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Course DescriptionsSlavic 1 & 2 (5 units each) Elementary Russian Comprehensive video-based program for the study of Russian language and culture. Focus on proficiency in all four skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing). Daily homework assignments. Six or seven chapter tests and a final (computerized, each can be taken up to 3 times for best score). Required Texts: (Available Through Asuc's Cal Textbooks) Slavic 1: Recommended: Slavic 2: Lubensky, Ervin, & Jarvis, NACHALO When in Russia…, Book 2 with Cassette Tape and Workbook/Lab Manual. Recommended: Prerequisites: Slavic 1 – none; Slavic 2 – Slavic 1 or consent of instructor-in-charge. Slavic 3 & 4 (5 units each) Intermediate Russian Comprehensive review of Russian grammatical system (illustrated in works by classic and contemporary Russian authors). Focus on proficiency in all four skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing). Weekly viewing of popular animated film series. Weekly homework assignments. End-of-semester reading project. Six chapter tests and a final. Required Texts: (Available Through Asuc's Cal Textbooks) Rifkin, Grammatika v Kontekste: Russian Grammar in Literary Contexts, with cassette tapes and workbook/lab manual. Recommended: Prerequisites: previous semester or consent of instructor-in-charge. Slavic R5A, Section 1 (4 units) This Section is Cancelled Slavic R5A, Section 2 (4 units) Reading and Composition Course This course satisfies the first semester of the Reading and Composition requirement. The 20th century has witnessed a number of horrific attempts at social engineering in order to attain a "pure" society. Some of the worst have taken place in Europe, a part of the world where many would scarcely believe possible such large-scale acts of atrocity. These include the Holocaust, Stalin's purges, and the recent ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. In this course we will read literature dealing with these events and their effects on individuals. Course requirements: Students will be expected to attend class regularly, read the selected texts attentively, and contribute actively to class discussion. Students will write approximately 32 essay pages throughout the semester, consisting of two shorter papers (4-5 pages), a paper of medium length (7-9 pages), and a longer research paper (10-12 pages). Papers will go through three stages of substantial revision, involving peer reading and critiquing and in-class workshopping of each student1s writing. Additionally, throughout the semester students will complete shorter writing assignments in and out of class addressed to developing sentences and paragraphs, crafting arguments, and experimenting with various writing styles, tones, and techniques. Required Readings: In addition, there will be a short Course Reader, with a selection of short stories, essays and critical pieces Prerequisites: Subject A or equivalent. This course fulfills the "A" portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Slavic R5B, Section 1 (4 units) Reading and Composition Course This class satisfies the second semester of the UCB Letters and Science Reading and Composition requirement. Assignments can range from several short required student writings, as well as a short midterm research paper and a longer final research paper (topics to be selected in consultation with the instructor). Grades will be determined on the basis of the writings and the research papers, as well as on class attendance and participation. Topic to follow shortly. Texts: To be announced in class. Prerequisites: Completion of the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. This course fulfills the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Slavic R5B, Section 2 (4 units) Reading and Composition Course: "The Literary Journey" The journey is one of the most interesting and central themes of literature. It is also one that appears in a multitude of forms, from the epic and allegorical to the political, satirical, exploratory, military, imperial, and leisured. We will examine this theme through the lens of a few broad categories and by selecting a few good literary journeys to read. The idea that life is a journey marked by significant adventures and events goes back as far as such epic texts as The Odyssey. In addition to remarkable events and encounters, however, the literary journey also concerns the act of observation. A literary journey can tell us as much, if not more, about "how" a given author/narrator observes the world around him than it tells us about what he actually "sees." In this vein, the journey can serve as a vehicle for social or political critique. Further, early travel literature and journey tales were closely tied to the development of the novel. In this course we will examine how the journey framework organizes literary texts and what it tells us about ways of seeing and experiencing the world. Questions we will address include: How is the epic journey relevant to