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The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Quick reference to courses RUSSIAN: EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES:
Course DescriptionsSlavic 1 & 2 (5 units each) IF YOU SPEAK MOSTLY RUSSIAN AT HOME WITH YOUR PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS (even if you cannot read or write in Russian and even if you make some mistakes in your spoken Russian or occasionally switch to English), YOU SHOULD ENROLL IN SLAVIC 6A. This course was created specifically to fit the needs of "heritage" speakers, which are quite different from those of non-heritage second-language learners. (If you were born in Russia or one of the former Soviet republics and went to school there or if you have been speaking and reading Russian regularly in this country, you may want to consider Slavic 105 or 180 -- or 190 in the spring.) Elementary Russian Comprehensive program for the study of Russian language and culture. No knowledge of Russian is presumed for Slavic 1. Focus on proficiency in all four skills ("language in context" /listening, reading, speaking, writing/) and the fundamentals ("building blocks" /grammar and vocabulary/). Classes conducted primarily in Russian. By the end of Slavic 2, students will have most of the grammar, vocabulary, and cultural knowledge needed to begin functioning in Russian. Students who have completed this program have placed into the fourth and fifth semesters at Middlebury (a prestigious summer language immersion program). Grades based on participation, completion of homework assignments, oral tests, written compositions, chapter tests, and a final (a computerized standardized test that is weighted less than a chapter test and may be taken anytime during the last two weeks up to the scheduled final time). Required Texts: (Available Through ASUC's Cal Textbooks) Note: IF YOU BUY THE TEXTBOOK ONLINE, please make sure you get the SECOND EDITION. (McClellan should be listed as one of the authors.) In addition, you must buy the WORKBOOK/LAB MANUAL, which will be sold shrink-wrapped with the textbook at a slight discount at Cal Textbooks in the ASUC. The bookstore package will also include the CD that goes with the textbook, which is important when you are learning the alphabet, but not as essential as the other two parts. Slavic 1: Slavic 2: Optional: Students who want to get a head start can begin learning the Russian alphabet: If you have already purchased Nachalo, you can start learning the printed and cursive letters (and their sounds) in the textbook and workbook. If you haven't, or want more practice, you can go to the following sites and see which ones work best for you: http://masterrussian.com/blalphabet.shtml Alphabet in print and cursive. Pronunciation of all the letters of the Russian alphabet – scroll to bottom if you want to hear all the letters read quickly all at once instead of one by one. (You might also want to click on the “live cams” button – or any of the others - on the left for fun.) http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/russian/quickstart.html Simple Russian words with pictures and sound. http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/RT/pages/signs/signs.shtml Alphabet in print + Russian signs for practice. Also: http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/publications/rabc/RABC.shtml individual words pronounced. http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/index.html The Cyrillic alphabet (lots of cognates to practice the alphabet) and the rules of pronunciation [also lots of information about grammar at this site]. http://langintro.com/rintro/first.htm “A different game”: practice with sound and words. http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/RWT/welcome.html Need to have Nachalo textbook for this one. Extra practice. Prerequisites: Slavic 1 has no prerequisites as it assumes no previous knowledge of Russian. SLAVIC 1 IS THE PREREQUISITE FOR SLAVIC 2. If you have not taken the previous semester here, SCREENING AND PLACEMENT IS MANDATORY with our department’s Russian Language Coordinator to determine the best placement for you. Prospective students must contact Lisa Little, our department’s Russian Language Coordinator, at: lclittle@berkeley.edu Slavic 3 & 4 (5 units each) IF YOU SPEAK MOSTLY RUSSIAN AT HOME WITH YOUR PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS (even if you cannot read or write in Russian and even if you make some mistakes in your spoken Russian or occasionally switch to English), YOU SHOULD ENROLL IN SLAVIC 6A. This course was created specifically to fit the needs of "heritage" speakers, which are quite different from those of non-heritage second-language learners. (If you were born in Russia or one of the former Soviet republics and went to school there or if you have been speaking and reading Russian regularly in this country, you may want to consider Slavic 105 or 180 -- or 190 in the spring.) Intermediate Russian L&S Breadth: Both Slavic 3 and 4 Count as International Breadth Comprehensive program for the study of Russian language and culture. Focus on proficiency in all four skills ("language in context" /listening, reading, speaking, writing/) and the