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Master of Arts Required for
the degree are 30 credits of course work at the 500 level or above
(3 of these may be from an M.A. thesis course), the passing of a
proficiency examination in Russian, a comprehensive examination,
and a reading examination in French or German. Students choosing
the contemporary Russian studies option must write a thesis (a thesis
defense will replace the comprehensive examination). A thesis is
optional for those choosing the Russian literature or Slavic linguistics
option. However, students who intend to apply for the Ph.D. program
are strongly urged to select the thesis option, since admission
into the Ph.D. program requires the completion of a satisfactory
M.A. thesis or its equivalent. Thesis courses are offered in the
fall and spring semesters only.
Doctor of Philosophy Candidates must receive formal permission from the department before undertaking a course of studies leading to the Ph.D. degree. In addition to the general University requirements for the Ph.D. degree, candidates must complete no fewer than 54 credits of graduate level courses; demonstrate a reading knowledge of both French and German; demonstrate a reading knowledge of one or two additional Slavic languages, depending on the major field chosen; pass a qualifying examination and a written and oral comprehensive examination after completing course work and before undertaking the dissertation; and submit and defend a dissertation proposal. Details about additional requirements are available in the department.
Course Descriptions Top
Prerequisites are noted for courses in language and linguistics. Prerequisites may vary from semester to semester and are therefore made known during course enrollment. Graduate standing is ordinarily prerequisite for courses at the 500 level and above. Readings in the Social Sciences
Prerequisite: RUSS 302 and instructor permission
Based on careful analysis of the social
science texts in Patrick's Advanced Russian Reader, students
are introduced to advanced topics in Russian morphology and syntax.
Successful completion of the course enables students to read nineteenth-
and twentieth-century Russian non-fiction with minimal difficulty.
RUSS 502 - (3) (IR) Advanced Proficiency Russian
Prerequisite: RUSS 402
Development of advanced-level proficiency
in the four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
May be repeated for credit.
RUSS 503 - (3) (Y) Advanced Russian
Prerequisite: RUSS 301, 302, and instructor
permission; RUSS 401, 402 strongly recommended
Graduate-level grammar and translation.
RUSS 505 - (1) (S) Advanced Conversation
Prerequisite: RUSS 302
Two hours of conversation practice per
week. May be repeated for credit.
RUSS 507, 508 - (3) (IR) Problems and Methods of Teaching Russian
Prerequisite: RUSS 302 and instructor permission
Recommended for all students who intend
to teach, either at the secondary school or college level.
RUSS 509 - (3) (IR) Russian for Reading Knowledge
Rapid, comprehensive introduction to the
grammar of modern Russian necessary for reading texts in the original.
Especially recommended for graduate students who need Russian
for scholarly purposes.
RUSS 521 - (3) (IR) The Structure of Modern Russian: Phonology
and Morphology
Prerequisite: RUSS 202, LNGS 325, and instructor
permission
Study of linguistic approaches to the phonology
and morphology of standard Russian.
RUSS 522 - (3) (IR) The Structure of Modern Russian: Syntax
and Semantics
Prerequisite: RUSS 202 and instructor permission;
LNGS 325 strongly recommended
Studies linguistic approaches to the syntax
and semantics of contemporary standard Russian.
RUSS 523 - (3) (IR) History of the Russian Literary Language
Prerequisite: RUSS 202 and instructor permission
History of literary (standard) Russian
from its formation to the present day. Includes problems of vocabulary,
syntax, and stylistics.
RUSS 524 - (3) (IR) History of the Russian Language
Prerequisite: RUSS 202, LNGS 325
Diachronic linguistic analysis of the Russian
language.
RUSS 550 - (3) (IR) Russian Satire
Studies the theory and praxis of Russian
literary satire. Examines several examples of Russian satire from
the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, while focusing on 20th-century
works.
RUSS 551 - (3) (SI) Russian Drama and Theatre
Studies works by authors from Fonvizin
to Shvarts, emphasizing the major plays of Gogol, Chekhov, and
Gorky. Includes production theories of Stanislavsky, Meyerhold,
and other important Russian directors.
RUSS 552 - (3) (O) The Rise of the Russian Novel, 1795-1850
Studies the development of the Russian
novel in the first half of the 19th century. Focuses on the major
contributions of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev,
and examines the social and literary forces that contributed to
the evolution of the Russian novel.
RUSS 553 - (3) (E) The Golden Age of Russian Poetry
Studies works by Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Baratynsky,
Batyushkov, Lermontov, and others.
