Russian and East European StudiesCourses for Fall 2023
| Title | Instructor | Location | Time | All taxonomy terms | Description | Section Description | Cross Listings | Fulfills | Registration Notes | Syllabus | Syllabus URL | Course Syllabus URL | ||
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| HUNG 0100-680 | Hungarian I | Adrienn V Mizsei | TR 7:00 PM-8:59 PM | This course is the first in a series of first-year courses, intended for students with no previous background in Hungarian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Hungarian. It will also introduce you to Hungarian culture through exciting authentic materials, including songs, videos, and short stories. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Hungarian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Hungarian on topics concerning your daily life, likes and dislikes, school, work and family, Hungarian holidays and holiday traditions. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Hungarian. | ||||||||||
| HUNG 0300-680 | Hungarian III | Adrienn V Mizsei | MW 5:15 PM-6:44 PM | This course is the first in a series of second-year courses, continuation of Hungarian II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Hungarian and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Hungarian culture through exciting authentic materials, including songs, videos, and short stories. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Hungarian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Hungarian on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, your interests and life on campus, travel and cultural experiences, Hungarian seasonal traditions and cultural events. You will also be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts. | ||||||||||
| HUNG 0300-681 | Hungarian III | Adrienn V Mizsei | MW 7:00 PM-8:29 PM | This course is the first in a series of second-year courses, continuation of Hungarian II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Hungarian and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Hungarian culture through exciting authentic materials, including songs, videos, and short stories. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Hungarian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Hungarian on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, your interests and life on campus, travel and cultural experiences, Hungarian seasonal traditions and cultural events. You will also be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts. | ||||||||||
| PLSH 0100-680 | Polish I | Agnieszka Dziedzic | MW 7:00 PM-8:59 PM | This course is the first in a series of first-year courses, intended for students with no previous background in Polish. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Polish. It will also introduce you to Polish culture through exciting authentic materials, Polish films, history and contemporary affairs. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Polish. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Polish on topics concerning your daily life. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Polish. | ||||||||||
| PLSH 0201-680 | Polish for Heritage Speakers I | Agnieszka Dziedzic | MW 5:15 PM-6:44 PM | This is the first in the series of literacy courses for students who have spoken Polish at home and seek to improve literacy skills and language competence. The course aims to enhance linguistic accuracy in spelling, grammar, word choice and pronunciation, as well as fluency and narrative structure in both speaking and writing. We will also focus on developing effective reading and listening strategies and expanding students’ active and passive vocabulary through interpretation and analysis of various literary genres and a broad variety of cultural themes. | ||||||||||
| REES 0130-401 | Portraits of Soviet Society: Literature, Film, Drama | Kevin M F Platt | TR 5:15 PM-6:44 PM | How can art and literature open a window on Russian lives lived over the course of the tumultuous twentieth century? This course adopts a unique approach to questions of cultural and social history. Each week-long unit is organized around a medium-length film, text or set of texts by some of the most important cultural figures of the era (novella, play, memoir, film, short stories) which opens up a single scene of social history: work, village, avant-garde, war, Gulag, and so on. Each cultural work is accompanied by a set of supplementary materials: historical readings, paintings, cultural-analytical readings, excerpts from other literary works, etc. We will read social history through culture and culture through history. | HIST0825401 | Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only) | ||||||||
| REES 0172-401 | Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture | Molly Peeney | TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM | Is "insanity" today the same thing as "madness" of old? Who gets to define what it means to be "sane," and why? Are the causes of madness biological or social? In this course, we will grapple with these and similar questions while exploring Russia's fascinating history of madness as a means to maintain, critique, or subvert the status quo. We will consider the concept of madness in Russian culture beginning with its earliest folkloric roots and trace its depiction and function in the figure of the Russian "holy fool," in classical literature, and in contemporary film. Readings will include works by many Russian greats, such as Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Nabokov. | COML1097401 | Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only) | ||||||||
