course will explore narrative strategies developed by Russian authors as they created a literary tradition that would change the world. Starting with Pushkin's first completed prose work, we will explore how narrative frames, structures, genre, and authorial choices contribute to textual explorations of identity, responsibility, love, violence and revenge. Texts covered will include: Pushkin's "Tales of Belkin," Lermontov's, "Hero of Our Time", Gogol's "The Diary of a Madman,"The Nose," and "The Overcoat," Dostoevsky's "The Double and Demons, Tolstoy's "War and Peace", and Leskov's "The Enchanted Wanderer." No knowledge of Russian required.

RUSS W4332y. Chteniia po russkoi literature: Turgenev. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The course is devoted to reading shorter prose works by Ivan Turgenev. The reading list includes stories from his collection "Sketches of a Hunter" as well as such masterpieces as "The Diary of a Superfluous Man", "First Love", and "Asia." Classes are conducted entirely in Russian

RUSS W4338y. Chteniia po russkoi literature: Voina i mir. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The course is devoted to reading and discussing of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Classes are conducted entirely in Russian

RUSS G6040x. Eighteenth Century Russian Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of eighteenth century Russian poetry, prose, and drama in the original. The reading list includes Feofan Prokopovich, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikhailo Lomonosov, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Aleksandr Radishchev, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolai Karamzin

CLRS G6127. Marxist Cultural Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The mechanisms of mediation between political economy and art or literature. Marxist theory, positivism, 19th-century Russian radicalism, modernism, and postmodernism.

CLRS G6201. Bakhtin. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

An examination of the literary and cultural theory of Mikhail Bakhtin.

CLRS G6290x. The Lolita Phenomenon. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

An advanced graduate seminar on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and its multiple reincarnations, transformations, and distortions. The course offers a comprehensive panorama of Nabokov's literary practices through the lens of a single novel by bringing together varied aspects of his cultural legacy under the unified theoretical concern with reproduction and authencity.

CLRS G6330. Between 1812 and 1848: Russian Romanticism and Its European Contexts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The age of Russian Romanticism (1810s-40s) viewed in its contemporary European context. Literary works by Zhukovsky, Batiushkov, Pushkin, Iazykov, Baratynsky, Lermontov, Odoevsky, Gogol; popular literature of the time (Tumansky, Benediktov, and others); major events in romantic literary criticism and philosophy (Kireevsky, Belinsky, Chaadaev); and the development of romantic cultural and personal mythology.

CLRS G6401x. Russian Futurism and its Influence. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian. Exploration of the poetics and philosophy of language of the Russian Futurists in comparison with Italian Futurism and other trends in the Russian and Western avant-garde. Examination of the impact of the Russian avant-garde rebellion on literature and aesthetic ideas of the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period.

CLSL W4003y. Central European Drama in the Twentieth Century. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Focus will be on the often deceptive modernity of modern Central and East European theater and its reflection of the forces that shaped modern European society. It will be argued that the abstract, experimental drama of the twentieth-century avant-garde tradition seems less vital at the century's end than the mixed forms of Central and East European dramatists.

CLRS W4011x. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the English Novel [in English]. 3 pts.

A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (Netochka Nezvanova; The Idiot; "A Gentle Creature") and Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; "Family Happiness"; Anna Karenina; "The Kreutzer Sonata") in conjunction with related English novels (Bronte's Jane Eyre, Eliot's Middlemarch, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway). No knowledge of Russian is required.

CLRS W4015x. Dostoevsky and Nabokov: Narratives of Transgression and Madness. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (the Double, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment. "The Meek One," The Brothers Karamazov) and Nabokov (Despair, Lolita). Paying particular attention to narrative strategies, the course will prepare students to apply their knowledge of Dostoevskian plot, thematics, and literary technique to two novels by the great Dostoevsky-denier Nabokov.

CLRS W4017. Chekhov [English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A close reading of Chekhov's best work in the genres on which he left an indelible mark (the short story and the drama) on the subjects that left an indelible imprint on him (medical science, the human body, identity, topography, the nature of news, the problem of knowledge, the access to pain, the necessity of dying, the structure of time, the self and the world, the part and the whole) via the modes of inquiry (diagnosis and deposition, expedition and exegesis, library and laboratory, microscopy and materialism, intimacy and invasion) and forms of documentation (the itinerary, the map, the calendar, the photograph, the icon, the Gospel, the Koan, the lie, the love letter, the case history, the obituary, the pseudonym, the script) that marked his era (and ours). No knowledge of Russian required.

CLCZ W4020. Czech Culture Before Czechoslovakia. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or instructor's permission.

An interpretive cultural history of the Czechs from earliest times to the founding of the first Czechoslovak republic in 1918. Emphasis on the origins, decline, and resurgence of Czech national identity as reflected in the visual arts, architecture, music, historiography, and especially the literature of the Czechs.

CLCZ W4030y. Postwar Czech Literature [in English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of postwar Czech fiction and drama. Knowledge of Czech not necessary. Parallel reading lists available in translation and in the original.

UKRN W4037y. The Aura of Soviet Ukrainian Modernism. 3 pts.