our understanding of experience and literature today? In what way might early travel and travel writing have contributed to the development of modern literature? Finally, what do these texts reveal about human understanding of self and other, home and away? Texts: Prerequisites: Completion of the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. This course fulfills the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Slavic 25A (5 units) Introductory Polish THE 25A-25B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. Texts: Prerequisites: None for 25A; 25B presumes a knowledge of 25A or equivalent. Slavic 26A (5 units) Introductory Czech THE 26A-26B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. Daily homework, midterms, final exam. Texts: Prerequisites: None for 26A; 26B presumes a knowledge of 26A or equivalent. Slavic 27A (5 units) Introductory Serbian/Croatian THE 27A-27B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. Text: SCB (available in manuscript as reader) Prerequisites: None for 27A; 27B presumes a knowledge of 27A or equivalent. Slavic 39B (3 units) Lower-Division Seminar: Stalin and Totalitarian Culture L&S Breadth: Historical Studies OR Social and Behavioral Sciences The claim is often made that ideology was the ruling force in the Soviet Union. After examining the highly ideologized utopian culture of Lenin’s and especially Stalin’s time, we will examine the attempts by Soviet Russians to erase their totalitarian past after Stalin’s death in 1953. We will approach our topic through fiction, political speeches, records of political trials, songs, film, posters and other forms of visual representation. The centerpiece of the course will be the figure of Stalin himself and the way he was represented in Soviet culture before and after the watershed year of 1953. Workload includes a midterm and final paper. Texts: K. Marx, The Communist Manifesto We will also watch movies and view representative works by avant-garde artists. Prerequisites: None. Slavic 45 (3 units) Nineteenth Century Russian Literature L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature During the semester we will be reading some of the celebrated works of the Russian nineteenth-century, from Pushkin through Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevskii and Tolstoi to Chekhov. It is the nineteenth century that poses the decisive questions of Russian modernity: the quest for an identity for the nation and its language, the problem of literary realism, the responsibilities of literature as an agent for social change, the status of the writer within changing social hierarchies, the correlation of the personal and the collective, the political and the metaphysical. These are decades of formal exploration and cultural anxiety, existential doubt and political denunciation. To define the nineteenth century and its questions and make them speak to us will be our goal this semester. Our interest will focus primarily on the novel, but will also touch on related genres such as the novel-in-verse, and the short story. The course is a prerequisite for admission to the Slavic major and is recommended for prospective graduate students in Slavic. No knowledge of Russian is required; the classes are conducted in English. Texts: Prerequisites: None Slavic 50 (3 units) Introduction to Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature OR International Studies OR Social and Behavioral Sciences THIS COURSE DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE PRINTED SCHEDULE OF CLASSES. This course introduces students to the cultures of the peoples of the former Soviet bloc (Russia and other areas of the former Soviet Union, including Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe), from the early times to the present, with the emphasis on cultural identity. Readings in history, fiction, folklore, viewing of films, and art works. Thematic units include: formation of the Russian civilization, Slavic nationalism in the Romantic era, empire and identity in Eastern/Central Europe; Soviet and post-Soviet daily life, Jews in Slavic lands, the former Yugoslavia; multi-ethnic lands. Required of majors in Russian/East European/Eurasian cultures, the course is also aimed at a broad audience. Knowledge of the languages of the area is not required. Course and readings in English. Texts: to be announced. Prerequisites: None .Slavic 103A (4 units) Advanced Russian (Part I) This course covers three main aspects of an advanced Russian course: grammar, syntax, and readings. The grammar is reviewed. Syntax deals with the practical aspects of simple and compound sentences. Readings introduce the best Russian authors. The course is taught in Russian. There are weekly quizzes on grammar, syntax, and reading, one midterm and the final exam. Weekly discussion or conversation section. Grades are based on: quizzes 30%, midterm 30%, final 40%. Texts: Prerequisites: Slavic 4, 14D or equivalent. Slavic 105A (1, 2 or 3 units) Russian-English, English Russian Translation SLAVIC 105A OFFERED IN FALL; SLAVIC 105B IN SPRING. Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Course may be taken for one unit (5 weeks: basic translation skills), two units (10 weeks: advanced skills), or three units (15 weeks: professional skills). The course is intended for students who are interested in acquiring translation skills that can be used in the growing field of Russian/American commercial and cultural relations, diplomacy and journalism. Because translation is studied from both Russian into English and from English into Russian it can be useful for English speakers as well as Russian native and heritage speakers. The course will consist of two parts, A and B, offered respectively in the fall and spring semesters. Both courses deal with the written and oral translation. However, Slavic 105A has the main emphasis on the written translation, its peculiarities and methods studied through practical translation of authentic texts. The main focus will be on translating technical texts. The oral part in Slavic 105A concentrates on acquiring basic skills necessary for informal interpreting. Workload: workshop, midterm, final. Texts: materials supplied in class. Prerequisites: Slavic 1, 2, 3, 4 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Slavic 109 (3 units) Business Russian This course is designed for students with a good command of basic Russian who would like to gain the vocabulary of business transactions in Russian in order to be able to establish actual contacts with Russian businessmen and women, to participate in business negotiations, to compile business contracts in Russian, and to read Russian business magazines and newspapers. Elements of the business law of Russia will also be discussed. The students are offered a large selection of original texts on economic, business, trade (domestic and foreign), and natural resource development. In addition to practical exercises and discussions, guest speakers and video materials will be widely used in classwork. The workload will include regular written assignments, presentations, a midterm and final exam. Texts: a reader compiled by the instructor as well as handouts and other materials. Prerequisites: Slavic 4 (2 years of Russian) or the equivalent. Slavic 114 (1-6 units) Advanced Self-Paced Russian for Native Speakers Individual class sessions for students are arranged during the first week of classes. Please see the instructor during special office hours during the first week of classes to arrange tutorial schedules. The first week of classes office hours will be posted outside of the Slavic Department office at 6303 Dwinelle Hall at that time. The course can be taken for two semesters not to exceed the maximum of 6 units. The course is designed for native speakers of Russian who have not studied Russian formally or consistently. It aims at building a sophisticated and mature vocabulary, developing grammatical awareness and writing competency. Students with adequate linguistic preparation in both English and Russian may also work on translation skills. The course is organized around students’ individual needs and abilities. Classes or individual consultations are held on a weekly basis as arranged during the first week of the semester. Grades are based on regular homework assignments, attendance, and two or three tests or a final paper. Open to undergraduate and graduate students with consent of instructor. Workload: weekly home assignments adjusted to the number of units declared. Texts: All materials to be offered by the instructor in the course of the semester. Prerequisites:native oral fluency. Slavic 115A (4 units) Advanced Polish This course will contain three major components: a review of grammar; reading and translation of moderately difficult Polish prose and poetry, primarily of the twentieth century; and conversation. Texts: Olesky & Swan, W Labiryncie Prerequisites: Slavic 25B or consent of the instructor. Slavic 116A (4 units) Advanced Czech The course combines a review of Czech grammar (along with discussion of problem areas of grammar) and reading of Czech literature. Texts: to be announced in class. Prerequisites: Slavic 26B or consent of instructor. Slavic 117A (4 units) Advanced Serbian/Croatian NOTE: THIS COURSE WILL BE OFFERED AS STAFFING PERMITS. Texts: Available from the instructor once class begins. Prerequisites: Slavic 27B or permission of instructor. Slavic 118A (4 units) Advanced Bulgarian Review of grammar covered in Introductory Bulgarian 28A-B. Thorough presentation of the complex verbal tense-mood system. Readings in contemporary Bulgarian prose and poetry. The course will be conducted partially in Bulgarian. Workload will include reading, translations, preparation of oral reports; midterm; final. Texts: Alexander,Ronelle. Intensive Bulgarian, Volumes 1 & 2 Prerequisites: Slavic 28B or permission of instructor. Slavic 120A (2-3 units) Advanced Russian Conversation and Communication SLAVIC 120A IS OFFERED IN THE FALL; 120B IS OFFERED EACH SPRING SEMESTER. Russian language and culture