Russian Studies Courses
Browse Russian studies courses offered by the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics (LCAL). Use the filter to narrow courses by term or course attribute — e.g., fulfills gen ed requirement, and find offerings that support your academic and research goals. Select a course for full descriptions, requirements and enrollment details.
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82-190 Robots, Aliens and Utopias: Russian, Slavic and Western Science Fiction
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82-191 Elementary Russian I
This course is for students who have never studied Russian. It begins the Russian language sequence and is offered in the fall semester only. The course takes a communicative approach to teaching basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Language is…
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82-192 Elementary Russian II
Elementary Russian II is the second semester of a yearlong beginning Russian sequence. Students who complete this yearlong sequence will acquire the basics of Russian grammar and develop an active vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words. They will learn how to tell simple…
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82-195 20th Century Eastern & Western Europe Through Masterpieces of Lit and Film
This course will explore life in 20th-century Eastern and Western Europe through masterpieces of literature and film.
Students will read and discuss novels by Erich Maria Remarque, Stefan Zweig, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and other notable European writers, as well as watch…
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82-196 Atomic Culture: From Chornobyl to Hiroshima and Fukushima
What happens when a nuclear catastrophe becomes culture, memory and popular entertainment? Exploring nuclear warfare, weapons testing, industrial and reactor accidents and the cultural legacies of atomic technology, this course takes students from Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
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82-292 Intermediate Russian II
Fulfills 'Intercultural and Global Inquiry' Gen Ed requirement
In this intermediate course, students will review the basics of Russian grammar, develop listening comprehension and expand their vocabularies and recognize the conversational, artistic and academic usage of…
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82-293 Russian Cinema: From the Bolshevik Revolution to Putin's Russia
"Last night I was in the kingdom of shadows," said the writer Maxim Gorky in 1896 after seeing a film for the first time. "How terrifying to be there!" Early film inspired fear and fascination in its Russian audiences, and before long became a medium of bold…
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82-294 19th Century Russian Masterpieces
Fulfills 'Contextual Thinking' GenEd requirement!
Russian literature of the 19th century was shaped by its engagement with the so-called accursed questions—"accursed" for being urgent and inescapable but possibly unanswerable. "What is the self?" "What is the…
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82-295 20th Century Russian Literature
Fulfills 'Contextual Thinking' Gen Ed requirement!
The October Revolution of 1917 had profound effects not only for Russian society, but also for literature and culture. Even before the Revolution, Vladimir Lenin stressed the importance of literature on the hearts and…
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82-391/392 Advanced Russian I: Modern Russia
This course investigates the cultural history of the post-Revolutionary Russian emigration to capitals of Europe, North America and Asia. We will examine the life of Russian émigré communities in each of these cities, through poetry, literary fiction,…
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82-392 Advanced Russian II
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82-394 Russian for Heritage Speakers: Babushka's Russia & Beyond
This course is designed to address the linguistic and cultural learning needs of heritage speakers of Russian, those who grew up hearing and speaking Russian at home but who have had little or no formal study of Russian language, culture or history. Although heritage…
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82-599 Russian Studies Thesis
The Russian studies thesis, as described for the Russian studies concentration, is required of all Language & Culture majors with a Russian studies concentration and consists of researching and writing a thesis employing both Russian-language and English-language…
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