| REES 0190-401 | Russia and the West | Siarhei Biareishyk | MW 3:30 PM-4:59 PM | This course will explore the representations of the West in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Russian literature and philosophy. We will consider the Russian visions of various events and aspects of Western political and social life Revolutions, educational system, public executions, resorts, etc. within the context of Russian intellectual history. We will examine how images of the West reflect Russia's own cultural concerns, anticipations, and biases, as well as aesthetic preoccupations and interests of Russian writers. The discussion will include literary works by Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Leskov, and Tolstoy, as well as non-fictional documents, such as travelers' letters, diaries, and historiosophical treatises of Russian Freemasons, Romantic and Positivist thinkers, and Russian social philosophers of the late Nineteenth century. A basic knowledge of nineteenth-century European history is desirable. The class will consist of lectures, discussion, short writing assignments, and two in-class tests. | COML2020401, HIST0824401 | Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only) | ||||||||
| REES 0311-601 | The Soviet Century, 1917-1991 | Out of an obscure, backward empire, the Soviet Union emerged to become the great political laboratory of the twentieth century. This course will trace the roots of the world's first socialist society and its attempts to recast human relations and human nature itself. Topics include the origins of the Revolution of 1917, the role of ideology in state policy and everyday life, the Soviet Union as the center of world communism, the challenge of ethnic diversity, and the reasons for the USSR's sudden implosion at the end of the century.Focusing on politics, society, culture, and their interaction, we will examine the rulers (from Lenin to Gorbachev) as well as the ruled (peasants, workers, and intellectuals; Russians and non-Russians). The course will feature discussions of selected texts, including primary sources in translation. | HIST0290601 | History & Tradition Sector (all classes) | ||||||||||
| REES 0410-001 | Masterpieces of 19th-Century Russian Literature | D. Brian Kim | TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM | A bronze monument to an all-powerful emperor comes to life and pursues a poor everyman through the streets, driving him to his death. A studious young man kills an old woman as a philosophical experiment. A young woman at the height of aristocratic society abandons her husband and young son to devote herself to her lover. These and other tales from the classics of nineteenth-century Russian literature will touch and delight you, get under your skin, and even attempt to show you how to live. We will read these tales in order to understand how books can become events in their own right, how Russian literature gained such power and prestige, and what it can still teach us today. Authors include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Pavlova, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. | Arts & Letters Sector (all classes) | |||||||||
| REES 0480-401 | Dostoevsky | D. Brian Kim | TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM | This seminar is a survey of the life and works of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Focal texts include a selection of his major novels and a range of shorter works that span Dostoevsky's early career, his return from exile in Siberia, and the last years of his life. We will work together to understand Dostoevsky's career and self-conception as a writer, the wide-ranging philosophical implications of his work, and how his activity can be interpreted in the historical, ideological, and literary contexts of nineteenth-century Russia and Europe. | COML2007401 | Arts & Letters Sector (all classes) | ||||||||
| REES 1172-402 | Marx, Marxism, and the Culture of Revolution | Siarhei Biareishyk | WF 1:45 PM-3:14 PM | Capitalist society is the object of Karl Marx's analysis and critique—a society that is the product of history and may one day vanish. This course will trace Marx’s critique by moving between the fields of philosophy, economics, and politics. We will locate key interventions of Marx’s thought that transform modern conceptions of history, the relation between economics and politics, and the limits of struggle and emancipation in capitalist society. We will consider the historical conditions of Marx's writing and the development of his thought to discover many sides of Marx and many divergent Marxisms (humanist, post-structuralist, feminist, and others) that follow, often at odds with each other. Further, we will ask about what kind of horizons Marx's and Marxist interventions open up for critique and analysis of capitalist society with respect to gender, race, class, and nation. "Theory becomes a material force when it has seized the masses," argues the young Marx; indeed, his theories have fueled emancipatory movements and propped up tyrannical regimes, substantiated scientific theories and transformed philosophical debates. In examining Marx's legacy, we will focus on the elaborations and historical limitations of his ideas by examining the challenges of fascism, the communist experiment in the Soviet Union and its collapse, as well as the climate and other crises currently taking place. In conclusion, we will turn to the question of whether and to what extent Marx's ideas remain relevant today, and whether it is possible to be a Marxist in the contemporary world dominated by global capital. | COML1020402, GRMN1020402, PHIL1439402 | Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only) | ||||||||
