Spring Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| RUSSIAN (S26) | 1C FUNDAMENTALS | MJOLSNESS, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| RUSSIAN (S26) | 2C INTERMEDIATE | MJOLSNESS, L. |
| RUSSIAN 2C Russian 2C continues to develop Russian language proficiency in the four major communicative modes: speaking, listening, writing and reading. Along with practicing the grammar, students will build vocabulary and improve their language competence by reading literary texts, discussing various topics (university studies, family, holidays, home, travel, among others), listening to songs, watching videos, and so on. Students will achieve an intermediate functional proficiency in Russian and broaden their knowledge of everyday life in Russia today. They will als continue to achieve comfort with social interactions in Russian as well as reading simple Russian literary texts and newspapers in the original. | ||
| RUSSIAN (S26) | 50 RUSSIAN DEMONS | SANDALSKA, Z. |
| Russian 50: Russian Demons “All Russian literature is, to some degree, a struggle with the temptation of demonism,” a famous Russian writer once claimed. This course takes that provocation seriously and has some fun with it. The course explores how demons, devils, possession, temptation, and the “unclean force” have haunted Russian culture from its beginnings to the contemporary era. We will examine the cultural and spiritual forces that shaped literary and artistic demonism, including Russian Orthodox theology, folk beliefs, the demonization of historical figures, and the recurring idea that art itself may be something dangerously (and or seductively) demonic. Our readings trace the emergence of a distinctly Russian tradition of demonism in canonical authors such as Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, before moving into the strange, symbolist, and often unsettling worlds of literary modernism. Along the way, we will read works by figures including Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Andrei Bely, Fyodor Sologub, Vasily Rozanov, and Yevgeny Zamiatin. A major highlight is Mikhail Bulgakov’s electrifying novel The Master and Margarita, where Satan strolls through Soviet Moscow and literature, politics, theology, and comedy collide in unforgettable ways. By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of why demons recur so persistently in Russian writing and what these dark figures reveal about faith, creativity, power, rebellion, and the self. | ||
| RUSSIAN (S26) | 139W WRITING ON RUSS LIT | MJOLSNESS, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||