through communication. Emphasis on listening and speaking skills. Daily homework assignments. May be taken for 2-3 credits (2=2 classes per week; 3=3 classes per week). Four oral tests and an end-of-semester oral interview. Tentative Text: (Available Through Asuc's Cal Textbooks) Prerequisites: Slavic 4 or consent of instructor-in-charge. May be taken after 120B. Slavic 132 (4 units) This Course is Cross-listed with English 125C L&S Breadth requirement: Arts & Literature A close reading of works by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in conjunction with two English novels. In “The Russian Point of View”, Virginia Woolf notes that whereas an English novelist feels a “constant pressure” to recognize barriers, both ideological and formal, a Russian novelist appears to feel less restraint. The English novelist is “inclined to satire,” the Russian to “compassion,” the English to “scrutiny of society,” and the Russian to “understanding of individuals themselves.” As we read, we will look for both affinities and differences between nineteenth-century English and Russian novels. The course consists of three parts: 1. Coming of Age in Russia and England: We begin with three fictional coming-of-age narratives, written in the first person: Tolstoy’s trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Dostoevsky’s unfinished early novel, Netochka Nezvanova; and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. These works have a striking number of common morphological and thematic features. 2. Love and Death in the Russian and English Novel: We will read Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Particular attention will be given to stylistic and formal features of these complex novels and to their treatment of philosophical questions and social issues, especially the status of women. 3. The Russian Point of View: Interior Monologue and Innovations in Poetics. Workload: close reading of assigned texts, regular attendance, one paper, short assignments, midterm, final exam. No prerequisites. No knowledge of Russian required. All readings are done in English. Slavic 134D (4 units) Leo Tolstoy L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature OR Philosophy and Values At the heart of this course will be our study of Tolstoy’s philosophical novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. As we read, we will focus on Tolstoy’s poetics, his narrative techniques, and the unique form of these novels. (Tolstoy himself resisted calling them novels, in part because he felt they deviated from European forms.) We will also read early works (including Childhood, Boyhood, Youth and The Sevastopol Sketches), in which Tolstoy developed the stylistic features and the subject matter that would be appropriated in his major novels, as well as some of the later shorter fiction (including “The Kreutzer Sonata”) and some of the polemical writings (including “A Confession”), which magnify features of the two major novels. Workload: close reading of required texts, regular attendance, short written assignments, two essays (4 pages each), and a final exam. No prerequisites. No knowledge of Russian required. All readings are done in English. Additional option, Slavic 134R: with concurrent enrollment in 134R (1 unit), a student can write a research paper or an interpretive essay (10-15 pages) on a topic of choice, supervised by the instructor in individual consultations. Slavic C139/Linguistics C139 (4 units) Language Spread This course is cross-listed with Linguistics C139 Prerequisite: Upper division standing or permission of instructor L&S Breadth: Social and Behavioral Sciences The course is concerned with what happens when languages spread, why it is that some languages have large ranges and many speakers while others are much smaller, and how a few languages have come to dominate the world. The spread of Russian through the former USSR, and its situation in the newly independent countries, will be covered. Topics include:
The goal of this course is to introduce concepts related to language contact that result in language spread. Linguistics has long been interested in language change, but because of the language internal view that is the legacy of descriptive linguistics, the larger ecology of language interaction has for the most part gone unnoticed. At a time in which the linguistic community as a whole is concerned with endangered languages, it is important to present the kind of overview that this course will provide. Course work: paper on a relevant topic of the student’s choice; class presentation; final exam; occasional homework assignments. Textbooks: Course reader. Slavic 147 (3 units) Slavic and East European Folklore L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature OR Social and Behavioral Sciences A survey of traditional Slavic verbal art, concentrating on South Slavic and Russian cultures, and considering both verse (including epic, lyric and other folk songs) and prose (primarily folk tales). These songs and tales will be studied both as "texts" and within the ethnographic context of traditional societies; as part of the latter rubric, the ideas of composition, performance, and transmission will also be studied. If time permits, certain aspects of music as traditional culture may also be included. Requirements: three short essays, final examination. Required Texts:
