UCSB 2009-2010 Catalog Course Search
Search by subject area and course number. Refer to this list of subject areas and their corresponding department.
Tip: A search for the subject area, for example, querying just "HIST" (without quotes), will return all courses of the queried subject area. Searching using subject area and number, such as "HIST 17" (without quotes), would return all courses in the series; in this example that would include HIST 17A, 17AH, 17B, etc.
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| SLAV 1 - Elementary Russian |
| (5) STAFF |
| Comprehensive introduction to Russian. Focus on developing basic communicative skills (speaking, listening comprehension, reading, writing) within the framework of contemporary Russian culture. Students acquire a basic grammatical framework for further language study. Audio, visual, and web-based materials included. |
| SLAV 2 - Elementary Russian |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 1 or equivalent. |
| Continuation of Slavic 1. |
| SLAV 3 - Elementary Russian |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 2 or equivalent. |
| Continuation of Slavic 2. |
| SLAV 4 - Intermediate Russian |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 3. |
| Focuses on developing fluency, expanding vocabulary, and acquiring basic reading and writing skills. Comprehensive review of basic Russian grammar; introduction to participles and verbal adverbs. Audio, video, and web-based materials are an integral part of the course. |
| SLAV 5 - Intermediate Russian |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 4. |
| Focuses on developing fluency, expanding vocabulary, and acquiring basic reading and writing skills. Comprehensive review of basic Russian grammar; introduction to participles and verbal adverbs. Audio, video, and web-based materials are an integral part of the course. |
| SLAV 6 - Intermediate Russian |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 5. |
| Focuses on developing fluency, expanding vocabulary, and acquiring basic reading and writing skills. Comprehensive review of basic Russian grammar; introduction to participles and verbal adverbs. Audio, video, and web-based materials are an integral part of the course. |
| SLAV 8A - Russian Conversation |
| (2) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 2. |
| Course designed to offer beginning and intermediate Russian language students communicative strategies needed by speakers and listeners in face-to-face interaction. Not appropriate for students with a background in spoken Russian. |
| SLAV 8B - Russian Conversation |
| (2) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 2. |
| Course designed to offer beginning and intermediate Russian language students communicative strategies needed by speakers and listeners in face-to-face interaction. Not appropriate for students with a background in spoken Russian. |
| SLAV 8C - Russian Conversation |
| (2) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 2. |
| Course designed to offer beginning and intermediate Russian language students communicative strategies needed by speakers and listeners in face-to-face interaction. Not appropriate for students with a background in spoken Russian. |
| SLAV 33 - Russian Culture |
| (4) Spieker |
| Analyzes crucial trends and issues in Russian culture in their historical, social, and technological settings, from the rise of Moscow in the fifteenth century to post-Soviet Russia. All lectures and readings are in English. |
| SLAV 99 - Introduction to Research |
| (1-4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Consent of department and instructor. |
| Independent research under the guidance of a faculty member. Exceptional students are offered an opportunity to undertake independent or collaborative research or to act as interns for faculty-directed research projects. |
| SLAV 101A - Advanced Russian |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6. |
| Continued development of oral and written fluency. Special attention to development of reading skills through a variety of texts related to Russian culture. Systematic review of advanced grammar. Compositions, translations and oral presentations required. Periodic screenings of Russian films. |
| SLAV 101B - Advanced Russian |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6. |
| Continued development of oral and written fluency. Special attention to development of reading skills through a variety of texts related to Russian culture. Systematic review of advanced grammar. Compositions, translations and oral presentations required. Periodic screenings of Russian films. |
| SLAV 101C - Advanced Russian |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6. |
| Continued development of oral and written fluency. Special attention to development of reading skills through a variety of texts related to Russian culture. Systematic review of advanced grammar. Compositions, translations and oral presentations required. Periodic screenings of Russian films. |
| SLAV 101D - Advanced Russian |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6. |
| Continued development of oral and written fluency. Special attention to development of reading skills through a variety of texts related to Russian culture. Systematic review of advanced grammar. Compositions, translations, and oral presentations required. Periodic screenings of Russian films. |
| SLAV 101E - Advanced Russian |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6. |
| Continued development of oral and written fluency. Special attention to development of reading skills through a variety of texts related to Russian culture. Systematic review of advanced grammar. Compositions, translations, and oral presentations required. Periodic screenings of Russian films. |
| SLAV 101F - Advanced Russian |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6. |
| Continued development of oral and written fluency. Special attention to development of reading skills through a variety of texts related to Russian culture. Systematic review of advanced grammar. Compositions, translations, and oral presentations required. Periodic screenings of Russian films. |
| SLAV 110A - Advanced Russian Conversation |
| (2) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 5 (may be taken concurrently). |
| The advanced conversation series gives advanced students an opportunity to discuss a wide variety of topics. The course is based on active participation and includes individual presentations. Assignments and testing given orally. |
| SLAV 110B - Advanced Russian Conversation |
| (2) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 5 (may be taken concurrently). |
| The advanced conversation series gives advanced students an opportunity to discuss a wide variety of topics. The course is based on active participation and includes individual presentations. Assignments and testing given orally. |
| SLAV 110C - Advanced Russian Conversation |
| (2) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 5 (may be taken concurrently). |
| The advanced conversation series gives advanced students an opportunity to discuss a wide variety of topics. The course is based on active participation and includes individual presentations. Assignments and testing given orally. |
| SLAV 117 - Great Russian Writers |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Intensive study of one writer._Readings supplemented by selected criticism.Taught in English. |
| SLAV 117J - Bulgakov |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Intensive study of one writer. Readings supplemented by selected criticism. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 120 - Russian Drama |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Plays from the classic, romantic, and realistic periods; Chekhov's innovative works, as well as dramas represntative of various trends before and after 1917. Readings and discussion in English. |
| SLAV 121 - The Russian Short Story |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6; upper-division standing. |
| Analysis and discussion of various forms of the short story by Russian writers. |
| SLAV 122 - The Russian Novella |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6; upper-division standing. |
