Courses
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Reading and composition course based on works of Russian and other Slavic writers, either written in English or translated into English. As students develop strategies of writing and interpretation, they will become acquainted with a particular theme in Russian and/or Slavic literatures and their major voices. R5A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5B satisfies the second half.
Reading and Composition: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Reading and composition course based on works of Russian and other Slavic writers, either written in English or translated into English. As students develop strategies of writing and interpretation, they will become acquainted with a particular theme in Russian and/or Slavic literatures and their major voices. R5A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5B satisfies the second half.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.
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Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2014
Readings in English of representative texts from the Russian literary tradition. Variable topics.
Great Books of Russian Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: 39
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021
Freshman and Sophomore seminars offer lower-division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2012
Freshman and Sophomore seminars offer lower-division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2004, Spring 2001
Freshman and Sophomore seminars offer lower-division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2009
Freshman and Sophomore seminars offer lower-division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2012, Spring 2012
Freshman and Sophomore seminars offer lower-division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
Freshman and Sophomore seminars offer lower-division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Nineteenth-century Russian literature, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov.
The class is taught in English, on the basis of English translations; students with knowledge of Russian are encouraged to do at least some of the reading in the original.
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet literature from the 1900 to the present viewed in a socio-cultural and political context.
The class is taught in English, on the basis of English translations; students with knowledge of Russian are encouraged to do at least some of the reading in the original.
Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Books written for children emerge from specific and complicated social and historical contexts, as do the children (and adults) who read these books. In recent years, the world of children's books has been rocked by productive debates about the kinds of stories told and the identities of the voices telling those stories. In this class, we will read a wide assortment of books written (both long ago and very recently) for children, with particular attention paid to books addressing the experiences of Native, Latinx and African American children in the United States. We will also read scholarly, critical, and theoretical articles as we engage with our texts. Assessment will be based on class participation, written papers, and exams.
Children's Literature in the Context of American Cultures: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Nesbet
Children's Literature in the Context of American Cultures: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Spring 2024, Summer 2023 8 Week Session
This course introduces students to the cultures of the peoples of the former Soviet bloc (Russia and other areas of the former Soviet Union, including Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe), from early times to the present, with the emphasis on cultural identity. Readings in history, fiction, folklore, viewing of films, and art. Thematic units include formation of the Russian civilization, Slavic nationalism in the Romantic era, empire and identity in Eastern/Central Europe; Soviet and post-Soviet daily life, Jews in Slavic lands, the former Yugoslavia; multi ethnic lands. Required of majors in Russian/East European/Eurasian cultures, the course is also aimed at a broad audience. Knowledge of the areas' languages not required.
Introduction to Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Introduction to Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
Group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Freshman or sophomore standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Supervised independent study for lower division students with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
Individual Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
An overview of various aspects of cultural history, literature, language, and society of Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. Variable topics. Course readings include primary texts (literature, film, popular culture, journalism) and scholarly studies. Course work emphasizes students' research. Final research paper or project required.
Seminar: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Cultures: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Seminar: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Cultures: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
Additional readings in the original language to be coordinated with an appropriate upper division lecture course with readings in English offered by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. This includes all courses in the Slavic 130, 140, 150, 160, and 170 and Armenian 120 series. Supervised by the instructor of the lecture course in which the student is also enrolled. Attend lectures and do all assigned written work in the main lecture course and also perform additional work by reading all or some of the primary texts in the original language.
Advanced Readings in Russian, East European and Eurasian Languages: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Knowledge of an appropriate Slavic, East European or Eurasian language with approval of the instructor. Concurrent enrollment in an upper-division class in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 1 time.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of reading per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Advanced Readings in Russian, East European and Eurasian Languages: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
Special research project to be coordinated with an appropriate upper division lecture course offered by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. (This includes courses in the Slavic 130, 140, 150, 160, and 170 series and Armenian 120 series). Supervised by the instructor of the lecture course in which the student is also enrolled. Students attend lectures and do all assigned written work in the main lecture course and also perform additional research.
Research in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Concurrent enrollment in an upper-division class in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 1 time.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Research in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2010, Spring 2007
Introduction to the cultures of East Slavic peoples in the Middle Ages, including history, mythology, Christian religious culture, literature (writing), icon painting, and architecture.
