Courses

• CAS LR 285: Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky (in English translation)
  Close reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Discussion of Russian masters and larger themes: epic tradition from Homer to Tolstoy; continuity of "tragic world view"; the contrasts between the epic mode and the dramatic, and between two opposed views of God and history.
• CAS LR 303: Third-Year Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation
  Reading original unabridged Russian prose and poetry. Intensive work on improvement of fluency and quality of expression; special attention to pronunciation.
• CAS LR 304: Third-Year Russian II: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation
  Reading original unabridged Russian prose and poetry. Intensive work on improvement of fluency and quality of expression; special attention to pronunciation.
• CAS LR 309: Style and Composition for Native Speakers of Russian
  Intended for native speakers of Russian who require extensive grammar review. Intensive study of the art of written expression in modern Russian through exercises in syntactic structure, translations from English into Russian and original compositions. Special attention to orthography. Development of individual style.
• CAS LR 350: Introduction to Analysis of Russian Prose Texts
  Introduction to the great prose style of Russian literature. Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Chekhov: techniques of interpretation and close reading of short works.
• CAS LR 351: Introduction to Analysis of Russian Poetic Texts
  Close reading of selected poems of the great Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth century: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Nekrasov, Blok, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam, and Pasternak.
• CAS LR 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS LR 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS LR 403: Advanced Russian Grammar
  Subtleties of grammar and usage. Written projects, including English to Russian translations. Contemporary journalistic and literary sources.
• CAS LR 404: Advanced Russian Conversation
  Developing of advanced conversational skills through class discussions that stress contemporary vocabulary, idioms, and register. Student oral presentations related to such topics as nationality, religion, women's rights, crime, and politics. Frequent short essays.
• CAS LR 441: Contemporary Russian Press
  Designed to give students expertise in the special problems related to reading and interpreting current Russian journalistic literature. Emphasis on reading daily editions of Pravda, Izvestijia, and Literaturnaja gazeta; individual assignments are geared to students' interests.
• CAS LR 442: Russian Media
  Social role of the media. Critical evaluation of television programs and especially of documentaries. Effects and responsibilities of radio, television, film, and print media as cultural, social, and economic forces.
• CAS LR 443: Contemporary Russian Culture
  Study of the cultural life of Russia in recent decades. Literary, musical, and artistic creativity under contemporary conditions. The art of contemporary ballet. The avant-garde in contemporary painting. Unofficial and youth subcultures. The Russian intelligentsia today.
• CAS LR 455: Chekhov
  Analysis of his classic short stories and plays. Topics include man's personal and communal responsibility, his ideological and social prejudices, his personal communication, and his aspiration toward artistic and emotional self-fulfillment. Lectures and texts in English. Students are able to read texts in original.
• CAS LR 456: Topics in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
  Topic for Spring 2006: Nabokov. A study of selected novels by the greatest bilingual (Russian and English) author of the century, commencing with The Eye, Glory and The Gift and concluding with his American classic Lolita (and its two translations into film).
• CAS LR 491: Directed Study: Russian
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LR 492: Directed Study: Russian
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LS 111: First-Semester Spanish
  For students who have never studied Spanish, or by placement test results. Introduction to grammatical structures. Emphasis on aural comprehension, speaking, and pronunciation. Introduction to Hispanic culture. Lab required.
• CAS LS 112: Second-Semester Spanish
  Completes study of basic grammatical structures. Emphasis on speaking and aural comprehension. Readings on contemporary Hispanic culture. Writing assignments. Lab required.
• CAS LS 121: First-Semester Spanish for Reading
  For beginners. Contrastive study of Spanish and English spelling and pronunciation. Fundamentals of Spanish grammar. Techniques of vocabulary building: cognate recognition and morphology. Reading, translation, and discussion of short literary and cultural texts written primarily in the present tense. If CAS LS 111 or a more advanced Spanish course has been completed, this course cannot be taken for credit.

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