ELEM BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN
Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.
- W 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Aleksandar Boskovic
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY CZECH I
Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepare students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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ELEMENTARY POLISH I
Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 4 points
FIRST-YEAR RUSSIAN I
Grammar, reading, composition, and conversation.
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
- MTWR 6:10 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Veniamin V Gushchin
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Instructor:
Zachary J Deming
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Instructor:
Marina Grineva
Info - 5 points
ELEMENTARY UKRAINIAN I
Designed for students with little or no knowledge of Ukrainian. Basic grammar structures are introduced and reinforced, with equal emphasis on developing oral and written communication skills. Specific attention to acquisition of high-frequency vocabulary and its optimal use in real-life settings.
- MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William R Debnam
Info - 4 points
INTER BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN
Prerequisites: BCRS UN1102 or the equivalent. Readings in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature in the original, with emphasis depending upon the needs of individual students.
- TWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aleksandar Boskovic
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE CZECH I
Prerequisites: CZCH UN1102 or the equivalent Rapid review of grammar. Readings in contemporary fiction and nonfiction, depending upon the interests of individual students.
- F 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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SECOND-YEAR RUSSIAN I
Prerequisites: RUSS UN1102 or the equivalent. Drill practice in small groups. Reading, composition, and grammar review.Off-sequence
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marina Tsylina
Info - 5 points
INTERMEDIATE UKRAINIAN I
Prerequisites: UKRN UN1102 or the equivalent. Reviews and reinforces the fundamentals of grammar and a core vocabulary from daily life. Principal emphasis is placed on further development of communicative skills (oral and written). Verbal aspect and verbs of motion receive special attention.
- MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
SLAVIC CULTURES
The history of Slavic peoples - Russians, Czechs, Poles, Serbs, Croats, Ukrainians, Bulgarians - is rife with transformations, some voluntary, some imposed. Against the background of a schematic external history, this course examines how Slavic peoples have responded to and have represented these transformations in various modes: historical writing, hagiography, polemics, drama and fiction, folk poetry, music, visual art, and film. Activity ranges over lecture (for historical background) and discussion (of primary sources).
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
John H McWhorter
CULPA: 26
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THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN I
Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
Info - 4 points
Endangered Languages in the Global City:
ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
Of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages – representing migrations and historical
developments thousands of years old – the majority are primarily oral, little documented,
and increasingly endangered under the onslaught of global languages like English. This
course will take the unprecedented, paradoxical linguistic capital of New York City as a
lens for examining how immigrants form communities in a new land, how those
communities are integrated into the wider society, and how they grapple with linguistic and
cultural change. Drawing on sociolinguistics, anthropology, and history, the course will
focus on texts from and encounters with members of three of the city’s fastest-growing but
least-studied communities (Indigenous Americans, Himalayans, Central Asians) before
closing with a series of classes exploring broader questions around mapping, education,
policy, the role of linguists, revitalization and the future of language and mobility.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ross Perlin
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Language, Brain and Mind
The ability to speak distinguishes humans from all other animals, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Why is this so? What makes this possible? This course seeks to answer these questions. We will look at the neurological and psychological foundations of the human faculty of language. How did our brains change to allow language to evolve? Where in our brains are the components of language found? Are our minds specialized for learning language or is it part of our general cognitive abilities to learn? How are words and sentences produced and their meanings recognized? The structure of languages around the world varies greatly; does this have psychological effects for their speakers?
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Foley
h-index: 0 Info - 3 points
VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irina Reyfman
CULPA: 5
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RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS
Prerequisites: RUSS V3430 or the instructor's permission. This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3431, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alla Smyslova
CULPA: 20
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- 3 points
Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, M
ADV UKRN THRU MED LIT POL
This course is organized around a number of thematic centers or modules. Each is focused on stylistic peculiarities typical of a given functional style of the Ukrainian language. Each is designed to assist the student in acquiring an active command of lexical, grammatical, discourse, and stylistic traits that distinguish one style from the others and actively using them in real-life communicative settings in contemporary Ukraine. The styles include literary fiction, scholarly prose, and journalism, both printed and broadcast.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
DOSTOEVSKY,TOLSTOY & ENG NOVEL
A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (Netochka Nezvanova; The Idiot; A Gentle Creature) and Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Family Happiness; Anna Karenina; The Kreutzer Sonata) in conjunction with related English novels (Bronte's Jane Eyre, Eliot's Middlemarch, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway). No knowledge of Russian is required.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Liza Knapp
CULPA: 28
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- 3 points
Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking
Holocaust Lit: Critical T
How do you write literature in the midst of catastrophe? To whom do you write if you don’t know whether your readership will survive? Or that you yourself will survive? How do you theorize society when the social fabric is tearing apart? How do you develop a concept of human rights at a time when mass extermination is deemed legal? How do you write Jewish history when Jewish future seems uncertain?
This course offers a survey of the literature and intellectual history written during World War II (1939-1945) both in Nazi occupied Europe and in the free world, written primarily, but not exclusively, by Jews. We will read novels, poems, science fiction, historical fiction, legal theory and social theory and explore how intellectuals around the world responded to the extermination of European Jewry as it happened and how they changed their understanding of what it means to be a public intellectual, what it means to be Jewish, and what it means to be human.
