Courses in Slavic Languages and Literatures

Courses in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Courses

Note: The following is a comprehensive listing of all graduate courses offered in the department. The more specialized courses are not usually repeated every year. The actual offerings for the year will be found in the quarterly Time Schedule.

General Slavic, Russian, Czech and Slovak, Polish, South Slavic, Balto-Slavic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, East European, Ukrainian

General Slavic (SLAV)

30100. Introduction to Slavic Linguistics
Hristova

31000. Comparative Slavic I
Staff

31100. Comparative Slavic Morphology
Darden

31300. Slavic Syntax
Staff

31400. Oral Proficiency Testing
Staff

31500. Teaching of Slavic Languages
Clancy

31600. Slavic Grammatical Categories
Staff

31700. Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics
Clancy

32000. Old Church Slavonic
Friedman

32100. Early Slavic Bible Translations
Darden

32200. Linguistic Analysis of Old Slavic Texts
Staff

33000. Language, Power, and Identity in Southeastern Europe
Friedman

34000. Comparative South Slavic
Friedman

34100. Comparative West Slavic Linguistics.
Darden, Clancy

35000. Reading Course in Slavic Linguistics
Staff

35500. Practicum in Teaching Slavic Literatures
Staff

35900. Words & Images: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Approaches
Shallcross

36000. Slavic Performance: Theory and Practice.
Staff

36500. Studies in Medieval Slavic Literature
Staff

36600. Novel Films: Cinematic Adaptations of Russian/Polish Literary Works
Shallcross

36700. Left-Wing Art and Soviet Film Culture of the 1920s
Tsivian

36800. Revolution & the Spirit: Russian & Polish Cinema, 1956-Present
Bird, Shallcross

36900. Narratives of Suspense in Russian/European Literature and Film
Bird

37100. Pre-Romanticism
Staff

37200. Modern Central European Novel
Sternstein

37300. The Slavic Vampire
Sternstein

37400. Narratives of Prague
Sternstein

37500. Modern Drama: 1830-1914
Ehre

37600. History of Poetics I: From the Middle Ages to Classicism
Staff

37700. History of Poetics II: From Romanticism to Symbolism
Staff

37900. Nationalism and National Identity in East and Central European Literatures and Cultures
Staff

38000. Theory of the Text: Textual Criticism
Staff

38100. The Literary Genre: Theory and History
Staff

38200. Theory of Translation
Staff

38300. The Structuralist Theory of Literature and Culture in the Slavic and its European Context
Staff

38400. Avant-Garde in East Central Europe
Sternstein

38500. Slavic Critical Theory: from Jakobson to Zizek
Sternstein

38600. Kitsch
Sternstein

38700. History of Slavic Poetics
Staff

38800. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory in the Slavic Countries-I
Staff

38900. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory in the Slavic Countries-II
Staff

39000. East European Drama
Ehre

39100. Language, Power and the Other
Sternstein

39200. Slavoj Zizek and the Ljubljana School
Sternstein

39300. Sex, Sexuality, Society: The Slavia Orthodoxa World
Hristova

39400. Fundamentals of Structuralism
Hristova

39600. Eastern European Ethnography and Folklore
Staff

39900. Reading Course in Slavic Literature
Staff

40100. Seminar: Slavic Linguistics
Staff

42300. Interactivity and the Cultural Analysis of Film
Tsivian

45000. Proseminar: Literary Theory and Methods
Crone

46000. Proseminar: Slavic and East European Arts and Cultures.
Staff

49900. Research on the Dissertation
Staff

99900. Teaching Internship
Staff

Russian Languages and Literature (RUSS)

30100, 30200, 30300. Advanced Russian
Pichugin

30400, 30500, 30600. Intensive Russian Professional Conversation
Lutskaya-Litkvak