| In Russian literature the novella is a genre quite distinct from the short story and the novel. All major writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created important works in this form, so that a vast field for exploration and examination exists for such a genre course. Taught in Russian. |
| SLAV 123A - Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature I |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to Russian literary culture from 1800 to 1850. Readings by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and others. Readings is English. |
| SLAV 123B - Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature II |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to Russian literary culture from 1850 to 1900. Readings by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Goncharov, Turgenev, Leskov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Chekhov. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 123C - Twentieth-Century Russian Literature I |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Intensive study of particular authors, genres, literary movements, and selected topics in Russian literature from 1900-1954. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 123D - Twentieth-Century Russian Literature II |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Intensive study of particular authors, genres, literary movements, and selected topics in Russian literature after World War II. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 124 - Twentieth-Century Poetry |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Slavic 6; upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to twentieth-century Russian poetry. The "silver age" and Russian modernism. Avantgarde poetry. Post-war trends in Russian poetry. Readings by Briusov, Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Brodsky, and others. Readings in Russian. |
| SLAV 130A - The Avantgarde in Russia |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| The Russian Avantgarde in its European context. The avantgarde and the revolution of 1917. Analysis of key figures and movements within the Russian Avantgarde. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 130B - Russian Cinema |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to the development of Soviet cinema from the early days to thepresent. A focal point will be the interaction between politics/ideology and film in Russia. Major directors such as Eisenshtein and Tarkovski will be treated extensively. Readings and lectures in English. |
| SLAV 130C - Contemporary Art in Russia and Eastern Europe |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Study of central intellectual and aesthetic trends in the late Soviet period and in contemporary post-Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe. Analysis of literary texts and the visual arts. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 130D - Russian Art |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to Russian art and aesthetic theory from the beginning to the present. Readings and lectures in English. |
| SLAV 130E - Masters of Soviet Cinema |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to some of the great directors in Russian cinema. Analysis of films and theoretical writings. Study of key theoretical concepts. Taught in English.
E. Eisenshtein. |
| SLAV 145 - Introduction to Slavic Language and Linguistics |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to the history and development of the Slavic languages. Topicsinclude dialects, language contact, sociolinguistics, gender issues, and language policy. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 151C - Literature of Central Europe |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Investigation of the prolific literatures of central Europe, one of the culturally and linguistically most diverse regions of the European continent that has produced writers such as Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Bruno Schultz, and others. Readings in English. |
| SLAV 152A - Slavic and East European Folklore |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Introduction to the calendar cycle, rituals, dance, music, and folkcraft of the Slavs and other East European peoples. |
| SLAV 152B - Language and Cultural Identity |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Exploration of the way language is used to help construct cultural identityin Eastern Europe. Topics include the relationship between language and dialect and the use of language and other cultural symbols to identify self and other. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 152C - Ideology and Representation |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| How does the representation of the "enemy" during a conflict influence our attitudes toward that conflict? An examination of the images of the opponent in literature, film and journalism. special emphasis on Eastern Europe. |
| SLAV 156 - Concepts of Nothingness |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| "Nothing" is one of the central concepts of Russian culture and civilization throughout the centuries. The class analyzes "nothingness" in orthodox religion, nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, avantgarde art, and soviet popular culture. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 164A - Death and Its Representations |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| How do we represent what presupposes our own absence, death? What is the relationship between death, language, and experience? Do texts allow us to "imagine" death? Analysis of these issues through readings of key works of literature and philosophy. |
| SLAV 164B - Science Fiction in Eastern Europe |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| The genre of science fiction and its development in literature and film in the various cultures of eastern europe. Topics include utopia, dystopia,technology, the "mad" scientist, etc. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 164C - Women in Russian Literature |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| A survey of the roles of women in Russian literature. Course analyzes both the presentation of women by male writers and works by women writers. Authors: Durova, Pavlova, Mandelshtam, Chukovskaya, Ginzburg, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and others. Lectures and readings in English. |
| SLAV 168 - Russian Thought and Philosophy |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Study of key texts and movements in the development of Russian thought, from the enlightenment to the revolution: enlightenment, mysticism, Schellingianism, Chaadaev, Slavophilism, Hegelianism, the 1860's, populism,Soloviev, Marxism. Taught in English. |
| SLAV 182 - On the Margins |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| An analysis of the representation of marginalized population in Europe and the United States. How do the stereotypes in literature, film, and journalism help to create and maintain marginalized status? |
| SLAV 192 - Internships In Slavic Studies |
| (1-4) Spieker |
| Various ad-hoc internship opportunities designed to contribute in substantial ways to a student's academic experience, giving them valuable expertise in a broad variety of fields and bridging the bap between academic course work and its practical applications. |
| SLAV 197 - Senior Thesis in Russian |
| (4-8) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Senior standing; consent of instructor. |
| An independent study course (one or two quarters) directed by a faculty member with a carefully chosen topic which results in a documented project or a senior thesis. |
| SLAV 198 - Readings in Russian |
| (1-5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 courses in Slavic. |
| Guided reading on a subject not covered in the regularly offered courses. |
| SLAV 199 - Independent Studies in Russian |
| (1-5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Slavic. |
| Independent Studies in Russian. |
| SLAV 596 - Directed Reading in Research |
| (2-4) STAFF |
| Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by department chair and filed with graduate division. |