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RUSSN 2 - Elementary Russian
Instructor(s):
Emilia Mclennan, Anna Kudyma, David Miller, Assem Shamarova
Lecture, five hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 1 or Russian placement test. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 5 - Intermediate Russian
Instructor(s):
Susan Kresin, Anna Kudyma
Lecture, five hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 4 or Russian placement test. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 25 - Great Russian Novel
Instructor(s):
Gail Lenhoff, Elena Makarova
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 25W. Designed for nonmajors. Knowledge of Russian not required. Study of major works by great 19th-century Russian novelists. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 31 - Introduction to Russian Film
Instructor(s):
Pavel Savgira, Lilya Kaganovsky, Tianli Zhou
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; film screening, two hours. Key works, names, events, and concepts of Russian cinematic tradition. Development of skills in analyzing and interpreting films and acquisition of critical terminology of film studies. How film form and aesthetics are conditioned by technology, ideology, economics, theory, tradition, and culture. How cinema in Russia has created and contested narratives of history and identity, how cinema has served interests of state, and how it has defied them. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 100B - Literacy in Russian
Instructor(s):
Anna Kudyma, Polina Varfolomeeva
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100A or Russian placement test. For students who speak Russian but have difficulty reading and writing. Focus on improving reading and writing skills, increasing vocabulary, and developing speaking skills required for academic discourse. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 101B - Third-Year Russian
Instructor(s):
Susan Kresin
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 101A or Russian placement test. Advanced grammar, reading, and conversation, with strong multimedia component. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 102B - Topics in Advanced/Superior Russian
Instructor(s):
Anna Kudyma
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 102A or Russian placement test. Discussion and composition, with emphasis on vocabulary development and review of selected grammar topics. Readings in fiction and nonfiction, films, and videos, and use of Internet. May be taken independently and may be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 103B - Russian for Native and Near-Native Speakers: Literature and Film
Instructor(s):
Anna Kudyma
Lecture, three hours. Course 103A is not requisite to 103B. Improvement of oral and written language skills, emphasizing correct and diversified use of language and addressing individual grammatical difficulties. Film adaptations of Russian literature. Readings and screenings. May be repeated for credit with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN 119 - Golden Age and Great Realists
Instructor(s):
Vadim Shneyder
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Russian majors are advised to take this course in their sophomore year. Lectures and readings in English. Survey of 19th-century Russian literature (Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov) in its cultural, political, and social contexts. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN C124D - Studies in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky
Instructor(s):
Ronald Vroon
Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. In-depth reading of major fictional works such as Crime and Punishment, Notes from the Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov. Concurrently scheduled with course C224D. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN C124N - Studies in Russian Literature: Nabokov
Instructor(s):
Yelena Furman
Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. Russian novelist ("The Gift"), American novelist ("Lolita"), autobiographer ("Speak Memory"), and critic. Concurrently scheduled with course C277. P/NP or letter grading.
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RUSSN M127 - Women in Russian Literature
Instructor(s):
Lilya Kaganovsky
(Same as Gender Studies M127.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Lectures and readings in English. Introduction to alternative tradition of women's writings in Russia and Soviet Union. Emphasis on images of women expressed in this tradition as compared with those found in works of contemporary male writers. P/NP or letter grading.