| REES 1179-401 | War and Representation | MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM | This class will explore complications of representing war in the 20th and 21st centuries. War poses problems of perception, knowledge, and language. The notional "fog of war" describes a disturbing discrepancy between agents and actions of war; the extreme nature of the violence of warfare tests the limits of cognition, emotion, and memory; war's traditional dependence on declaration is often warped by language games--"police action," "military intervention," "nation-building," or palpably unnamed and unacknowledged state violence. Faced with the radical uncertainty that forms of war bring, modern and contemporary authors have experimented in historically, geographically, experientially and artistically particular ways, forcing us to reconsider even seemingly basic definitions of what a war story can be. Where does a war narrative happen? On the battlefield, in the internment camp, in the suburbs, in the ocean, in the ruins of cities, in the bloodstream? Who narrates war? Soldiers, refugees, gossips, economists, witnesses, bureaucrats, survivors, children, journalists, descendants and inheritors of trauma, historians, those who were never there? How does literature respond to the rise of terrorist or ideology war, the philosophical and material consequences of biological and cyber wars, the role of the nuclear state? How does the problem of war and representation disturb the difference between fiction and non-fiction? How do utilitarian practices of representation--propaganda, nationalist messaging, memorialization, xenophobic depiction--affect the approaches we use to study art? Finally, is it possible to read a narrative barely touched or merely contextualized by war and attend to the question of war's shaping influence? The class will concentrate on literary objects--short stories, and graphic novels--as well as film and television. Students of every level and major are welcome in and encouraged to join this class, regardless of literary experience. | COML1050401, ENGL1449401 | Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only) | |||||||||
| REES 1230-401 | Russian and East European Film from the October Revolution to World War II | Siarhei Biareishyk | TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM | The purpose of this course is to present the Russian and East European contribution to world cinema in terms of film theory, experimentation with the cinematic language, and social and political reflex. We discuss major themes and issues such as the invention of montage, the means of revolutionary visual propaganda and the cinematic component to the communist cultural revolutions, party ideology, and practices of social-engineering, cinematic response to the emergence of the totalitarian state in Soviet Russia before World War II. | CIMS1640401 | |||||||||
| REES 1631-401 | Anarchism: Theories and Ethnographies | Kristen R Ghodsee | MW 1:45 PM-3:14 PM | "That we are Utopians is well known. So Utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the Revolution can and ought to assure shelter, food, and clothes to all..." -Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread. Although born in the West through the works of William Godwin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, anarchism as a political theory was subsequently developed by a variety of Russian and Ukrainian theorists and activists, including Mikhail Bakunin, Lev Tolstoy, Pyotr Kropotkin, Nestor Makhno, and Emma Goldman (in exile in the United States). Anarchism fundamentally questions the need for political power and authority, particularly as embodied in a state. As a political theory, anarchism makes moral claims about the importance of individual liberty and presents a positive theory of human flourishing that is based on ideals of non-coercive consensus building. This course investigates the 19th century theoretical foundations of Russian and Ukrainian anarchist theory through a close examination of key texts from the 19th and early 20th centuries and includes ethnographic explorations of anarchist practices in eastern Europe in the 21st century. All readings will be in English. | ANTH2620401 | https://coursesintouch.apps.upenn.edu/cpr/jsp/fast.do?webService=syll&t=202330&c=REES1631401 | ||||||||
| REES 2670-401 | Shaping Russian Society: Soviet Heritage and Transformation | Maria Bourlatskaya | MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM | This Russian–language content course continues to develop students’ functional proficiency in speaking, writing, reading, and listening. The course is designed to familiarize students with contemporary Russian society and its historical background. It covers the current political, economic, and societal developments in Russia, focuses on a variety of issues central to Russian society since the fall of the Soviet Union, including the search for national identity, changing values, and popular perceptions of Westerners and Western practices. We will observe the business community and its relations with the government, trace the origin of Russian oligarchs and entrepreneurs and investigate how informal Soviet practices and the criminal world shaped the current business environment. Course materials will include interviews, articles, essays by leading Russian journalists and statesmen, and contemporary Russian movies. | REES5670401 | |||||||||
| REES 2770-401 | The Russian Revolutions, 1905-1924: Brave New World? | Peter I Holquist | M 12:00 PM-2:59 PM | Many believe that the 1917 Russian Revolution was the most significant event in the twentieth century, both as a rupture from the past and as a precursor of much that was to come in the twentieth century. The February Revolution of 1917 made the Russian Republic—at one stroke, in the midst of the world war—the world’s most democratic state. The October Revolution of 1917, following it, was the world’s first socialist revolution, and it established the world’s first socialist state—the Soviet Union. Throughout the twentieth century and beyond, people have looked to it with either fear or with hope. It generated great dreams of equality and liberation—and great misery. This course will examine the causes, course and consequences of this crucial period, for the peoples of the Soviet Union and for the world. In some ways, the term “Russian Revolution” is in fact not entirely correct. First, there was not one Russian Revolution--were a series of overlapping revolutions in this period—labor, rural, nationalist, liberationist. And second, it was a revolution that was not limited to European Russia, but encompassed the entire space of Russian empire (the Caucasus, the Baltics, Poland, Central Asia), and had worldwide and global significance. How do programs for liberation produce both new possibilities and great misery? | HIST2256401 | |||||||||
