Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Continued exposure to the fundamentals of Russian grammar, along with increased focus on reading and speaking skills.

Completion of exposure to the fundamentals of Russian grammar, with emphasis on writing, reading, and conversation.

A multimedia introduction to Russian culture from its beginnings to the present. No knowledge of Russian required.

Carolina Core: AIU

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Introductory-level study of selected topics in Russian culture. Does not apply toward the Russian major. May be repeated for credit under a different title.

Conversation, reading, composition, comprehensive review of grammar.

Emphasis on oral proficiency, using contemporary authentic materials from Russian newspapers, textbooks, and television newscasts.

Masterworks of Russian literature by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Pushkin, Chekov, and others.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

A Russian-language course designed to supplement 319. Reading and discussion in Russian of 19th-century poetry and prose.

Masterworks of Russian literature by Bely, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and others.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

A Russian-language course designed to supplement RUSS 320.

An examination of Russian short stories and essays by Russian writers from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

An introduction to Russian fairy tales and other genres of folklore, both in their original form within an oral tradition and as reworked in Russian art and literature.

Intensive study of selected topics in Russian cultural and/or literary movements. Taught in English. May be repeated for credit under a different title.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Acquisition of subtleties of Russian grammar. Increased focus on reading, writing, and discussion.

Exposure to prose and poetry from a wide variety of sources and periods. Focus on oral proficiency, reading, comprehension, and writing.

An introduction to the culture of medieval Russia through its written records, folklore, icons, and ancient religious chant.

An exploration of Russian modernist culture, with particular attention to the themes of social and political change. Authors under discussion include Kuzmin, Bely, and Zamyatin.

An examination of the influence of Homer’s epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey on Russian culture, as seen in works by Russian writers including Tolstoy, Pasternak, and Brodsky.

An examination of Russian writers reflecting on Russian national identity, including Solzhenitsyn, Dostoevsky, and Grossman.

Reading and research on selected topics in Russian. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title.

Intensive reading course for non-majors. Primarily for graduate students to fulfill the foreign- language reading requirement. It will not be applied toward the degree language requirements nor will it be accepted as a substitute in the course sequence leading to the various degree requirements.

Intensive reading course for non-majors. Primarily for graduate students to fulfill the foreign-language reading requirement. It will not be applied toward the degree language requirements nor will it be accepted as a substitute in the course sequence leading to the various degree requirements.