fundamentals ("building blocks" /grammar and vocabulary/).Classes conducted in Russian. By the end of Slavic 4, students will have developed considerable control of the grammar, a fairly extensive vocabulary, and much of the functional and cultural knowledge needed to communicate effectively in Russian. Students who have completed this program have had great success in various summer programs in the U.S. and Russia and the Moscow EAP Advanced Program. Grades based on participation, completion of homework assignments, oral interviews, written compositions, chapter tests, and a final (a computerized standardized test that is weighted less than a chapter test and may be taken anytime during the last two weeks up to the scheduled final time). Required Texts: (Available Through ASUC's Cal Textbooks) Slavic 3 & 4: Note: IF YOU BUY THE TEXTBOOK ONLINE, please make sure you get the SECOND EDITION. (Kudyma should be listed as one of the authors.) In addition, you must buy the WORKBOOK/LAB MANUAL, which will be sold shrink-wrapped with the textbook at a slight discount at Cal Textbooks in the ASUC. Kagan, Miller, & Kudyma, V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context, Second Edition and workbook/lab manual. Recommended: Prerequisites: SLAVIC 2 IS THE PREREQUISITE FOR SLAVIC 3; SLAVIC 3 IS THE PREREQUISITE FOR SLAVIC 4. If you have not taken the previous semester here, SCREENING AND PLACEMENT IS MANDATORY with our department’s Russian Language Coordinator to determine the best placement for you. Prospective students must contact Lisa Little, our department’s Russian Language Coordinator, at: lclittle@berkeley.edu Slavic R5A, Section 1 (4 units)
Reading
and Composition Course Although Frank Sinatra in his hit 1955 song may croon that, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage,” in literature we often find that this is not the case, for in novels, short stories and plays, the institution of marriage generally exists only to be tested by a loss of love, infidelity and deceit. In this course, we will explore the theme of adultery and its literary evolution, primarily in nineteenth-century Russia, but also in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, England and Japan. One aim of our reading will be to examine how adultery is narrated: Through whose eyes do we see the affair? How are the details of an affair presented? Is the narrator an objective, reliable observer or a sympathetic manipulator of events? Our main goal, however, will be to investigate the treatment of adultery in different time periods and cultures, paying close attention to its relationship to moral, social and religious concerns. In addition to literary texts, there will also be two film screenings held outside of normal class hours: an adaptation of Pinter’s Betrayal (1983) and Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000). This course satisfies the first half or the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Texts: Prerequisite: Successful completion of the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement. Slavic R5A, Section 2 (4 units) Reading
and Composition Course This course will examine the creation of dual identities through the figures of the actor and the impostor in both prose and dramatic texts, mainly from the Russian tradition, but with several forays into American literature and film. We will explore the effects of role-playing on these narratives and focus on the following questions: What is the place of the actor and the world of theatre within a prose text? In what manner does the figure of the actor, identified as such, serve as a commentary upon a dramatic text or performance? What are the dramatic possibilities created by the explicit identification of actors as actors? How does the employment of the figure of the impostor affect characterization and interactions between characters? How does it affect the reader’s response to the text? In this regard we will trace the impulse to detection and the distinctions between the knowledge that characters have about each other and the knowledge that readers have about characters. We will read and learn to write about novels, short stories, and plays, while paying particular attention to the relationship between the character, the author, and the reader or spectator. This course satisfies the first half or the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Texts: Prerequisite: Successful completion of the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement. Slavic R5B, Section 1 (4 units) Reading
and Composition Course Marxist theorist Guy Debord coined the term ‘psychogeography’ in 1955 to describe his revolutionary movement to liberate the city from the culture of capitalism. In this ‘B’ level Reading and Composition course, we will expand the field of this term to consider the broader relationship of the human psyche to urban geographies. How do literary production and the unique environment of the city bear on one another? We will not only consider formal problems of textual production, but will also explore chance crossings, multi-cultural environments, poverty, dystopia, utopia, sensory overload, and other phenomena associated with the city. Theoretical readings about the city will accompany our literary readings. This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Texts: Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement or its equivalent. Slavic R5B, Section 2 (4 units) Reading
