RUSS V1101x-V1102y First-year Russian, I and II 5 pts. Prerequisites: for V1102: RUSS V1101 or the equivalent. Corequisites: RUSS V1103-V1104 Grammar, reading, composition, and conversation.

RUSS V1103x-V1104y First-year Russian Grammar, I and II 1 pt. Corequisites: RUSS V1101-V1102 Must be taken concurrently with RUSS V1101-V1102.

RUSS V1201x-V1202y Second-year Russian, I and II 5 pts. Prerequisites: For V1201: RUSS V1102 or the equivalent. For V1202: RUSS V1201 or the equivalent Drill practice in small groups. Reading, composition, and grammar review.

RUSS V3101x-V3102y Third-year Russian, I and II 4 pts. Prerequisites: RUSS V3331:RUSS 1202 or the equivalent and the instructor's permission.
Prerequisite for V3332: Russian V3331 or the equivalent. Enrollment limited. 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.

RUSS V3421y Russian Phonetics and Intonation 1 pt.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Enrollment limited. Review of principles of phonetics and intonation. Intensive drill for the development of correct speech habits. Attention to expressive reading and poetry recitation. Conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS V3430x-V3431y Russian for Heritage Speakers, I and II 3 pts. Review of Russian grammar and development of reading and writing skills for students with a knowledge of spoken Russian.

RUSS W4001x Conversations about Russian Cinema 2 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Two years of college Russian or the instructor's permission. The course will focus on conversational, stylistic and cultural aspects of the language. Script writing, promotional trailers, film reviews. The course is conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS W4333x-W4334y Fourth-year Russian, I and II 4 pts. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission. Either term may be taken separately. W4333: Systematic study of problems in Russian syntax; written exercises, translations into Russian, and compositions. W4334: Discussion of different styles and levels of language, including word usage and idiomatic expression; written exercises, analysis of texts, and compositions. Conducted entirely in Russian.

RUSS G4431x Reading Practicum 2 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Four years of college Russian and the instructor's permission. For non-native speakers of Russian. Review of phonetics and intonation and reading of literary texts. Texts vary from semester to semester.

RUSS W4432 Contrastive Phonetics and Grammar of Russian and English 3 pts. Prerequisites: RUSS W4334 or the equivalent and the instructor's permission. Comparative phonetic, intonational, and morphological structures of Russian and English, with special attention to typical problems for American speakers of Russian.

RUSS W4433 Specific problems in mastering and teaching Russian Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: RUSS W4334 or the equivalent and the instructor's permission. The Russian verb (basic stem system, aspect, locomotion); prefixes; temporal, spatial, and causal relationships; word order; word formation.

RUSS W4434x Practical Stylistics [in Russian] 3 pts. Prerequisites: RUSS W4334 or the equivalent or the instructor's permission. Focuses on theoretical matters of style and the stylistic conventions of Russian expository prose, for advanced students of Russian who wish to improve their writing skills.

RUSS G4910x Literary Translation 3 pts. 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.

RUSS W4911y Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation: Russian-English 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the equivalent. Enrollment limited. A hands-on introduction to the principles and techniques of simultaneous interpretation. Students will work in the language laboratory, primarily from Russian to English. Background reading on the history, practice, and techniques of simultaneous interpretation will supplement practical work from cassettes and CDs. Students must have a portable cassette tape recorder.

RUSS V1330y The Russian Short Story [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Knowledge of Russian not required. A survey of the Russian short story tradition and a close consideration of the genre in question. Works by Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Zoshchenko, Solzhenitsyn, Pelevin, Tolstaya, and others.

RUSS V3220x Literature and Empire: The Reign of the Novel in Russia (19th Century) [In English] 3 pts. Knowledge of Russian not required. 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.

RUSS V3221y Literature and Revolution: Tradition, Innovation, and Politics (20th century) [In English] 3 pts. Knowledge of Russian not required. Survey of Russian literature from symbolism to the culture of high Stalinism and post-Socialist realism of the 1960s and 1970s, including major works by Bely, Blok, Olesha, Babel, Bulgakov, Platonov, Zoshchenko, Kharms, Kataev, Pasternak, and Erofeev. Literature viewed in a multi-media context featuring music, avant-garde and post-avant-garde visual art, and film.

RUSS V3222y Tolstoy and Dostoevsky [In English] 3 pts. Two epic novels, Tolstoy's War and Peace and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories "Kreutzer Sonata" and "Hadji Murad"; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; "A Gentle Creature," a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required.

RUSS V3223x Magical Mystery Tour: The Legacy of Old Rus' [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

Winston Churchill famously defined Russia as " a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This course aims at demystifying Russia by focusing on the core of its "otherness" in the eyes of the West: its religious culture. We will explore an array of texts, practices and pragmatic sites of Russian religious life across such traditional divides as medieval and modern, popular and elite, orthodox and heretical. Icons, liturgical rituals, illuminated manuscripts, magic amulets, religious sects, feasting and fastings, traveling practices from pilgrimages to tourism, political myths and literary mystification, decadent projects of life-creation, and the fervent anticipation of the End are all part of a tour that is as illuminating as it is fun. No knowledge of Russian is required

RUSS V3470 Re-Reading Nabokov [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010."A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a re-reader"--V. Nabokov. The name of the game is reading Nabokov Nabokov's way. The course examines with Nabokovian scrutiny--and with special emphasis on bilinguialism, translation, and untranslatability--some of the writer's major works in their Russian and English versions, including his double take on Lolita. Knowledge of Russian helpful but not required.

