 Courses
Russian 100A Beginning Russian 1
A beginning level course with emphasis on pronunciation, basic conversation, and elementary Russian grammar.
Russian 100B Beginning Russian 2
Continuation of Russian 100A. The study of grammatical usage, developing reading and speaking abilities.
Russian 110 Slavic Legends and Tales
The course introduces a wide selection of fairy tales, folk epics, and legends. The course examines cultural influence of Slavic folklore in literature, music, painting, and film. Taught in English.
Russian 200A Intermediate Russian 1
An intermediate level course. Practice in spoken language, reading and writing. Systematic grammar review. Materials focus on contemporary Russian culture.
Russian 200B Intermediate Russian 2
Continuation of Russian 200A. Intensive practice in reading, writing, and speaking. Course materials include Russian media, films, audiotapes.
Russian 305A Russian Literature of the 19th Century
19th century Russian prose fiction with particular consideration of the works by Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Taught in English with readings in English.
Russian 305B Russian Literature of the 20th Century
20th century Russian literature including works by Zamiatin, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn. Taught in English with readings in English.
Russian 301 Advanced Grammar and Composition.
Advanced grammar and stylistics, intensive writing practice based on reading selected from contemporary materials.
Russian 303 Political and Business Russian
Commercial and political Russian with emphasis on international relations and international business.
Russian 310 Russian and East European Cinema
Explores the cinematic traditions of Russia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and former Yugoslavia/Balkans. Artistic, literary, and social aspects of the films after 1950.
Taught in English. Films with English subtitles.
Russian 311 Russian through Media
Introduces students to Russian media sources. Practice in speaking, reading, listening and writing with the emphasis on everyday cultural topics.
Russian 430 Russian Civilization
The course offers a bilingual approach to the study of Russian culture. The course focuses on the relation between art and politics, art and national identity, art of post-communism and postmodernism.
Russian 435 Russian and Central European Jewish Literature
Russian and Central European Jewish Literature from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. The course explores how literature written in Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Lithuanian by writers of the Jewish origin reflects the problems of Jewish national identity. Taught in English.
Russian 440 Structure of Modern Russian
Introduction to the linguistic structure of contemporary standard Russian.
 Russian 501 Translation
The course develops skills in translation from Russian to English (and English to Russian) of texts on a wide variety of subjects. Introduction to the theory of translation.
Russian 578 Issues in Russian Literature
The course explores themes in Russian literature of the 19th-20th centuries in social, political and cultural context of the times. May be repeated with new title and content. Maximum 6 units.
Russian 596 Topics in Russian studies
Topics in Russian language, literature or linguistics.
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