and Composition Course Watch this Space! A Detailed Description is Coming! A detailed description with texts is forthcoming. This course satisfies
the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading
and Composition requirement. Texts: TBA Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement or its equivalent. Slavic R5B, Section 3 (4 units) Reading
and Composition Course Watch this Space! A Detailed Description is Coming! A detailed description with texts is forthcoming. This course satisfies
the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading
and Composition requirement. Texts: TBA Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement or its equivalent. Slavic 6A (3 units) Introductory Russian for Heritage Speakers This course is aimed at "heritage speakers" of Russian, i.e., those who grew up speaking Russian in the family without a native Russian's full educational and cultural background. Introductory course teaches basic skills of literacy, grammar, and reading. Students with advanced reading proficiency should consider Slavic 105 or 180 – or 190 in the spring. Required Texts: Recommended: STUDENTS WHO CANNOT READ OR WRITE RUSSIAN MAY WANT TO START LEARNING THE ALPHABET FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SITES OR THEIR PARENTS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER: http://masterrussian.com/blalphabet.shtml Alphabet in print and cursive. Pronunciation of all the letters of the Russian alphabet – scroll to bottom if you want to hear all the letters read quickly all at once instead of one by one. (You might also want to click on the “live cams” button – or any of the others - on the left for fun.) http://www.lang.ourfamily.com/propisi/pr1-index.html Practice with cursive (you can ignore the pictures of animals, etc., but get a sense of how the letters are written as words). http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/russian/quickstart.html Simple Russian words withpictures and sound. http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/RT/pages/signs/signs.shtml Alphabet in print + Russian signs for practice. Also: http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/publications/rabc/RABC.shtml individual words pronounced. http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/index.html The Cyrillic alphabet (lots of cognates to practice the alphabet) and the rules of pronunciation [also lots of information about grammar at this site]. http://langintro.com/rintro/first.htm “A different game”: practice with sound and words. Prerequisites: Fluent speaking ability in Russian. Prospective students may contact Lisa Little, our department's Russian Language Coordinator, for advice at: lclittle@berkeley.edu Slavic 24 (1 unit, Pass/Not
Pass ONLY) Freshman Seminar: "War and Peace:
Let's Read It Together" Hugh McLean is a Professor Emeritus
of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.
He has taught a wide range of courses on Russian literature
and was an active member of the faculty from 1967
to 1994. Since then he has been recalled to teach
regular courses and more recently has taught Freshman-Sophomore
and Freshman seminars. Prerequisites: Freshman standing. Slavic 25A (5 units) Introductory Polish The introductory fall 25A course, followed by the spring 25B course, introduces the modern standard Polish language, and is taught in Polish with explanations in English if necessary. The course is designed for beginners with no or introductory skills in understanding and using Polish language. Class attendance as well as active participation in exercises and conversations is expected. Ability to work in team is a desired and especially valued skill. All assignments shall be completed on time. All missed assignments and exams have to be made up for. Your final grade will be based on your accumulation of points gained through attendance, completion of homework assignments, midterm exams and the final exam. In addition your final grade will be impacted by your active participation and ability to cooperate with fellow students. Tentative 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. Texts: Prerequisites: None for 26A; 26B presumes a knowledge of 26A or equivalent. Slavic 27A (5 units) Introductory Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Texts: Prerequisites: None for 27A; 27B presumes a knowledge of 27A or equivalent. Slavic 45 (3 units) Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature We will read some of the celebrated works of the Russian nineteenth century, from Pushkin through Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy 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. 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 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. 