RUSS W4006y Modern Russian Religious Thought [In English] 3 pts. Knowledge of Russian not requiredNot offered in 2009-2010. Explores Russian religious thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to its close ties to the Russian literary tradition. We start with Chaadaev's questions about Russia's otherness, move on to Slavophile solutions, then to folk piety and religious practice, and the religious thought of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. We will then study the renaissance of Russian religious thought that took root in the work of Soloviev and Fedorov and inspired Russian modernists. The course will end with the development of these ideas in the first half of the twentieth century in Russia (Florensky) and the Paris emigration (Berdiaev, Shestov, Bulgakov, Skobtsova [Mother Maria]). Readings in religious thought will be supplemented by relevant literary texts.

RUSS W4015 Highlights of Russian Drama from the 18th Century to Chekhov [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Parallel reading lists in English and Russian. Graduate students in Russian must read in the original. Emphasis on drama as literature, with some attention to Western drama and to Russian theatrical production.

RUSS W4016 Russian Drama from Chekhov to the Present [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Parallel reading lists in English and Russian. Graduate students in Russian must read in the original. Emphasis on literary texts, the history of literary movements, and on competing theatrical and dramatic theories.

RUSS W4017y Chekhov [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Close reading of Chekhov's best work in the genres on which he left an indelible mark (the short story and the drama) on the subjects that left an indelible imprint on him (medical science, the human body, identity, topography, the nature of news, the problem of knowledge, the access to pain, the necessity of dying, the structure of time, the self and the world, the part and the whole) via the modes of inquiry (diagnosis and deposition, expedition and exegesis, library and laboratory, microscopy and materialism, intimacy and invasion) and forms of documentation (the itinerary, the map, the calendar, the photograph, the icon, the Gospel, the Koan, the lie, the love letter, the case history, the obituary, the pseudonym, the script) that marked his era (and ours). No knowledge of Russian required. Please register for this course under CLRS W4017, with call number 10850.

RUSS W4036 Russian Women in Literature and Culture [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A knowledge of Russian is not required. A comparative study of Western and Russian feminist thought and practice. Literary and historical documents are studied, with emphasis on women's social position, their literary image, and their contributions to culture.

RUSS W4661 Avant-Gardes and Postmodernisms in 20th-Century Russian Art [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

RUSS W4676y Russian Art between East and West: The Search for National Identity 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Aims to be more than a basic survey that starts with icons and ends with the early modernists. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it aims to highlight how the various cultural transmissions interacted to produce, by the 1910s, an original national art that made an innovative contribution to world art. It discusses the development of art not only in terms of formal, aesthetic analysis, but also in the matrix of changing society, patronage system, economic life and quest for national identity. Several guest speakers will discuss the East-West problematic in their related fields-for example, in literature and ballet.

Some familiarity with Russian history and literature will be helpful, but not essential. Assigned readings in English. Open to undergraduate and graduate students.

RUSS V1336y Two Hundred Years of Russian Poetry 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Russia's literary tradition has poetry as its foundation, and poetry- classical and contemporary - still plays an active role in Russian culture today. In this course we will study fascinating selections of lyric poetry from a span of two centuries and explore a number of approaches to it: re-creation of the reader's response at the time of the writing, psychological interpretations, poets' responses to each other, and still others. Famous poets have their share of our attention, but we look also at poets whose gender and approach to poetry left their work inaccessible and unpublished until recently. This course spans the smooth surface of Russian poetry to the volcanic activity at its heart. Three years of college Russian or the equivalent. Readings of poetry in Russian, other readings and class discussions in English.

RUSS V3319y Masterpieces of 19th-Century Russian Literature 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Native or near-native fluency in Russian. Close study, in the original, of representative works by Pushkin, Lermonotov, Gogol, Turgenev, Ostrovsky, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Leskov and Chekhov.

RUSS V3320x Masterpieces of 20th-Century Russian Literature 3 pts. Prerequisites: Native or near-native knowledge of Russian and the instructor's permission. Close study, in the original, of representative works by Bely, Sologub, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Olesha, Mandel'stam, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, Terts, and Brodsky.

RUSS V3332x Vvedenie v russkuiu literaturu: Scary Stories 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Two years of college Russian or the instructor's permission

RUSS V3333x Vvedenie v russkuiu literaturu: Poor Liza, Poor Olga, Poor Me 3 pts. Prerequisites: Two years of college Russian or the instructor's permission. For non-native speakers of Russian. The course is devoted to the reading, analysis, and discussion of a number of Russian prose fiction works from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Its purpose is to give students an opportunity to apply their language skills to literature. It will teach students to read Russian literary texts as well as to talk and write about them. Its goal is, thus, twofold: to improve the students' linguistic skills and to introduce them to Russian literature and literary history. In 2007-2008: A close study in the original of the "fallen woman" plot in Russian literature from the late eighteenth century. Conducted in Russian.

RUSS V3344y Vvedenie v russkuiu kul'turu: Russian Culture in New York City 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Five semesters of classroom Russian or the equivalent and the instructor's permission In 2008-2009: A study of Russian culture as it is represented in New York City. Conducted in Russian.

RUSS V3345x Vvedenie v russkuiu kul'turu:Advanced Russian through History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Five semesters of classroom Russian or equivalent and instructor's permission Advanced Russian through History is a language course designed to meet the needs of those foreign learners of Russian as well as heritage speakers who want to develop further their reading, speaking and writing skills and be introduced to the history of Russia.

RUSS V3461 Pushkin 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the instructor's permission. Conducted mainly in Russian. Examinations in English. A close study in the original of Pushkin's narrative, dramatic, and lyrical verses.

RUSS V3463 Tolstoy 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: three years of college Russian or the instructor's permission. A close study, in the original, of Anna Karenina. Class discussions conducted in English.

RUSS V3464 Dostoevsky 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission. A close study, in the original, of selections of representative works.

RUSS V3465 Russian Poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the instructor's permission. A close study, in the original, of selected texts of five representative lyric poets: Tuitchev, Fet, Blok, Tsvetaeva, and Brodsky. Attention given to metrics, formal analysis of style and structure, and the relationship to literary and philosophical movements. Class discussion is conducted in English.

