RUSSIAN

Language Courses

860:101 FIRST YEAR RUSSIAN

01: MTTh3 Emily Diehl

02: MTTh 5 Emily Diehl

This course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of Russian. If you have had any Russian in High School please contact the instructor. If you speak Russian at home but do not know grammar very well or have trouble reading, you should register for 860:107

860:107 RUSSIAN FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS

01: MTTH3 Natalia Mikhailovna Medvedeva

01: MTTH5 Natalia Mikhailovna MedvedevaThis course is for students who have some working knowledge but who cannot read
or write and have had no formal education in Russian. Students will improve their knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and idiomatic
usage as well as their reading and writing skills. Students with "Russian from home" should sign up for this course or
860:201 NOT 860:101. If you are unsure, please contact the department for proper placement.                                                                  email

860:201 SECOND YEAR RUSSIAN
Because of student demand and need, we are adding a section of Second Year Russian for students who began their study of Russian
at Rutgers, or another academic institution. Section 01 of this course is designed for this type of student. We want to do everything
we can to encourage students such as these to continue their study of Russian and we realize that their needs and expectations are
different from "Heritage Speakers."
Please feel free to ask Dr. McCoy-Rusanova, Ms. Diehl, or Prof. Pirog about this course.

01: MTTh3 Svetlana Georgievna McCoy-Rusanova For students who have had 860:102. Not for students who have taken or are currently enrolled in 860:108.This section is for students who have no prior knowledge of Russian from home.

02: MTTh4 Svetlana Georgievna McCoy-Rusanova

For students currently in 860:108. Not for students who have taken or are currently enrolled in 860:102.
This section is for students who have some prior knowledge of Russian from home.      

860:203 LANGUAGE LAB FOR SECOND YEAR STUDENTS

M2 Svetlana Georgievna McCoy-Rusanova For students enrolled in 860: 201 only.  

  This one credit course supplements work in the regular 860:201 course. It utilizes the audio visual and digital
capabilities of the newly renovated language lab on College Avenue. Work on pronunciation, intonation, and
comprehension. IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT ALL STUDENTS TAKE THIS COURSE.                                                                          e-mail

860:301 THIRD YEAR RUSSIAN

TTh6 Svetlana Georgievna McCoy-Rusanova

This course is for students who have completed 860:202 at Rutgers or the equivalent at another institution.
Students who speak Russian at home and who have studied Russian in school may wish to take this course.
(Please contact Professor Pirog if this is the case.)
Students will work on advancing their writing, reading and conversational skills and will read and discuss
contemporary Russian texts. Students will learn how to search the Internet, retrieve information
and will present their findings in class.

860:401 ADVANCED RUSSIAN

TTH6 Svetlana Bogomolny

This course is for students who have completed 860:302 at Rutgers or the equivalent at another institution.
Students who speak Russian well at home and who have studied Russian in school may wish to take this course.
(Please see Dr. Bogomolny or Professor Pirog if this is the case.)
This course will examine the way America has been represented in Russian literature and film.
CIRK, The 12 Chairs, Musulmanin, Brat and other films. Mayakovski, Yesenin, Ilf and Petrov, Dreitzer,
Aksyonov, and many other authors from different time periods. The course is conducted in Russian.
This course counts toward the "Literature Requirement" for the Minor.

860:491 RUSSIAN PRACTICUM

BA

Permission to register required.
Students assist instructors in language instruction.
Students must also be enrolled in 01:860:301 or 401 or have taken a Russian language course
at the 300 or 400 level to participate.

Courses in Literature

860:320 SPECIAL TOPICS IN RUSSIAN: Two Times Two Is Five: Rationality and Irrationality in Russian Literature

TTTH 4 Edyta Bojanowska

Cross-listed with 195:397. Credit not given for both courses in the same semester.

What are the limits of reason? Can irrationality lead to knowledge?  Is the world essentially ordered or chaotic?  Can humans order and subdue nature with the help of reason?  We will trace how the classic texts of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature pose these questions while exploring various conceptions of the individual, society, history, science, and art.  Readings include Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Zamyatin, Platonov, and Nabokov.

Conducted in English

860:328 THE RUSSIAN NOVEL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

TTH2 Edyta Bojanowska

Cross-listed with 195:352. Credit not given for both courses in the same semester.

A survey of major Russian novels from the post-revolutionary to the post-perestroika period, including Russian literature written
in exile or published “underground.” The course will focus on the novels’ creative responses to Russian political realities, to the
challenges of modernity, and to the enigmatic question of Russian identity.  Authors include Olesha, Platonov, Bulgakov,
Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, Pasternak, and Pelevin.  A tour of the Zimmerli Museum’s collection of non-conformist Soviet art and
optional monthly screenings of modern Russian cinema.

Readings in English or Russian. Conducted in English.

860:332 RUSSIAN POETRY

TTH5 Gerald Pirog

A survey of Russian poetry from the XVIII century through the XX century. Analysis of poems, versification (meter, rhythm, rhyme),

interpretation and comparison. All readings in Russian.

860:486 SEMINAR IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Brothers Karamazov

MTH3 Gerald Pirog

This course will read Dostoevsky's great novel and study it from the perspective of its own time as well as within the context of philosophical and religious writings about evil, suffering, sin, redemption, and justice. Readings include The Book of Job, Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, and other texts that provide a context for understanding this novel.
Conducted in English and open to students from other disciplines. Required of Russian majors.
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