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. Text: Reader compiled by the instructor, as well as handouts and other materials. Prerequisites: Slavic 4 (2 years of Russian) or equivalent. Slavic 115A (4 units) Advanced Polish The course gives you an opportunity to broaden your knowledge about Polish grammar and how to use it in active communication. The goal of the course is to improve the fluency of your oral and written communication skills in Polish. You will learn through classroom exercises based on a modern textbook, completion of individual and group assignments, work with various audio materials, and some supplementary readings as assigned. The course will contain the following major components: grammar, pronunciation, reading, writing short essays and other short texts, some translation of short texts, some dictations, and conversation about a variety of topics. The advanced fall 115A course, followed by the spring 115B course, focuses on the modern standard Polish language and is taught in Polish with explanations in English if necessary. The course is designed for students who have completed the 25B course and students with intermediate and advanced skills in understanding and using Polish language. Class attendance as well as active participation in exercises and conversations is expected. Ability to work in team is a desired and especially valued skill. All assignments shall be completed on time. All missed assignments and exams have to be made up for. Your final grade will be based on your accumulation of points through class attendance, completion of homework assignments, midterm exams and final exam. I addition your final grade will be impacted by your active participation and ability to cooperate with fellow students. Tentative Texts: Prerequisites: Slavic 25B or permission of the instructor. Slavic 116A (4 units) Advanced Czech Grammar review, advanced grammar topics, vocabulary development, improvement of reading, writing, listening, and speaking competence/confidence. Purchased reader consisting of literary texts and short readings in history, music, art; grammar notes and exercises to be handed out in class. Students will read in a variety of subject areas to develop a well-rounded vocabulary and historical and cultural framework. Weekly writing assignments such as journal-keeping and short essays or dialogs. Listening comprehension exercises based on classics of Czech film and on audio CDs/tapes. Written homework, reading assignments, midterm, oral report, and final exams. Texts: Prerequisites: Slavic 26B or consent of instructor. Slavic 117A (4 units) Advanced Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Spoken and written language; advanced grammar review. Some discussion of the contemporary sociolinguistic situation as it relates to language use. Short oral reports and writing practice. Grades based on class participation, midterm and final exam. Texts: 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: Prerequisites: Slavic 28B or permission of instructor. 3/21/08: Description and texts subject to change for Slavic 120A. Please check our website for final version of this description after April 4, 2008. Slavic 120A (2 or 3 units)
Advanced Russian Conversation and Communication This course focuses on oral communication skills. The goal is to help students develop confidence and begin to feel comfortable conversing in Russian on various topics beyond routine social and survival needs. Since communication often breaks down when comprehension is poor, part of the class will be devoted to improving listening skills and building vocabulary. The course may be taken for two or three credits. Those students taking the course for two credits will come to class on Mondays and Wednesdays and do the assignments for those days. Students who choose to take the course for three credits will attend on Fridays as well. Together they will decide on a project (or projects) for the semester. It might be publishing a newspaper, writing and staging a play, filming a movie... or, judging by previous semesters, students may prefer to each take a turn planning and directing an interactive class based on their own interests (in consultation with the instructor). The Monday/Wednesday students will have regular home assignments to prepare for the next day’s class. There will be an oral test (one-on-one with the instructor) every 3 weeks or so. At the end of the semester there will be a final oral interview (with a less formal one at the beginning of the semester as a point of comparison). Texts: All materials to be supplied by instructor during the course of the semester. Prerequisites: Slavic 4 or consent of instructor. Slavic 131 (4 units) Literature, Art, and Society in 20th-Century Russia This course is cross-listed with Comparative Literature 155, Sec. 1 L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature OR Historical Studies The literary avant-garde of the early twentieth century was the most radical expression of European modernism in literature and art. We will be focusing on the four most radical and creative of the avant-garde movements to have swept through Europe between the 1910's and the 1930's: Italian and Russian futurism, dada in Zurich and Paris, and French surrealism. We will be reading avant-garde poetry, manifestoes, performance texts and plays, experimental fiction and memoirs. We will also be paying some attention to parallel developments in the visual arts and cinema. Topics for discussion include literature and