This course studies the renaissance in Ukrainian culture of the 1920s - a period of revolution, experimentation, vibrant expression and polemics. Focusing on the most important developments in literature, as well as on the intellectual debates they inspired, the course will also examine the major achievements in Ukrainian theater, visual art and film as integral components of the cultural spirit that defined the era. Additionally, the course also looks at the subsequent implementation of the socialist realism and its impact on Ukrainian culture and on the cultural leaders of the renaissance. The course treats one of the most important periods of Ukrainian culture and examines it lasting impact on today's Ukraine. This period produced several world-renowned cultural figures, whose connections with the 1920s Ukraine have only recently begun to be discussed. The course will be complemented by film screenings, presentations of visual art and rare publications from this period. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.

CLCZ W4038y. Prague Spring of '68 in Film and Literature [In English]. 3 pts.

The course explores the unique period in Czech film and literature during the 1960s that emerged as a reaction to the imposed socialist realism. The new generation of writers (Kundera, Skvorecky, Havel, Hrabal) in turn had an influence on young emerging film makers, all of whom were part of the Czech new wave.

CLSL W4075x. Soviet and Post-Soviet, Colonial and Post Colonial Film. 3 pts.

The course will discuss how film making has been used as a vehicle of power and control in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors that exemplify the function of film making as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of post-colonial theories. The course will also focus on the often over looked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways, their own counter-narratives.

CLSS W4100x. Central Europe and the Orient in the Works of Yugoslav Writers [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The course addresses the confrontation between East and West in the works of Vla Desnica, Miroslav Krleza, Mesa Semilovic, and Ivo Andric. Discussion will target problems inherent in shaping national and individual identity, as well as the trauma caused by occupation and colonization among the South Slavs.

CLPL W4120. The Polish Short Story in a Comparative Context. 3 pts.

The course examines the beginnings of the Polish short story in the 19th century and its development through the late 20th century, including exemplary works of major Polish writers of each period. It is also a consideration of the short story form--its generic features, its theoretical premises, and the way these respond to the stylistic and philosophical imperatives of successive periods.

CLSL W4975x. Soviet and Post-Soviet, Colonial and Post Colonial Film. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The course will discuss how film making has been used as a vehicle of power and control in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors that exemplify the function of film making as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of post-colonial theories. The course will also focus on the often over looked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways, their own counter-narratives.

CLSL W4995x. Central European Jewish Literature: Assimilation and Its Discontents. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Examines prose and poetry by writers generally less accessible to the American student written in the major Central European languages: German, Hungarian, Czech, and Polish. The problematics of assimilation, the search for identity, political commitment and disillusionment are major themes, along with the defining experience of the century: the Holocaust; but because these writers are often more removed from their Jewishness, their perspective on these events and issues may be different. The influence of Franz Kafka on Central European writers, the post-Communist Jewish revival, defining the Jewish voice in an otherwise disparate body of works.

CLSL G6112. The Tale of Prince Igor's Campaign in the Context of European Medieval Poetry. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Ability to read one of the five texts in the original.

Study of the tale of Prince Igor's Campaign's symbolic language, imagery, and narrative technique in relation to European medieval epic poetry, particularly in comparison with Beowulf, Snorri Struluson's Edda, The Song of Roland, and the poem of My Cid.

CLSL G6200. Mulsim and Christian in Balkan Narratives. 3 pts.

A graduate seminar on major literary and cinematic narratives from Southeastern Europe that thematize Muslim-Christian encounters in the context of the complex political and and cultural history of the Balkans. The reading list includes works by Ivo Andrić, Ismail Kadare, Nikos Kazandzakis, Emir Kusturica, Milcho Mancheveski, Orhan Pamuk, Milorad Pavić, Me�a Selimović, and Yordan Yovkov.

CLPL W6210. Polish Avant-Gardism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

An investigation of avant-gardism in literature and the arts in Poland from the end of the 19th century to WW II. Texts as they originally appeared in journals and first editions, with the goal of developing a feel for the vibrant interdisciplinary modernist culture of pre-Communist Poland.

CLPL W4300y. Unbound and Post Dependent: The Polish Novel After 1989. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

This seminar is designed to offer an overview of Post-1989 Polish prose. The literary output of what is now called post-dependent literature demonstrates how political transformations influenced social and intellectual movements and transformed the narrative genre itself. The aesthetic and formal developments in Polish prose will be explored as a manifestation of a complex phenomenon bringing the reassesment of national myths, and cultural aspirations. Works by Dorota Maslowska, Andrzej Stasiuk, Pawel Huelle, Olga Tokarczuk, Magdalena Tulli and others will be read and discussed. Knowledge of Polish not required.

CZCH W1101x-W1102y. Elementary Czech, I and II. 4 pts.

Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepare students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.

CZCH W1201x-W1202y. Intermediate Czech, I and II. 4 pts. Prerequisites:CZCH W1102 or the equivalent.

Rapid review of grammar. Readings in contemporary fiction and nonfiction, depending upon the interests of individual students.

CZCH W4333x. Readings in Czech Literature, I. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Two years of college Czech or the equivalent

A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

CZCH W4334y. Readings in Czech Literature, II. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Two years of college Czech or the equivalent.

A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

CZCH G8001x-G8002y. Directed Research In Czech Literature. 3-4 pts.

Departmental permission.

HSSL G6000y. Creative Dissidence in Post Stalin Period. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

This course surveys primary texts of the Soviet literary and artistic dissidence during the post-Stalin period, placing aesthetic praxis in dialogue with the theory and practice of human rights both in their historical development as they are currently construed. Readings will focus on literary texts and memoirs produced during the late Soviet period, most of which were denied publication in their country or origin. Important dissident events performed in other art forms, including the fine arts, music, architecture, and cinema will also be considered.