RUSS V3466 Chekhov 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission. Close reading in the original of Chekhov's prose (principally his shorter stories) and one drama.

RUSS V3468 Russian Plays 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission. A close study, in the original, of several representative Russian plays, with emphasis on problems of translation, literary technique, and dramatic presentation.

RUSS V3472 Platonov Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: three years of college Russian or the instructor's permission. Close reading in the original of representative works by the 20th century Russian writer Andrei Platonov. Discussion, in English, of the meaning, style, and context of Platonov's writings.

RUSS V3474 Russian Sci-fi 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Reading of four major works of Russian science fiction from the 20th century. Focuses on answering the question "Is science fiction best understood as a literary genre or literary device?"

RUSS V3476 20th-Century Prose Writers 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the instructor's permission. A close study, in the original, of the works of Isaak Babel and Yuri Olesha. Class discussion conducted in English.

RUSS V3477x City, Town, Village: Mapping 20th-century Prose 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission. Close reading, in the original, of representative works by 20th-century Russian writers. The prose we will read not only represents different periods of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature, but also "maps" the multicultural space of the former USSR and present day Russia. Authors include Bely, Babel, Bunin, Mandelshtam, Abramov, Iskander, Dovlatov, and Tolstaia, as well as some contemporary authors. Discussion, in English, of the meaning, style, and context of their writing, as well as the way geographical and/or architectural space may be "transcribed" into literary space.

RUSS V3595x Senior Seminar 4 pts. A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Content is determined by students' thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography. Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis.

RUSS W3997x-W3998y Supervised Individual Research 2-4 pts. Prerequisites: Departmental permission.

RUSS W4014x Introduction to Russian Poetry and Poetics 3 pts. An introduction to Russian poetry, through the study of selected texts of major poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, primarily: Pushkin, Lermontov, Pavlova, Tiutchev, Blok, Mandel'shtam, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Prigov and Brodsky. Classes devoted to the output of a single poet will be interspersed with classes that draw together the poems of different poets in order to show the reflexivity of the Russian poetic canon. These classes will be organized according either to types of poems or to shared themes. The course will teach the basics of verisification, poetic languages (sounds, tropes), and poetic forms. Classes in English; poetry read in Russian.

RUSS W4027 Poetry and Prose of the 1860s 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Readings, lectures, and discussion on the fiction, lyric, drama, and journalism of a crucial decade.

RUSS W4075 Survival and Renewal: Russian Poetry of the Soviet Period 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines how Russian poetry continued to evolve in the Soviet period even as the government attempted to control all means of literary expression and exploit the popularity of verse as a vehicle for party propaganda. Russian poets of 1930-90.

RUSS W4200y Theater Workshop: Gogol's Revizor 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. The study and staging, in the original of a Russian play (Gogol's Revizor). Concentration on exploration of character and style through language, phonetics, detailed textual analysis, and oral presentation.

RUSS W4331y Chteniia po russkoi literature: Gogol 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission. Conducted in Russian.

RUSS W4332y Chteniia po russkoi literature: Turgenev 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission Conducted in Russian.

RUSS W4345x Chteniia po russkoi kul'ture: Advanced Russian Through History 3 pts. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian or the equivalent In 2008-2009: A language course designed to meet the needs of those foreign learners of Russian as well as heritage speakers who want to develop further their reading, speaking, and writing skills and be introduced to the history of Russia.

RUSS W4346x Chteniia po russkoi kul'ture: Russian Folklore and the Folkloric Tradition 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission. In 2007-2008: Reading and discussion of the principal genres of traditional and contemporary Russian folklore and readings about Russian folk customs. Conducted in Russian.

RUSS W4347y Chteniia PO RUSSKOI KUL'TURE: Contemporary Social Sciences 3 pts. Prerequisites: Five semesters of college level Russian, or four semesters of college level Russian and participation in a study abroad program in a Russian speaking country and instructor's permission. This course is designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduate and graduate students across several fields--the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, business, law and others-- who wish to focus on acquisition of high proficiency reading skills that will allow them to conduct research using written Russian-language academic sources.

CZCH W1101x-W1102y Elementary Czech, I and II 4 pts. Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepare students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.

CZCH W1201x-W1202y Intermediate Czech, I and II 4 pts. Prerequisites: CZCH W1102 or the equivalent. Rapid review of grammar. Readings in contemporary fiction and nonfiction, depending upon the interests of individual students.

CZCH W3997x-W3998y Supervised Individual Research 2-4 pts. Prerequisite: Departmental permission.

CZCH W4333x Readings in Czech Literature, I 3 pts. 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.

CZCH W4334y Readings in Czech Literature, II 3 pts. 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.

POLI W1101x-W1102y Elementary Polish, I and II 4 pts. Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.

POLI W1201x-W1202y Intermediate Polish, I and II 4 pts. Prerequisites: POLI W1102 or the equivalent. Rapid review of grammar; readings in contemporary nonfiction or fiction, depending on the interests of individual students.

POLI W3997x-W3998y Supervised Individual Research 2-4 pts. Prerequisites: Departmental permission.

POLI W4003 History of Polish Literature 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A knowledge of Polish is not required, but students knowing the language are expected to read in the original and are given special assignments. A general survey of Polish literature from the Renaissance to WW I and the establishment of an independent Polish state.

POLI W4030 Post-WW II Polish Literature 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Readings in English translation. Students with a knowledge of Polish are expected to do some work in the original. An introduction to major developments in Polish prose, fiction, poetry, and drama since the end of WW II and the establishment of the present government.

