Slavic Languages and Literatures: 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 Code Course Title
SLA1010H
Slavic Proseminar
SLA1039H
Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow: A City and the Text
SLA1040H
Methods of Teaching Slavic Languages
SLA1050H
Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture. From Jesters to Meyerhold.
SLA1207H
The Imaginary Jew
SLA1241H Narrative and History
SLA1330H
Literature and Science
SLA1335H Race, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe and Russia
SLA1340H Desires, Dreamscapes, and the Death Drive: Psychoanalysis and Literature
SLA1405H Contemporary East European Cinemas
SLA1409H Late Ukrainian Modernism (exclusion: SLA1402Y)
SLA1421H
Women in East European Fiction
SLA1521H
Post-Modernity and the Mythopoetic Legacy of Mitteleuropa
SLA2000Y
Reading and Research
SLA2001H
One Term Reading and Research
JLV5134H
Theories of the Novel
JLV5135H
1968: The Year of Revolution and Protest
JLV5143H Censorship, Culture, Archive

Croatian and Serbian Literatures

Course Code Course Title
SLA1507H
Modern Croatian Bards in Performance
SLA1517H
Modern Serbian Bards
SLA1547H
South Slavic Folklore

Czech and Slovak Literature

Course Code Course Title
SLA1600Y
Introduction to Czech and Slovak Literatures
SLA1602Y
Czech Style and Syntax
SLA1604Y
History of Czech Verbal Art from the Early Stages to Baroque

Polish Literature

Course Code Course Title
SLA1304H
Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance
SLA1308H
Critical Paradigms in Polish Culture
SLA1312Y
Modernism and Post-Modernism in Polish Literature

Russian Literature

Course Code Course Title
SLA1202H
Gulag Literature
SLA1203H
The Self and Other in Russian Prose
SLA1204H
Contemporary Russian Literature
SLA1207H
The Imaginary Jew
SLA1210H
Studies in Medieval Russian Literature
SLA1211Y
Studies in the Russian Drama: Eighteenth to Twentieth Century
SLA1215H
Studies in Russian Literature and Criticism in the Eighteenth Century
SLA1216H
From English to Russian Literature and Back
SLA1220H
Nineteenth Century Russian Thinkers
SLA1222Y
Russian Poetry and Poetics
SLA1223H Introduction to Russian Poetry and Poetics
SLA1224H 19th-Century Russian Poetry
SLA1225H Russian Literature in the Age of Empire
SLA1226H
Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism
SLA1228H
Themes in Russian Realism
SLA1229H
Russian Literature Between Tradition and Modernity (exclusion: SLA1225H)
SLA1231H
Russian Modernism
SLA1233H Studies in Modern Russian Poets
SLA1234H
Dostoevsky
SLA1238H
Chekhov
SLA1239H
Vladimir Nabokov
SLA1240H
Tolstoy
SLA1410H
Gogol
SLA1411H
Synthesis of Arts in the Late Russian Empire–Early Soviet Union

Slavic Linguistics

Course Code Course Title
SLA1040H
Methods of Teaching Slavic Languages
SLA1041Y
Advanced Training in Slavic Languages I
SLA1042Y
Advanced Training in Slavic Languages II
SLA1102Y
Advanced Russian Language Skills
SLA1104H
Introduction to Old Church Slavonic (Credit/No Credit)
SLA1109H
Studies in Old Church Slavonic
SLA1141H
History of the Ukrainian Language
SLA1142H
Style and Structure of Ukrainian
SLA1150H
Russian Since the Revolution

Russian Language

Course Code Course Title
SLA1101Y
History of the Russian Language
SLA1102Y
Advanced Russian Language Skills

Ukrainian Literature/Language

Course Code Course Title
SLA1141H
History of Ukrainian Language
SLA1142H
Style and Structure of Ukrainian
SLA1402H
Early Ukrainian Modernism
SLA1403H Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
SLA1404Y
Studies in Ukrainian Poets
SLA1406Y
Studies in Ukrainian Literary Criticism
SLA1407H
Aspects of Literary Translation of Ukrainian
SLA1412H Literature of the Ukrainian Diaspora
SLA1455H Experiments in Ukrainian Prose