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Course DescriptionsSlavic 1 & 2 (5 units each) Elementary Russian Comprehensive program for the study of Russian language and culture. Focus on proficiency in all four skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing). Classes conducted primarily in Russian. Daily homework assignments. Grades based on class participation, oral and written assignments, chapter tests, and final. Required Texts: (Available Through Asuc's Cal Textbooks) Slavic 1: Slavic 2: Recommended: Prerequisites: Slavic 2 - Slavic 1 or consent of instructor-in-charge. Slavic 3 & 4 (5 units each) Intermediate Russian Comprehensive program for the study of Russian language and culture. Focus on proficiency in all four skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing). Classes conducted in Russian. Weekly homework assignments. Grades based on class participation, oral and written assignments, chapter tests, and final. Required Texts: (Available Through Asuc's Cal Textbooks) Kagan and Miller, V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context, and workbook/lab manual. Prerequisites: previous semester or consent of instructor-in-charge. Slavic R5A, Section 1 (4 units) Reading and Composition Course Aliens and Homebodies: the Estranged and the Native in Slavic and Baltic Literature This course fulfills the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Many critics have ascribed Tolstoy's genius to his ability to describe his subjects as a naive observer would. The estrangement of a child, foreigner or tourist, however, does not always produce a work of art. This course examines the descriptive choices made by an assortment of Russian, Polish, and Baltic authors whose protagonists either have found themselves in alien societies or have found that their own societies have become alien to them. The characters studied will range from Tolstoy's Army officer-tourist in "The Cossacks" to Gogol's outcasts in Petersburg Tales, Eva Hoffman's post-Holocaust Jewish emigres in Lost in Translation, Stanislaw Lem's time traveller in Return from the Stars, and Jaan Kross' dispossessed Estonian natives in various works. Course requirements include approximately 150 pp. of reading per week, four short papers (5-7 pp.), and a longer final paper (10-12 pp.). Reading list (texts available at the Campus Bookstore and Ned's):
Gogol, Nicholas. Petersburg Tales. (Edition TBA). Prerequisites: Completion of Subject A or equivalent. Slavic R5B, Section 1 (4 units) Reading and Composition Course "Madmen, Dreamers and Drunks" This course fulfills the second portion of the undergraduate reading and composition requirement and is geared to help you expand your skills to develop clearer and more effective writing. This includes the skills necessary to conduct research, and to incorporate published critical literature into your own writing properly and productively. The emphasis will be on writing as a recursive process of drafting and revision. Readings will focus on texts that include representations of minds with unconventional relations with the world: irrational, paranoid, intoxicated, in states of mental crisis, or otherwise in an altered state. These texts are authored by writers from a variety of time-periods and national backgrounds, and a number of genres are represented. Your writing will engage themes and problems raised by the selected texts, including: how writers represent madness, and to what purpose; the function of mood-altering substances within the text; how various social pressures may be manifested in the text as madness; the differences between a text that is a literary representation of madness and a text that is a symptom of madness, that is, the product of a disturbed mind; and others. Disclaimer: Some (although not all) of the texts we will read in this class are, one might say, not polite. They are at times quite explicitly sexual (although rarely erotic), disturbingly violent, grotesquely scatological, and/or otherwise discomforting to the prudish or squeamish. Please take this into account in deciding if this is the class for you. Texts:
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Papers--70% (first paper 25%, second paper 45%) Slavic R5B, Section 2 (4 units) Reading and Composition Course Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Literature This course fulfills the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. While mass murder inspired by ideology and nationalism has been around almost as long as humankind, the 20th century has been the setting for events of genocide and ethnic cleansing that stand out for their inhuman atrocity. These horrors have inspired many works of literature, much of it written by survivors of these events. In this course we will read works dealing with the Holocaust, Stalin’s purges, and the more recent ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. We will explore the function of literature in the aftermath of atrocity, and will discuss its role in bearing witness to what has been done and expressing the tragedy not only of those who died, but also of those who survived to live with their experiences. We