POLI W4031x Professional Polish for Heritage Speakers 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Addresses the need for heritage speakers to speak, read, understand, and write in Polish at the highest level of functional proficiency. It serves students from all departments across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

POLI G4040y Mickiewicz 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The Polish literary scene that in this particular period stretched from Moscow, Petersburg, and Odessa, to Vilna, Paris, Rome. The concept of exile, so central to Polish literature of the 19th-century and world literature of the 20th will be introduced and discussed.

The course will offer the opportunity to see the new Romantic trend initially evolving from classicism, which it vigorously opposed and conquered. We will examine how the particular literary form - sonnet, ballad, epic poem and the romantic drama developed on the turf of the Polish language. Also we will see how such significant themes as madness, Romantic suicide, Romantic irony, and elements of Islam and Judaism manifested themselves in the masterpieces of Polish poetry. The perception of Polish Romanticism in other, especially Slavic, literatures will be discussed and a comparative approach encouraged.

Most of the texts to be discussed were translated into the major European languages. Mickiewicz was enthusiastically translated into Russian by the major Russian poets of all times; students of Russian may read his works in its entirety in that language.

The class will engage in a thorough analysis of the indicated texts; the students' contribution to the course based on general knowledge of the period, of genres, and/or other related phenomena is expected.

POLI G4042y Bestsellers of Polish Literature 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A study of the 20th-century Polish novel during its most invigorated, innovative inter-war period. A close study of the major works of Kuncewiczowa, Choromanski, Wittlin, Unilowski, Kurek, Iwaszkiewicz, Gombrowicz, and Schulz. The development of the Polish novel will be examined against the background of new trends in European literature, with emphasis on the usage of various narrative devices. Reading knowledge of Polish desirable but not required. Parallel reading lists are available in the original and in translation.

POLI W4044 20th-Century Polish Drama and Theatre 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A reading knowledge of Polish is desirable but not required. Primarily the plays of such avant-garde dramatists as Witkiewicz, Gombrowicz, Mrozek, and Rózewicz, and the theatre work of Grotowski.

POLI W4048 Masterpieces of 19th-Century Polish Poetry 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Analysis of the major works of the 19th-century poets, including Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Krasinski, Fredro, and Norwid. Parallel reading lists for readers and non-readers of Polish. Students with sufficient knowledge of the language are required to read in the original.

POLI W4050 Contemporary Polish Poetry 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Polish. Survey of the major contemporary Polish poets, schools, and genres. Lectures, assigned readings, and class discussion of poems. Additional reading list and anthology selections in English for supplemental reading and for comparison.

POLI W4101x-W4102y Advanced Polish, I and II 4 pts. 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.

POLI W4110 The Polish Novel 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Evolution of the novel form in Polish literature from the Baroque memoir through the Enlightenment, Positivism, modernism, and the avant-gardists of the 20th century. Reading knowledge of Polish desirable but not required.

POLI G4111 Polish Drama 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of Polish drama from the Renaissance through the radical experiments of the recent period. Current performances in New York will be incorporated into the course. Knowledge of Polish is desirable but not required.

SCRB W1101x-W1102y Elementary Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, I and II 4 pts. Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.

SCRB W1201x-W1202y Intermediate Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, I and II 3 pts. Prerequisites: SRCR W1102 or the equivalent. Readings in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature in the original, with emphasis depending upon the needs of individual students.

CLSS W3997x-W3998y Supervised individual instruction 2-4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

SCRB W4331x-W4332y Advanced Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian, I and II 3 pts. Prerequisites: SCRB 1202. 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.

UKRN W1101x-W1102y Elementary Ukrainian, I and II 3 pts. 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.

UKRN W1201x-W1202y Intermediate Ukrainian, I and II 3 pts. Prerequisites: UKRN W1102 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.

UKRN W3997x-W3998y Supervised Individual Research 2-4 pts. Prerequisites: Departmental permission.

UKRN W4001x-W4002y Advanced Ukrainian, I and II 3 pts. Prerequisites: UKRN W1202 or the equivalent. The course is for students who wish to develop their mastery of Ukrainian. Further study of grammar includes patterns of word formation, participles, gerunds, declension of numerals, and a more in-depth study of difficult subjects, such as verbal aspect and verbs of motion. The material is drawn from classical and contemporary Ukrainian literature, press, electronic media, and film. Taught almost exclusively in Ukrainian.

UKRN G4033y Early Modernism in Ukrainian Literature 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course focuses on the rise of modernism in Ukrainian literature in the late 19th century and early 20th century, a period marked by a vigorous, often biting polemic between the populist Ukrainian literary establishment and young Ukrainian writers who were inspired by their European counterparts. Students will read prose, poetry, and drama written by Ivan Franko, the writers of the Moloda Musa, Olha Kobylianska, Lesia Ukrainka, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko among others. The course will trace the introduction of urban motifs and settings, as well as decadence, into Ukrainian literature and analyze the conflict that ensued among Ukrainian intellectuals as they forged the identity of the Ukrainian people. The course will be supplemented by audio and visual materials reflecting this period in Ukrainian culture. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.

UKRN W4040 Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Prose 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Ukrainian or fluency in another Slavic language. Survey of the major works from the turn of the century through the 1990s with a brief overview of 19th-century Ukrainian prose and its connection to later developments.

UKRN W4058 The Ukrainian Cultural Renaissance: 1917-1934 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A course focusing on the literary and cultural politics in Ukraine during the period of relative liberalization and the national revival in 1917-1934. Fiction, poetry, drama, films, manifestoes, and theoretical and polemical writings by Mykola Khvyl'ovyi, Valerian Pidmohyl'nyi, Mykola Kulish, Mykhail' Semenko, Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Zerov, Maksym Ryl's'kyi, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Les' Kurbas, and others.

UKRN W4060 Cultural Currents and their Political Context in Twentieth-Century Ukraine 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the major cultural currents in twentieth-century Ukraine in the context of contemporary political developments, with emphasis on five separate fields: literature, film, theatre, music, and art. All readings in English; a knowledge of Ukrainian not required.