31500. Methods of Teaching Russian
Staff

31900. Reading Old Russian: The Primary Chronicle
Ingham

32000. History of Russian I: Phonology
Darden

32100. History of Russian II: Morphology and Syntax
Darden

32401. Enlightenment & Nineteenth Century Russian Literature
Steiner

32700. Post Modernism and Eastern Europe
Sternstein

32800. Eisenstein and Soviet Aesthetic Theory
Tsivian

32900. Man and Machine: Russian Prose in the 1920s
Staff

33000. Structure of Russian I: Phonology
Darden

33100. Morphology of Russian
Darden

33200. Marxism & Modernism
Bird

33300. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev
Bird

33500. Platonov & Contemporary Criticism
Bird

33601. Flaubert’s Madame Bovary & Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Wasiolek

33700. Four Poets of the Early 20th Century
Crone

33800. Post-Symbolist Prose from Remizov to Platonov
Bird

33900. Superfluous Men in R(evolution)
Crone

34000. Vladimir Nabokov
Sternstein, Crone

34100. Pushkin
Ehre

34101. Pushkin & His Age
Steiner

34200. Russian Religious Thought
Crone

34300. The Ode and the Elegy
Crone

34400. Nineteenth Century Poetry
Staff

34600. The Narrative Poem of the Twentieth Century
Bird

34800. Seminar: Russian Formalist Theory
Sternstein

35000. Reading Course in Russian Linguistics
Staff

35100. East Slavic Literature to 1300
Ingham

35200. Russian Literature, 1300–1600
Ingham

35300. Russian Literature, 1600–1725
Ingham

35400. Eighteenth Century Russian Literature
Ingham

35500. Introduction to Russian Literature I
Crone, Ingham, Bird, Steiner

35600. Introduction to Russian Literature II
Crone, Ingham

35700. Introduction to Russian Literature III: Twentieth Century Russian Literature
Bird, Crone

35800. Introduction to Russian Religious Philosophy
Crone

35900. History and the Russian Novel
Hellie

36000. History of Russian Style
Ingham, Crone

36100. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry
Crone

36200. Pushkin’s Lyric Poetry
Crone

36300. Tyutchev and Fet
Crone

36500. Lyric Poetry: Derzhavin through Pushkin
Staff

36600. Russian Modernism: Theory and Practice
Crone

36700. The Idiot and The Possessed
Crone

36800. The Pushkin Pleiad: The Poets and the Genres
Crone

36900. Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsevetaeva
Crone

37100. Gogol
Ehre

37200. Turgenev
Ingham

37300. Seminar: Eugene Onegin
Staff

37400. Poetry’s Place in Russian Culture
Staff

37500. Dostoevsky
Ingham

37600. Tolstoy
Ingham

37700. Chekhov
Staff

37800. Music and Thought: Baratynsky, Tyutchev, Batyushkov, and Fet
Crone

37900. Russian Intellectual History 1830–80
Crone

38000. Styles of Performance
Tsivian

38100. Russian Criticism: Nineteenth Century
Staff

This list was last revised on 9/08/2003.

Russian (continued)

38200. Russian Criticism: Twentieth Century
Staff

38300. Symbolism and Acmeism I
Crone

38400. Symbolism and Acmeism II
Crone

38500. Homer and Tolstoy
Staff

38600. The Brothers Karamazov
Staff

38700. Literary Structuralism in Russia
Staff

38900. Early Soviet Prose
Ehre

39000. Russian Drama I
Ingham

39100. Russian Drama II
Staff

39200. Contemporary Soviet Poetry
Crone

39300. Vladimir Solovíev as Poet, Critic and Philosopher
Crone

39400. Theory and Practice of Translation
Staff

39600. Pale Fire
Sternstein

39900. Reading Course in Russian Literature
Staff

40100. Seminar: Russian Linguistics
Staff

45100. Seminar: Russian Literature
Staff

45200. Seminar: Symbolism and Film
Tsivian

47200. Writing the Self
Crone

47500. Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and the Critics
Crone

47600. Seminar: The Image of the Peasant in Russian Literature
Crone

47700. Bakhtin and Literature
Staff

49900. Research on the Dissertation
Staff

Czech and Slovak Languages and Literatures (CZEC)

10100, 10200, 10300. Elementary Czech
Staff

20100, 20200, 20300. Second-Year Czech
Staff

21200, 21300, 21400. Introduction to Slovak
Staff

32100. Structure of Czech and Slovak
Staff

32200. History of Czech and Slovak
Staff

35000. Reading Course in Czech and Slovak Linguistics
Staff

35500. Introduction to Czech and Slovak Literature I: From the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century
Sternstein