will discuss all works extensively in class, and will focus on critical reading and written analysis. The written assignments will include a number of short responses, as well as three essays of varying lenths, two of which will undergo a process of revision. Students will improve their academic writing through the stimulus of this interesting and provocative topic. Course readings will include: There will also be a course reader which will include selections from Hannah Arendt, Isaac Babel, Paul Celan, Varlam Shalamov, Dubravka Ugresic, and others. Prerequisites: Completion of the “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement or equivalent. Slavic 25A (5 units) Introductory Polish THE 25A-25B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. Texts: Prerequisites: None for 25A; 25B presumes a knowledge of 25A or equivalent. Slavic 6 (3 units) DO YOU SPEAK (BUT NOT READ OR WRITE) RUSSIAN? Students interested in whether they qualify for this course should contact our Russian language coordinator , Lisa little, at: lclittle@socrates.berkeley.edu Introductory Russian for Heritage Speakers This course is aimed at "heritage speakers" of Russian, i.e., those who grew up speaking Russian in the family without a native Russian's full educational and cultural background. Introductory course teaches basic skills of literacy, grammar, and reading. Students with advanced reading proficiency should consider Slavic 114 (Advanced Self-Paced Russian for Native Speakers). Texts: O. Kagan, Akishina T., Robin R., Russian for Russians: Textbook for Heritage Speakers Prerequisites: Oral proficiency in Russian; placement test and consent of instructor Slavic 25A (5 units) Introductory Polish THE 25A-25B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. The Fall course (25A) and the Spring course (25B) introduce the modern Polish language. The emphasis is on spoken Polish through classroom exercises, dialogues, directed conversation, and some supplementary readings as assigned. Daily homework; one hour of language laboratory per week. Weekly quizzes; three midterms and the final exam. Texts: Oscar Swan, First Year Polish Prerequisites: None for 25A; 25B presumes a knowledge of 25A or equivalent. Slavic 26A (5 units) Introductory Czech THE 26A-26B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. The sequence of 26A (Fall) and 26B (Spring) emphasizes development of communicative skills, vocabulary, and grammatical competence. The textbook covers a range of communicative situations, the fundamentals of Czech grammar, and basic vocabulary. At the same time, the course provides an introduction to Czech culture through films, music, and short readings in Czech, including excerpts from Czech poetry and prose, history, social studies, and current events. Daily homework, midterm, final exam. Texts: Prerequisites: None for 26A; 26B presumes a knowledge of 26A or equivalent. Slavic 27A (5 units) Introductory Serbian/Croatian THE 27A-27B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. Introduction to Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian with explanation of major differences (from both a linguistic and sociocultural viewpoint) and the common grammatical core. Development of communication skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). Daily homework assignments, weekly quizzes, midterm and final. Text: SCB (available in manuscript as reader) Prerequisites: None for 27A; 27B presumes a knowledge of 27A or equivalent. Slavic 39J (3 units) Lower-Division Seminar: Love among the Russians L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature Study and discussion of treatments of the love theme by a series of great Russian writers: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov. Readings will be mostly short stories, not long novels. All readings and discussion in English, although students who know Russian are encouraged to read in the original. One term paper, no exam. Texts: Prerequisites: None. Slavic 45 (3 units) Nineteenth Century Russian Literature L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature During the semester we will be reading some of the celebrated works of the Russian nineteenth-century, from Pushkin through Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevskii and Tolstoi to Chekhov. It is the nineteenth century that poses the decisive questions of Russian modernity: the quest for an identity for the nation and its language, the problem of literary realism, the responsibilities of literature as an agent for social change, the status of the writer within changing social hierarchies, the correlation of the personal and the collective, the political and the metaphysical. These are decades of formal exploration and cultural anxiety, existential doubt and political denunciation. To define the nineteenth century and its questions and make them speak to us will be our goal this semester. Our interest will focus primarily on the novel, but will also touch on related genres such as the novel-in-verse, and the short story. The course is a prerequisite for admission to the Slavic major and is recommended for prospective graduate students in