UKRN G4069y The Missing Link: Cinema and the Emergence of Modern Ukraine 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course discusses the influence of cinema on the formation of modern Ukrainian identity. An overview of Ukrainian cinema history will be followed by analyses of major Ukrainian Soviet and post-Soviet films and the tension between their Ukrainian and Soviet aspects. Special emphasis on the most recent Ukrainian cinema and its quest to liberate itself from the legacies of the Soviet empire.

UKRN W4070 Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Drama. 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.Prerequisite: a reading knowledge of Ukrainian or fluency in another Slavic language. The main developments in Ukrainian drama from the turn of the century to the present. A discussion of the authors and their works within the context of the various styles active in Ukrainian literature and against the background of the stylistic movements and events in the literature of the West.

UKRN W4100 Literatures and Identities in Post-Soviet Ukraine 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course seeks the connection between literary production and identity construction in present-day Ukraine. Major literary trends and the most representative texts since 1991 are studied, with emphasis on cultural hybridity, bilingualism, and decentralization. Readings include works by Yuri Andrukhovych, Yuri Vynnychuk, Oksana Zabuzhko, Solomea Pavlychko, and others.

UKRN G4120x Euphoria, Chaos, and a Community of Others in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature and Culture [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course focuses on post-Soviet Ukrainian prose written by the visimdesiatnyky(the 80s generation), which introduced the artist-intellectual as a new protagonist in Ukrainian literature. The course will also introduce students to post-Soviet Ukrainian poetry, drama, and essay writing. Students will be acquainted with the leading writers in Ukraine today and will observe the ways in which these writers adopted aspects of postmodernism in addressing their postcolonial concerns. The course will be complimented by audio and video presentations. Parallel reading list provided for those who read Ukrainian.

CLSS V4041x Cinemas of the Former Yugoslavia 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course explores how cinematic narratives and visual styles constructed, questioned, and contested notions of the nation and national identity in the cinemas of the former Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia. The course first provides an historical perspective on the rich heritage of cinemas of the former Yugoslavia after World War Two, examining in particular the trope of "liberated cinema," and questions of film censorship and ideology. Second,the course explores the influence of modernist movements in Yugoslavian film, including "novi film," "crni film," and the role of the Prague School film makers as well as of black humor and political satire in film. Finally, the course critically reevaluates the trope of a "cinema of flames" in the narratives of warfare, looking at the relationships among historical narratives, memory discourses, cinematic spaces, and political and personal (ethnic,class, and gendered) identities. Films (and/or selected clips from films) directed by Kusturica, Manchevski, Makavejev, Tanovic, Paskaljevic, Bresan, Dragojevic, Sijan, Petrovic, Zafranovic, Grlic, Stiglic, Berkovic, Hladnik, Zilnik, Stojanovic, Cengic, Markovic, and others will be screened and discussed.

HNGR W4050 The Hungarian New Wave: Cinema in Kadarist Hungary [In English] 3 pts. Hungarian cinema, like filmmaking in Czechoslovakia, underwent a renaissance in the 1960's, but the Hungarian new wave continued to flourish in the 70's and film remained one of the most important art forms well into the 80's. This course examines the cultural, social and political context of representative Hungarian films of the Kádárist period, with special emphasis on the work of such internationally known filmmakers as Miklós Jancsó, Károly Makk, Márta Mészáros, and István Szabó. In addition to a close analysis of individual films, discussion topics will include the "newness" of the new wave in both form and content (innovations in film language, cinematic impressionism, allegorical-parabolic forms, auteurism, etc.), the influence of Italian, French, German and American cinema, the relationship between film and literature, the role of film in the cultures of Communist Eastern Europe, the state of contemporary Hungarian cinema. The viewing of the films will be augmented by readings on Hungarian cinema, as well as of relevant Hungarian literary works.

UKRN G4069y The Missing Link: Cinema and the Emergence of Modern Ukraine 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course discusses the influence of cinema on the formation of modern Ukrainian identity. An overview of Ukrainian cinema history will be followed by analyses of major Ukrainian Soviet and post-Soviet films and the tension between their Ukrainian and Soviet aspects. Special emphasis on the most recent Ukrainian cinema and its quest to liberate itself from the legacies of the Soviet empire.

CLSL V4075x Soviet and Post-Soviet, Colonial and Post Colonial Film The course will discuss how film making has been used as a vehicle of power and control in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors that exemplify the function of film making as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of post-colonial theories. The course will also focus on the often over looked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive

CLSL W4110x Fiction in Film in East Central Europe Not offered in 2009-2010. The course will examine some of the most significant achievements of Polish, Czech, and Hungarian cinema in the communist era and, in most cases, their literary antecedents

HSSL W3224y Cities and Civilizations: an Introduction To Eurasian Studies 3 pts. An introduction to the study of the region formerly occupied by the Russian and Soviet Empires focusing on cities as the space of self-definition, encounter, and tension among constituent peoples. Focus on incorporating and placing in dialogue diverse disciplinary approaches to the study of the city through reading and analysis of historical, literary, and theoretical texts as well as film, music, painting, and architecture.

UKRN W3320 History of Ukraine In the 20th Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

CPLT W4203x The History, Literature, and Film of Dissent in East Central Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course is an interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural and political phenomenon of Eastern European dissent in the 1970s and 1980s, which culminated in the collapse of communism in the region. Using sources ranging from political essays to drama, other fiction, and film, students will explore the development of the region's oppositional movement's ideas and ideals. The actual prefix of the course, for registration purposes, is HSSL W4203.

CPLT G4339 History of Modern Poland. 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

CPLT W4343 Imperial Russia, 1801-1917 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

SLLN G4005y Introduction to Old Church Slavonic 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to the structure of Old Church Slavonic followed by readings of texts, with attention to the cultural history of Church Slavonic and its texts.

