2005-06 - Office of the Registrar - Duke University

305. Advanced Russian Conversation and Readings. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century
literature in the original. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisite: Russian 303, 304 or consent
of instructor. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
306. Advanced Russian Conversations and Readings. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century
literature in the original. Conducted in Russian. Prerequisite: Russian 303, 304 or consent
of instructor. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
307. Advanced Russian. Advanced grammar review with an emphasis on the refinement
of oral and written language skills. Development of writing style through compositions and
essays. Prerequisite: Russian 306 or consent of instructor. Instructor: Andrews. 3 units.
308. Advanced Russian: Readings, Translation, and Syntax. Intensive reading and
conversation with emphasis on contemporary Russian literary and Soviet press texts.
English-Russian translation stressed. Russian media, including television and films.
Prerequisite: Russian 307 or consent of instructor. Instructor: Andrews. 3 units.
309. Russian Stylistics and Conversation. Refinement of stylistic control and range in
spoken and written Russian. Emphasis on fluent discursive skills, as well as development
of expository prose style. Prerequisite: Russian 307 and 308, or consent of instructor.
Instructor: Maksimova. 3 units.
310. Russian Stylistics and Conversation. Refinement of stylistic control and range in
spoken and written Russian. Emphasis on fluent discursive skills, as well as development
of expository prose style. Prerequisite: Russian 307 and 308, or consent of instructor.
Instructor: Maksimova. 3 units.
311S. Advanced Russian Language and Culture. Advanced grammar review with
additional emphasis on phonetics and conversation. Culture component includes literature,
films, museums, and theater performances. (Taught in St. Petersburg in Russian.)
Prerequisite: Russian 306 or equivalent. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
312S. Advanced Russian Language and Culture. Advanced grammar review with
additional emphasis on phonetics and conversation. Culture component includes literature,
films, museums, and theater performances. (Taught in St. Petersburg in Russian.)
Prerequisite: Russian 306 or equivalent. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
335. Contemporary Russian Media. Analytical readings and study of change and
development in all the primary forms of former Soviet mass media from 1985 to the present
(newspapers, journals, and television). Topics include censorship, TASS, samizdat. Taught
in English. Readings in Russian. Prerequisite: Russian 64 or equivalent. Instructor:
Andrews. 3 units.
350. Methods in Teaching Russian. The theory and practice of teaching Russian language
to English-speaking students. Instructor: Andrews. 1 unit.
351. Topics in Teaching Methodology. Application of linguistic principles in the
classroom. No prior knowledge of linguistics required. Instructor: Staff. 2 units.
399. Special Readings. Advanced readings in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian
literature in the original. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
COURSES CURRENTLY UNSCHEDULED
201S. Topics in Comparative Slavic Linguistics
203S. Old Church Slavonic
204S. Russian Folklore and Popular Culture
207S. Semantics
209. Intensive Advanced Stylistics
210. Literature and Criticism of Socialist Realism
212S. Proseminar
Slavic Languages and Literatures 265