Course Catalog: CZCH, RUSS, & SLAV

Not all courses are offered all semesters. Please note that Slavic courses are offered under THREE rubrics: CZCH, RUSS, andSLAV. You can view the courses offered in 2008 in the Course Announcement Bulletin or on MOCHA.

Russian Language

RUSS 0100, 0200 Introductory Russian
RUSS 0110 Intensive Russian
RUSS 0300, 0400 Intermediate Russian
RUSS 0500, 0600 Advanced Russian
RUSS 1110 Special Topics in Russian Studies I: Advanced Reading and Conversation
RUSS 1120 Special Topics in Russian Studies II: Advanced Reading and Conversation
RUSS 1500 Approaches to Russian Literature

Russian Literature and Culture in Translation

FIRST YEAR SEMINARS (all numbered RUSS 0320)

RUSS 0320 Gogol: A Journey into the Fantastic
RUSS 0320 Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov: The Art of the Novel

RUSS 0320 Demons and Angels in Russian Literature

OTHER COURSES
RUSS 0930 Cultures and Literatures of the Russian and Soviet Empires
RUSS 0990 The Black Experience in Russia and the Soviet Union
RUSS 1000 Russian Modernism and the Arts
RUSS 1020 Russia Rediscovered
RUSS 1050 Russian Culture: From Peter The Great to Putin
RUSS 1090 Esoteric Russia
RUSS 1200 Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction
RUSS 1250 Russian Cinema
RUSS 1290 Russian Literature in Translation I: Pushkin to Dostoevsky
RUSS 1300 Russian Literature in Translation II: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
RUSS 1320 Soviet Literature from 1917 to 1953
RUSS 1330 Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature (1953 to Present)
RUSS 1340 The Russian Novel
RUSS 1430 (TSDA 1430) Russian Theater and Drama
RUSS 1450 Love, Adultery, and Sexuality
RUSS 1600 Literature and History: Russian Historical Imagination in the European Context
RUSS 1800 Pushkin
RUSS 1810 Tolstoy
RUSS 1820 Dostoevsky
RUSS 1860 Chekhov
RUSS 1960 Independent Study
RUSS 2010 Eighteenth-Century Literature
RUSS 2120 (TSDA 2120) Revolution as a Work of Art
RUSS 2320 Old Russian Literature
RUSS 2410 Movements and Genres in Russian Literary Culture
RUSS 2610, 2620 Seminars in Russian Literature:

Eugene Onegin
Russian Romanticism

RUSS 2710, 2720 Seminars in Russian Literature

Derzhavin and His Epoch
Pasternak
Poetic Structure

RUSS 2910 Eighteenth-Century Literature
RUSS 2970 (SLAV 2970) Preliminary Examination Preparation
RUSS 2980 (SLAV 2980) Advanced Reading and Research
RUSS 2990 (SLAV 2990) Thesis Preparation

Czech Language

CZCH 0100, 0200 Introductory Czech
CZCH 0410A Czechs and the Big Brother: Czech Lands in the 1980s
CZCH 0410B Coming of Age in Postwar Czechoslovakia
CZCH 0610A Czech Lands under Occupation and Terror
CZCH 0610B Czech Cultural Icons, Emblems, and National Identity

Note: CZCH 0410X and CZCH 0610X are topic courses which may be repeated for both intermediate and advanced credit.

Czech Literature and Culture in Translation

CZCH 0100 Dimensions of Czech Animation: Contexts, Interpretations, and Dialogs with the East
CZCH 1050 Contemporary Czech Society and Literature in Translation

Slavic Cultures & LINGUISTICS

Courses in this area study culture and literature from several countries, including Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

SLAV 1200 Slavic Fantasy and Science Fiction
SLAV 1300 Sociolinguistics: Former USSR / Eastern Europe

SLAV 1770 Prague and St. Petersburg: A Tale of Two Cities
SLAV 1890 Slavic Contributions to Literary Theory
SLAV 1950 Independent Study
SLAV 1970 topics rubric offering different courses, for ex:

Václav Havel: Playwright, Philosopher and Politician
Spirituality in Russian Literature