CPLT G8327. An Introduction To the Literature of East Central European History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

CPLT G8364. Colloquium On Soviet Social History.. 4 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

HSPS G8445x. Legacies of Empire and the Soviet Union. 4 pts.

Required of all Harriman Institute Certificate candidates. For registration purposes the actual course number is HSPS G8445.

HNGR W4050. The Hungarian New Wave: Cinema in Kadarist Hungary [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Hungarian cinema, like film-making in Czechoslovakia, underwent a renaissance in the 1960's, but the Hungarian new wave continued to flourish in the 70's and film remained one of the most important art forms well into the 80's. This course examines the cultural, social and political context of representative Hungarian films of the Kadarist period, with special emphasis on the work of such internationally known filmmakers as Miklos Jancso, Karoly Makk, Marta Meszaros, and Istvan Szabo. In addition to a close analysis of individual films, discussion topics will include the "newness"of the new wave in both form and content (innovations in film language, cinematic impressionism, allegorical-parabolic forms, auteurism, etc.), the influence of Italian, French, German and American cinema, the relationship between film and literature, the role of film in the cultures of Communist Eastern Europe, the state of contemporary Hungarian cinema. The viewing of the films will be augmented by readings on Hungarian cinema, as well as of relevant Hungarian literary works.

CPLT U4525. Postwar Politics of East Central Europe. Not offered in 2013-2014.

POLI W1101x-W1102y. Elementary Polish, I and II. 4 pts.

Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.

POLI W1201x-W1202y. Intermediate Polish, I and II. 4 pts. Prerequisites:POLI W1102 or the equivalent.

Rapid review of grammar; readings in contemporary nonfiction or fiction, depending on the interests of individual students.

POLI W4040y. Mickiewicz. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The Polish literary scene that in this particular period stretched from Moscow, Petersburg, and Odessa, to Vilna, Paris, Rome. The concept of exile, so central to Polish literature of the 19th-century and world literature of the 20th will be introduced and discussed. The course will offer the opportunity to see the new Romantic trend initially evolving from classicism, which it vigorously opposed and conquered. We will examine how the particular literary form - sonnet, ballad, epic poem and the romantic drama developed on the turf of the Polish language. Also we will see how such significant themes as madness, Romantic suicide, Romantic irony, and elements of Islam and Judaism manifested themselves in the masterpieces of Polish poetry. The perception of Polish Romanticism in other, especially Slavic, literatures will be discussed and a comparative approach encouraged.Most of the texts to be discussed were translated into the major European languages. Mickiewicz was enthusiastically translated into Russian by the major Russian poets of all times; students of Russian may read his works in its entirety in that language. The class will engage in a thorough analysis of the indicated texts; the students' contribution to the course based on general knowledge of the period, of genres, and/or other related phenomena is expected.

POLI G4042x. Bestsellers of Polish Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A study of the 20th-century Polish novel during its most invigorated, innovative inter-war period. A close study of the major works of Kuncewiczowa, Choromanski, Wittlin, Unilowski, Kurek, Iwaszkiewicz, Gombrowicz, and Schulz. The development of the Polish novel will be examined against the background of new trends in European literature, with emphasis on the usage of various narrative devices. Reading knowledge of Polish desirable but not required. Parallel reading lists are available in the original and in translation.

POLI G4049y. Twentieth Century Polish Poetry. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Reading proficiency in Polish

Students will be able to learn about the Polish literary scene and its dynamics and most of all read and analyze the most representative texts of the particular poets. The main goal of this course will be reading and comprehension of the text in original.

POLI W4101x-W4102y. Advanced Polish, I and II. 4 pts. Prerequisites: Two years of college Polish or the instructor's permission.

Extensive readings from 19th- and 20th-century texts in the original. Both fiction and nonfiction, with emphasis depending on the interests and needs of individual students.

CLPL W4120x. The Polish Short Story: in Comparative Text. 3 pts.

This course will discuss what the short story is, when it appeared in the history of literature, and what makes it a unique genre. In the introductory part we will discuss in brief the most prominent and best known short stories of Boccaccio's "Decameron," related literature, and short stories by other authors who belong to the classical canon. We will distinguish three large categories: the short story based plot, the short story of character, and the descriptive short story. Assessment of the classical Polish short story and its canon.

POLI G6020. Renaissance Poetry In Poland: From Latin To Polish. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Working knowledge of Latin or Polish.

Focuses specifically on poetry and the development of modern Polish literary language, style, and culture from its Latin and neo-Latin influences. Authors may include Ioannes Visliciensis (Jan z Wislicy), Hussovianus (Hussowczyk), Dantiscus (Dantyszek), Andrzej Krzycki (Cricius), Sarbevius (Sarbiewski), Biernat of Lublin, Jan Kochanowski (Cochanovius), Mikolaj Rej, Sep-Szarzynski, and others.

POLI G8001x-G8002y. Directed Research In Polish Literature, I & II. 3-4 pts. Prerequisites: Departmental permission.

CPLT W4531. The Politics of East Central Europe. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

RUSS V1101x-V1102y. First-year Russian, I and II. 5 pts.

Grammar, reading, composition, and conversation.