Alan Dundes, ed., International Folkloristics: Classical Contributions by the Founders of Folklore Recommended Texts:
Lord, Albert B., The Singer of Tales Slavic 147R (1 unit) Research in Slavic and East European Folklore This course is designed to support a research project coordinated with Slavic 147 "Slavic and East European Folklore” supervised by the instructor. Individual consultation with the instructor. Final research paper of 10-15 pages required. Prerequisites: Enrollment in Slavic 147; consent of instructor. Slavic 158/History 100, Section 2 (4 units) Topics in Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures: This Course is Cross-Listed with History 100, Section 2 L&S Breadth: Historical Studies OR Social and Behavioral Sciences The physical and cultural territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth have long been objects of contest. The twentieth century witnessed two or three re-births of Poland and one or two deaths (the count is also contested). This century also witnessed a belated modernization of Polish society; the final inclusion of Polish-speaking peasants and burghers in a Polish national identity; and the exclusion of Jews, Germans, Lithuanians, Texts: Course requirements: readings; attendance in class and at screenings (individual or group); participation in discussion; a midterm exam; a final paper (7–10 pages) on a topic to be discussed with the professor. Option for graduate students: instead of the midterm and final papers, a research paper (ca. 15 pages) on a topic to be discussed with the professor. Prerequisites: None Slavic 158 is a Cultural Topics requirement for majors in the East European or Eurasian cultures track in the Slavic department. Slavic 162 (3 units) Topics in Czech Language and Literature: L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature IN ENGLISH. The course highlights the most significant examples of Czech drama, prose and poetry from the kingdom of Bohemia's loss of independence in 1620 to the fall of Communism in 1989. Works of literature are placed in their historical, social, and cultural context. Also includes film screening of "Closely watched Trains" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Prerequisites: none. Readings and lectures in English; students who know Czech are encouraged to do at least some of the reading in Czech. Requirements: midterm and final paper. Texts: Reader: Prerequisites: None. Slavic 181 (4 units) Readings in Russian Literature L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature The course has a dual purpose: 1) to improve your Russian reading, speaking, and writing skills; 2) to introduce you to nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature and to textual analysis. All reading is in Russian; class is conducted in English and Russian. The language goals of the course are to increase your reading speed, comprehension of written and spoken Russian, and to learn how to discuss literature in Russian. We will begin by reading contemporary short stories by Sergei Dovlatov, Tatiana Tolstaya, and Viktor Pelevin. The rest of the reading list will be selected in consultation with the class during the first week. The list could consist of texts that cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries or contemporary literature of the last two decades. It could also consist of student favorites. Besides reading and discussing the texts, there will be 3 to 4 written assignments. Each student will be expected to give one oral report, either as a short lecture or as an interactive presentation that engages the rest of the class. There will also be a final exam. Texts: Xeroxed reader. Prerequisites: Ability to read and understand Russian at least at the third year level (Slavic 103A). Class can be taken concurrently with 103A. Slavic 200 (0 units) Graduate Colloquium Reports on current scholarly work by faculty and graduate students. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Graduate students must enroll in the course every semester. Slavic 201 (2 or 3 units) Advanced Russian Proficiency Maintenance Russian language practicum for graduate students from various disciplines. May be taken for 2-3 credits (2=2 classes per week; 3=3 classes per week). Mondays: focus on listening skills; Wednesdays: focus on form; Fridays: focus on speaking skills. Mid- and end-of-semester oral interviews. Texts: none Prerequisites:graduate standing or consent of instructor. Slavic 204 (4 units) Russian Composition and Style: Discourse Analysis A practical study of different discourses, their lexical, grammatical, stylistic and narrative characteristics. Topics include: nineteenth-century narrative techniques (Gogol’s