| REES 3170-401 | Tears and Laughter in the World of Anton Chekhov | Djamilia Nazyrova | TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM | Chekhov’s theatre has been an impartial and compassionate mirror not only for his generation but for human society across different eras and places for more than a century. The world-acclaimed writer began his literary career as an author of short humorous stories for entertainment and satire magazines. With time, as he brought a more complex emotional palette and existential themes to his oeuvre, he conceived his celebrated dramatic style that weds tragic and serious meanings with skeptical laughter. The visions of human loneliness, disconnectedness and boredom, unrequited love and existential meaninglessness in Chekhov’s dramatic masterpieces are interspersed with humor and irony and combined with comedic presentations of characters. The purpose of this course is a hands-on examination of Chekhov’s style through a practical attempt to stage Chekhov’s work. The first part of the course will be focused on examining Chekhov’s comedic style against the background of the tradition of laughter in Russian literature. Then we will attempt a dramatic interpretation of Chekhov’s play or a theatrical adaptation of his short-stories, using the ideas we discovered while reading his short prose. The students will be able to choose how they would like to contribute to the project: by acting, directing, stage management or stage design. The play will be performed in front of a live audience at the end of the semester. | REES5170401 | |||||||||
| REES 3770-401 | Cinema and Socialism |
Julia Alekseyeva Chenshu Zhou |
T 12:00 PM-2:59 PM | Films from socialist countries are often labeled and dismissed as "propaganda" in Western democratic societies. This course complicates this simplistic view, arguing for the value in understanding the ties between socialist governments, the cinematic arts, and everything in between. We will examine films from past and present socialist countries such as the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Cuba, as well as films made with socialist aspirations. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings. | ARTH3100401, CIMS3100401, EALC2314401, ENGL2934401 | |||||||||
| REES 5170-401 | Tears and Laughter in the World of Anton Chekhov | Djamilia Nazyrova | TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM | Chekhov’s theatre has been an impartial and compassionate mirror not only for his generation but for human society across different eras and places for more than a century. The world-acclaimed writer began his literary career as an author of short humorous stories for entertainment and satire magazines. With time, as he brought a more complex emotional palette and existential themes to his oeuvre, he conceived his celebrated dramatic style that weds tragic and serious meanings with skeptical laughter. The visions of human loneliness, disconnectedness and boredom, unrequited love and existential meaninglessness in Chekhov’s dramatic masterpieces are interspersed with humor and irony and combined with comedic presentations of characters. The purpose of this course is a hands-on examination of Chekhov’s style through a practical attempt to stage Chekhov’s work. The first part of the course will be focused on examining Chekhov’s comedic style against the background of the tradition of laughter in Russian literature. Then we will attempt a dramatic interpretation of Chekhov’s play or a theatrical adaptation of his short-stories, using the ideas we discovered while reading his short prose. The students will be able to choose how they would like to contribute to the project: by acting, directing, stage management or stage design. The play will be performed in front of a live audience at the end of the semester. | REES3170401 | |||||||||
| REES 5272-640 | Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film | Vladislav T Todorov | This course studies political violence, terrorism, civil wars, ethnic conflicts, and genocidal policies as represented in the social media, cable news, documentaries, feature films. We discuss various techniques and strategies of the propaganda wars, post-truth media environment, etc. The regions of interest are Former Soviet Union, Russia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, US homegrown political violence, and the Middle East. The students are expected to develop and demonstrate a critical approach to different aspects of the cinematic, news, and social media representation of ethnic conflict. We focus on the violent developments that took place in Russia and the Balkans after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, conditioned by the geopolitical dynamics that the fall of communism had created. We study media broadcasts, documentaries, feature films representing both, the Eastern and the Western perspective. | CIMS5272640 | ||||||||||
| REES 5670-401 | Shaping Russian Society: Soviet Heritage and Transformation | Maria Bourlatskaya | MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM | This Russian–language content course continues to develop students’ functional proficiency in speaking, writing, reading, and listening. The course is designed to familiarize students with contemporary Russian society and its historical background. It covers the current political, economic, and societal developments in Russia, focuses on a variety of issues central to Russian society since the fall of the Soviet Union, including the search for national identity, changing values, and popular perceptions of Westerners and Western practices. We will observe the business community and its relations with the government, trace the origin of Russian oligarchs and entrepreneurs and investigate how informal Soviet practices and the criminal world shaped the current business environment. Course materials will include interviews, articles, essays by leading Russian journalists and statesmen, and contemporary Russian movies. | REES2670401 | |||||||||