RUSS 554 - (3) (E) Age of Realism, 1851-1881
Studies the works of Russia's most celebrated
writers during the middle of the 19th century. Explores the many
forms that "realism" assumed in Russia at this time, and investigates
how Russian writers responded to the calls of their contemporary
critics to use literature to promote socially progressive ends.
RUSS 555 - (3) (E) The Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Studies the poetry of Blok, Akhmatova,
Mandelshtam, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, and Mayakovsky. Includes symbolism,
acmeism, and futurism.
RUSS 556 - (3) (E) Russian Modernist Prose
Examines selected works by the leading
writers of the early part of the 20th century. Explores the competing
conceptions of literature that evolved in the 1920s until the
establishment of Socialist Realism in the 1930s.
RUSS 557 - (3) (IR) Russian Formalism and Structuralist
Poetics
Studies the theory and practice of literary
critics. Focuses on the Russian Formalists and the relationship
of their theories to those of later critics in America (New Criticism)
and the current European Structuralists.
RUSS 558 - (3) (O) Contemporary Russian Literature
Studies the evolution of Russian literature
from the "Thaw" period until the present. Examines how Russia's
writers tried to accommodate, evade, or challenge the prevailing
norms of Soviet literature during the 1960s and 1970s. Analyzes
the forces shaping the development of contemporary Russian literature.
RUSS 565 - (3) (SI) Stylistics
Prerequisite: RUSS 302 and instructor permission
Studies the styles of modern Russian prose--literary,
journalistic, scientific, etc. Stylistic nuances in contemporary
speech.
RUSS 573 - (3) (Y) Dostoevsky
Reading of major long and short works with
attention to important criticism.
RUSS 574 - (3) (O) Tolstoy
Reading of major long and short works with
attention to important criticism.
RUSS 575 - (3) (IR) Russian Poetry
Studies Russian poetics and selected poets
from Pushkin to the present.
RUSS 585, 586 - (3) (SI) Selected Topics in Comparative Literature
May be repeated for credit.
RUSS 591 - (3) (Y) Selected Topics in Russian Literature
May be repeated for credit.
RUSS 701 - (3) (E) Proseminar in Russian Literature
Required of all candidates for the M.A.
degree.
RUSS 702 - (3) (SI) The Theory and Practice of Criticism
Studies the major critical theories and
their applicability in the Russian context.
RUSS 729 - (3) (SI) Old Russian Literature
Close reading of texts from the Kievan
period to the reign of Peter the Great.
RUSS 730 - (3) (SI) Russian Literature of the Eighteenth
Century
Studies the development of literature in
the post-Petrine period. Emphasizes the works of Lomonosov, Derzhavin,
and Karamzin and the interaction between Russian cultural life
and that of Western Europe.
RUSS 731 - (3) (SI) Pushkin
Close reading and analysis of major works.
Emphasizes the narrative poems and lyrics.
RUSS 732 - (3) (IR) Gogol
Close reading and analysis of the major
works.
RUSS 735 - (3) (IR) Turgenev
Study of the major works.
RUSS 736 - (3) (SI) Tolstoy
Study of the major works.
RUSS 738 - (3) (SI) Chekhov
Study of the major works. Analysis of Chekhov's
art as a short story writer and playwright.
RUSS 773 - (3) (SI) Graduate Seminar on Dostoevsky
Study of the major and minor works.
RUSS 785, 786 - (3) (IR) The Russian and West European Novel:
1790-1880
Studies the formation and development of
the great Russian realistic novel. Emphasizes internal processes
and West European influences.
RUSS 791, 792 - (3) (SI) Seminar in Russian Studies
Advanced work on selected topics. A recent
topic was "utopian vision." May be repeated for credit.
RUSS 793 - (1-4) (Y) Independent Study in Russian Literature
May be repeated for credit.
RUSS 821 - (3) (IR) Advanced Structure of Russian: Phonology
and Morphology
Prerequisite: LNGS 325 and instructor permission
RUSS 822 - (3) (IR) Advanced Structure of Russian: Syntax
and Semantics
Prerequisite: LNGS 325 and instructor permission
RUSS 895 - (3) (S) Master's Thesis
Research for and final preparation of M.A.
thesis.
SLAV 511 - (3) (O)
Slavic Folktale
Examines the history of Russian and Ukrainian
tale collection, classification, publication and scholarship,
related genres, and Russian and Soviet theories of the origin
and function of the tale and the role of tales in socialization.