SLLN G6005y History and Structure of the Old Church Slavonic Language 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Discussion of systemic structure, immanent development, and cultural context of Old Church Slavonic.

RUSS G6021 Structure of Modern Standard Russian 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of Russian morphosyntax, with emphasis on modern approaches to the description of Russian grammar.

CLSL G6100 Comparative Grammar of Slavic Languages 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

RUSS G6225 History of the Russian Literary Language 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: SLLN G4005 Introduction to Old Church Slavonic. A survey of styles and genres of the Russian written language at major epochs in their development from Kievan Rus through the early 20th century.

CLSL V1330y Violent Muse of the Twentieth Century: Representations of Violence in Balkan and Russian Literature 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course examines literary representations of violence in twentieth century Russian and Balkan literature. Within a text, the balance between gore and philosophy, naturalistic details and sparse descriptions can shape our reaction to and cognition of violence. We will look at depictions of different types of violence (including violence resulting from mass-extermination campaigns like the Soviet gulag, violence in warfare, sexual violence, absurdist violence etc.), and consider how literary devices negotiate with violence. Readings include works by Ivo Andric, Nikos Kazantzakis, Aleksander Blok, Andrei Platonov, Varlam Shalamov, Vladimir Sorokin, and others.

CLRS V3119y The Novel in the US & USSR, 1925-1940: Literature Confronts Social Crisis 3 pts. Using novels as our primary sources, we will examine the massive social upheavals experienced in the US and USSR during the onslaught of the Great Depression and the rise of High Stalinism. The syllabus includes texts by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yuri Olesha, William Faulkner, Andrei Platonov, John Dos Passos, Valentine Kataev, John Steinbeck, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Richard Wright, as well as supplementary readings in history and literary theory. All readings in English.

CLRS V3224x Nabokov [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course examines the writing (including major novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs) of the Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov. Special attention to literary politics and gamesmanship and the author's unique place within both the Russian and Anglo-American literary traditions. Knowledge of Russian not required.

CLSL W4001x Climbing the Tower of Babel: Multilingual Literature from Five Centuries in its Political and Semiotic Context 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. What do the medieval Czech comedy The Ointment Seller, nineteenth-century War and Peace, modernist Finnegan's Wake and postcolonial Return to the Native Land have in common? They are all written in more than one language. This course examines the theoretical and philosophical implications of mixing and juxtaposing languages in a literary text in different historical and cultural settings from medieval Europe through colonial Brazil and postcolonial Haiti back to postsocialist Europe. The reading list includes works by Rabelais, Tolstoy, Jesuit missionaries, Joyce, Aimée Cesaire, Primo Levi and Jachym Topol as well as excursions into the blogosphere and other contemporary forms of writing. Knowledge of foreign languages is not required but students who want to get credit for comparative literature have to read in the original in at least one language other than English.

CLSL W4003x Central European Drama in the Twentieth Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus will be on the often deceptive modernity of modern Central and East European theater and its reflection of the forces that shaped modern European society. It will be argued that the abstract, experimental drama of the twentieth-century avant-garde tradition seems less vital at the century's end than the mixed forms of Central and East European dramatists.

CLSL W4003 Contemporary East European Literature: When the Wall Came Down 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The changes in the literary situation in East European countries that have accompanied and followed the end of communist rule. Works by representative authors from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine.

CLSL W4005 Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Russian and East European Writing 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An exploration of the ways gender and sexual identities have been articulated and constructed in a number of Russian and East European literary texts (from the late 19th century to the present). Representative works from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia.

CLRS W4011x Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the English Novel [in English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. 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.

CLRS W4012y Russian, French, and American Novels of Adultery [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Adultery is a driving concern of the works read. Authors include Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov; Lafayette, Flaubert; Hawthorne, Chopin. As we study the nineteenth-century novels that define the novel of adultery as a literary category, as well as some precursors and later offshoots, we articulate a morphology of the novel of adultery. We also focus on the narrative technqiues used to represent the consciousness of the protagonists, in an effort to determine how the subject matter and the poetics of the novel of adultery interact. No knowledge of Russian is required; all works read in English.

CLRS W4015x Dostoevsky and Nabokov: Narratives of Transgression and Madness 3 pts. A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (the Double, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment. "The Meek One," The Brothers Karamazov) and Nabokov (Despair, Lolita). Paying particular attention to narrative strategies, the course will prepare students to apply their knowledge of Dostoevskian plot, thematics, and literary technique to two novels by the great Dostoevsky-denier Nabokov.

CLSL G4015y The Discovery of Language: Kant, von Humboldt, and the Consequences of the Birth of Linguistics 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

The course combines the history of literature and the philosophy of language, examining the profound effect of the emergence of language as an object of study in its own right across the whole spectrum of European culture. In education, it was implicated in the rise of nationalism; in Romanticism it contributed to the preoccupation with alienation; a new sense of language's otherness created challenges for all sectors claiming special intimacy with the Truth (natural sciences, theology, law) - a development that has consequences for the rise of modernism is predilection for the abstract. Readings in linguistics, neuroscience, the philosophy of language, and literary texts (Bacon, Wilkins, Swift, Rousseau, Kant, Herder, von Humboldt, Kleist, de Saussure, Kartsevskii, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Prague Circle, Tartu School, Bakhtin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Khlebnikov, Kharms, Benjamin, Cassirer, Benveniste, Derrida, de Man, Mallarmé, Kafka, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet).

SLLT W4015 Ideology, History, Identity: South Slavic Writers From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond. 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course explores eight major South Slavic writers, modernists MIlos Crnjanski (1893 - 1977), Ivo Andric (1892 -1975) and Miroslav Krleza (1893 - 1981), and postmodernists Danilo Kis (1935-1989), Milorad Pavic (b.1948), Dubravka Ugresic (b.1949) and David Albahari (b.1948). The outstanding writer Borislav Pekic (1930 - 1992) extends beyond these two literary movements.

