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Lecture, three hours. Required for PhD (literature, linguistics). Survey of basic concepts and categories (graphics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse). S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. Survey of short stories, novellas, and major plays ("The Seagull," "Uncle Vanya," "Three Sisters," "The Cherry Orchard"), with discussion of Russian and American productions. Concurrently scheduled with course C124C. S/U or letter grading.
Review and analysis of Russian symbolism, literary and cross-media movement that arose in 1890s and lasted into early 1920s. Study deals with problems of definition: linguistic, philosophical, literary, and literary-historical. Symbolism approached as cross-cultural (pan-European); cross-disciplinary (arts, philosophy, theology, and ethics); and interartistic (literature, graphic arts, music, and drama) phenomenon. Examination of Western European (especially French) antecedents of this movement, early development in 1890s, debt to Russian Romanticism, and evolution into quasi-philosophical and even religious movement in first part of 20th century. Study also considers impact on subsequent literary and cultural movements such as early acmeism, futurism, and even New Peasant school of poetry.
Seminar, three hours. Required for MA (literature). Designed to prepare incoming graduate students for scholarly work by introducing them to resources (departmental, intramural, and extramural), methodologies, and techniques for analysis of literary materials and cultural studies. Letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 495A.) Seminar, three hours. Limited to graduate students. Required for all Russian language teaching assistants and open to students seeking to enhance their pedagogical skills in teaching Russian. Focus on key issues related to teaching Russian to second language learners. S/U grading.
S/U grading.
S/U grading.
S/U grading.