Slavic. No knowledge of Russian is required; the classes are conducted in English. Texts: Prerequisites: None Slavic 50 (3 units) Introduction to Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature OR International Studies OR Social and Behavioral Sciences Slavic 50 examines the history and culture of Slavs, both Russians and Slavic peoples in Central and Eastern Europe. The course will explore the origins of Slavs; Slavic conversions to Christianity; tsars and nation building; the Age of Empires; Romanticism and Slavic nationalism; and the Soviet experiment, protest, and collapse. We will discuss broad questions of ethnic and religious identity, empire, the relationship between individual and state, culture, and utopia. We will work with a variety of materials and disciplines: short primary documents, histories, visual images, films, and literary works. Required of majors in Russian/East European/Eurasian cultures, the course is also aimed at a broad audience. Knowledge of the languages of the area is not required. Course and readings in English. Texts: Prerequisites: None .Slavic 103A (4 units) Advanced Russian (Part I) This course covers three main aspects of an advanced Russian course: grammar, syntax, and readings. The grammar is reviewed. Syntax deals with the practical aspects of simple and compound sentences. Readings introduce the best Russian authors. The course is taught in Russian. There are weekly quizzes on grammar, syntax, and reading, one midterm and the final exam. Weekly discussion or conversation section. Grades are based on: quizzes 30%, midterm 30%, final 40%. Texts: Prerequisites: Slavic 4, 14D or equivalent. Slavic 105A (1, 2 or 3 units) Russian-English, English Russian Translation SLAVIC 105A OFFERED IN FALL; SLAVIC 105B IN SPRING. Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Course may be taken for one unit (5 weeks: basic translation skills), two units (10 weeks: advanced skills), or three units (15 weeks: professional skills). The course is intended for students who are interested in acquiring translation skills that can be used in the growing field of Russian/American commercial and cultural relations, diplomacy and journalism. Because translation is studied from both Russian into English and from English into Russian it can be useful for English speakers as well as Russian native and heritage speakers. The course will consist of two parts, A and B, offered respectively in the fall and spring semesters. Both courses deal with the written and oral translation. However, Slavic 105A has the main emphasis on the written translation, its peculiarities and methods studied through practical translation of authentic texts. The main focus will be on translating technical texts. The oral part in Slavic 105A concentrates on acquiring basic skills necessary for informal interpreting. Workload: workshop, midterm, final. Texts: materials supplied in class. Prerequisites: Slavic 1, 2, 3, 4 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Slavic 109 (3 units) Business Russian This course is designed for students with a good command of basic Russian who would like to gain the vocabulary of business transactions in Russian in order to be able to establish actual contacts with Russian businessmen and women, to participate in business negotiations, to compile business contracts in Russian, and to read Russian business magazines and newspapers. Elements of the business law of Russia will also be discussed. The students are offered a large selection of original texts on economic, business, trade (domestic and foreign), and natural resource development. In addition to practical exercises and discussions, guest speakers and video materials will be widely used in classwork. The workload will include regular written assignments, presentations, a midterm and final exam. Texts: a reader compiled by the instructor as well as handouts and other materials. Prerequisites: Slavic 4 (2 years of Russian) or the equivalent. Slavic 114 (1-6 units) Advanced Self-Paced Russian for Native Speakers The course is aimed at "heritage speakers" of Russian, i.e., those who grew up speaking Russian in the family or had a limited learning experience, without a native Russian’s full educational and cultural background. The advanced course aims at building a sophisticated vocabulary, developing advanced reading ability, formal knowledge of grammar, and complete writing competency. The course is organized around students’ individual needs and abilities. Classes are held on a weekly basis as arranged during the first week of the semester. The course can be taken for two semesters not to exceed the maximum of 6 units. Prerequisites: advanced speaking and reading ability in Russian; placement test, and consent of instructor. Students with no or rudimentary reading proficiency should consider Slavic 6 (Introductory Russian for Heritage Speakers). Class sections for students are arranged during the first week of classes. Please see the instructor during special office hours during the first week of classes to arrange tutorial schedules. The first week of classes office hours will be posted outside of the Slavic Department