CLRS W4017 Chekhov [English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A close reading of Chekhov's best work in the genres on which he left an indelible mark (the short story and the drama) on the subjects that left an indelible imprint on him (medical science, the human body, identity, topography, the nature of news, the problem of knowledge, the access to pain, the necessity of dying, the structure of time, the self and the world, the part and the whole) via the modes of inquiry (diagnosis and deposition, expedition and exegesis, library and laboratory, microscopy and materialism, intimacy and invasion) and forms of documentation (the itinerary, the map, the calendar, the photograph, the icon, the Gospel, the Koan, the lie, the love letter, the case history, the obituary, the pseudonym, the script) that marked his era (and ours). No knowledge of Russian required.

CLCZ W4020 Czech Culture Before Czechoslovakia 3 pts. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or instructor's permission. An interpretive cultural history of the Czechs from earliest times to the founding of the first Czechoslovak republic in 1918. Emphasis on the origins, decline, and resurgence of Czech national identity as reflected in the visual arts, architecture, music, historiography, and especially the literature of the Czechs.

CLPL W4020y North America in the Mirror of Polish Literature 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course will consider the reflection of American culture in Polish literature. All aspects of American life will be viewed through the lenses of the Polish writers, bringing into focus their perception of a different political, historical, and esthetic experience.

CLSL W4020 Slavic Literary Theory 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The contributions to modern critical thought of Russian Formalism, Prague Structuralism, East European structural poetics, and the semiotics of culture. The characteristic features of those movements are examined in comparison with kindred critical developments in the West. Readings in English.

HNGR W4020 Exposing Naked Reality: Modern Hungarian Prose is Translation 3 pts. This course introduces students to representative examples of an essentially robust, reality-bound, socially aware literature. In modern Hungarian prose fiction, the tradition of nineteenth-century "anecdotal realism" remained strong and was further enlivened by various forms of naturalism. Even turn-of-the century and early twentieth-century modernist fiction is characterized by strong narrative focus, psychological realism, and an emphasis on social conditions and local color. During the tumultuous decades of the century, social, political, national issues preoccupied even aesthetics-conscious experimenters and ivory-tower dwellers. Among the topics discussed will be "populist" and "urban" literature in the interwar years, post-1945 reality in fiction, literary memoirs and reportage, as well as late-century minimalist and postmodern trends.

CLSS W4025y Literature and Ideology: Balkan Modernism [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the 20th-century literature of Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania, and Romania (in translation), with a focus on the role of literature in modern Balkan politics. Explores "the Balkans"--the cultural entity, the political phenomenon, the ideological construct--from the vantage point of the best modernist and postmodernist texts created in the region. Readings include poetry by Constantine Cavafy, novels by Ivo Andric and Ismail Kadare, short stories by Danilo Kis, read in conjunction with his fathers by choice, Jorge Luis Borges and Bruno Schultz, and films by two of Europe's most acclaimed directors of 1990s, Emir Kusturica and Theo Angelopolus.

CLSS G4027y Within Empires: Literatures of the South Slavs from the Beginning to Realism [in English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission Readings and discussion of the most important literary texts from Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Macedonia from the beginning of South Slavic literacy to the 19th century. Topics include religion, literature, art, architechture, and music; empires and wars, issues of history and identity. Major figures include: Vuk Stefanović-Karadžić, Petar Petrović Njegoš, Ivan Mažuranić, Hristo Botev and others. The course is intended for both non-native speakers and native speakers of South Slavic Languages; no knowledge of South Slavic languages required.

CLSS G4028x In the Shadow of Empires: Literatures of the South Slavs from Realism to Today [in English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission Readings and discussion of the most important literary works of South Slavic writers from the second half of the 19th century to the present. Major writers include: Ivan Cankar, Miroslav Krleza, Ivo Andric, Milos Crnjanski, Mesa Selimovic, Danilo Kis, Dubravaka Ugresic, David Albahari, and others. Knowledge of South Slavic languages not required.

CLRS W4029x Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century in Russia and Elsewhere [In English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of nineteenth-century novels and novellas by women: the focus will be on Russian writers (Gan, Zhukova, Pavlova, Tur, Vovchok, Khvoshchinskaia, Kovalevskaia), but we will include relevant works by novelists from other traditions (Germaine de Staël, George Sand; Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Olive Shreiner). We will discuss broader issues relating to the theory, form, and poetics of the novel, as well as ask questions about the nature of realism, about the politics of literary history and canonization, about the feminine imagination. All works may be read in English. (No knowledge of Russian or French is required.)

CLCZ W4030y Postwar Czech Literature [in English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of postwar Czech fiction and drama. Knowledge of Czech not necessary. Parallel reading lists available in translation and in the original.

CLSL W4030 Orthodoxy, Text, Ritual 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A general introduction to the medieval literature of Slavia Orthodoxa, focusing on the relation between medieval text and ritual context. Close readings of selected works agaisnt a broad cultural background. Attention to ritual time and space and ritual performance, Eastern Orthodox monasticism and the cult of saints, manuscript vs. printed culture, orthodoxy vs. heteropraxis. Readings are in English (with a parallel list in the OCS for the most daring).

CLSL W4030 How to Do Things with Literature: Constructing and Construing Russian and Yiddish Prose Fiction 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course explores the multiple tasks assumed by-or thrust upon- Russian and Yiddish literatures as each strove to establish a distinctive prose tradition in a shared cultural space. Authors read include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Belinsky, Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Babel, Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov, Olesha, V. Kataev, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Mendele Moykher Seforim, Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, David Bergelson, I.L.Peretz, Nachman of Bratslav, I.M. Weissenberg, Lamed Shapiro, Moyshe Kulbak, Der Nister, Chaim Grade, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Knowledge of Russian or Yiddish not required; readings available in the original for students with requisite language proficiency.