revolutionary politics, tradition and modernity, theoretical metalanguage and its relationship to artistic practice, poetic experimentation, the relationship of sound to meaning, the limits of art, the cult of technology, literature and utopia, and the relationship of writing to theories of the unconscious. Writers and artists include: Filippo Marinetti, Valentine de Saint-Point, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitsky, Sergei Eisenstein, Leon Trotsky, Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Andre Breton, Sigmund Freud, and Louis Aragon There are no prerequisites. All texts will be read in English. Texts: Prerequisites: None. Slavic 134F (4 units) The Works of Vladimir Nabokov This course is cross-listed with English 166, Sec. 1 L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature We will study the work of Nabokov as a novelist on two continents over a period of nearly sixty years. The course will be structured (more or less) chronologically and evenly divided between novels translated from Russian and written in English. After beginning with Nabokov’s second novel and two short stories, we will examine the major fiction of his European period, which culminates with the publication in Paris of (most of) The Gift. Competing interpretations of Nabokov will be considered, but our emphasis will be on metafiction, the theme of perversity and Nabokov's cultivation of a perverse reader. Since Nabokov was prolific and this course is comprehensive, students should expect to devote a considerable amount of time to reading and should come to class prepared to discuss the assigned texts. Participants in the class should anticipate reading 200 pages per week. Written work will consist of two papers (5 to 10 pages) on topics to be chosen in consultation with the professor. Penalties will be assessed for late papers. The will be a midterm and a final examination. Texts: Prerequisites: None. Additional option, Slavic 134R: With concurrent enrollment in 134R (1 unit), a student can write a research paper (10-15 pages) on a topic of choice, supervised by the instructor in individual consultations. Slavic 140 (4 units) The Performing Arts in Russia in the 20th-Century: This course is cross-listed with Theater Arts 166, Sec. 1 L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature The course is devoted to major works of Russian dramatic literature of the 19th-20th centuries and their stage representations. Its dual focus will be on contemporary implications of dramatic texts and on their theatrical life in and through time, in various historical, political, and national frameworks. We will read ten plays central to the Russian literary and dramatic tradition and also associated with the idea of the Russian theater in the West. The course will address their contemporary historical and cultural subtexts, thematic and conceptual properties, and formal idiom. We will then follow stage history of these dramatic texts and discuss most significant interpretations of Russian classics by leading artists of the 20th century theater and film. The course will include the plays by Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as some of the most recent work of Russian playwrights; and discuss the work of such directors as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Aleksandr Tairov, as well as important Western interpretations of Russian drama. Texts: All materials will be collected in a reader. Prerequisites: None. All readings are in English. L&S 140C ("Discovery Courses"
program) (4 units) The Soviet Experience L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature OR Historical Studies This course explores the historical experience of the Soviet people. When the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, a great social experiment came to an end: an attempt to organize society and human lives in accordance with rational principles. This course approaches the Soviet phenomenon through experiences of concrete people. We will focus on three chronological and thematic areas: the early visions of the new social order (experiments in reorganization of time; space; family, sexuality, and gender); the state terror in Stalin's times; and the fall of the Soviet regime. Course materials include documents (architectural designs, political propaganda, personal diaries), works of art (novels, films, paintings), scholarship (historical and literary studies), and journalistic writings. Format: lectures (with viewing of films/slides) and required discussion session. All readings are in English. Requirements: weekly readings and active class participation; take-home research assignments. There will be a midterm; short in-class quizzes; and final. Breadth requirements: Arts and Literature or Historical Studies. Slavic majors and minors: consult instructor or undergraduate adviser. Main Texts: Slavic 158/History 100, Sec. 2 (4 units) Topics in Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures: This course is cross-listed with History 100, Sec. 2 L&S Breadth: Historical Studies OR Social and Behavioral Sciences This course will consider the phenomenon of Yugoslavia (1918 - 1991) from two different but closely related standpoints -- that of history and politics, and that