Graduate Courses

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For a complete listing of department courses visit the UCLA General Catalog.

Spring 2025

  • UKRN CM224G - Studies in Russian Literature: Gogol

    Instructor(s): Roman Koropeckyj

    (Same as Russian CM224G.) Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. Short stories, novel Dead Souls, and selected plays. Concurrently scheduled with course CM124G. S/U or letter grading.

  • RUSSN 211B - 18th-Century Russian Literature

    Instructor(s): Gail Lenhoff

    Lecture, three hours. Course 211B or 291B is required for PhD (literature). Lectures and readings in major and secondary writers. Analysis of related literary works. Letter grading.

  • RUSSN C224T - Studies in Russian Literature: Tolstoy

    Instructor(s): Vadim Shneyder

    Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. Early and late stories and novellas, excerpts from the diaries and one major novel such as "War and Peace" or "Anna Karenina." Concurrently scheduled with course C124T. S/U or letter grading.

  • RUSSN C231 - History of Russian Cinema

    Instructor(s): Lilya Kaganovsky

    Lecture/screenings, six hours. Advanced topics in Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet cinema. Topics selected from early Russian cinema (1908 to 1918); Soviet avant-garde (1918 to 1929); cinema under Stalin (1930s to 1950s); Soviet art house (1960s to 1970s); late and post-Soviet film (1980s to 1990s); Russian cinema after 2000; Soviet women's cinema; and Russian and East European cinemas. May be repeated for credit with topic change. Concurrently scheduled with course C131. S/U or letter grading.

  • RUSSN CM224G - Studies in Russian Literature: Gogol

    Instructor(s): Roman Koropeckyj

    (Formerly numbered C224G.) (Same as Ukrainian CM224G.) Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. Short stories, novel Dead Souls, and selected plays. Concurrently scheduled with course CM124G. S/U or letter grading.

  • SLAVC 495C - Supervised Teaching of Russian Language Learners

    Instructor(s): Anna Kudyma

    Seminar, two hours. Enforced requisites: courses 495A, 495B. Required for all Russian language teaching assistants each term they teach. Offers guidance and supervision for teaching assistants focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary instruction, communication strategies, intercultural competence, and blended teaching methods. Students explore feedback techniques and digital tools while participating in peer observations and receiving constructive feedback. S/U grading.

  • SLAVC 596 - Directed Individual Study or Research

    Instructor(s): Tanya Ivanova-sullivan, Lilya Kaganovsky, Roman Koropeckyj, Susan Kresin, Gail Lenhoff, Igor Pilshchikov, Vadim Shneyder, Ronald Vroon

    S/U grading.

  • SLAVC 597 - Preparation for MA Comprehensive Examination or PhD Qualifying Examinations

    Instructor(s): Tanya Ivanova-sullivan, Lilya Kaganovsky, Roman Koropeckyj, Gail Lenhoff, Igor Pilshchikov, Vadim Shneyder, Ronald Vroon

    S/U grading.

  • SLAVC 599 - Research for PhD Dissertation

    Instructor(s): Tanya Ivanova-sullivan, Lilya Kaganovsky, Roman Koropeckyj, Gail Lenhoff, Igor Pilshchikov, Vadim Shneyder, Ronald Vroon

    S/U grading.

  • SLAVC 200B - Proseminar: Slavic Linguistics: Fundamentals of Second Language Acquisition

    Instructor(s): Tanya Ivanova-sullivan

    Study of second language acquisition fundamentals, with focus on Slavic languages. Discussion of formal, meaning-based, typological, sociocultural, and psycholinguistic approaches. Attention paid to individual differences in language learning such as age, aptitude, and motivation. Analysis of implications of models of second language acquisition for language teaching and learning. Students encouraged to design their own study on any aspect of second language acquisition.