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Program Requirements
The Minor Concentration Russian has four streams and students choose one of them based on their academic interests and proficiency in the language.
- Russian Language and Literature
- Russian Language and Culture
- Advanced Russian Literature
- Advanced Russian Language
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration Russian.
Students who wish to follow the Advanced Russian Literature or Advanced Russian Language stream must receive Departmental approval; they are designed primarily for students also intending to complete a Major Concentration Russian.
Enrolment in courses above the 200-level is by permission of the Department only.
Required Courses (12 credits)
The required courses are designed to give students a basic working knowledge of Russian. Students who can demonstrate to the Department that they have acquired the equivalent competence elsewhere will replace these credits with courses from the Complementary Course list.
Students must obtain Departmental approval to register for language courses and are strongly urged to consult with the Department for advice/approval of their program plans.
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RUSS 210 Elementary Russian Language 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bedjanian, Tatiana (Fall)
- Fall
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RUSS 211 Elementary Russian Language 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Russian Language; continuation of RUSS 210.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Bedjanian, Tatiana (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 210 or equivalent
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RUSS 310 Intermediate Russian Language 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Reading, translation, conversation.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Migdissova, Svetlana (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RUSS 210 and RUSS 211 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking RUSS 316
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RUSS 311 Intermediate Russian Language 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Reading, translation, conversation.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Migdissova, Svetlana (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 310 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken RUSS 316
Complementary Courses (6 credits)
6 credits of complementary courses chosen from ONE of the following streams:
- Russian Language and Literature
- Russian Language and Culture
- Advanced Russian Literature
- Advanced Russian Language
Russian Language and Literature Stream
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RUSS 217 Russia's Eternal Questions (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Fall)
- Fall
- Given in English
- Restriction: Permission of the instructor
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RUSS 300 Russian for Heritage Speakers 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on grammatical structure and syntax, the formalities of written Russian and appreciation of the language's stylistic diversity. Multi- media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, television news broadcasts, films and cartoons.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Goire, Francisco (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of the Department
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 210, RUSS 211, RUSS 215, RUSS 310, RUSS 311 and RUSS 316.
- Given in Russian
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RUSS 301 Russian for Heritage Speakers 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on complex grammatical structures, syntax, and stylistically differentiated uses of vocabulary in written and spoken Russian. Multi-media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, Internet sources, and films.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Given in Russian
- Prerequisites: RUSS 300 or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken Russ 210,211,215,310,311 and 316
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RUSS 330 Introduction to Soviet Russian Literature before WWII (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Pakhomova, Natalia (Fall)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 215 or equivalent, or permission of the Department
- The course will be given mainly in Russian
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RUSS 331 Introduction to Soviet Russian Literature after WWII (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 330 or equivalent.
- The course will be given mainly in Russian
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RUSS 400 Advanced Russian Language 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Advanced practical Russian grammar and composition. May include reading a variety of texts and media from classical to contemporary (literature, newspapers, TV, film, etc.).
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Goire, Francisco (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RUSS 310 and RUSS 311 or equivalent or permission of the Department
- Given in Russian
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RUSS 401 Advanced Russian Language 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Advanced practical Russian grammar and composition. May include reading a variety of texts and media from classical to contemporary (literature, newspapers, TV, film, etc.).
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Goire, Francisco (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 400 or equivalent
- Given in Russian
Russian Language and Culture Stream
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RUSS 218 Russian Literature in Revolution (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : The Russian twentieth-century literary dynamic up to the watershed of Stalin's death (1953). Carving out cultural territory against ideological polemics, revolutionary versus traditional values, the explosion of avant-garde experimentation under mounting critical conformism as reflected in major works and authors (Mayakovsky, Babel, Bulgakov, Platonov and others).
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful
- Given in English
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RUSS 219 Russian Literature in Recovery (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Rediscovering the Russian literary heritage, both traditional and avant-garde, after Stalin's death (1953). The Thaw, Soviet beatniks, Solzhenitsyn-style dissidents against cultural iconoclasts, the challenge and decline of perestroika, raising the literary Iron Curtain to include women writers, émigrés, Western influence and the angst of pluralism.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful
- Given in English
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RUSS 223 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Russian literature from Pushkin and Gogol to early Dostoevsky. More than a sequence of representative works featuring superfluous men, fallen women and other literary types, it is a coherent tradition developing in a dialogue with itself and its historical and cultural context.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Fall)
- Fall
- Given in English
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RUSS 224 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Russian literature in transition between the Age of the Novel and Symbolism. From Turgenev's and Tolstoy's psychological realism to Dostoevsky's fantastic realism; from Chekhov's breaking genre rules of the short story and the drama to Bely's experimental prose.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Winter)
- Winter
- Given in English
Advanced Russian Literature Stream
By arrangement with the Department and subject to University approval, transfer credits will be accepted from Department-approved exchange/immersion programs.
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RUSS 327 Outlines 19th Century Russian Literature: Romantic Period (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : A general introduction to Russian prose, poetry and drama in the 19th Century. Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RUSS 215 or equivalent, or permission of the Department. The
- The course will be conducted to some extent in Russian
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RUSS 328 Outlines 19th Century Russian Literature: Russian Realism (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : A general introduction to Russian prose, poetry and drama in the 19th Century. Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 327 or permission of the Department.
