Russian for Business. Designed for proficiency in business communication skills. Studies the grammar and lexicology of commercial transactions. Russian 104 or equivalent. Russian Complementary Reading.
Russian sources read in conjunction with English language courses.
Independent course of study established by the instructor and student. Detailed analysis of Chekhov's poetics of theater through close reading and discussion of his major plays. Application of Chekhov's theater poetics to his prose writings for their adaptation for stage. The Changing Image of Women in Russian Culture. This course examines the image of women in Russia through the writing of feminist theorists, politicians, social activists such as Kolantai, Akhmatova, Krupskaya, Tolstaya.