Russian Studies Courses
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82-191 Elementary Russian I
This course is for students who have never studied Russian. It begins the Russian language sequence and is offered in the fall semester only. The course takes a communicative approach to teaching basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Language is…
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82-291 Intermediate Russian I
This course is designed for students who have taken two semesters of Russian at Carnegie Mellon or the equivalent. It is offered in the fall only. This course furthers communicative proficiency through intensive practice in written and spoken Russian. Complex grammatical…
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82-293 Russian Cinema: From the Bolshevik Revolution to Putin's Russia
"Last night I was in the kingdom of shadows," said the writer Maxim Gorky in 1896 after seeing a film for the first time. "How terrifying to be there!" Early film inspired fear and fascination in its Russian audiences, and before long became a medium of bold…
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82-294 19th Century Russian Masterpieces
Fulfills 'Contextual Thinking' GenEd requirement!
Russian literature of the 19th century was shaped by its engagement with the so-called accursed questions—"accursed" for being urgent and inescapable but possibly unanswerable. "What is the self?" "What is the…
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