of literature and culture. Throughout Eastern Europe, but especially in the former Yugoslavia, these two activities have been so interconnected that it is impossible to understand the one without some understanding of the other. Literature and other artistic expression take as their primary topics historical and current politically charged events, and major political actions are often precipitated by, or at least closely tied up with, literary events or figures. Within Yugoslavia, the issue of language has also been highly politicized, and much of the ethnic/national conflict between Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Muslims (and even Montenegrins) is connected with the question of whether they all speak the same language or not. In addition to readings from literary and historical sources, the course will include films by and about Yugoslavs. Texts: Prerequisites: None. ALL COURSE READINGS IN ENGLISH. **Slavic 158 is a Cultural Topics requirement for majors in the East European or Eurasian Cultures track in the Slavic Department.** 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 practice
close reading and analysis of original Russian texts from the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to follow Russian literary
tradition in its idiomatic verbal form. Texts: Reader Prerequisites: Ability to read and understand Russian at least at the third year level (Slavic 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 this course every semester in residence. CANCELLED 4/17/08 Slavic 201 (2 or 3 units) Advanced Russian Proficiency Maintenance Russian language course for graduate students from various disciplines. May be taken for 2-3 credits, with consent of instructor. Focus on advanced idiomatic vocabulary, stylistic awareness, advanced/academic conversation. Texts: None. Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. Slavic 204 (4 units) Russian Composition and Style: "Discourse Analysis" This course is a practical study of different discourses of literary Russian. Paying attention to lexical, grammatical, stylistic and narrative characteristics of a few select and representative texts, we will analyze and imitate 19th-century narrative techniques (e.g., Gogol’s skaz, Dostoevsky’s polyphony, Chekhov’s free indirect discourse), oral and folklore patterns, the languages of Imperial and Soviet power, discourses of Stalinist and post-perestroika subjectivity and rhetorical strategies of contemporary Russian scholarly prose. The class is conducted in Russian. Required of all beginning (first- and second-year) graduate students in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the course might be also of use for graduate students in history and social sciences. Requirements: weekly readings and participation in discussions; written homework assignments; take-home final exam. Texts: Xeroxed reader Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor; advance knowledge of Russian, both reading knowledge and oral fluency. Slavic 220 (4 units) Comparative Slavic Linguistics Reconstruction of Proto-Slavic grammar and lexicon, chiefly phonology and morphology. The breakup of Common Slavic, the branches of Slavic, and the development of the Common Slavic sound system in the daughter dialects. Development of Proto-Slavic from Indo-European. The Slavic homeland and expansion. Workload includes some quizzes and/or exercises; midterm and final. Texts: Prerequisites: Slavic 210. Slavic 223 (4 units) Advanced Structure of Slavic Languages A detailed description is forthcoming. For information, contact the instructor at: jbnichols@berkeley.edu Texts: TBA Prerequisites: Slavic 222. Slavic 239 (4 units) 20th-Century Slavic Literary Theory: "Russian Literary Theory" The course has two goals: to explore influential trends in twentieth-century Russian literary theory: the 19th-century revolutionary democratic tradition that culminated in Marxism, symbolist criticism, the Russian formalist school, with its emphasis on linguistic and structural criteria, Bakhtin, and the cultural semiotics of the Moscow-Tartu school. We will also be seeking to bring the Russian and Western theoretical traditions into a dialogue with one another by examining such issues as non-Russian appropriations of Bakhtin, and the continuities and differences between Western and Russian understandings of such currents as structuralism, historicism, and postmodernism. Readings will include works by Belinskii, Solov'ev, Shklovskii, Eikhenbaum, Tynjanov, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Trotskii, Lenin, Lotman. Knowledge of Russian is encouraged, but English translations will be provided on request. All readings provided in reader. Slavic 245B (4 units) Russian Realism (1840s-1890s) This graduate seminar will consider major trends, concepts, texts, people, and institutions of Russian Realism. Texts/topics include: the concept of Realism in literary history and literary scholarship; the beginnings of the realist aesthetics in literary ethnography (“fiziologicheskii ocherk” and “Zapiski okhotnika”); the rise of realism from personal documents and criticism (Belinsky); early Dostoevsky; Nekrasov: realism in poetry; Goncharov, Oblomov; Turgenev and the social novel; ideology, literature, and