The Culture of Medieval Rus': Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Zhivov
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
A lecture course examining Russian literature and culture in the 20th century. The course will focus on the interaction of literature, other artistic forms (painting, photography, or film), and broader social and ideological changes in one of the key transitional periods of the 20th century. Periods to be examined include the transition to Communism in the post-revolutionary 20s and the retreat from Communism (the perestroika 80s and the post-Communist 90s). No knowledge of Russian is required.
Literature, Art, and Society in 20th-Century Russia: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Ram
Literature, Art, and Society in 20th-Century Russia: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2004
A reading of novels by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy along with some relevant English novels. We will look at how the Russian and English novels respond to each other, resemble each other, and differ from each other, especially in their treatment of childhood, family, love, social theory, spirituality, and narrative.
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the English Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018
Study of major Russian and Western (European and American) 19th- and 20th-century novels, and their interrelations. Variable reading list. See Department announcement for description.
The Novel in Russia and the West: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 8 units.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2013, Fall 2009
Gogol's fiction and plays, treated in relation to his life and to developments in Russian and European literature. Extensive outside reading required for this course.
Gogol: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
A survey of the writer's principal artistic works, treated in relation to his life and to developments in Russian and European literature. Extensive outside reading required for this course.
Dostoevsky: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2020
This course offers a cultural history of encounters between Russia and Asia in literature, film and visual art. The lenses of Orientalism, Eurasianism and Internationalism will be used to analyze Russian interactions with three spaces: the Caucasus, Central Asia, and East Asia. We will discuss works by classic Russian writers and artists (including Tolstoy, Blok and Platonov) that address the question of Russia’s engagement with Asia and consider Russia’s ambiguous spatial identity between Europe and Asia. We will also examine responses to Russian culture and the Russian/Soviet state in the literature and culture of China (Lu Xun, Xiao Hong), Japan (Kurosawa), Central Asia (Aitmatov) and the Caucasus (Sadulaev). All readings in English.
Russia and Asia: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Also listed as: EA LANG C134
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2020
A survey of the writer's principal artistic works, treated in relation to his life and to developments in Russian and European literature. Extensive outside reading required for this course.
Tolstoy: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2021
Studies in the innovative master of modern narrative forms: short story, drama, letter. Extensive exposure to the life and times of Anton Chekhov. Practice in critical approaches to literature and theater. Writing-intensive course.
Chekhov: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
A thorough examination of Nabokov's work as a novelist, critic, and memoirist. Explores Nabokov's fiction from his European and American periods, his (imagined) relation to literary predecessors, and his construct of an authorial self. Extensive outside reading required for this course.
Nabokov: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2014
A reading of major works by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in the context of Russian and European philosophy and religious thought. Extensive outside reading required. Variable content.
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Fall 2010
Special topics in Russian literature and its international context. Variable subject matter; see Department announcement for description. Extensive outside reading required for this course.
Studies in Russian Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2015
An introduction to best practices in applying linguistic analysis to Slavic languages. Development of critical thinking and analytical skills.
Introduction to Slavic Linguistics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A year or more of a Slavic language or consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Slavic Languages and Literatures C137/Linguistics C137 after taking Slavic Languages and Literatures 137; a deficient grade in Slavic Languages and Literatures 137 may be removed by taking Slavic Languages and Literatures C137/Linguistics C137.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Instructor: Kavitskaya
Also listed as: LINGUIS C137
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course will examine the Russian contribution to film history and theory, with particular attention paid to the role of the cinema in Soviet culture and Russian films complex ties to literary and political movements. Variable topics.
Topics in Russian and Soviet Film: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Nesbet
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
This course explores the literary and visual culture that emerged in post-Soviet societies following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Students will learn how literature and cinema transformed during a period of dramatic and even traumatic change, in the context of intense debates over national identity, the relationship to the socialist past, and the inter-relations of art, politics and commerce. While our focus will be on the literature, cinema and popular culture of post-Soviet Russia, we will also consider texts and films produced in other post-Soviet spaces: Ukraine, Armenia, and Central Asia.
Post-Soviet Cultures: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2010, Spring 2006
Linguistic background and the general principles of language spread. Mechanisms of language spread, including creolization-decreolization, language planning, and the role of bilingualism. Case studies in language spread, including Austronesian, Indo-European, Amerindian, Uralic, African, Sinitic, and Australian languages. Relationship of language spread to immigration and culture spreads.