office at 6303 Dwinelle Hall and on the Department’s web site. Slavic 115A (4 units) Advanced Polish This course will contain three major components: a review of grammar; reading and translation of moderately difficult Polish prose and poetry, primarily of the twentieth century; and conversation. Texts: Olesky & Swan, W Labiryncie Prerequisites: Slavic 25B or consent of the instructor. Slavic 116A (4 units) Advanced Czech The course combines a review of Czech grammar (along with discussion of problem areas of grammar) and reading of Czech literature. Texts: to be announced in class. Prerequisites: Slavic 26B or consent of instructor. Slavic 117A (4 units) Advanced Serbian/Croatian NOTE: THIS COURSE WILL BE OFFERED AS STAFFING PERMITS. Texts: Available from the instructor once class begins. Prerequisites: Slavic 27B or permission of instructor. Slavic 118A (4 units) Advanced Bulgarian Review of grammar covered in Introductory Bulgarian 28A-B. Thorough presentation of the complex verbal tense-mood system. Readings in contemporary Bulgarian prose and poetry. The course will be conducted partially in Bulgarian. Workload will include reading, translations, preparation of oral reports; midterm; final. Texts:Intensive Bulgarian, Volumes 1 & 2 Prerequisites: Slavic 28B or permission of instructor. Slavic 120A (2-3 units) Advanced Russian Conversation and Communication This course focuses on oral communication skills. The goal is to help students develop confidence and begin to feel comfortable conversing in Russian on topics beyond routine social and survival needs The course is loosely based on the textbook, Let’s Talk About Life! which contains readings, vocabulary lists, speaking activities, and taped interviews on various topics related to life in Russia and the United States. We will also supplement the listening (no less important than speaking since communication breaks down completely when comprehension is poor) with documentary and other film clips, songs, newscasts, guest speakers, etc. Speaking activities might include discussing a reading from the textbook in small groups, giving an oral report, taking part in a focus group, or participating in a debate, among other things. There will be regular home assignments (mostly fluency writing, listening, or reading to prepare for speaking in class the next day and vocabulary-building exercises); both a written vocabulary and an oral speaking test (one-on-one with the instructor) for each of the four chapters covered during the semester; and a final (oral interview). The course may be taken for two or three credits. Those students taking the course for two credits will come to class on Mondays and Wednesdays and do the assignments for those days. Students who choose to take the course for three credits will be expected to attend on Fridays as well. Together they will decide on a project (or projects) for the semester. The grade will be determined as follows:
Attendance/participation 30% (The grading percentages for the students who sign up for 3 units may be modified to include the special project/s.) Prerequisites: Slavic 4 or consent of instructor. Students may take A and/or B depending on their level of proficiency and goals. Slavic 133A (3 units) The Novel in Russia and the West: “The European Novel” This Course is Cross-Listed with English 125C L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature Focusing on key texts from English, French, and Russian literatures, this course traces the development of the novel as a genre in 19th-century Europe. Our discussions will emphasize strategies of close reading and literary analysis and elements of the theory of the novel. The texts are grouped into two thematic units. First, as we read Oliver Twist, Old Goriot, and Crime and Punishment, we will examine the use of social discourse in narrative form; crime as a paradigm for a work of fiction; and the role of the city in structuring the modern novel. Second, as we read Emma, Madame Bovary, and Anna Karenina, we will examine the novel's involvement with family, marriage, and adultery; the representation of consciousness in narrative; and the construction of the self in a work of literature. In comparing novels from different national traditions, the course explores the interplay between genre and culture. The Russian point of view will be highlighted throughout the course. (All readings in English.) Book List. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838), Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot [Père Goriot] (1835), Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866); Jane Austen, Emma (1816), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856), Lev Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877). Workload/Requirements. Reading: 150-200 pages per week. Written work: short written assignments, take-home midterm paper (3-5 pages), final paper (5-8 pages), in-class final exam (textual explication). Prerequisites: None. Slavic 133R (1 unit) Research in Russian Literature: “The European Novel” This course is designed to support a research project coordinated with Slavic 133 supervised by the instructor. Individual consultation with the instructor. Final research paper of 10-15 pages required. Prerequisites: Enrollment in Slavic 133A; consent of instructor. Slavic 134N (3 units) NEW COURSE ADDED 5/24/04! L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature This course is cross-listed with Theater 166, Sec. 1. The course is devoted to Chekhov’s short stories and plays, and the inner connections between his narrative fiction and dramatic art. In reading Chekhov’s work, we’ll examine his literary and dramatic strategies, and his place and role in contemporary Russian culture. In the year of one hundredth anniversary of his death, we’ll also specifically address his lasting impact on the cultural practices of the 20th century, and his overall modern relevance. The course will include several classroom screenings and discussions. There will be a few quizzes, a mid-term short paper, and a course paper. The required texts include two published collections of short stories and plays, and a course reader. Texts:
The Portable Chekhov. Edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Penguin Books/ The Viking Portable Library. Prerequisites: All readings and class discussion will be in English. Slavic 134R (1 unit) Research in Russian Literature for 134E This course is designed to support a research project coordinated with Slavic 134E supervised by the instructor. Individual consultation with the instructor. Final research paper of 10-15 pages required. Prerequisites: Enrollment in Slavic 134E; consent of instructor. Slavic 158/History 175A (3 units)
Topics in Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures: This Course is Cross-Listed with History 175A L&S Breadth: Historical Studies OR Social and Behavioral Sciences This course will focus on the the development of identities within the constantly shifting borders of Polish-Lithuanian and Polish states. Among the topics: competing definitions-ethnic, confessional, linguistic, political-of Polishness; continuities and discontinuities in Polish history and historiography; Poland between East and West; the development of Polish self-perceptions; Jewish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian identities in the Polish context; the Polish chapter in the events leading to the end of Communist hegemony in Eastern Europe. Readings will be drawn from three groups of sources: a) the textbook for the course, Norman Davies’ God’s Playground, plus b) related critical essays and c) primary sources (in English translation) ranging from religion and politics to belles lettres. The course’s format will combine lectures and discussion. Texts: Norman Davies, God’s Playground, vols. 1 and 2, and a xeroxed reader. Course requirements: readings; attendance in class and participation in discussion; a midterm exam; a final paper (7-10 pages) on a topic to be discussed with the professor. Option for graduate students: instead of the midterm and final papers, a research paper (ca. 15 pages) on a topic to be discussed with the professor. Prerequisites: None Slavic 158 is a Cultural Topics requirement for majors in the East European or Eurasian cultures track in the Slavic department. Slavic 181 (4 units) Readings in Russian Literature L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature The course has a dual purpose: 1) to improve your Russian reading, speaking, and writing skills; 2) to introduce you to nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature and to textual analysis. All reading is in Russian; class is conducted in English and Russian. The language goals of the course are to increase your reading speed, comprehension of written and spoken Russian, and to learn how to discuss literature in Russian. We will begin by reading contemporary short stories by Sergei Dovlatov, Tatiana Tolstaya, and Viktor Pelevin. The rest of the reading list will be selected in consultation with the class during the first week. The list could consist of texts that cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries or contemporary literature of the last two decades. It could also consist of student favorites. Besides reading and discussing the texts, there will be 3 to 4 written assignments. Each student will be expected to give one oral report, either as a short lecture or as an interactive presentation that engages the rest of the class. There will also be a final exam. Texts: Reader. Prerequisites: Ability to read and understand Russian at least at the third year level (Slavic 103A). Class can be taken concurrently with 103A. Slavic 200 (0 units) Graduate Colloquium Reports on current scholarly work by faculty and graduate students. