Open to students with no knowledge of Russian Survey of Russian civilization from the earliest times, with emphasis on literature, thought, and the arts. Modern Russian Culture Exploration of patterns in Russian literature, music, and art from 1900 to the present. Topics include the decline of the Old Regime, impact of revolution on the arts of Russia, modernism of the 1920s in literature, music, art, and film, and the arts today. Open to students with no knowledge of Russian Study of the major works of Dostoevsky. Open to students with no knowledge of Russian Study of the major works of Tolstoy.
Class meets three hours per week, plus work in the language laboratory.
May be repeated for credit. RUSS 102 Examination of the sound system of the Russian language with special attention to palatalization, vowel reduction, sounds in combination, and the relationship of sound to spelling. RUSS 102 Examination of the sound system, lexicon, and word formative processes of the Russian literary language. Open to students with no knowledge of Russian Study of the major works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. Emphasizes prose fiction.