Language Spread: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Also listed as: LINGUIS C139
Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
The course will examine the Russian and East European contribution to the practice and theory of the performing arts, especially (but not exclusively) theater. The course emphasizes the involvement of the performing arts in the social and cultural fabric.
The Performing Arts in Russia and Eastern Europe: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
The Performing Arts in Russia and Eastern Europe: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2020
Folktales, epic songs, customs, and beliefs of Russians and Ukrainians.
East Slavic Folklore: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Alexander
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2014
Folktales, epic songs, customs, and beliefs of the South Slavs and other Balkan peoples.
Balkan Folklore: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Alexander
Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2009
This course examines various dimensions of Russian culture--social, political, artistic, literary--in public and private life. The theory and method of cultural studies will be addressed, as well as concrete historical material pertaining to Russia. Topic and period variable. Instruction and texts in English, but students with a working knowledge of Russian are encouraged to do some reading in the original.
Topics in Russian Cultural History: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course explores narratives of incarceration in the U.S. and Russia, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Our focus will be on prison memoirs by Black, Indigenous, and Asian American writers, alongside works by Russian and Soviet authors.
Cultures of Captivity: Prison Literature in the U.S. and Russia: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Jensen
Cultures of Captivity: Prison Literature in the U.S. and Russia: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2014, Fall 2012
A survey of the major writers, works, and trends of the Polish literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present. Special attention devoted to the Renaissance, the age of Romanticism, and the modern period. No knowledge of Polish required.
Polish Literature and Intellectual Trends: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Frick
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2012, Fall 2010
Selected readings in Polish tailored to the academic interests of students enrolled.
Readings in Polish Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 115A
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Frick
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
This course examines various dimensions of different East European and Eurasian (Central Asia, the Caucasus, Siberia) cultures (history, society, languages, literature, art). Variable topics. Instruction and readings in English; students with knowledge of the languages of the area are encouraged to do some reading in the original language.
Topics in East European/Eurasian Cultural History: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Topics in East European/Eurasian Cultural History: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Outline of major developments in Serbian (including Montenegrin) and Croatian (including Dalmatian) literatures from the beginnings to the present. No knowledge of Serbian/Croatian required.
Survey of Yugoslav Literatures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2015, Fall 2013
This advanced Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language and culture course allows students to hone their ability to analyze and discuss BCS texts from a range of literary, humanistic, and social scientific disciplines, written in a variety of genres. The pragmatic focus of the course will be on developing reading and writing fluency in BCS. Emphasis will be placed on strategies for approaching and comprehending challenging authentic texts.
Advanced Readings in Yugoslav/Post-Yugoslav Studies: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: BOSCRSR 117B or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Advanced Readings in Yugoslav/Post-Yugoslav Studies: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2018
Studies in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literature, linguistics, or conversation, depending on the needs of the students enrolled.
Topics in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 117A (may be taken concurrently)
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This four-week travel/study course will focus on legacies of war, exemplary moments of peaceful coexistence, and historical challenges to peace in the former Yugoslavia over the long 20th century. Taught in English, no prerequisites, open to Berkeley undergraduate students in all majors.
Balkan Bridges: Contested Histories, Shared Commitments: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Summer: 4 weeks - 20 hours of lecture and 25 hours of fieldwork per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Balkan Bridges: Contested Histories, Shared Commitments: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course introduces students to the history and legacy of war and conflict in the former Yugoslavia, while giving them a solid foundation in film criticism. Its syllabus showcases some of the most critically acclaimed films produced in the region – films which have had global impact and, in crucial instances, created new possibilities for what a war film can (and should) look like.
War on Screen: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Study and analysis of the development of the Russian literary language and short fiction from the eighteenth century to the present.
Readings in Russian Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 103A (which may be taken concurrently)
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2015, Fall 2012
A survey of the writer's principal artistic works, treated in relation to his life and to developments in Russian and European literature.
Pushkin: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 103A (which may be taken concurrently)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2020
Course conducted in Russian. Reading, analysis, and interpretation of representative authors from the nineteenth century to the present.
Russian Prose: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Russian 103B (may be taken concurrently)
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 8 units.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2018
Based on a wide range of sources from the 19th and 20th centuries--works of fiction, publicistics, personal documents--the course will trace the formation and historical transformation of Russian cultural identity, including issues in national identity, ethnicity, position in relation to state, gender, and sexuality. The class is aimed at students with advanced knowledge of Russian, both Americans studying Russian and Russians living in America. All readings, lectures, and discussions in Russian.