RUSS V1103x-V1104y. First-year Russian Grammar, I and II. 1 pt. Not offered in 2013-2014. Corequisites:RUSS V1101-V1102

Must be taken concurrently with RUSS V1101-V1102.

RUSS V3101x-V3102y. Third-year Russian, I and II. 4 pts. Prerequisites:RUSS V3331:RUSS 1202 or the equivalent and the instructor's permission. Prerequisite for V3332: Russian V3331 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limited. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS W4014y. Introduction to Russian Poetry and Poetics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

An introduction to Russian poetry, through the study of selected texts of major poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, primarily: Pushkin, Lermontov, Pavlova, Tiutchev, Blok, Mandel'shtam, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Prigov and Brodsky. Classes devoted to the output of a single poet will be interspersed with classes that draw together the poems of different poets in order to show the reflexivity of the Russian poetic canon. These classes will be organized according either to types of poems or to shared themes. The course will teach the basics of verisification, poetic languages (sounds, tropes), and poetic forms. Classes in English; poetry read in Russian.

RUSS W4200y. Theater Workshop: Gogol's Revizor. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.

The study and staging, in the original of a Russian play (Gogol's Revizor). Concentration on exploration of character and style through language, phonetics, detailed textual analysis, and oral presentation.

RUSS W4333x-W4334y. Fourth-year Russian, I and II. 4 pts. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission.

Either term may be taken separately. W4333: Systematic study of problems in Russian syntax; written exercises, translations into Russian, and compositions. W4334: Discussion of different styles and levels of language, including word usage and idiomatic expression; written exercises, analysis of texts, and compositions. Conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS W4339y. Chteniia po russkoi literature: Pushkin. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission.

A survey of Alexander Pushkin's poetry and prose in the original. Emphasis on the emergence of a new figure of the Poet in Russin in the 1820-1830s. Linguistic analysis of the poetic texts (vocabulary, metrics, versification) will be combined with the study of Russian History and Culture as reflected in Pushkin's writings.

RUSS W4345y. Chteniia po russkoi kul'ture: Advanced Russian Through History. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Three years of Russian

This is a language course designed to meet the needs of those foreign learners of Russian as well as heritage speakers who want to further develop their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills and be introduced to the history of Russia.

RUSS W4346. Chteniia po russkoi kul'ture: Russian Folklore and the Folkloric Tradition. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The purpose of this course is to acquaint structure with traditional folk beliefs that are part of Russian life today. Readings will include descriptions of character ritual folk beliefs as well as narratives about personal experiences concerning superstition, sorcery and the supernatural. Also included will be folktales that most Russians know and contemporary Russian folk narratives.

RUSS W4347y. Chteniia po russkoi kul'ture: Contemporary Social Sciences. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Five semesters of college level Russian, or four semesters of college level Russian and participation in a study abroad program in a Russian speaking country and instructor's permission.

This course is designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduate and graduate students across several fields--the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, business, law and others-- who wish to focus on acquisition of high proficiency reading skills that will allow them to conduct research using written Russian-language academic sources.

RUSS W4349y. Chteniia po russkoi kul'ture: Advanced Russian Through Song. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Three Years of College Russian or the equivalent

This is a content-based language course that is designed to develop students' ability to understand fluent Russian speech and express their opinions on various social and cultural topics in both oral and written form.

RUSS W4431y. Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of Russian Cultural History from the late 17th Century to the present day, focused on the problems of Theater and Performance, their place in the system of power and in the structure of everyday life. Alongside with the history of Russian Theater, various manifestations of theatricality, from the 18th century Court Festivals to the Moscow Olympiad of 1980, will be studied. Readings will include milestones of Russian drama (plays by Pushkin, Gogol, Ostrovski, Chekhov, Bulgakov), theater manifestos by Stanislavski, Meierhold, Evreinov , as well as selected issues in contemporary cultural, architectural and visual theory (works by R. Barthes, M. Carlson, A.Vidler, M. Fried). All readings will be in English.

RUSS W4432. Contrastive Phonetics and Grammar of Russian and English. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites:RUSS W4334 or the equivalent and the instructor's permission.

Comparative phonetic, intonational, and morphological structures of Russian and English, with special attention to typical problems for American speakers of Russian.

RUSS W4434x. Practical Stylistics [in Russian]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites:RUSS W4334 or the equivalent or the instructor's permission.

Focuses on theoretical matters of style and the stylistic conventions of Russian expository prose, for advanced students of Russian who wish to improve their writing skills.

RUSS W4436y. Russian for Russian Instructors. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Required for the M.A. in Russian Literature. Should be taken the spring of the first year in the graduate program, before beginning to teach the following fall. Review of specifics of Russian grammar and pronunciation and strategies for teaching them at the elementary and intermediate levels.

RUSS W4676y. Russian Art between East and West: The Search for National Identity. 3 pts.

Aims to be more than a basic survey that starts with icons and ends with the early modernists. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it aims to highlight how the various cultural transmissions interacted to produce, by the 1910s, an original national art that made an innovative contribution to world art. It discusses the development of art not only in terms of formal, aesthetic analysis, but also in the matrix of changing society, patronage system, economic life and quest for national identity. Several guest speakers will discuss the East-West problematic in their related fields-for example, in literature and ballet.

Some familiarity with Russian history and literature will be helpful, but not essential. Assigned readings in English. Open to undergraduate and graduate students.