- The course will be conducted to some extent in Russian
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RUSS 330 Introduction to Soviet Russian Literature before WWII (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Pakhomova, Natalia (Fall)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 215 or equivalent, or permission of the Department
- The course will be given mainly in Russian
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RUSS 331 Introduction to Soviet Russian Literature after WWII (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 330 or equivalent.
- The course will be given mainly in Russian
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RUSS 385 Russian Drama (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Masterpieces of the Russian stage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emergence of a uniquely Russian dramatic sensitivity against prevailing European trends; the literary word in a public, political and/or avant-garde forum.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Permission of the Department
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 410,411.
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RUSS 390 Special Topics in Russian (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Exploration of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
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RUSS 450 Reading the 20th Century (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : A century of upheaval; the tug of war between iconoclasts (the avant-garde, the dissidents, the postmodernists) and the traditionalists (neo-realism, socialist realism). Major trends, polemics, authors and milestones; literature as the fulcrum of change and the conscience of the age.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 451
- Given in Russian
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RUSS 458 Development Russian Novel before Turgenev (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : The development of the Russian novel before Turgenev. Reading texts will be chosen from the prose works of Karamzin, Bestuzhev, Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RUSS 415 and RUSS 416 or equivalent or permission of the Department
- Given in Russian
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RUSS 459 Russian Novel Pushkin-Gogol (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : The development of the Russian novel from Pushkin to Gogol. Reading texts will be chosen from the prose works of Pushkin and Gogol.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 458 or equivalent
- Conducted in Russian
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RUSS 460 Russian Novel 1860-1900 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : The Golden Age of the novel in Russian Literature. The major works of Turgenev and Dostoevsky will be read in the original.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Given mainly in Russian
- Prerequisite: RUSS 452 and RUSS 453 or equivalent or permission of the Department
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RUSS 461 Russian Novel 1860-1900 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : The Golden Age of the novel in Russian literature. The major works of Tolstoy will be read in the original.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Given mainly in Russian
- Prerequisite: RUSS 460
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RUSS 465 Russian Modernism 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Russian poetry, prose, drama, the essay and other media from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of the Department
- Given mainly in Russian
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RUSS 466 Russian Modernism 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto and other media from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde responds to revolution. Acmeism, futurism, and other movements modelled and transcended in the works of Khlebnikov, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Mandel'shtam, Tsvetaeva, Maiakovskii, Platonov, Kharms, Bulgakov and others. Agitprop, utopianism and total art.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Permission of the Department
- Given mainly in Russian
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RUSS 468 The Age of Pushkin (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Examination of the major trends and concerns of the first third of the nineteenth century; the flowering of poetry and prose inspired by Pushkin and his contemporaries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 315 and 316 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 469
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RUSS 470 Individual Reading Course (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Supervised reading under the direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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RUSS 471 Independent Research (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Supervised research under the direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Fall)
- Fall or Winter
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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RUSS 475 Special Topics in Russ Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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RUSS 500 Special Topics (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Focus on a critical theme, author or work, as determined by the current research interests of faculty and visiting faculty.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Given in English
- Prerequisite: Permission of Department
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RUSS 510 High Stalinist Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Given in English
Advanced Russian Language Stream
By arrangement with the Department and subject to University approval, transfer credits will be accepted from Department-approved exchange/immersion programs.
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RUSS 415 Advanced Russian Language Intensive 1 (6 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 and RUSS 316, students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Krasnova, Irina (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RUSS 215/RUSS 316 or RUSS 310/RUSS 311
- Requires departmental approval
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RUSS 416 Advanced Russian Language Intensive 2 (6 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215/RUSS 316, students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems. Besides developing an oral facility in the language, this course introduces the student to the study of literature by analysing literary texts of prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia to see the use and verbal systems, syntax, stylistic levels, historical changes.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Krasnova, Irina (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 415
- Requires departmental approval
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RUSS 450 Reading the 20th Century (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : A century of upheaval; the tug of war between iconoclasts (the avant-garde, the dissidents, the postmodernists) and the traditionalists (neo-realism, socialist realism). Major trends, polemics, authors and milestones; literature as the fulcrum of change and the conscience of the age.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 451
- Given in Russian
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RUSS 452 Advanced Russian Language and Syntax 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Krasnova, Irina (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RUSS 415 and RUSS 416 or equivalent or permission of the Department
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RUSS 453 Advanced Russian Language and Syntax 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 452 or equivalent
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RUSS 455 History of Modern Russian Language (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : An examination of the structure of modern Russian using a historical, comparative approach.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Note open to students who have taken RUSS 456
- Course given principally in Russian
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RUSS 470 Individual Reading Course (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Supervised reading under the direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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RUSS 471 Independent Research (3 credits)
Overview
Russian (Arts) : Supervised research under the direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Fall)
- Fall or Winter
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Faculty of Arts—2010-2011 (last updated Jan. 19, 2011) (disclaimer)