SLAV 512 - (3) (O) Slavic Life Cycle Ritual
Studies the rituals of birth, marriage,
and death as practiced by the Russians and other Slavs, and the
oral literature associated with these rituals. Emphasizes Russian
and other Slavic ethnographic materials, theories of collecting
and scholarship, and of ritual and family life. Ethnographic materials
and Slavic theoretical works are read in the original.
SLAV 513 - (3) (E) Slavic Heroic Epic
Examines the Slavic epic and related poetic
forms, namely historical songs, ballads, religious songs, and
beggars' chants; prose narratives believed to be "true"; legends,
fabulates and memorates; and performers, their social position,
relationship to the church, and their learning and transmission
techniques.
SLAV 514 - (3) (E) Agrarian Ritual and Material Culture
Examines Russian and Ukrainian lower mythology;
the spirits of the house, the barn, the field, the stream, and
the forest. Explores East Slavic ethnography, including house
and village layout, folk decorative arts, clothing types, food,
the relation of farming and the agricultural calendar year to
agrarian magic, festival, and ritual.
SLAV 525 - (3) (IR) Introduction to Slavic Linguistics
Prerequisite: RUSS 202, LNGS 325, and instructor
permission
Introduces the phonology, morphology, and
grammatical structure of Russian and other Slavic languages.
SLAV 531 - (3) (IR) Slavic Folklore in America
Includes the various genres of Slavic oral
literature as found in North and South America. May be repeated
for credit when topics vary.
SLAV 533 - (3) (IR) Topics in West Slavic Literatures
Topics include Polish, Czech, or Slovak
fiction, poetry, or drama. May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
SLAV 536 - (3) (E) Slavic Mythology
Survey of Slavic pre-Christian and Christian
beliefs and customs, emphasizing their role in folklore.
SLAV 537 - (3) (E) South Slavic Folklore
Surveys South Slavic ethnography and folklore,
emphasizing the Bulgarians and the Serbs.
SLAV 543 - (3) (IR) Topics in South Slavic Literatures
Includes Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian,
Bulgarian, or Macedonian fiction, poetry, or drama. May be repeated
for credit when topics vary.
SLAV 555 - (3) (IR) Topics in Ukrainian Literature
Includes Ukrainian fiction, poetry, or
drama. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
SLAV 592 - (3) (IR) Selected Topics in Slavic Linguistics
Prerequisite: LNGS 325 and instructor permission
May be repeated for credit.
SLAV 710 - (3) (IR) Topics in Slavic Civilization
Includes specialized aspects of Slavic
culture and society. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
SLAV 711 - (3) (IR) Balkan Studies
Studies Balkan languages and literatures
other than Slavic, emphasizing linguistic and literary ties with
the South Slavs. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
SLAV 742 - (3) (IR) Common Slavic
Prerequisite: LNGS 325 and instructor permission
Studies the historical phonology and morphology
of Common Slavic.
SLAV 743, 744 - (3) (O) Old Church Slavonic
Prerequisite: RUSS 102 and instructor permission
Studies the history and structure of Old
Church Slavonic. Reading of selected texts.
SLAV 793 - (3) (IR) Independent Study in Slavic Linguistics
Prerequisite: LNGS 325, RUSS 302, and instructor
permission
May be repeated for credit.
SLAV 851 - (3) (IR) History and Structure of the East Slavic
Languages
Prerequisite: LNGS 325 and instructor permission
The diachrony, dialectology, and synchrony.
SLAV 853 - (3) (IR) History and Structure of the South Slavic
Languages
Prerequisite: LNGS 325 and instructor permission
The diachrony, dialectology, and synchrony.
SLAV 854 - (3) (IR) History and Structure of the West Slavic
Languages
Prerequisite: LNGS 325 and instructor permission
The diachrony, dialectology, and synchrony.
SLAV 861, 862 - (3) (IR) Seminar in Slavic Linguistics
Prerequisite: instructor permission
SLAV 897 - (3-12) (S) Non-Topical Research, Preparation for
Research
For master's research, taken before a thesis
director has been selected.
SLAV 898 - (3-12) (S) Non-Topical Research
For master's thesis, taken under the supervision
of a thesis director.
SLAV 997 - (3-12) (S) Non-Topical Research, Preparation for
Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation
director has been selected.
SLAV 999 - (3-12) (S) Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under
the supervision of a dissertation director.
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