RUSS G4910x. Literary Translation. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Four years of college Russian or the equivalent.

Workshop in literary translation from Russian into English focusing on the practical problems of the craft. Each student submits a translation of a literary text for group study and criticism. The aim is to produce translations of publishable quality.

RUSS G6005y. From Lermontov to Nadson: Russian Poetry in the Age of Realism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Beginning in the 1830s, the emergence of a philosophy of national identity, a new emphasis on socio-economic problems, and the rise of a new literary genre later dubbed the "realist novel" threatened to marginalize poetry, which had played a pivotal role in the development of culture and language in the course of several preceding decades. The seminar will start with the efforts of poets as diverse as the late Pushkin, Baratynsky, and Lermontov to respond, each in his own way, to the advent of an "iron age." It will then proceed to the epoch of "metaphysical poetry" (Tiutchev and Fet), through the age of heightened social consciousness (Nekrasov), to a variety of "metapoetic" voices in the 1880s (Polonsky, Nadson, Myra, Lokhvitskaya) that presage the beginnings of Symbolism.

RUSS G6009x. Gogol. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A close study of the major works in the original.

RUSS G6010. A Revolution in Literature, 1917 - 1934. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Graduate Seminar: discussion in English, readings available in Russian and EnglishIn the period 1917-1934, the world of Russian letters sustained numerous complex, impassioned, and largely simultaneous debates about the purpose, value, and influence of literature; the appropriate aesthetic response or responses to the Russian Revolution; and, most importantly, the course to be charted by the practitioners of the new, Soviet, literature. The object of this course is to examine the ways in which Russian literature, literary criticism, and literary theories responded (and contributed) to the abrupt change of political context brought about by the Russian Revolution, culminating in the formal adoption of Socialist Realism as the official method of Soviet literature by the Union of Soviet Writers in 1934.

RUSS G6021x. The Structure of Modern Standard Russian. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The lecture course is devoted to description of the structure of phrase and sentence in modern literary Russian. Theorectical questions of syntax will be discussed in application to Russian, but the main emphasis will be put on the factual material, especially more difficult cases. The material will be drawn from colloquial standard Russain and literary Russian.

RUSS G6032. Modernist Russian Prose. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A close study in the original of representative modernist works.

RUSS G6039y. Literature, Politics, and Tradition after Stalin. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The major writers and trends in Russian literature from the death of Stalin to the present. Emphasis on the rethinking of the role of literature in society and on formal experimentation engendered by relaxation of political controls over literature.

RUSS G6041y. Contemporary Russian Culture & Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Advanced (near fluent) level of Russian

"Contemporary Russian Culture and Society" examines major topics in present-day Russian culture (literature (prose and poetry); language; philology and literary criticism; theater; cinema; architecture; childhood and education). This graduate seminar will be conducted in Russian; texts of various genres will be read and discussed; also included will be projects, film screenings, and guess lectures.

RUSS G6050x. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Russian, graduate standing or permission of the instructor

A close study of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, in the original, in a attempt to appreciate its unique novelistic form and to separate and synthesize its layers of meaning. To this end, we will also read the notebooks for the novel and, further, related works of fiction, journalism, theory, criticism, religious thought.

RUSS G6104y. Old Russian Literature, I. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of the principal genres of original and translated literature, with class readings and explication of assigned texts.

RUSS G6105. Old Russian Literature II. 3 pts.

The course surveys major works of the Russian literary canon, from the mid-fifteenth through the seventeenth century. It addresses a period of Russian history that coincides with the rise of Moscow as the center of a growing empire and its decline at the end of the seventeenth century. This period is truly transformative in the cultural sphere. It marks a general shift from medieval to modern practices and celebrates bold experiments with new forms of artistic expression. The course follows these complex processes through close readings of literary texts that have been constructed as "classical" in the Russian national canon. The focus is on the transformation of representative medieval genres (the vita, the pilgrim's travel notes, the political epistle) into modern ones (the biography, the travelogue, the political satire). Related topics of interest include the emergence of fictionality, literary subjectivity and literature as entertainment, the use of parody as a form of empowerment, and the representation of religious and political "others."

RUSS G6107. Russian Literary Theory and Criticism, I. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A chronological and generic approach to the major writers and movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.

RUSS G6109y. Introduction to Russian Folklore. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Russian folk belief, customs, and traditional folklore genres.

RUSS G6110y. Don Juan and Casanova in Russia. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Explores the Russian versions of the Don Juan and Casanova myths through a range of theatrical, lyrical, musical, and critical texts. Topics include: libertinism and decadence; desire, memory and memoirs; sexual/textual seduction; the Russian practice of 'the Don Juan list'; appropriation, inversion, and parody. Works by Casanova, Pushkin, A.K. Tolstoi, Bal'mont, Briusov, Blok, Gumilev, Akhmatova, Amfiteatrov, Zaitsev, Tsvetaeva, Nabokov, Kazakov, Korkiia.

RUSS G6117x. Between Truth and Fiction: 18th-Century Russian Prose. 3 pts.

A survey of Russian prose in the original from the beginning of the eighteenth century to its end. Emphasis on the gradual acceptance of prose fiction as a legitimate literary genre and the corresponding development of a fictitious narrator separate from the assumed author. The reading list includes prose works by Feofan Prokopovich, Vasilii Tatishchev, Natalia Dolgorukaia, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Aleksandr Radishchev, Denis Fonvizin, and Nikolai Karamzin.