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Graduate students must enroll in the course every semester. Slavic 201 (2 or 3 units) Advanced Russian Proficiency Maintenance Russian language maintenance course for graduate students from various disciplines. May be taken for 2-3 credits (2=2 classes per week; 3=3 classes per week). Mondays: focus on listening; Wednesdays: focus on reading and writing; Fridays: focus on speaking. Mid- and end-of-semester oral interviews. Texts: none Prerequisites:graduate standing or consent of instructor. Slavic 222 (4 units) Introduction to Descriptive Grammar of Slavic Languages Survey of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of contemporary Russian, and some attention to selected issues in phonetics, semantics, sociolinguistics, colloquial usage, and discourse structure. The course is intended to serve as a review of Russian grammar, thorough description of important categories such as aspect and word order, and an introduction to best practice in applying linguistic analysis to concerns that come up in the Russian language classroom. Reading assignments approximately weekly. Analytic problems. Midterm exams (possibly take-home) and final. Texts: Timberlake, A., Reference Grammar of Russian (Cambridge University Press); photocopied articles and texts. Prerequisite: Slavic 103B or equivalent. Slavic 245B (4 units) "Slavic 245B is cancelled for Fall 2004 but will be offered in Spring 2005." Russian Realism The course will examine Russian literature in the 1840s-1890s, focusing on the concept of "realism." Topics include: realism as an aesthetic theory and practice; institutions of literature (criticism, the press, writer's profession); the rise of the novel; ideology and literature; literature and science; Russia and the West, etc. Main texts: Belinsky "Rech' o kritike" and private letters; from Fiziologiia Peterburga; Goncharov, Oblomov; Turgenev, Otsy i deti; Pisarev, "Bazarov"; Chernyshevsky, Chto delat?; Nekrasov's poetry; from "populist" writers (Gleb Uspensky; Reshetnikov); selections from Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Also theoretical writings: Auerbach, Wellek, Bakhtin, Lukacs, Lidiia Ginzburg, and others. Workload: substantial reading (mostly in Russian), brief oral reports, research paper. Pass/no pass option: full class participation, no paper. Prerequisites: reading knowledge of Russian; graduate standing or consent of instructor. Slavic 246B (4 units) Contemporary literature The course treats post-Stalin and post-Soviet Russian literature and culture. Although it focuses on literature, it also includes the visual arts and film. Since most of the works of the Soviet era that we will read were forbidden in the Soviet Union, we will examine them in relation to their Soviet and post-Soviet reception with the purpose of establishing the differences between "old" and "new" Russian cultural politics. Among the works that we will consider through this double prism are Pasternak's Doktor Zhivago, selections from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Arkhipelag, A. Tertz's Chto takoe sotsialisticheskii realizm, V. Erofeev's Moskva-Petushki, I. Brodsky's poetry, S. Sokolov's Shkola dlia durakov, and E. Limonov's Eto ia - Edichka. We will also read V. Aksenov's Zvezdnyi bilet and Iu. Trifonov's Dom na naberezhnoi, which were published in the Soviet Union, as well as some works of more contemporary writers: L. Petrushevskaia's Kvartira Kolombiny, V. Sorokin's Tridsataia liubov' Mariny, V. Pelevin's Chapaev i pustota, and short stories by S. Dovlatov and A. Kharitonov. The films we will view are Tarkovsky's Zerkalo, Motyl's Beloe solntse pustyni (Soviet “Eastern”), and Balabanov’s post-Soviet Brat.
We will not always follow strict chronology, moving back and forth in time to examine some of the important clusters of meaning that define the post-Stalin and post-Soviet eras. Discovery and revision of the past underlie cultural development in post-Stalin Russia. One of the more recent revisions of the past is the rereading of socialist realism, which was initiated by Chto takoe sotsialisticheskii realizm? and K. Clark's The Soviet Novel. In this context, we will consider D. Prigov's parodic poetry, Komar and Melamid's sots-art, and B. Groys's rereading of the relationship between the avant-garde and socialist realism in The Total Art of Stalinism. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Slavic 280, Section 1 (4 units) Graduate Literature Seminar: “Literature of the 1920s” Detailed course description forthcoming. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. Slavic 280, Section 3 (4 units) Graduate Linguistics Seminar: “South Slavic Sociolinguistics” This seminar will focus on the sociopolitical context within which South Slavic languages have functioned over the last 150 years, with special attention to the breakup of "Serbo-Croatian" into component languages. Also to be covered are the Macedonian question, and the perception of "sociolinguistics" as a discipline within the South Slavic countries. Reading knowledge of at least one South Slavic language desired but not essential. Texts: to be announced Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. Slavic 281 (4 units) Proseminar in Literature: Methods and Aims of Literary Scholarship Introduction to the instruments of contemporary literary/cultural scholarship (analytical tools, research strategies, and reference sources) and to the profession. Procedures: discussion of theoretical issues (text, intertext, cultural context, genre, reading, writer, literary history, etc.) and theoretical studies (Lotman, Bakhtin, Barthes, Derrida, Geertz, etc.); practical exercises in