CLRS W4032x Emancipation of Self in (Early 20th Century) Russia and the European Modern 3 pts. A survey of the conceptual commonalities in 20th century Russia and Western European literature, art, architecture, theater, and music. Emphasis will be on the views of the Self, the relationship between matter and psyche, and reality and appearance, discussed in the context of Russian Symbolism, analytical psychology, and the Modern.

CLCZ W4035x Writers of Prague [in English] 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. No knowledge of Czech required. A survey of the Czech, German, and German-Jewish literary cultures of Prague from 1910 to 1930. Emphasis on Hasek, Capek, Kafka, Werfel, and Rilke.

CLRS G4035 Word and Image in Russian Culture 1720-1920 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Reading knowledge of Russian and some reading ability in French are desirable. Examination of the possible relationships of the verbal and the visual in 18th- and 19th-century Russian literature and culture. Considers the Byzantine heritage, the "symbols and emblems" of the Petrine baroque, the allegories of court culture, the notion of the picturesque, the "visibility" of "classical" Russian literature and turn-of-the-century culture, and the very possibility of illustrating words with images. The course is comparative, placing Russian examples against a European background to explore what is universal and what is specific about the interplay of word and image in Russia.

CLCZ W4038y Prague Spring of '68 in Film and Literature [In English] 3 pts. 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.

CLSL W4040 Linguistic and Ethnic Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course surveys the history of literacy in the area of the former Yugoslavia, the codification of Serbo-Croatian, and the problems of the implementation of the standard. Linguistic conflicts in the area foreshadowed ethnic conflicts and the dissolution of the country. The course material is presented within the context of sociolinguistics and sociology of language.

CLSS W4041x Cinemas of the Former Yugoslavia 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course explores how cinematic narratives and visual styles constructed, questioned, and contested notions of the nation and national identity in the cinemas of the former Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia. The course first provides an historical perspective on the rich heritage of cinemas of the former Yugoslavia after World War Two, examining in particular the trope of "liberated cinema," and questions of film censorship and ideology. Second,the course explores the influence of modernist movements in Yugoslavian film, including "novi film," "crni film," and the role of the Prague School film makers as well as of black humor and political satire in film. Finally, the course critically reevaluates the trope of a "cinema of flames" in the narratives of warfare, looking at the relationships among historical narratives, memory discourses, cinematic spaces, and political and personal (ethnic,class, and gendered) identities. Films (and/or selected clips from films) directed by Kusturica, Manchevski, Makavejev, Tanovic, Paskaljevic, Bresan, Dragojevic, Sijan, Petrovic, Zafranovic, Grlic, Stiglic, Berkovic, Hladnik, Zilnik, Stojanovic, Cengic, Markovic, and others will be screened and discussed.

CLSL W4075x Soviet and Post-Soviet, Colonial and Post Colonial Film 3 pts. The course will discuss how film making has been used as a vehicle of power and control in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors that exemplify the function of film making as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of post-colonial theories. The course will also focus on the often over looked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways, their own counter-narratives.

CLSS W4100x Central Europe and the Orient in the Works of Yugoslav Writers [In English] 3 pts. The course addresses the confrontation between East and West in the works of Vla Desnica, Miroslav Krleza, Mesa Semilovic, and Ivo Andric. Discussion will target problems inherent in shaping national and individual identity, as well as the trauma caused by occupation and colonization among the South Slavs.

CLSL W4110 Fiction in Film in East Central Europe 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course will examine some of the most significant achievements of Polish, Czech, and Hungarian cinema in the communist era and, in most cases, their literary antecedents.

CLPL W4120 The Polish Short Story in a Comparative Context 3 pts. The course examines the beginnings of the Polish short story in the 19th century and its development through the late 20th century, including exemplary works of major Polish writers of each period. It is also a consideration of the short story form--its generic features, its theoretical premises, and the way these respond to the stylistic and philosophical imperatives of successive periods.

CLRS W4431x Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture [In English] 3 pts. The course explores the notion of theatricality, its contradictory definitions, and its possible applications to Cultural Studies. It considers the place of both public spectacle and theatrical Event in Russian culture, traditionally considered theatrical as such. The study of public spectacles from 18th-century Court festivities, through 1920s Revolutionary festivals to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games and the recent celebration of 300 years of Saint-Petersburg. In our exploration of Russian theater a special emphasis will be put on those figures that have been most influential for 20th-century theater and film in the West (Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Diaghilev, Evreinov, etc.). All the readings will be in English.

CLSL W4900 Seminar In Theory: the Ineffable 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A consideration of the ways that critics might attempt to address the untranslatable, the indescribable, and the unspeakable. Possible solutions range from the theories of the sublime to critical performance or process, to psychoanalysis and phenomenologies of reading. Works by Adorno, Longinus, Philostratus the Elder, Kant, Walter Pater, Roman Jakobson, Bakhtin, Maurice Blanchot, and others.

CLSL W4975x Soviet and Post-Soviet, Colonial and Post Colonial Film 3 pts. The course will discuss how film making has been used as a vehicle of power and control in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors that exemplify the function of film making as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of post-colonial theories. The course will also focus on the often over looked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways, their own counter-narratives.

CLSL W4995y Central European Jewish Writers 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines prose and poetry by writers generally less accessible to the American student written in the major Central European languages: German, Hungarian, Czech, and Polish. The problematics of assimilation, the search for identity, political commitment and disillusionment are major themes, along with the defining experience of the century: the Holocaust; but because these writers are often more removed from their Jewishness, their perspective on these events and issues may be different. The influence of Franz Kafka on Central European writers, the post-Communist Jewish revival, defining the Jewish voice in an otherwise disparate body of works.