RUSS G6118. The Russian Decameron: Early Russian Prose Fiction. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of Russian prose fiction in the original from its beginnings to the end of the 18th century. Emphasis on the emergence of a new hero/heroine: adventurous, upwardly mobile, and preoccupied with sex. Anonymous 17th- and 18th-century tales, prose works by Mikhail Chulkov, Nikolai Karamzin, Aleksandr Klushin, and Mikhail Sushkov, as well as 18th-century page turners by Matvei Komarov, and Ivan Novikov.

RUSS G6119y. 18th-Century Russsian Poetry. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of Russian poetry from the late 17th to the early 19th century, considered in the wider context of 1) the history of Russian poetry, with an eye toward the parallels between the 18th and the early 20th centuries--comparing the baroque and the avant-garde, the 18th-century Derzhavin with 20th-century poets like Mandelstam and Zabolotsky); and 2) the history of 18th-century Russian culture in general (especially the interplay of word and image, of poetry and architecture).

RUSS G6120. 19th-Century Russian Poetry. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. The major themes and modes of Russian poetry from preromaticism up to pure art. Selections from Batiushkov, Zhukovsky, Baratynsky, Yazykov, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Karolina Pavlova, Nekrasov, and Fet.

RUSS G6121. Russian Symbolist Poetry. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of the major poets, with readings and class discussion of representative lyrics and selected essays.

RUSS G6140x. The Classic Russian Novel. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Selected novels of Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky will be read closely, with special attention to the development and flowering of the Russian novel, to the question of what a novel is (in Russian context), and to the cultural work of these novels. Readings will also include seminal works of criticism, selected works on the theory of the novel, and additional novels from the Russian and European traditions that are relevant to the novels studied in the course. Students must be able to read the major texts in Russian.

RUSS G6150. Studies in Russian Culture [In Russian]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. The question of national identity; a consideration of the Slavophile-Westernizer debate from the early 18th century to the present.

RUSS G6160. Neglected Masterpieces. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A study, in the original, of works that rarely receive attention in traditional courses of Russian literature, including works by Bogdanovich, Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and others.

RUSS G6161y. Chekhov and the Short Story. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A detailed consideration, in the original, of Chekhov's corpus of short stories, with particular attention to how they work and how they work together. Emphasis on the relationship of this physician/writer's work to late 19th-century scientific discourses and epistemological dilemmas.

RUSS G6162. Chekhov and the Drama. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. A close reading, in the original, of Chekhov�s plays, with particular attention to the interplay of formal innovation and thematic preoccupation.

RUSS G6190. Early Russian Drama. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of Russian drama in the original from its beginnings to the early 19th century. The reading list includes Simeon Polotsky, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Mikhail Kheraskov, Denis Fonvizin, Vasilii Kapnist, Aleksandr Griboedov, and Aleksandr Pushkin.

RUSS G6200. Tsvetaeva and others. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A close reading of the poetry and prose of Marina Tsvetaeva. We will focus on defining what is unique about Tsvetaeva's poetic voice. To this end, we will read not only Tsvetaeva's work but also relevant texts by the poets whose presence is most palpable in her works (Homer, Sappho, Shakespeare, Pushkin, Briusov, Akhmatova, Mandel'shtam, Pasternak, and Rilke).

RUSS G6202x. Pushkin. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Pushkin's poetry (including narrative poemas), in roughly chronological order, considered in the broader context of ideological, aesthetic, and linguistic trends in Russia and Western Europe. Particular attention will be paid to Pushkin's relationship to European Romanticism. Among the problems to be discussed are: the features of genre and discourse, dialogism, the personalization of poetic voice, Romantic irony, elliptical narrative, Romantic exoticism, and imperial consciousness.

RUSS G6204. Reading Turgenev. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A close study, in the original, of a number of Turgenev's works, major and minor, with an eye to the methodological problems inherent in characterizing an author's oeuvre. We will consider the ways he has been read and situated in the tradition in an effort to identify - or generate- productive modes of reading Turgenev.

RUSS G6207. Phonetics and Poetics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A survey of methods of formal analysis of speech and poetic prosody and their application to Russian phonetics and verse.

RUSS G6212y. 19th/20th Century Russian Journalism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

This course is designed as an overview of the history of Russian journalism and literary criticism with particular attention to the interconnection between the two. The course will focus in particular on how the evolution of the institution of the journal has shaped and given a forum to competing visions of the role of literature in society from early nineteenth-century imperial Russia through the Soviet period to the present day. On the one hand, students will be asked to read major articles, of historical and theoretical import, by the foremost figures in the history of Russian and Soviet literary traditions and to discuss these writings within the context of their production and publication histories. On the other hand, students will be expected to draw on Columbia�s holdings of historically important Russian and Soviet journals by going to the library and surveying designated journals and reporting back to the class. (Each student will be responsible for making several such presentations in the course of the semester.) The goal of the course is to give the students informed appreciation of the conceptual and practical bases of the Russian literary process during the past two centuries.

RUSS G6213. Mandelshtam: the Poet and his Language. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

An examination of various aspects of Mandelshtam's oeuvre, with special attention to his development, from his early relations to post-symbolism to his gradual incorporation of the ideas and discourses of the post-revolutionary epoch.