skaz, Dostoevsky’s polyphony, Tolstoy’s narrative), oral and folklore patterns, language of Imperial and Soviet power, discourse of Stalinist subjectivity, cognitive conventions of contemporary Russian scholarly prose, etc. The class is conducted in Russian. Required of Requirements: weekly readings and participation in discussions; written home assignments; take-home final examinations. Prerequisites:graduate standing or consent of instructor; advance knowledge of Russian, both reading knowledge and oral fluency. Texts: a xeroxed reader. E-mail: ipaperno@socrates.berkeley.edu with questions. Slavic 214 (4 units) Medieval Orthodox Slavic Texts The course will be in part devoted to elementary skills in Old Rus(s)ian, in part concerned with coverage of essential texts, and, time permitting, in part thematic. The thematic concern will be chronicles: their internal structure; questions of authorship, tradition, and the politics of chronicles; generic properties of segments (hagiography, historiography); significance of chronicles to later historiography. Texts: xeroxed readings to be provided. Prerequisites: Slavic 210; graduate standing. Slavic 222 (4 units) Introduction to Descriptive Grammar of Slavic Languages Slavic 222 will be offered as of 6/12/02 Survey of the grammatical (morphological and syntactic) system of contemporary Russian. The structural description and functional properties of morphological categories such as case, aspect and tense, gender and number, and the like; and syntactic categories such as word order and its interaction with accent and prosody. Reading assignments approximately weekly. Analytic problems. Midterm exams (probably take-home) and final. Texts : to be announced. Prerequisite: Slavic 103B or equivalent. Slavic 280, Section 1 (4 units) This course is cross-listed with Film Studies 240, Section 1 Graduate Literature Seminar: “Russian Silent Film” Description forthcoming. Texts: to be announced. Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. Slavic 280, Section 2 (4 units) Johanna Nichols Studies in Slavic Linguistics Discussion of problems of synchronic grammar and a comparison of Russian with other Slavic (and occasionally non-Slavic) languages. Texts: to be announced in class. Prerequisites: graduate standing; consent of instructor .Slavic 281 (4 units) Proseminar in Literature: Methods and Aims of Literary Scholarship Introduction to the instruments of contemporary literary/cultural scholarship (analytical tools, research strategies, and reference sources) and to the profession. The course is required of all beginning (first- and second-year) graduate students in Prerequisites:graduate standing or consent of instructor; good reading knowledge of If you plan to take this course, try to re-read “Anna Karenina” (in the original, of course) in summer; get a copy of a reliable scholarly edition. A reference sources, Irena Makaryk, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory (University of Toronto Press, 1993) has been ordered for the University’s Textbook Store. E-mail questions to: ipaperno@socrates.berkeley.edu. Slavic 282 (4 units) Proseminar: Aims and Methods of Linguistics Scholarship An introduction to the methods of Slavic linguistic analysis, organized by language domain (phonology, morphology, etc.). Texts: to be announced in class. Slavic 287 (4 units) “The Futurist Avant-garde as an International Phenomenon” Futurism was the earliest of the various artistic movements associated with the historical avant-garde. The range of national, collective as well as individual manifestations of futurist literature have led some critics to speak of “futurisms” in the plural. While genuinely international in scope, futurism is generally associated the two countries where it was most evident, Italy and Russia. Our concern will be to chart the striking continuities as well as the real divergences in poetic, rhetorical and semantic strategy found in the various futurist currents of these two nations. In doing so, our first concern will be the texts themselves, more specifically the connection between verbal experimentation and futurist theories of language. In their early phase, each futurist current asserted the radical self-sufficiency of the poetic function, and any study of futurist literature must necessarily attend to the textures of linguistic play, semantic subversion, and literary innovation. Yet it is a curious fact that while both the Italians and the Russians initially insisted upon the autonomy of language (what Russians would call “the word as such” and the Italians “words in freedom”), both ultimately subordinated literary form, in complex ways, to semantics and ideological content. We will thus also be exploring the ways in which the formal specificities of futurist texts became related to wider historical and political issues. Why, for example, did futurism in the case of Italy as well as Russia constitute the most sustained national response on the part of poets and artists to the liberatory promise and authoritarian impulse of