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.
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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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Harwood
CULPA: 4
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- 4 points
ELEMENTARY CZECH II
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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- 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
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 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.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
Wikipedia
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- 3 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
LITERATURE & EMPIRE (19C LIT)
Explores the aesthetic and formal developments in Russian prose, especially the rise of the monumental 19th-century novel, as one manifestation of a complex array of national and cultural aspirations, humanistic and imperialist ones alike. Works by Pushkin, Lermonotov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Knowledge of Russian not required.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Liza Knapp
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
Hebrew: History, Politics, Culture, Lite
Hebrew: Hist, Poli, Cult,
This class offers an introduction to Hebrew culture from a historical and literary perspective, focusing on the intersection of linguistic ideology, and literary and cultural creativity. What, we will ask, is the relationship between what people think about Hebrew and what they write in Hebrew?
We will investigate the manners in which Hebrew was imagined – as the language of God, the language of the Jews, the language of the patriarchy, the language of secularism, the language of Messianism, the language of nationalism, a dead language, a diasporic Eastern European language, a local Middle Eastern Language, ext., and how these conflicting imaginaries informed Hebrew creativity.
This class does not require prior knowledge of Hebrew. Students proficient in Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Ladino, and/or European languages are encouraged to contact the instructor in advance for supplementary material in these languages.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Offer Dynes
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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anna Katsnelson
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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Cold War Reason: Cybernetics and the Sys
The Cold War epoch saw broad transformations in science, technology, and politics. At their nexus a new knowledge was proclaimed, cybernetics, a putative universal science of communication and control. It has disappeared so completely that most have forgotten that it ever existed. Its failure seems complete and final. Yet in another sense, cybernetics was so powerful and successful that the concepts, habits, and institutions born with it have become intrinsic parts of our world and how we make sense of it. Key cybernetic concepts of information, system, and feedback are now fundamental to our basic ways of understanding the mind, brain and computer, of grasping the economy and ecology, and finally of imagining the nature of human life itself. This course will trace the echoes of the cybernetic explosion from the wake of World War II to the onset of Silicon Valley euphoria.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam Leeds
h-index: 2 Info - 3 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
OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Valentina Izmirlieva
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
INTRODUCTION TO SLAVIC LITERARY THEORY
INTRO TO SLAVIC LITERARY
This course introduces graduate students to the major 20th-century literary theories that emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe. The course's main purpose is to familiarize students with these approaches and teach them how to use theoretical models as tools for analyzing literary texts.
By the end of the course, students will be required to write a paper investigating the theoretical aspects of one or more literary texts discussed in class. This paper will test not only students' mastery of literary analysis through the prism of multiple theoretical models, but also their ability to challenge a literary text through theory and vice versa.
Writing the paper will include a workshop-style class in which students design their thesis and outline. The course will also introduce students to the Bahmeteff Archive and Columbia's library holdings.
This course counts as Proseminar for Slavic graduate students but is also open to students in other disciplines, which is why all readings are in English.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Russian Formalism
Twenty-first century literary studies has seen a steadily growing interest in formalist literary theory. This trend has manifested in new movements, such as New Formalism, Historical Poetics, and Quantitative Formalism. This interest in formalism has been accompanied by a widely expressed desire for a better understanding of literary form, and to find ways to connect its study with cultural and political history. The archive of Russian Formalism, a protean movement which was active in the 1910s and 1920s, is a rich source for those interested in rethinking the concept of form today. Beginning in the 1960s and ‘70s, Russian Formalism was interpreted as the precursor to French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. In this class we seek to recontextualize Russian Formalism—not in terms of the ideas of the Cold War period—but rather in light of the cultural and political milieu of revolutionary and Civil War era Russia. By connecting theories of form with the cultural and political contexts from which they emerged, our goal is to develop an understanding of form as a concept defined not only in aesthetic or linguistic terms, but also as a construct with sociopolitical import.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points