Russian Culture Taught in Russian: Country, Identity, and Language: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Advanced Russian, at least three years of college level or equivalent with consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Russian Culture Taught in Russian: Country, Identity, and Language: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2022
The focus of this course is 21st century Russian culture, language, and politics in their various instantiations. It will be based on analysis of contemporary texts and discourses, from novels to blogs, and from rap and stand-up comedy to political discussions. It will also include visual arts, such as film, animation, and graphic novels. The class is aimed at students with advanced knowledge of Russian, both Americans studying Russian and Russians living in America. All readings, lectures, and discussions are in Russian.
Russian Culture and Language in the Contemporary World: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Russian 103B or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Russian Culture and Language in the Contemporary World: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Study and research on a topic selected by the student in consultation with the faculty adviser, to culminate in the writing of a thesis. See departmental description of the Honors Program.
Honors Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Overall and major grade point average of 3.3
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Supervised cooperative study of topics (in Slavic and East European languages and literatures) not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Supervised Group Study for Undergraduates: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Students must have completed 60 units of undergraduate study and have a minimum GPA of 3.0
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Overall GPA of 3.0
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Reports on current scholarly work by faculty and graduate students.
Graduate Colloquium: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of colloquium per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
Introduction to Old Church Slavic, with special attention to inflexional morphology. Assigned translations and sight reading of selected texts.
Old Church Slavic: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of a modern Slavic language or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2016
Assigned translations and sight reading of selected Medieval Orthodox Slavic texts.
Medieval Orthodox Slavic Texts: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 210
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2008, Fall 2005
Reconstruction of Common Slavic phonology and morphology in relation to Indo-European and modern Slavic languages.
Comparative Slavic Linguistics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 210
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020
Survey of morphology and syntax of a contemporary Slavic language (Czech, Polish, Russian, or Serbian/Croatian); see departmental announcement for topic. Recommended for prospective teachers.
Descriptive Grammar of Slavic Languages: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Knowledge of the language
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2008
Analysis of synchronic grammar and structure of discourse of a Slavic language (Czech, Polish, Russian, or Serbian/Croatian) with attention to theoretical models; see Department announcement for topic.
Advanced Structure of Slavic Languages: Grammatical Analysis and Theory: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 222
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Advanced Structure of Slavic Languages: Grammatical Analysis and Theory: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2009, Spring 2004
Historical phonology, morphology, and syntax of a Slavic language (Czech, Polish, Russian, or Serbian/Croatian). Some coverage of dialectology. See Department announcement for topic.
Historical Grammar of Slavic Languages: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 210
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
Analysis of language and style of a Slavic literary language (Czech, Polish, Russian, or Serbian/Croatian) from the beginnings to the present, with emphasis on periods of particular significance. See Department announcement for topic.
History of Slavic Literary Languages: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Advanced knowledge of the modern language, 210; 214 and at least one advanced or graduate level literature course
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2006, Fall 2001
Linguistic history and dialectology of Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian/Croatian.
South Slavic Linguistics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 220
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Alexander
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2014
Attempts to describe literary forms, poetic usage of language, and cultural infrastructure, as a code, examined as a consistent trend in 20th-Century literary theory. Consideration of this scholarly trend in historical perspective; its sources, evolution, and eventual dissipation.
Twentieth-Century Slavic Literary Theory: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 281, 282, 221, one of following: 245, 246,287; approval of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2017
Studies in poetry, drama, and fiction, covering major figures between 1730 and the end of the century.
Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2001
The development of the nineteenth-century Russian novel and its sources in and links with Western literary works and movements.
The Russian Novel and Literatures of Western Europe: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
The Russian Novel and Literatures of Western Europe: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2018, Fall 2015
Coverage of major movements and genres in the intellectual context of the times. Readings in Russian.
Russian Sentimentalism and Romanticism (1790s-1840s): Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor; adequate knowledge of Russian
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Russian Sentimentalism and Romanticism (1790s-1840s): Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2018, Fall 2014
Coverage of major movements and genres in the intellectual context of the times. Readings in Russian.