RUSS G6215. Tolstoy's War and Peace. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. A close reading of Tolstoy's "War and Peace," in the original, along with related works of fiction, criticism, and philosophy. Our aim is to penetrate the stylistic, generic, philosophical, and human complexities of this novel.

RUSS G6216. Dostoevsky. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Readings in Russian or English translation. Survey of Dostoevsky�s major novels, selected short fiction, and journalism. Examination of Dosteovsky�s narrative strategies.

RUSS G6217. Pasternak. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A comprehensive examination of various genres of Pasternak�s writings and their relationship to the poet�s aesthetic, philosophical, and religious views.

RUSS G6219. Sinyavsky. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Russian.

Examination of the literary and theoretical works of Andrei Sinyavsky, with particular attention to those works the writer published under the pseudonym Abram Terts.

RUSS G6240x. The Rise of Socialist Realism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Exploration of the philosophical foundations, artistic trends, and psychological shift out of which Socialist realism aesthetics emerged on the turn of the 1930s. Major literary and critical works of the 1930s would be examined in a broad social and aesthetic context. Among Socialist Realism novels and related works that are to be discussed are those by Gorky, Gladkov, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Kataev, Sholokhov, Aleksei Tolstoy, Boris Polevoi, Andre Platonov, Bakhtin, and Mandelshtam.

RUSS G6431. Russian Women Novelists and the Rise of the Russian Novel. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

A close reading of novels and novellas written by Russian women in the nineteenth-century, with attention to broader questions of the theory, form and poetics of the novel, of the politics of literary history, of the feminie imagination. Works by Gan, Pavlova, Tur, Khvoschinskaya, Vovchok, Kovalevskaya, and others, with some attention to the novels of their feminine counterparts in England and France and of their masculine counterparts in Russia.

RUSS G6501y. Acmeism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The seminar explores the poetic theory and practice associated with one of the most significant movements of Russian Modernism. Acmeism emerged as a neosymbolist movement in 1913 and, for a brief time, constituted not only Russia's definitive poetic school, but also the context in which three of the most influential 20th-century Russian poets, Nikolai Gumilev, Osip Mandel'shtam, and Anna Akhmatova, found voice, identity, and purpose. Designed as a workshop for reading "difficult" poetry, the course aims to cultivate in students the analytical skills, technical knowledge, and broad contextual competence necessary for in-depth understanding of Russia's rich Acmeist heritage.

RUSS G6504y. Stalin Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

An examination of Soviet culture during the years of Stalin's rule with particular attention to the ways in which literary and artistic expression intersected with politics, ideology, and everyday life. Subjects of study will include works of literature, art, music and dance, films, memoirs, and historical documents.

RUSS G6505. Post-Stalin Soviet and Russian Contemporary Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. The interplay between literature within contemporary Soviet and post-Soviet Russian society as reflected in works of fiction and film of the period. The psychology of Stalinism, the search for personal integrity in the face of a corrupt modern society, materialism versus spirituality in the modern world, and other related topics.

RUSS G6512. Utopian Fiction in Russia and Europe. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. The development of Utopian fiction in Russia and Europe. Plato, More, Dostoevsky, Zamyatin, Platonov, and Marx.

RUSS G6515. Russian Literature and Culture in the Silver Age. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

RUSS G6601. Vladimir Solovyov: Poet and Philosopher. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. A study of the relationship between the major literary and philosophical texts, with reference to the relevant psychological, aesthetic and theological issues. Attention to the biographical and historical context.

RUSS G6630x. Ranks and Writing. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The course examines how obligatory state service and the existence of the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers' view of themselves as professionals. It also considers whether the prominence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. The reading list includes letters, memoirs, criticism, poetry, and fiction from Aleksandr Sumarokov and Nikolai Karamzin to Anton Chekhov and Osip Mandelstam.

RUSS G8036x-G8037y. Directed Research in Old Russian Literature and Folklore. 3-4 pts. Departmental permission.

RUSS G8038x-G8039y. Directed Research in Russian Literature of the 19th Century. 3-4 pts. Departmental permission.

RUSS G8040x-G8041y. Directed Research in Russian Literature of the 20th Century. 3-4 pts. Departmental permission.

RUSS G8042x-G8043y. Directed Research in the Modern Period. 3-4 pts. Departmental permission.

RUSS G8044x-G8045y. Directed Research in Russian Literature of the 18th Century. 3-4 pts. Departmental permission.

SCRB W1101x-W1102y. Elementary Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, I and II. 4 pts.

Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.

SCRB W1201x-W1202y. Intermediate Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, I and II. 3 pts. Prerequisites:SRCR W1102 or the equivalent.

Readings in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature in the original, with emphasis depending upon the needs of individual students.

CLSS W3997x-W3998y. Supervised individual instruction. 2-4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

SCRB W4331x-W4332y. Advanced Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian, I and II. 3 pts. Prerequisites: SCRB 1202.

Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

SLLT G8020x-G8021y. Directed Research In Slavic Cultures. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Departmental permission.

