Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures: Slavic Languages and Literatures MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Students should consult the departmental handbook for current course offerings.

General Slavic

Course CodeCourse Title
Slavic Proseminar
Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow: A City and the Text
Methods of Teaching Slavic Languages
Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture. From Jesters to Meyerhold.
The Imaginary Jew
SLA1241HNarrative and History
Literature and Science
SLA1335HRace, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe and Russia
SLA1340HDesires, Dreamscapes, and the Death Drive: Psychoanalysis and Literature
SLA1405HContemporary East European Cinemas
SLA1409HLate Ukrainian Modernism
Women's Writing in East Europe
SLA1700HThe World Revealed: Cinema, Authenticity, and Theory
Reading and Research
One Term Reading and Research
Theories of the Novel
1968: The Year of Revolution and Protest
JLV5143HCensorship, Culture, Archive

Polish Literature

Course CodeCourse Title
Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance
Critical Paradigms in Polish Culture

Russian Literature

Course CodeCourse Title
The Imaginary Jew
Medieval and Early Modern Literature of East Slavic Peoples
Studies in Russian Literature and Criticism in the Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century Russian Thinkers
Russian Poetry and Poetics
SLA1223HIntroduction to Russian Poetry and Poetics
SLA1224H19th-Century Russian Poetry
SLA1225HRussian Literature in the Age of Empire
Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism
Themes in Russian Realism
Russian Literature Between Tradition and Modernity
Russian Modernism
SLA1233HStudies in Modern Russian Poets
Chekhov
Vladimir Nabokov
Tolstoy
Gogol
Synthesis of Arts in the Late Russian Empire–Early Soviet Union

Slavic Linguistics

Course CodeCourse Title
Methods of Teaching Slavic Languages
Advanced Training in Slavic Languages I
SLA1042YAdvanced Training in Slavic Languages II
SLA1043HAdvanced Training in Slavic Languages I
Advanced Training in Slavic Languages II
Introduction to Old Church Slavonic
Studies in Old Church Slavonic

Ukrainian Literature/Language

Course CodeCourse Title
Early Ukrainian Modernism
SLA1403HContemporary Ukrainian Literature
SLA1412HLiterature of the Ukrainian Diaspora
SLA1455HExperiments in Ukrainian Prose