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.
- TWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 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
Info
- 4 points
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 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.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 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
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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:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 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.
- 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.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
Info
- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE POLISH I
Prerequisites: POLI UN1102 or the equivalent. Rapid review of grammar; readings in contemporary nonfiction or fiction, depending on the interests of individual students.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 4 points
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 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.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
FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT
An introduction to the concept of folklore as an evolving, historical concept, and to primary source materials which have been framed as such. These are translated from Bosnian, Chukchi, Czech, Finnish, German, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Tuvan, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Yupik languages, and others. Geographical range is from South-Eastern Europe to the Russian Far East. We learn about particular oral traditions, their social mechanisms of transmission and performance, their central themes and poetics. Attention is paid to the broader sociopolitical factors (Romantic nationalism, colonization) which have informed the transcription, collection and publication of these traditions. For the final project, students learn how to conduct an ethnographic interview, and to analyze the folklore of a contemporary social group. Our goal is to experientially understand—as folklorists and as members of folk groups ourselves—the choices entailed in transcribing and analyzing folklore.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 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
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
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
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
Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Su
Trickster in World Cultur
Tricksters constitute one of the universal themes or tropes in mythology and folklore of many cultures. Through the discussions of ancient Greek, Native-American, African, Paleo-Asiatic, Scandinavian, African-American, Muslim and Jewish myths and folklore about tricksters, the course will telescope the cultural functions of the comedic transgression as a form of social critique; it will also highlight cynicism, its productive and dangerous aspects. Then we’ll introduce different historical subtypes of tricksters, such as a fool, jester, holy fool, kynik, picaro, con artist, female and queer tricksters, thus moving through premodern and early modern periods. Each type of the trickster is illustrated by literary examples from different world cultures (European and non-European alike) as well as theoretical works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijk. Finally, the role of the trickster in modernity will be discussed through the case of Soviet tricksters, who had become true superstars manifesting the resistance to repressive political ideology by the means of “cynical reason”.
The class consists of lectures and group discussions. On Wednesday there will be a lecture for all students; on Monday you will be divided into 3 sections and have separate sessions (all three at the same time in different rooms) led by Teaching Assistants. YOU HAVE TO REGISTER FOR A DISCUSSIONS SESSION AS A SEPARATE COURSE WITH 0 POINTS. Assignments for group discussions are listed on the syllabus along with others. This course is a co-requisite of RUSS UN3232.
- M 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Su
Tricksters constitute one of the universal themes or tropes in mythology and folklore of many cultures. Through the discussions of ancient Greek, Native-American, African, Paleo-Asiatic, Scandinavian, African-American, Muslim and Jewish myths and folklore about tricksters, the course will telescope the cultural functions of the comedic transgression as a form of social critique; it will also highlight cynicism, its productive and dangerous aspects. Then we’ll introduce different historical subtypes of tricksters, such as a fool, jester, holy fool, kynik, picaro, con artist, female and queer tricksters, thus moving through premodern and early modern periods. Each type of the trickster is illustrated by literary examples from different world cultures (European and non-European alike) as well as theoretical works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijk. Finally, the role of the trickster in modernity will be discussed through the case of Soviet tricksters, who had become true superstars manifesting the resistance to repressive political ideology by the means of “cynical reason”.
FORMAT
The class consists of lectures and group discussions. On a typical week, the first class will be a lecture for all students; for the second class of the week, you will be divided into 3 sections and have separate sessions (all three at the same time in different rooms) led by Teaching Assistants. Assignments for group discussions are listed on the syllabus along with others.
We will not break the class in discussion sections before Week 3.
The distribution of students between discussion sections will be announced in class after the beginning of the semester.
- W 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 0 points
Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Su
Tricksters constitute one of the universal themes or tropes in mythology and folklore of many cultures. Through the discussions of ancient Greek, Native-American, African, Paleo-Asiatic, Scandinavian, African-American, Muslim and Jewish myths and folklore about tricksters, the course will telescope the cultural functions of the comedic transgression as a form of social critique; it will also highlight cynicism, its productive and dangerous aspects. Then we’ll introduce different historical subtypes of tricksters, such as a fool, jester, holy fool, kynik, picaro, con artist, female and queer tricksters, thus moving through premodern and early modern periods. Each type of the trickster is illustrated by literary examples from different world cultures (European and non-European alike) as well as theoretical works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijk. Finally, the role of the trickster in modernity will be discussed through the case of Soviet tricksters, who had become true superstars manifesting the resistance to repressive political ideology by the means of “cynical reason”.
FORMAT
The class consists of lectures and group discussions. On a typical week, the first class will be a lecture for all students; for the second class of the week, you will be divided into 3 sections and have separate sessions (all three at the same time in different rooms) led by Teaching Assistants. Assignments for group discussions are listed on the syllabus along with others.