modern revolution? Given that the rhetoric of each futurist movement partly anticipated, then frequently mirrored and corroborated, at a varying critical distance, the political programmes of the regimes that emerged in their respective states, how then did Italian futurism come to align itself with fascism while Russian futurism claimed the mantle of socialism? Why did Italy and Russia, regions that embraced industrial modernization so belatedly, generate an artistic movement typified by a militant advocacy of modernity, and a radical rupture with tradition? We will be reading selected poems, manifestos, novels, journals and experimental plays by a series of futurist writers from Italy and Russia, examining them both for their formal literary properties and for the broader questions they raise about the relationship between radical modernism and the project of revolutionary modernity. In the case of Italy we will be focusing on the dominant figure of Filippo Marinetti, but also looking at the lesser-known contributions of the Florentine futurist writers Giovanni Papini, Ardengo Soffici and Aldo Palazzeschi, associated with the journal Lacerba. In the case of Russia we will be examining the legacy of the two towering figures of Russian futurist poetry Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Maiakovskii, but also acknowledging the alternative path taken by Aleksei Kruchenykh and other members of the radically experimental group “41 degrees.” References will also be made to pre-futurist French writing of the symbolist period. Although students will be encouraged to read the texts in the original where possible, the weekly Friday seminar will be working primarily with English translations. Further sessions will be scheduled regularly to discuss the texts in their original language. Texts: to be announced. Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. Slavic 289, Section 1 Studies in the Languages of the Caucasus: The course is designed for students who have previous experience or basic knowledge of the Georgian language. The course will cover grammar, conversation and writing on the intermediate level. The course will be focusing on the topic of how closely the language relates to the traditional culture. Readings will include the historical and ethnographic texts, literary pieces, also folk tales and poetry. For additional information about this course refer to the website: Readings: Georgian Reader with Texts, translation and vocabulary by George Hewitt, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. ISBN 0728602520 Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. Slavic 289, Section 2 Studies in the Languages of the Caucasus and Eurasia: Uzbek Language Uzbek Will Not be Offered Fall 2002 But Will be Offered in Spring 2003 Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. Slavic 301 (3 units) Slavic Teaching Methods Beginning Fall 2002 : This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors of Russian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Serbian/Croatian. Course to be repeated for credit each semester of employment as graduate student instructor. Group and individual conferences. Course on practical teaching methods, grading, testing, and design of supplementary course materials. Required of all graduate student instructors in Slavic. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Slavic 310 (2 units) Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics Weekly meetings with the instructor of the designated course. Discussion of course aims, syllabus preparation, lecture and assignment planning, grading and related matters. Students may prepare a representative portion of the work for such a course (e.g. lecture outline and assignments for a course segment) and may participate in presentation of the material and in evaluation of samples of student work. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Slavic graduate student status and consent of instructor. East European Studies 1A (3 or 4 units) Elementary Hungarian The course can be taken for either 3 or 4 units; the additional unit involves language laboratory work and additional written reading assignments. THIS 1A-1B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. Text: to be announced. Prerequisites: East European Studies 1A or consent of instructor. East European Studies 100 (2 units) Advanced Hungarian Readings The purpose of this class is to further develop the students’ level of proficiency of Hungarian in speech as well as in writing. A major component of the curriculum is based on student presentation of a topic chosen by each student in the class. Each student is to give two oral presentations during the semester. Materials for reading are selected by the instructor as well as by the students for home reading. Workload will include a reasonable Texts: photocopied materials chosen by the instructor and by the students. Prerequisites: East European Studies 1A-lB or consent of instructor. |
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