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Faculty
Alexandar Mihailovic |
Igor Pustovoit, D.A. |
Russian Programs
Russian Courses
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Use the prefix RUS (Russian) to find the most up-to-date information about Russian courses.
| Russian 001 (course code #94256) |
| Sec. 01: Elementary Russian (Prof. Pustovoit) MW 2:55-4:20. Breslin 208 |
| Russian 001 (course code #92816) |
| Sec. 02: Elementary Russian (Prof. Mihailovic) TuTh 9:35-10:00. Breslin 208. This Elementary Russian language course continues the development of functional competence in all four language skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing while building a solid grammatical base and expanding cultural knowledge |
| Russian 003 (course code #90155) |
| Intermediate Russian (Prof. Pustovoit) MW 4:30-5:55. Breslin 013. This intermediate Russian language course is a continuation of Russian 002. Russsian 003 focuses on the development of all four skills: reading, writing, speaking, and understanding, with particular emphasis on expansion of vocabulary and strong reinforcement of grammatical structures |
| Russian 103 (course code #95138) |
| Advanced Russian (Prof. Pustovoit) Instructor permission required. Time and classroom TBA |
| Russian 105 (course code #93709) |
| Advanced Russian (Prof. Pustovoit) Instructor permission required. Time and classroom TBA |
| Russian 153 (course code #94063) |
| Masterpieces of Russian Literature (Prof. Pustovoit) Instructor permission required. Time and classroom TBA |
Courses in Translation
(**containing a Russian component and counting toward the Russian major and minor)
| Comparative Literature 176 (course code #94246) The Nineteenth Century Short Story: Chekhov and His Predecessors (Prof. Mihailovic) TuTh 12:45-2:10. Brower 204 |
| A survey of European and American short-story writing over the roughly one-hundred year period from the late Eighteenth century to the appearance of Chekhov's mature works. Chekhov's stories represent a culmination of certain Western European as well as Russian traditions of the diminutive prose form. The evolution of the Russian short story will be traced from its formal beginnings (inspired by French Sentimentalism) through the works of the major Nineteenth century prose writers such as Pushkin and Gogol. Turgenev emerges as a pivotal figure, having patent affinities with Western writers and providing a structural model for Chekhov's stories. The texts from this tradition will be read together with stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Kleist, Maupassant, Melville, Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe. The course will systematically treat the folkloric, structural and political aspects of the genre of the short story, and how Chekhov's work brought those aspects into a new and more dynamic interrelation. |
Other Translation courses (offered periodically):
- Russian Literature in Translation
- Russian Jewish Literature
- Robot Dreams: Artificial and Human Identities in Literature and Popular Culture
Graduate Course
(for possible undergraduate credit)
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Use the prefixes CAAC (Comparative Arts and Culture) or AH (Art xHistory) to find the most up-to-date information about this offering.
| Comparative Arts and Culture [CAAC] 232 Section A (Course Code # 94501) Eastern European Literature and Cinema: From the Cold War to the Present (Prof. Mihailovic) Tuesday 4:30-6:20; Calkins Hall 204 [**Undergraduates may enroll in this course with permission of the instructor, under the listing AH 192, section C (Course Code # 94500)] |
| We will examine contemporary literature and cinema in the "other" Europe as powerful tools of dissection that expose the difficult intricacies of life in a region where the past is never truly past. In the hands of these artists, historical and cultural revisionism becomes either a target of a moral critique or a tool for visualizing untested possibilities for a viable future, ones that transcend the simplistic visions of economic globalism and shifting allegiances among the superpowers of Russia, the US, and China. Readings will include Dorota Maslowska's Snow White and Russian Red and Tatiana Tolstaya's The Slynx; films will include Ilya Krzyzhanovsky's 4 and selections from the recent renaissance of Romanian cinema. |
Sample Syllabi
- LIT099 Russian Literature in Translation
- RUS002 Elementary Russian
- RUS004 Intermediate Russian
- RUS104 Introduction to Russian Functional Styles
Russian Resources on the Internet
- Free Russian fonts (Windows and Mac)!
- Gentium - Free Font
- "Novaya Gazeta" Russia's foremost independent newspaper (in Russian)
- "The New Russian Word" the oldest Russian daily in the metropolitan New York area (in Russian)
- "Moscow News" a popular English-language newspaper based in Russia