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(Same as Russian CM124G.) Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. Short stories, novel Dead Souls, and selected plays. Concurrently scheduled with course CM224G. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three to four hours. Recommended preparation: courses 101A, 101B (may be waived with consent of instructor). Introduction to grammar; instruction in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours. Recommended preparation: courses 101A, 101B (may be waived with consent of instructor). Basic course in Polish language. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours. Recommended preparation: courses 101A, 101B (may be waived with consent of instructor). Basic course in Romanian language. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 2 or Russian placement test. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, five hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 5 or Russian placement test. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 101B or Russian placement test. Advanced grammar, reading, and conversation, with strong multimedia component. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 102B 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.
Lecture, three hours. Course 103B is not requisite to 103C. Improvement of oral and written language skills, emphasizing correct and diversified use of language and addressing individual grammatical difficulties. May be repeated for credit with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
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 C224T. P/NP or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 131.) 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 C231. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to Russian culture and society from earliest times to 1917. P/NP or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered C124G.) (Same as Ukrainian CM124G.) Lecture, three hours. Lectures and readings in English. Short stories, novel Dead Souls, and selected plays. Concurrently scheduled with course CM224G. P/NP or letter grading.
(Same as Asian M20, Indo-European Studies M20, Near Eastern Languages M20, and Southeast Asian M20.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Consideration of concrete means of language representation in writing systems. Earliest representations of language known are those of Near East dating to end of 4th millennium BC. While literate civilizations of Egypt, Indus Valley, China, and Mesoamerica left little evidence of corresponding earliest developments, their antiquity and, in case of China and Mesoamerica, their evident isolation mark these centers as loci of independent developments in writing. Basic characteristics of early scripts, assessment of modern alphabetic writing systems, and presentation of conceptual basis of semiotic language representation. Origins and development of early non-Western writing systems. How Greco-Roman alphabet arose in 1st millennium BC and how it compares to other modern writing systems. P/NP or letter grading.
(Same as Religion M40.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of three major historical branches of Christianity--Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and Protestantism, contrasting how history, dogma, culture, and community structures develop in those three traditions. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Comprehensive interdisciplinary investigation of Los Angeles as multilingual and multicultural metropolis Review and analysis of features of major linguistic communities in Los Angeles area (Armenian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and others), with particular attention to social and cultural factors that play role in maintenance of language used in any given ethnic group. Familiarization with discipline and methodology of urban linguistics as part of urban geographical studies and as tool for investigating growing linguistic and cultural diversity of America's large cities. P/NP or letter grading.
Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 191TB. Limited to senior departmental majors. Editing and completion of senior capstone thesis. Use of student target language for research required. Letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: courses 102A, 102B (may be waived with consent of instructor). P/NP or letter grading.
Tutorial, one hour; laboratory, one hour. Preparation: prior course in sequence or Serbian/Croatian placement test. Tutorial and guided independent study of advanced Serbian/Croatian: advanced conversation, composition, vocabulary development, and review of selected grammar topics. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.