RUSS
RUSSIAN
Note: See beginning of Section H for abbreviations, course numbers and coding.
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For a description of an interdisciplinary major/minor program in Russian and Eurasian Studies see the "Russian and Eurasian
Studies" section found in the Faculty of Arts program information contained in Section G of this calendar.
RUSS 1013
Introductory Russian I
3 ch ( )
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Closed to students with any knowledge of Russian. Sound system of Russian and elementary structures. Emphasis on
the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Prerequisite: No prerequisite.
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RUSS 1023
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Introductory Russian II
3 ch
Continuation of RUSS 1013 . Prerequisite: RUSS 1013 .
RUSS 1043
Russian Culture I (Cross Listed: WLCS 1043)
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3 ch (3C)
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Significant aspects of Russian culture from the 10th to the end of the 19th century. Topics include Russian Icon
Painting and Architecture, Russian culture between Europe and Asia; Ivan the Terrible as cultural type; women in
Russian culture; serfdom and slavery; Russia's contribution to the development of terrorism and revolution; the
reforms of Peter the Great; Russian Orthodoxy, etc. Conducted in English. Open to students of all years.
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RUSS 1053
Russian Culture II (Cross Listed: WLCS 1053)
3 ch (3C)
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Significant aspects of Russian and Soviet culture in the 20th century. Topics include Russian avant garde painting; the
Bolshevik Revolution and apocalyptism; class and corruption; Socialist Realism; Stalin and Stalinism; women's roles
under the Soviets; Eisenstein and Soviet cinema; the artificial famine and the Gulag; literature and censorship; Soviet
sport and society; Glasnost and culture; etc. Conducted in English. Open to students of all years. No prerequisites.
RUSS 2013
Intermediate Russian I
3 ch
Intermediate Russian II
3 ch
Continuation of RUSS 2013 . Prerequisite: RUSS 2013 .
RUSS 3013
Advanced Russian II
3 ch
Introduction to 19th-Century Russian Literature in Translation (Cross Listed:
WLCS 3051)
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3 ch
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Continuation of RUSS 3013 . Prerequisite: RUSS 3013 or equivalent. Offered in alternate years.
RUSS 3051
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Advanced Russian I
Through the study of advanced grammar, oral discussion of contemporary topics and written assignments, the
students' competence in Russian is improved and their skills in idiomatic and written usage are developed.
Prerequisite: RUSS 2023 or equivalent. Offered in alternate years.
RUSS 3023
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More complex grammatical structures and more advanced texts. Prerequisite: RUSS 1023 .
RUSS 2023
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3 ch (3C)
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Includes the Golden Age of Russian Literature (Pushkin, Lermontov); the great realists (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy,
Turgenev); and the emergence of Russian Drama (Chekhov). Themes followed include the superfluous man; nihilism
and politics in literature; the Russian female protagonist from Karamzin's Poor Liza to Dostoevsky's prostitute Sonya;
etc. Conducted in English. Open to students who have completed at least 30 ch of university courses or by permission
of instructor.
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RUSS 3052
Introduction to 20th Century Russian Literature in Translation (Cross Listed:
WLCS 3052)
3 ch (3C)
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Includes Futurism, Symbolism, Acmeism and Russia's Silver Age; literature and Revolution; housing and homelessness
in Soviet literature; women's writing; Socialist realism (boy meets girl, boy gets tractor); censorship and oppression;
experimental prose of the ‘20s; aspects of Soviet cinema; Russia's ‘New Wave' meets America's Beatniks; Bulgakov's
magical fable; etc. Conducted in English. Open to students who have completed at least 30 ch of university courses or
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by permission of instructor.
RUSS 3083
Seminar I: Genre (Cross Listed: WLCS 3083)
3 ch [W]
The development of a particular genre in Russian literature and an examination of various works in that area.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
RUSS 4003
Topics in Russian and Eurasian Studies (Cross-listed: WLCS 4003)
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3 ch
Allows students to pursue special questions in an area of Russian and Eurasian Studies of particular interest to them.
RUSS 4043
Literature and Religion in 19th and 20th Century Russia and Spain (Cross
Listed: SPAN/WLCS 4043)
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3 ch (3C)
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Studies religious works of Spanish and Russian writers such as Unamuno and Tolstoy. Examines their religious thought
and their criticism of the established Spanish Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church respectively.
Outlines the situation of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Russia as well as the situation of the Catholic Church in Spain
in the 19th and the 20th Centuries. Analyzes the position of these writers towards their respective Churches and the
creation of their own moral codes through the textual analysis of some of their most relevant works.
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RUSS 4053
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Seminar II: Author
3 ch [W]
An intensive study of the life and work of a particular author or a number of authors. Prerequisite: Departmental
approval.
RUSS 4061
Russian Women Writers (Cross-listed WLCS 4061)
3 ch (3C)
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Despite their enormous contributions at many historical points, women writers still struggle for full acceptance in the
Russian literary canon, witness special sections even today in most Russian bookstores for “Feminine Literature”. This
course will examine the work of a range of better and lesser known Russian women writers from the late 18th to the
early 21st centuries, in poetry, prose, drama and memoir. Writers to be studied include Catherine the Great, the
“Russian Amazon”, Nadezhda Durova a cross-dressing cavalry maiden during the Napoleonic campaign, the giants of
the Silver Age Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva, ostensible socialist-realists like Vera Panova, Natalia
Baranskaia and I. Grekova, dissident figures such as Evgeniia Ginzburg and Natalia Gorbanevskaia, and older and
younger contemporary writers such as Ludmila Petrushevskaia, Tatiana Tolstaia, and Marina Palei. Works and authors
will be studied in historical and cultural context, and connections to other arts, in particular visual arts, film and
popular music will also be explored. The course and all readings are in English. Open to students who have completed
at least 30 ch of university courses or by permission of the instructor. Students with credit for RSST 4003 Russian
Women Writers may not take this course for credit.
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