| REES 6430-001 | 20th- and 21st-Century Russian Literature and Film | Kevin M F Platt | T 12:00 PM-2:59 PM | This is a survey of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian literature and culture, designed to provide graduate students with foundational knowledge of the field. Weekly assignments cover major movements, authors and periods, canonical texts, and critical reflections. Topics include: 1. Symbolism--Post-symbolism; 2. Avant-Garde; 3. Ornamental Prose, Avant-Garde Film; 4. Socialist Realism (and its others); 5. Stalinist Historical Culture; 6. War; 7. Thaw-Sincerity and Romanticism; 8. Gulag; 9. Nonconformism; 10. Socialist Sci-Fi; 11. Mass Media; 12. Late Socialism; 13. Post-Socialism. Reading ability in Russian required, but all texts are available in English, for students whose reading speed may necessitate calibration of the Russian reading load. | ||||||||||
| RUSS 0100-401 | Russian I | Aleksey Berg | MTWR 10:15 AM-11:14 AM | This course is the first in a series of first-year courses in the traditional track, intended for students with no previous background in Russian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian. It will also introduce you to Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Russian on topics concerning your daily life. You will know greetings and everyday expressions, talk about people and objects in your life, your hobbies, likes and dislikes, past activities and your residence. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Russian. | RUSS5100401 | |||||||||
| RUSS 0100-402 | Russian I | Maria Alley | MTWR 12:00 PM-12:59 PM | This course is the first in a series of first-year courses in the traditional track, intended for students with no previous background in Russian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian. It will also introduce you to Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Russian on topics concerning your daily life. You will know greetings and everyday expressions, talk about people and objects in your life, your hobbies, likes and dislikes, past activities and your residence. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Russian. | RUSS5100402 | |||||||||
| RUSS 0100-680 | Russian I | Lada Vassilieva | TR 5:15 PM-7:14 PM | This course is the first in a series of first-year courses in the traditional track, intended for students with no previous background in Russian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian. It will also introduce you to Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Russian on topics concerning your daily life. You will know greetings and everyday expressions, talk about people and objects in your life, your hobbies, likes and dislikes, past activities and your residence. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Russian. | RUSS5100680 | |||||||||
| RUSS 0201-401 | Russian for Heritage Speakers I | Djamilia Nazyrova | TR 5:15 PM-6:44 PM | This is the first in the series of literacy courses for students who have spoken Russian at home and seek to improve literacy skills and language competence. The course aims to enhance linguistic accuracy in spelling, grammar, word choice and pronunciation, as well as fluency, narrative structure and appropriate use of idiomatic expressions in both speaking and writing. We will also focus on developing effective reading and listening strategies. Course readings include works of Russian classics, contemporary literature and mass media on cultural issues and daily life of the Russian-speaking community around the world. Students who complete this course in combination with RUSS0401 satisfy Penn Language Requirement. | RUSS5201401 | |||||||||
| RUSS 0300-401 | Russian III | Molly Peeney | MTWR 10:15 AM-11:14 AM | This course is the first in a series of second-year courses in the traditional track, continuation of Russian II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Russian on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, significant personal and cultural events and situations, important cultural figures. You will be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts. | RUSS5300401 | |||||||||
| RUSS 0300-402 | Russian III | Molly Peeney | MTWR 12:00 PM-12:59 PM | This course is the first in a series of second-year courses in the traditional track, continuation of Russian II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Russian on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, significant personal and cultural events and situations, important cultural figures. You will be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts. | RUSS5300402 | |||||||||
| RUSS 1100-401 | Russian Society Today | Aleksey Berg | MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM | This course develops students' skills in speaking and writing about topics in Russian literature, contemporary society, politics, and everyday life. Topics include women, work and family; sexuality; the economic situation; environmental problems; and life values. Materials include selected short stories by 19th and 20th century Russian authors, video-clips of interviews, excerpts from films, and articles from the Russian media. Continued work on grammar and vocabulary building. | RUSS5500401 | |||||||||
| RUSS 5100-401 | Russian I | Aleksey Berg | MTWR 10:15 AM-11:14 AM | This course is for graduate students. It is the first in a series of first-year courses in the traditional track, intended for students with no previous background in Russian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian. It will also introduce you to Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Russian on topics concerning your daily life. You will know greetings and everyday expressions, talk about people and objects in your life, your hobbies, likes and dislikes, past activities and your residence. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Russian. | RUSS0100401 | |||||||||