We will not break the class in discussion sections before Week 3.
The distribution of students between discussion sections will be announced in class after the beginning of the semester.
- W 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 0 points
Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Su
Tricksters constitute one of the universal themes or tropes in mythology and folklore of many cultures. Through the discussions of ancient Greek, Native-American, African, Paleo-Asiatic, Scandinavian, African-American, Muslim and Jewish myths and folklore about tricksters, the course will telescope the cultural functions of the comedic transgression as a form of social critique; it will also highlight cynicism, its productive and dangerous aspects. Then we’ll introduce different historical subtypes of tricksters, such as a fool, jester, holy fool, kynik, picaro, con artist, female and queer tricksters, thus moving through premodern and early modern periods. Each type of the trickster is illustrated by literary examples from different world cultures (European and non-European alike) as well as theoretical works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijk. Finally, the role of the trickster in modernity will be discussed through the case of Soviet tricksters, who had become true superstars manifesting the resistance to repressive political ideology by the means of “cynical reason”.
FORMAT
The class consists of lectures and group discussions. On a typical week, the first class will be a lecture for all students; for the second class of the week, you will be divided into 3 sections and have separate sessions (all three at the same time in different rooms) led by Teaching Assistants. Assignments for group discussions are listed on the syllabus along with others.
We will not break the class in discussion sections before Week 3.
The distribution of students between discussion sections will be announced in class after the beginning of the semester.
- W 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 0 points
VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU
STRASHNYE ISTORII
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irina Reyfman
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
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:
Marina Grineva
Info - 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
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.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anna Katsnelson
Info - 3 points
PRAGUE-SPRING 1968-FILM & LIT
The course explores the unique period in Czech film and literature during the 1960s that emerged as a reaction to the imposed socialist realism. The new generation of writers (Kundera, Skvorecky, Havel, Hrabal) in turn had an influence on young emerging film makers, all of whom were part of the Czech new wave.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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
LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS
Prerequisites: LING 3101: Introduction to Linguistics and LING 4376: Phonetics & Phonology
This course provides training in linguistic fieldwork for language
documentation and description. We will work with a speaker of an understudied language
to investigate the structure of the language (its sounds, word and sentence formation,
ways of expressing meaning, and usage) and learn about its speakers and their
communities, both in NYC and abroad. Through this process, students will learn
collaborative linguistic fieldwork techniques as well as the art of writing linguistic
descriptions. This course will draw on all aspects of students’ linguistic training to date,
and the success of the course will depend on our ability as a class to work together
cooperatively with the language consultant and language community more broadly to
document and describe the language.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Music in Time and Time in Music
Music in Time & Time in M
If you have a passion for music, like listening to music, or simply want to explore the realm of Russian melodies, this course is made for you. In the class, we'll focus on the development and strengthening of “four language skills”: speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Russian. You will learn to analyze and interpret lyrics, compare and contrast music across generations, discuss the values of a certain generation of people, and argue the popularity of music genres in specific time periods. Beyond linguistic proficiency, the course will immerse you in a comprehensive exploration of common knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, cultural traditions, and behavioral patterns unique to the people of Russia.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marina Tsylina
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.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
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
PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 An investigation of the sounds of human language, from the perspective of phonetics (articulation and acoustics, including computer-aided acoustic analysis) and phonology (the distribution and function of sounds in individual languages).
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Advanced Phonetics
Phonetics is the study of the physical properties of speech.1 The class will focus on three
fundamental questions:
1. How do humans produce and perceive speech sounds?
2. What tools and experimental techniques can we use to investigate speech sounds?
3. What makes a successful phonetics experiment?
To answer these questions, students will study vocal tract anatomy, the physics of speech sounds,
and the interface between phonetics and other linguistic and scientific fields of study. Students will
also gain hands-on experience with Praat, a free software package for speech analysis, to visualize
and interpret phonetic data. Throughout the semester, students will engage with phonetics research
by reading and discussing recent academic papers. The course will culminate in a final project for
which students will propose, design, and conduct original phonetics experiments.
This course fulfills the elective requirement for the linguistics major.
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maya Barzilai
Info - 3 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
Info
- 4 points
Dostoevsky s Bros Karamazov & Others
Dostoevsky's Bros Karamaz
A close examination of Dostoevsky’s
Brothers Karamazov
, supplemented by a reading of related texts: works by Dostoevsky and others, notebooks for the novel; essays, theoretical and critical works, and works that illuminate the (folk-)religious, aesthetic, philosophical, scientific, and political dimensions of the novel.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Liza Knapp
CULPA: 28
Info
- 4 points
DIR RSCH POLISH LITERATURE I
Prerequisites: the department's permission.
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 1-4 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.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chloe Kitzinger
Info - 4 points
DIR RSCH 20TH-C RUSSIAN LIT I
Prerequisites: the department's permission.
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 2-4 points