the “thick journals”; Tolstoy and narrative representation of consciousness; Saltykov’s “Gospoda Golovlevy” and “degeneration”; Chekhov and the end of Russian Realism. All primary texts are read in Russian; discussions in English. Requirements: Reading and class participation; paper or take-home final examination (it will follow the format of MA examination). Prerequisites: Solid Russian; graduate standing (or consent of instructor). Slavic 246A (4 units) Russian Modernism (1890s-1920s) Russian Modernist literature will be studied in the context of Russian and European philosophy and literature. Russian Symbolism and Futurism will be the focus of the course. We will trace the culture wars between the representatives of Russian Modernism and their opponents from the pre-revolutionary 1890s through the Soviet 1920s. Some of the topics to be covered are the anti-nature impulse of the Decadence, especially in the spheres of sex and gender; the religious revival of the beginning of the twentieth century called the “Russian Religious Renaissance;” the anti-historical tendency of Symbolist and avant-garde ideology in conjuring the “new man;” aesthetic experimentation in literature, especially in relation to Bely’s Petersburg, and film; interdependence of literature and criticism, especially between Futurism and Formalism. We will read late Tolstoy, Merezhkovsky, Solov’ev, Nordau, Nietzsche, Sologub, Blok, Bely, and other selections of Symbolist poetry, Rozanov, Kuzmin, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, and Shklovsky. Texts in Russian: Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor; reading knowledge of Russian. Slavic 301, Section 1 (3 units) Slavic Teaching Methods This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors of Russian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. Course to be repeated for credit each semester of employment as graduate student instructor. 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 301, Section 2 (3 units) Teaching Methodology: Reading & Composition This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors teaching Reading & Composition courses in the Slavic Department. Course to be repeated for credit each semester of employment as graduate student instructor. The purpose of this course is to introduce new GSIs to teaching Slavic 5A and 5B. It will focus on preparation of teaching materials, including syllabi, and discussion of questions of pedagogy (teaching literature and writing, lecturing, leading class discussions, designing writing assignments, grading and formulating responses to student papers, working with students individually and in small groups). The course will help you prepare for a career as a college teacher of literature and for the teaching component of job applications. 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 COURSES East European Studies 1A (3 or 4 units)
Elementary Hungarian Text: East European Studies 100 (2 units) Advanced Hungarian Readings This class requires prior knowledge of the Hungarian language. The purpose of the class is to further develop the students' level of language proficiency 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 amount of reading and writing assignments. Midterm and final exams, and the student's attendance and participation will provide the basis for grading. Texts: Photocopied material and reading chosen by student. Prerequisites: East European Studies 1A-lB or consent of instructor. EURASIAN STUDIES COURSES Eurasian Studies 1A (4 units) Beginning Armenian EURASIAN STUDIES 1A IS A TWO-SEMESTER SEQUENCE. 1B IS OFFERED
IN THE SPRING. Among the requirements are attendance and participation, oral and written homework, two midterm projects, and a term project with presentation. Text: Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Eurasian Studies 2B (3 units) Beginning Georgian (Second Semester) EURASIAN STUDIES 2B IS THE SECOND COURSE
IN A TWO-SEMESTER SEQUENCE. More detailed information on this course is available at the following
web page: Grades are based on class participation, exercises, home assignment tests and a final. Text: Audio, visual and video materials are extensively used in the classroom. Prerequisites: Knowledge equivalent to one semester of Georgian (Eurasian St. 2A or its equivalent), and consent of instructor is required. Eurasian Studies 101A (3 units) Continuing Armenian This is part B of Continuing Georgian, which is a two semester sequence. The purpose of this course is to further develop students’ Armenian proficiency in all four language skills, using discussions, oral presentations, written assignments and a variety of readings (literature, non-fiction, folklore, newspaper articles, etc.) chosen for their cultural significance and based on student needs and interests. Particular skills (e.g. reading) are emphasized. Three hours of class per week. Course may be repeated for credit. Among the requirements are attendance and participation, oral and written homework, two midterm projects, and a term project with presentation. Texts: Materials will be provided by the teacher.
No textbooks are required. Prerequisites: Eurasian Studies 1A-1B or consent of instructor. |
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