| RUSS 5100-402 | Russian I | Maria Alley | MTWR 12:00 PM-12:59 PM | This course is for graduate students. It is the first in a series of first-year courses in the traditional track, intended for students with no previous background in Russian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian. It will also introduce you to Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Russian on topics concerning your daily life. You will know greetings and everyday expressions, talk about people and objects in your life, your hobbies, likes and dislikes, past activities and your residence. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Russian. | RUSS0100402 | |||||||||
| RUSS 5100-680 | Russian I | Lada Vassilieva | TR 5:15 PM-7:14 PM | This course is for graduate students. It is the first in a series of first-year courses in the traditional track, intended for students with no previous background in Russian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian. It will also introduce you to Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Russian on topics concerning your daily life. You will know greetings and everyday expressions, talk about people and objects in your life, your hobbies, likes and dislikes, past activities and your residence. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Russian. | RUSS0100680 | |||||||||
| RUSS 5201-401 | Russian for Heritage Speakers I | Djamilia Nazyrova | TR 5:15 PM-6:44 PM | This course is intended for students who have spoken Russian at home and seek to achieve proficiency in the language. Topics will include an intensive introduction to the Russian writing system and grammar, focusing on exciting materials and examples drawn from classic and contemporary Russian culture and social life. Students who complete this course in combination with RUSS361 satisfy the Penn Language Requirement. Prerequisite: Previous language experience required. | RUSS0201401 | |||||||||
| RUSS 5300-401 | Russian III | Molly Peeney | MTWR 10:15 AM-11:14 AM | This course is for graduate students. It is the first in a series of second-year courses in the traditional track, continuation of Russian II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Russian on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, significant personal and cultural events and situations, important cultural figures. You will be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts. | RUSS0300401 | |||||||||
| RUSS 5300-402 | Russian III | Molly Peeney | MTWR 12:00 PM-12:59 PM | This course is for graduate students. It is the first in a series of second-year courses in the traditional track, continuation of Russian II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Russian culture and Russian-speaking cultures around the world through exciting authentic materials, including internet sites and cultural artifacts, songs, videos, short stories, as well as conversations with native speakers. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Russian on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, significant personal and cultural events and situations, important cultural figures. You will be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts. | RUSS0300402 | |||||||||
| RUSS 5500-401 | Russian Society Today | Aleksey Berg | MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM | This course is for graduate students. It is the first in a series of third-year courses in the traditional track, continuation of Russian IV. In this course we will explore aspects of contemporary Russian society and every day life including typical vacation and traveling practices, religion and belief, and issues of migration through current mass media, polling data, TV, radio, and film. The course is designed to strengthen and expand students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Russian, as well as to increase students' active and passive vocabulary on a wide range of topics. The course also aims to solidify students' knowledge of the basic structure of Russian they learned in previous courses and focuses on more advanced grammatical concepts including verbal aspect. By the end of the course, you will be able to write short analytical essays in Russian on a variety of issues. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Russian. | RUSS1100401 | |||||||||
| UKRN 0100-680 | Ukrainian I | Kseniia Power | TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM | This course is the first in a series of first-year courses, intended for students with no previous background in Ukrainian. The course develops competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Ukrainian. It will also introduce you to Ukrainian culture through exciting authentic materials, including songs, videos, and short stories. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Ukrainian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in simple conversations in Ukrainian on topics concerning your daily life. You will also be able to write short personalized messages in Ukrainian. | ||||||||||
| UKRN 0300-680 | Ukrainian III | Kseniia Power | TR 5:15 PM-6:44 PM | This course is the first in a series of second-year courses, continuation of Ukrainian II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Ukrainian and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Ukrainian culture through exciting authentic materials, including Ukrainian newspaper articles on current events in business, education, politics, science, sports, and other topics. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Ukrainian. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Ukrainian on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, significant personal and cultural events and situations, important cultural figures. You will be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts. |
