Lower Division Courses
RUSSIAN 2 - Elementary Russian
Zoya Stanchits Popova
(M-F 9:00 - 9:50) CRN 50384
Course Description: Continuation of grammar and language skills developed in course 1.
Format: Discussion - 5 hours.
Prerequisite: Course 1.
Textbooks: Robin et al., A Basic Course in Russian book 1 Lab/Workbook; Robin, et al, A Basic Course in Russian Book 1.
RUSSIAN 5 - Intermediate Russian
Liliana Avramenko, Lecturer (MTRF 10:00 - 10:50) CRN 50385
Course Description: Grammar review, introduction to literature, and conversational practice.
Format: Discussion - 4 hours.
Prerequisite: Course 4.
Textbooks: Olga Kagan, Russian Grammar in Context; Olga Kagan, Students Activities Manual - V Puti 2/E.
RUSSIAN 98 - Russian Fairy Tales
Rimma Garn, Lecturer (TR 3:10 - 4:30) CRN 50388
Course Description: This course will not only introduce the students to the magic of Russian fairy tales. Vladimir Propp's structural analysis of fairy tales will allow us to discern the
underlying principles governing them and even to write new tales. The course will also examine the remarkable transformations of fairy tales in Russian literary texts of the twentieth century, both in
the ones extolling the Soviet regime and in the ones subverting it.
Format: Lecture - 3 hours.
Prerequisite: None.
Textbooks: M. Balina, H. Goscilo, M. Lipovetsky (eds), Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales; V. Propp, Morphology of the Folktale.
Upper Division Courses
RUSSIAN 101B - Advanced Russian
Diana Lysinger (MWF 11:00 - 11:50) CRN 50398
Course Description: Continuation of course 101A. Topics in Russian grammar for the advanced student. Reading and discussion of journalistic texts and classic and contemporary literature.
Conversational exercises utilizing literary and colloquial variants of current Russian speech.
Format: Lecture - 2 hours; Discussion - 1 hour.
Prerequisite: Course 101A.
Textbook: Olga Kagan, Russian for Russians.
RUSSIAN 102 - Russian Composition
Rimma Garn, Lecturer (TR 10:30 - 11:50) CRN 50399
Course Description: This course will provide the students with ample opportunities to improve their writing in Russian. We will discuss the nature and variety of language registers, address
questions of verbal etiquette, practice writing in formal and informal modality. Through composing and revising letters and essays the students will learn to better express their thoughts in Russian, to
write more accurately and coherently. Grammar review will be tailored to the students' needs and interests.Conducted in Russian. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
Format: Discussion - 3 hours.
Prerequisite: Course 6 or consent of instructor.
Text: D. Offord and N. Gogolitsyna, Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage.
RUSSIAN 128 - 20th Century Russian Poetry
Olga Stuchebrukhov, Professor (TR 9:00 - 10:20) CRN 53356
Course Description:Survey of the Modernist poetry of the pre-Revolutionary period (Symbolism, Acmeism, and Futurism) as well as later 20th-century poetry. The students will study Russian
versification theory and will learn to recognize and analyze different poetic styles. The course will include the work of such poets as Konstantin Balmont, Fyodor Sologub, Zinaida Gippius, Valery Brusov,
Alexander Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Esenin, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, and others. Conducted in Russian. GE credit: ArtHum.
Format: Discussion - 3 hours; term paper.
Prerequisite: Course 101C or consent of instructor.
Textbooks: A reader will be used.