35600. Introduction to Czech and Slovak Literature II: Nineteenth Century
Sternstein

35700. Modern Czech Literature
Sternstein

35800. Survey of Czech and Slovak History and Culture I: From the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century
Sternstein

35900. Survey of Czech and Slovak History and Culture II: Nineteenth Century
Sternstein

36000. Survey of Czech and Slovak History and Culture III: Twentieth Century
Sternstein

36300. Modern Literary Criticism: Czech and Slovak
Sternstein

36400. Modern Czech Prose: Karl Capek and his Generation
Staff

36500. Modern Czech Poetry
Sternstein Staff

36600. Modern Czech Drama
Sternstein

37500. The Prague Linguistic Circle: The Beginnings of Structuralism
Staff

37600. Milan Kundera
Sternstein

37700. Kafka in Prague
Sternstein

37800. Bohumil Hrabal
Sternstein

38000. Czech and Slovak Folklore
Staff

38600. Medieval Czech Poetry
Staff

38700. Baroque Czech Poetry
Staff

39000. Studies in Early Czech Literature
Staff

39900. Reading Courses in Czech and Slovak Literature
Staff

40100. Seminar in Czech and Slovak Literature
Staff

49900. Research on the Dissertation
Staff

Polish Language and Literature (POLI)

10100, 10200, 10300. Elementary Polish
K-Mlynarczyk

20100, 20200, 20300. Second-Year Polish
K-Mlynarczyk

32100. Structure of Polish
Staff

32200. History of Polish
Staff

35000. Reading Course in Polish Linguistics
Staff

36000. Introduction to Polish Literature I: From the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century
Staff

36100. Introduction to Polish Literature II: Nineteenth Century
Staff

36200. Introduction to Polish Literature III: Twentieth Century
Staff

37400. Introduction to Polish History and Culture I
Staff

37500. Introduction to Polish History and Culture II
Staff

37600. Introduction to Polish History and Culture III
Staff

38200. Construing the Other: The Verbal/Visual Representations of the Jewish Community in Polish Literature
Shallcross

38600. Reading the Arch-Text: Adam Mickiewicz’s Master Taeuesz
Shallcross

38700. The Art and Craft of the Polish Essay
Shallcross

38800. Postwar Polish Poetry
Shallcross

38900. Word versus Image: Interdisciplinary and Polish Literature
Shallcross

39100. Representing the Holocaust in Polish Culture
Shallcross

39400. Bodies, Things, Objects: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Shallcross

39900. Reading Course in Polish Literature
Staff

40100. Seminar: Polish Literature
Staff

49900. Research on the Dissertation
Staff

South Slavic Languages and Literatures (SOSL)

30400. Comparative South Slavic
Friedman

31000. Bulgarian for Reading Knowledge
Friedman, Hristova

31100. Structure of Bulgarian
Friedman, Hristova

31200. History of Bulgarian
Friedman, Hristova

31700. Intensive Structure of Macedonian
Friedman

32100. Structure of Serbo-Croatian
Staff

32200. History of Serbo-Croatian
Staff

34000. Historical-Comparative Survey of the South Slavic Languages
Staff

34100, 34200, 34300. Macedonian for Slavists
Friedman

34500. Comparative East South Slavic Linguistics
Friedman

35000. Reading Course in South Slavic Linguistics
Staff

35100, 35200, 35300. Introduction to Macedonian
Staff

36100, 36200, 36300. Literatures of the South Slavs
Rakiç

36700. South Slavic Oral Poetry
Rakiç

37000. Introduction to Romani
Friedman

37100. Bosnian Ethnic Cauldron: Literature of Ivo Andric
Rakiç

38000. Balkan Modernism in European Context
Staff

39900. Reading Course in South Slavic Literature
Staff

40100. Seminar: South Slavic Linguistics
Staff

49900. Research for the Dissertation
Staff

Balto-Slavic Linguistics (BALT)

30800. Lithuanian for Linguists
Darden

31100, 31200, 31300. Luthuanian for Slavists
Darden

32100. Structure of Lithuanian
Darden

32200. History of Lithuanian
Darden

32300. Comparative Balto-Slavic
Darden

35000. Readings in Balto-Slavic Linguistics
Staff

49900. Research for the Dissertation
Staff