Modern Languages: Russian

• CAS LR 111: First-Year Russian I
  An introduction to the fundamentals of Russian grammar. Extensive practice in orthography and pronunciation: oral drills, development of comprehension and conversation skills. Reading of simple texts.
• CAS LR 112: First-Year Russian II
  An introduction to the fundamentals of Russian grammar. Extensive practice in orthography and pronunciation: oral drills, development of comprehension and conversation skills. Reading of simple texts.
• CAS LR 211: Second-Year Russian I
  The fundamentals of Russian grammar and syntax. Development of reading and oral skills.
• CAS LR 212: Second-Year Russian II
  The fundamentals of Russian grammar and syntax. Development of reading and oral skills. Satisfactory completion of CAS LR 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
• CAS LR 250: Classics of Russian Prose (in English translation)
  Prose works that define the Russian literary tradition, including Pushkin's Queen of Spades, Gogol's Overcoat, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
• CAS LR 280: Dostoyevsky (in English translation)
  His literary and ideological development. Short novels, diaries, and major novels: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, Brothers Karamazov.
• CAS LR 281: Tolstoy (in English translation)
  Examination of development of Tolstoy's art; emphasis on formal aspects of his prose. Tolstoy's position in Russian and Western literature.
• CAS LR 282: Russian Prose Classics of the Twentieth Century (in English translation)
  Introduction to the major writers of twentieth-century Russian prose and to the literary traditions that they represent through a close reading of selected texts. Readings will include works by the following authors: Chekhov, Sologub, Belyj, Babel, Olesha, Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn.
• 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.

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