Russian Realism (1840s-1900): Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor; adequate knowledge of Russian
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2020
Coverage of major movements and genres in the intellectual context of the times. Readings in Russian.
Russian Modernism (1890s-1920s): Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor; adequate knowledge of Russian
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2016
Coverage of major movements and genres in the intellectual context of the times. Readings in Russian.
Contemporary Russian Literature (1920-present): Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor; adequate knowledge of Russian
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Contemporary Russian Literature (1920-present): Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2023
This course focuses on the Russophone literature in the new millennium (from the early 2000s to the present day), incorporating a crucial discussion of the late Soviet period and the 1990s. Readings in Russian.
Russian Literature of the 21st Century: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor; adequate knowledge of Russian
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2009, Spring 1998
This seminar addresses the problems and methods of cultural history within the Russian context. Special attention will be given to the social, political, and historical matrices which determine (and may be determined by) aesthetic production, as well as to the role of culture in the construction of everyday life. Topic and period variable. Instruction in English; texts in English and Russian. Students without reading knowledge of Russian should consult with instructor.
Topics in Russian Cultural History: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
Selected topics in Slavic folklore, with focus on contributions to folklore theory based on Slavic material.
Topics in Slavic Folklore: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Alexander
Terms offered: Spring 2010
Topics in the languages, peoples, and cultures of Eastern and Central Europe, the CIS, and diasporas. Topics vary as to region (e.g., Northeastern Europe, the Baltic Coast, the Caucasus) and approach (e.g., sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, studies of ethnic and language minorities). Readings include sources in the original languages of the area.
Languages, Peoples, and Cultures of the Greater Slavic World: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing, knowledge of target languages, consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Languages, Peoples, and Cultures of the Greater Slavic World: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
Advanced studies in the several fields of Slavic literatures and linguistics. Content varies.
Studies in Slavic Literature and Linguistics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Course designed for new graduate students in literature. Introduction to modern literary theory and criticism; principles of textual analysis; methods of bibliographical research.
Proseminar: Aims and Methods of Literary Scholarship: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Proseminar: Aims and Methods of Literary Scholarship: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2006
Course designed for new graduate students in Slavic linguistics. A survey of general and Slavic linguistics, Slavic philology, semiotics, and the relation of linguistics to literary studies. Methods of research and critical analysis. Current issues and goals of research.
Proseminar: Aims and Methods of Linguistic Scholarship: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Proseminar: Aims and Methods of Linguistic Scholarship: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2009
A survey of the religious history and thought of Eastern Europe and the Levant with an intent of providing greater insight into the shaping of faith and cultures of both halves of Europe.
Eastern Christianity: History and Thought: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2019, Fall 2016
Class conducted in Russian. Russian poetry and versification (eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries): close readings of texts. Variable topics.
Russian Poetry: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open to qualified undergraduates
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Preliminary exploration of a restricted field involving research and a written report.
Special Study for Graduate Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 10 weeks - 3-18 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Normally reserved for students directly engaged upon the doctoral dissertation.
Directed Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0-0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
3 weeks - 0.5-30 hours of independent study per week
6 weeks - 0.5-30 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 0.5-22 hours of independent study per week
10 weeks - 0.5-18 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
Independent study. Consideration of special issues in the teaching of Slavic languages. Offered according to interest and need.
Issues in Slavic Pedagogy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate status in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Weekly meetings with the instructor of the designated course. Discussion of course aims, syllabus preparation, lecture and assignment planning, grading, and related matters. Students may prepare a representative portion of the work for such a course (e.g., lecture outline and assignments for a course segment) and may participate in presentation of the material and in evaluation of samples of student work.
Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Course on practical teaching methods, grading, testing, and design of supplementary course materials. Required of all graduate student language instructors in Slavic. Course to be repeated for credit each semester of employment as a graduate student instructor.
Teaching Methods for Slavic Languages: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate student standing and teaching appointment in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Formerly known as: Slavic 301
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Course on practical teaching methods, grading, testing, and design of supplementary course materials. Required of all graduate student instructors in Slavic. Course to be repeated for credit each semester of employment as a graduate student instructor.
Teaching Methods of Reading and Composition: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate student standing and teaching appointment in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Formerly known as: Slavic 301
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with a field adviser.
Individual Study for Master's Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 16 units.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Individual study in consultation with a major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 16 units.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Slavic Languages and Literatures/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.