HSSL W4280x. Religion in Russia: Culture, History, Institutions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

From Prince Valdimir's Rus' to the Post-Soviet Russia of Vladimir Putin, religion has remained a key factor in the making and remaking of Russian policy and culture. This course will explore how Orthodox Christianity - whether privileged or persecuted - came to dominate the Russian religious scene, while also addressing the share of Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, and other religious traditions in shaping Russian institutions, discourses and lived experiences. Popular religion, cutting across various confessions and producing peculiar hybrids, will be of special interest, and so will be the proliferations of schisms within established religious groups. Students will draw from a variety of primary and secondary sources - chronicles, saints' lives, travel narratives, memoirs, letters, legal documents, icons and other ritual objects, newspaper accounts and photographs, films and fiction texts, as well as a large body of scholarly works - to examine how Russia's religious past and its rewriting into competing "histories" have been used over time as "legacies" shaping the present and the future. Knowledge of Russian is not required, although ability to consult original Russian sources is expected from students who pursue a degree in Russian history or Russian literature and culture.

SLLN G4005x. Introduction to Old Church Slavonic. 3 pts.

An introduction to the structure of Old Church Slavonic followed by readings of texts, with attention to the cultural history of Church Slavonic and its texts.

RUSS G6225. History of the Russian Literary Language. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites:SLLN G4005 Introduction to Old Church Slavonic.

A survey of styles and genres of the Russian written language at major epochs in their development from Kievan Rus through the early twentieth century.

SLLN G8020x-G8021y. Directed Research In Slavic Linguistics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

HNGR W4020. Modern Hungarian Prose in Translation: Exposing Naked Reality. 3 pts.

This course introduces students to representative examples of an essentially robust, reality-bound, socially aware literature. In modern Hungarian prose fiction, the tradition of nineteenth-century "anecdotal realism" remained strong and was further enlivened by various forms of naturalism. Even turn-of-the century and early twentieth-century modernist fiction is characterized by strong narrative focus, psychological realism, and an emphasis on social conditions and local color. During the tumultuous decades of the century, social, political, national issues preoccupied even aesthetics-conscious experimenters and ivory-tower dwellers. Among the topics discussed will be "populist" and "urban" literature in the interwar years, post-1945 reality in fiction, literary memoirs and reportage, as well as late-century minimalist and postmodern trends.

SLLT G8001x. Proseminar in Literary Studies. 4 pts.

The theory and practice of literary criticism. Required of all candidates for the M.A. degree in Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, South Slavic, and Polish Literature.

SLLT G8020x-G8021y. Directed Research in Slavic Cultures. 3 pts.

SLLT G9000y. Master's Research Instruction. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites:SLLT G8001

Required for all M.A. candidates in the Slavic Languages department. Instruction in the preparation of the master's essay.

UKRN W1101x-W1102y. Elementary Ukrainian, I and II. 3 pts.

Designed for students with little or no knowledge of Ukrainian. Basic grammar structures are introduced and reinforced, with equal emphasis on developing oral and written communication skills. Specific attention to acquisition of high-frequency vocabulary and its optimal use in real-life settings.

UKRN W1201x-W1202y. Intermediate Ukrainian, I and II. 3 pts. Prerequisites:UKRN W1102 or the equivalent.

Reviews and reinforces the fundamentals of grammar and a core vocabulary from daily life. Principal emphasis is placed on further development of communicative skills (oral and written). Verbal aspect and verbs of motion receive special attention.

UKRN W4001x-W4002y. Advanced Ukrainian, I and II. 3 pts. Prerequisites:UKRN W1202 or the equivalent.

The course is for students who wish to develop their mastery of Ukrainian. Further study of grammar includes patterns of word formation, participles, gerunds, declension of numerals, and a more in-depth study of difficult subjects, such as verbal aspect and verbs of motion. The material is drawn from classical and contemporary Ukrainian literature, press, electronic media, and film. Taught almost exclusively in Ukrainian.

UKRN G4033y. Early Modernism in Ukrainian Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

The course focuses on the rise of modernism in Ukrainian literature in the late 19th century and early 20th century, a period marked by a vigorous, often biting polemic between the populist Ukrainian literary establishment and young Ukrainian writers who were inspired by their European counterparts. Students will read prose, poetry, and drama written by Ivan Franko, the writers of the Moloda Musa, Olha Kobylianska, Lesia Ukrainka, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko among others. The course will trace the introduction of urban motifs and settings, as well as decadence, into Ukrainian literature and analyze the conflict that ensued among Ukrainian intellectuals as they forged the identity of the Ukrainian people. The course will be supplemented by audio and visual materials reflecting this period in Ukrainian culture. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.

UKRN G8001x-G8002y. Directed Research in Ukrainian Literature, I and II.. 3-4 pts. Departmental permission.

CLLN W4202x. Cognitive Linguistics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites:CLLN W3101, previously or concurrently.

Reading and discussion of scholarly literature on the cognitive approach to language, including: usage-oriented approaches to language, frame semantics, construction grammar, theories of conceptual metaphor and mental spaces; alongside of experimental research on language acquisition, language memory, prototypical and analogous thinking, and the role of visual imagery in language processing..

RUSS G4331x-G4332y. Language Pedagogy Workshop, I and II. 2 pts. Not offered in 2013-2014.

Designed to help graduate students teaching the Russian language understand theories and practices of foreign language teaching. Introduction to the teaching-learning process, specifics of teaching Russian as a less commonly taught language, hands on experience of planning class time, developing class activities, speaking and writing skills at the beginning level, grading, composing quizzes and tests.

SOSL G8001x-G8002y. Directed Research In South Slavic Literatures, I and II. 3-4 pts.

Departmental permission.