The aim of the course is threefold. First, it offers a survey of the Jewish experience during WWII, in France, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Romania, Greece, Palestine, Morocco, Iraq, the USSR, Argentina, and the United States. Second, it introduces some of the major contemporary debates in holocaust studies. Finally, it provides a space for a methodological reflection on how literary analysis, cultural studies, and historical research intersect.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Offer Dynes
Info - 3 points
Socialist World Literature
This course researches the potentiality and development of a Socialist World Literature. Students will learn about the more contemporary constructions of World Literature in the West, and then look at how the Soviet Union and its satellites potentially crafted an alternative to the contemporary construction. The class will then examine whether the Soviet version addressed some of the criticism of the contemporary definitions of World Literature, particularly through addressing the colonialism and nationalism.
Students will learn about the complex history of World Literature and its definitions, reading the major theorists of the concept as well as the major critics. They will also create their own arguments about World Literature in a highly-scaffolded major project due at the end of the term.
All readings will be provided online.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Pratt
Info - 3 points
The Central European Grotesque
Central Europe is home to large number of authors, artists, and directors who made use of the critical power of the grotesque. Beginning from the
fin-de-siecle
and moving to the contemporary moment, students will get to know a wide range of grotesque art from Central Europe as well as several of the critical approaches to the subject. The course should be of interest to anyone studying Central European culture, as well as students interested in cultural studies more generally.
Students will learn to identify and analyze examples of the grotesque through a variety of theoretical lenses. They will also enrich their knowledge of Central European literature and culture.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Pratt
Info - 3 points
Poets, Rebels, Exiles: 100 Years of Russ
POETS, REBELS, EXILES
Poets, Rebels, Exiles examines the successive generations of the most provocative and influential Russian and Russian Jewish writers and artists who brought the cataclysm of the Soviet and post-Soviet century to North America. From Joseph Brodsky—the bad boy bard of Soviet Russia and a protégé of Anna Akhmatova, who served 18 months of hard labor near the North Pole for social parasitism before being exiled—to the most recent artistic descendants, this course will interrogate diaspora, memory, and nostalgia in the cultural production of immigrants and exiles.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anna Katsnelson
Info - 3 points
POST COLONIAL/POST SOV CINEMA
The course will discuss how filmmaking has been used as an instrument of power and imperial domination in the Soviet Union as well as on post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors which exemplify the function of filmmaking as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of postcolonial theories. The course will focus both on Russian cinema and often overlooked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a «new historic community of the Soviet people» as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways their own counter-narratives. Close attention will be paid to the new Russian film as it re-invents itself within the post-Soviet imperial momentum projected on the former Soviet colonies.
- T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED POLISH
Prerequisites: two years of college Polish or the instructor's permission. Extensive readings from 19th- and 20th-century texts in the original. Both fiction and nonfiction, with emphasis depending on the interests and needs of individual students.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 3 points
LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 In light of the predicted loss of up to 90% of the world languages by the end of this century, it has become urgent that linguists take a more active role in documenting and conserving endangered languages. In this course, we will learn the essential skills and technology of language documentation through work with speakers of an endangered language.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN
Prerequisites: BCRS UN2102 Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.
- TW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aleksandar Boskovic
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE I
Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent. A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN I
Prerequisites: RUSS UN3101 and RUSS UN3102 Third-Year Russian I and II, or placement test. Systematic study of problems in Russian syntax; written exercises, translations into Russian, and compositions. Conducted entirely in Russian.
- MWF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
Info - 4 points
SYNTAX
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 Syntax - the combination of words - has been at the center of the Chomskyan revolution in Linguistics. This is a technical course which examines modern formal theories of syntax, focusing on later versions of generative syntax (Government and Binding) with secondary attention to alternative models (HPSG, Categorial Grammar).
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
LITERARY TRANSLATION
Prerequisites: four years of college Russian or the equivalent. Workshop in literary translation from Russian into English focusing on the practical problems of the craft. Each student submits a translation of a literary text for group study and criticism. The aim is to produce translations of publishable quality.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ronald Meyer
Info - 4 points
18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LIT
A survey of eighteenth century Russian poetry, prose, and drama in the original. The reading list includes Feofan Prokopovich, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikhailo Lomonosov, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Aleksandr Radishchev, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolai Karamzin
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irina Reyfman
CULPA: 5
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Ukraine. Literature and Politics
Ukraine. Lit. and Politic
The course will consider the relationship between politics and literature in Ukraine, focusing on the late Soviet period up to the present, but also covering the tragic pages of the history of Ukrainian literature in the 1920s-1930s, when Ukrainian creatives loyal to the Soviet regime were seemingly granted freedom of expression only to be brutally suppressed.
We will trace the emergence of new post-Soviet literature and consider texts which were written in reaction to "dead Soviet literature". We will analyze why the first post-soviet generation of young Ukrainian authors was consciously apolitical and how this generation matured, experienced some dramatic events in Ukrainian politics and society, and formed their own political views. We will analyze how these views are reflected in the writers' texts.
We will consider the extent to which literature influenced Ukrainian society immediately after 1991, in the late 1990s, and up to the present day. What has been the role of the writer in Ukrainian society through this 30-year period?
Separately, we will consider and try to model the near future of Russian-language and Crimean-Tatar literature in the context of Ukrainian literature and politics.
The course will be given in English.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrii Kurkov
Info - 1 points
PROSEMINAR IN LITERARY STUDIES
The theory and practice of literary criticism. Required of all candidates for the M.A. degree in Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, South Slavic, and Polish Literature.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam Leeds
h-index: 2 Info - 4 points