Russian Expanded Course Descriptions
Winter 2021 - Remote Instruction
- For day, time, room, and TA information, see our PDF SCHEDULE or the course search tool https://registrar-apps.ucdavis.edu/courses/search/index.cfm.
- Russian Teaching Method for Winter 2021
- For all courses not listed below, please refer to the General Catalog course descriptions: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/courses-subject-code/rus
Language Courses
RUS 2: Elementary Russian
RUS 5: Intermediate Russian
Undergraduate Courses
RUS 101B Advanced Russian
Liliana Avramenko
See catalog for course description.
RUS 103 Literary Translation
Olga Stuchebrukhov
Practice and theory of literary translation. Translation of literary texts from Russian into English. Learning the techniques of poetry, prose, and drama translation. Discussing the issues of language and culture, types of translation, problems of equivalence, untranslatability, etc. Translations include both classic and contemporary authors. In English and Russian; great course for developing bilingual skills. This course fulfills post-RUS101 major language requirements. Prerequisite 101C or the consent of the instructor.
RUS 120 Russian Fairy Tales
Olga Stuchebrukhov
GE credit: AH, OL, WC, WE
This course will explore Russian folk beliefs and fairy tales in light of various critical approaches, such as Folkloristic, Structuralist, Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytical, and others. We will learn to analyze and to write fairy tales, keeping in mind their generic structure and meaning. The course is taught in English. No prerequisite. May be repeated up to one time.