Each member will also give periodic demonstrations of teaching methods. Several guest lecturers will be featured. Analysis of Contemporary Spoken Russian. Russian 415 is offered Fall Term and Russian 416 is offered Winter Term every academic year. Russian 415 and 416 emphasize difficult aspects of the Russian language, such as colloquial Russian, idioms and set phrases, use of the polite form in Russian speech, and practical stylistics as an instrument of style, synonymy of short and long adjectival forms, use of particles in spoken Russian, and analysis of different styles.
Progress is checked by term paper.
Students read short stories by different Russian authors, plays, articles from newspapers and magazines, and write compositions and give oral reports. Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. A knowledge of Russian is not required. This course features readings, lectures and discussions all in English. The major authors we deal with are Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Sholokhov and Bulgakov but we discuss others who are less well known to American readers.