Russian

RUSS 1001 Introductory Russian 3 cr. A course for beginners with emphasis on basic language skills.

RUSS 1002 Introductory Russian 3 cr. A continuation of Russian 1001. RUSS 2001 Intermediate Russian 3 cr. An intensive language study progressively accentuating reading skills.

RUSS 2002 Intermediate Russian 3 cr. Readings and exercises in Russian. Special emphasis on comprehension as well as oral and written expression in the language.

RUSS 2101 Readings in Russian 3 cr. Reading and discussion of selected Russian authors.

RUSS 2402 Major Writers in Translation 3 cr. Selected readings and study of the outstanding works of nineteenth century Russian literature: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.

RUSS 2804 Lit Soviet Per in Translation 3 cr. An historical survey of Soviet Russian literature from 1917 to the present. Many authors and their works are discussed with emphasis on Zamyatin’s We, Leonov’s The Thief, Sholokhov’s And Quiet Flows the Don, Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, and Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Special attention is given to ideological and political aspects of Soviet theory and history of literature such as “social command,” “socialist realism,” and “the thaw.”

RUSS 3191 Independent Work 1 cr. Prerequisite: consent of department. Readings, conferences, and papers under the direction of a member of the faculty. The course allows the student to correlate and supplement the work covered in the departmental courses. Each course may be repeated but combined credit may not exceed six semester hours.

RUSS 3192 Independent Work 1 cr. Prerequisite: consent of department. Readings, conferences, and papers under the direction of a member of the faculty. The course allows the student to correlate and supplement the work covered in the departmental courses. Each course may be repeated but combined credit may not exceed six semester hours.

RUSS 3193 Independent Work 1 cr. Prerequisite: consent of department. Readings, conferences, and papers under the direction of a member of the faculty. The course allows the student to correlate and supplement the work covered in the departmental courses. Each course may be repeated but combined credit may not exceed six semester hours.