Courses
Fall 2007 Courses
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- 102. Elementary Russian II
- Jane Knox-Voina M 9:30 - 10:25, W 9:30 - 10:25, F 9:30 - 10:25 Sills-Language Media Center
- Continuation of Russian 101. Emphasis on the acquisition of language skills through imitation and repetition of basic language patterns; the development of facility in speaking and understanding simple Russian. Conversation hour with native speaker.
- 204. Intermediate Russian II
- Raymond Miller M 11:30 - 12:25, W 11:30 - 12:25, F 11:30 - 12:25 Sills-111
- A continuation of Russian 203. Emphasis on maintaining and improving the student's facility in speaking and understanding normal conversational Russian. Writing and reading skills are also stressed. Conversation hour with native speaker.
- 221. Soviet Worker Bees, Revolution, and Red Love in Russian Film
- Jane Knox-Voina M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55 Sills-Language Media Center
- Explores twentieth-century Russian culture through film, art, architecture, and literature. Topics include scientific utopias, eternal revolution, individual freedom, collectivism, conflict between the intelligentsia and the common man, the “new Soviet woman,” nationalism, and the demise of the Soviet Union. Works of Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Kandinsky, Chagall, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Brodsky, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, and Tolstoya. Weekly film viewings. Russian majors are required to do some reading in Russian.
- 307. Russian Folk Culture
- Raymond Miller M 8:00 - 9:25, W 8:00 - 9:25 Sills-Peucinian Room
- A study of Russian folk culture: folk tales, fairy tales, legends, and traditional oral verse, as well as the development of folk motives in the work of modern writers. Special emphasis on Indo-European and Common Slavic background. Reading and discussion in Russian. Short term papers.
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