research and analysis. Analysis of a specific work: Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." The course is required of all beginning graduate students in Russian literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Requirements: brief oral reports and research assignments; final paper. If you plan to take this course, try to re-read "Anna Karenina" (in the original) in summer. Books: get a copy of a reliable scholarly edition of "Anna Karenina" and a reference source: Irena Makaryk, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory (University of Toronto Press, 1993) (not ordered by the university bookstore) Questions? e-mail ipaperno@socrates.berkeley.edu. Slavic 282 (4 units) Proseminar in Linguistics: Methods and Aims of Linguistics Scholarship Detailed description is forthcoming. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Slavic 301 (3 units) Slavic Teaching Methods This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors of Russian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Serbian/Croatian. Course to be repeated for credit each semester of employment as graduate student instructor. Course on practice and theory of teaching. Required of all graduate student instructors in Slavic. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Slavic 310 (2 units) Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics Weekly meetings with the instructor of the designated course. Discussion of course aims, syllabus preparation, lecture and assignment planning, grading and related matters. Students may prepare a representative portion of the work for such a course (e.g. lecture outline and assignments for a course segment) and may participate in presentation of the material and in evaluation of samples of student work. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Slavic graduate student status and consent of instructor. East European Studies Courses East European Studies 1A (3 or 4 units) Elementary Hungarian THIS 1A-1B COURSE SEQUENCE BEGINS IN THE FALL TERM ONLY. The course can be taken for either 3 or 4 units; the additional unit involves language laboratory work and additional written reading assignments. Texts: Prerequisites: East European Studies 1A or consent of instructor. East European Studies 100 (2 units) Advanced Hungarian Readings The purpose of this class is to further develop the students' level of proficiency of Hungarian in speech as well as in writing. A major component of the curriculum is based on student presentation of a topic chosen by each student in the class. Each student is to give two oral presentations during the semester. Materials for reading are selected by the instructor as well as by the students for home reading. Workload will include a reasonable amount of reading and writing assignments. Midterm and final exams, and the student's attendance and participation will provide the basis for grading. Texts: Prerequisites: East European Studies 1A-lB or consent of instructor. Eurasian Studies Courses Eurasian Studies 289, Section 1 (2-4 units) Studies in the Languages of the Caucasus and Central Asia: “Georgian Language and Culture” (a) Beginning course, for students with no previous knowledge of Georgian. The course will the alphabet, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation and all four skills. (b) Continuing Georgian, for students who have previous experience or basic knowledge of the Georgian language. The course will cover grammar, conversation and writing on the intermediate level. The course will be focusing on the topic of how closely the language relates to the traditional culture. Readings will include historical and ethnographic texts, literary pieces, and folk tales and poetry. For additional information about this course please consult: the website. Texts Required: Eurasian Studies 289, Section 2 (2-4 units) Studies in the Languages of the Caucasus and Central Asia: Beginning Uzbek Beginning course in Uzbek, with instruction in all four skills. Intermediate Uzbek, with instruction in all four skills. Continuing students of Uzbek should contact the Slavic Department in advance if possible, and attend a planning meeting to be scheduled during the first week of the semester, in which the pace, coverage, and level of intermediate Uzbek will be determined. Both courses are open to undergraduates. Texts: to be announced. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Eurasian Studies 289, Section 3 (2-4 units) Beginning Armenian As the only Armenian language class, this course accommodates both beginning and intermediate students and lets them learn at their own level and their own pace. It also allows students to choose between the two literary dialects of Armenian (Eastern and Western) and encourages the interface between the two and the study of their commonality and differences. Among the requirements are weekly assignments, two midterms, and a term project with a final presentation. Texts depend on level of knowledge of language. Both courses are open to undergraduates. Texts: to be announced. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. |
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