Slavic 102 Second Semester Russian, 4 credits
001 9:55 AM-10:45 AM MTWRF
002 11:00 AM-11:50 AM MTWRF
003 12:05 PM-12:55 PM MTWRF
004 1:20 PM-2:10 PM MTWRF
Prerequisites: Slavic 101 or equiv. Open to Fr
Continuation of Slavic 101.
Slavic 116 Second Semester Czech, 4 credits
David Danaher, MTWR 12:05 PM-12:55 PM
Prerequisites: Slavic 115 or equiv.
Meets with Slavic 352.
This course is designed to develop communicative skills in Czech: speaking, reading, listening, and writing. The course emphasizes the skills of asking/answering questions and understanding/communicating basic information on selected topics (simple description and narration). It is thematically organized; the themes we will be working on include: leisure activities, expressing likes/dislikes, expressing quantity, months and seasons, time and dates, education, holidays and gift-giving, daily schedule, clothes, health, and weather. Structural topics supporting these themes include: the past and future tenses of verbs, verbal aspect (imperfective/perfective verbs), modal verbs (can, must, should, etc.), verbs of motion (to go in Czech), the instrumental case, the genitive case, the dative case, relative clauses, reflexive verbs, and some verbal prefixes. These themes and structural topics are presented in Čeština hrou (Units 4-8).
Required Texts:
Our main text is Čeština hrou (S. Kresinet al), and it will be distributed in the form of a course-packet. To cover the costs of copying, each student should give $15 to the instructor (cash or in the form of a check payable to UW-Madison). Other handouts will be provided as necessary to supplement the textbook.
Please contact dsdanaher@wisc.edu with any questions.
Slavic 182 Russian Honors Tutorial for Slavic 102, 1 credit
Sergey Karpukhin, W, 2:25 PM-3:15 PM
Prerequisites: Con reg for hon credit in Slavic 102. Open to Fr
Slavic 204 Fourth Semester Russian, 4 credits
001 9:55 AM-10:45 AM MTWRF
002 1:20 PM-2:10 PM MTWRF
Prerequisites: Slavic 203 or equiv. Open to Fr
Continuation of Slavic 203.
Slavic 208 Fourth Semester Polish, 4 credits
Ewa Miernowska, MTWF 1:20 PM-2:10 PM
Prerequisites: None
Continuation of Slavic 207. Reading, conversation exercises, and grammar review.
Slavic 245/ LitTrans 247/ Jewish 230 Topics in Slavic Literatures: Representing Holocaust in Poland, 3 credits
Halina Filipowicz, TR 4:00 PM-5:15 PM
Prerequisites: Open to Fr
Exploration of various topics – periods, genres, individuals writers, themes, problems, etc. in Russian and Easter European literature.
Slavic 252 Fourth Semester Serbo-Croatian, 3 credits
Dijana Mitrovic, MWF 9:55 AM-10:45 AM
Prerequisites: Slavic 251 or cons inst. Open to Fr
Meets with Slavic 442.
Continuation of Slavic 251. Focus on developing proficiency in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Serbo-Croatian.
Slavic 254 Eastern Europe: An Interdisciplinary Survey, 4 credits
David Danaher, TR 2:30 PM-3:45 PM Lecture, W discussion sections
Prerequisites: None
The theme of the course will be the culture of dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland. That is, we will be looking at the “dissident” period in these countries –primarily the 1960s through the late 1980s –through the lens of literature and film. Historical background will be provided as necessary, but the emphasis in this course will fall on a humanities reading of dissent. This approach will involve problematizing the notion of dissent by suggesting that it is not tied to one particular time and place (to one historical -ism). Ideally, we will be able to view the subject not so much as an object of historical investigation (from a 21st-century American perspective), but as something relevant to our own lives that teaches us something about ourselves, and we will take from the course a working definition of dissent that we could apply to modern American society. A motif running throughout the course that will support a humanistic approach to dissent will be a focus on “faces of dissent” or the stories of individuals involved as “dissidents” in the countries under consideration.
This is an interdisciplinary course sponsored through UW-Madison’s Center for Russian, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA). Funding from CREECA has allowed us to invite experts from the UW system and other universities to lecture on topics related to the course. A good number of the course lectures –particularly on Poland –will be presented by these speakers.
The discussion section, taught by the course teaching assistant, is crucial to the course. Active participation by students in discussion will be expected.
Required Texts:
(1) Michael Long, Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989; (2) Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude; (3) Tom Stoppard, Rock ‘n’ Roll; (4) Slavenka Drakulic, A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism
Please contact dsdanaher@wisc.edu with any questions.
Slavic 276 Third Year Russian II, 4 credits
Alexandra Walter, MWF 9:55 AM-10:45 AM
Sergey Karpukhin, MWF 1:20 PM-2:10 PM
Prerequisites: Slavic 275 or equiv.
Continuation of Slavic 275.
Slavic 277/278/331/332 Third and Fourth Year Polish – Advanced level, 3 credits
Ewa Miernowska, MWF 9:55 AM-10:45 AM
Prerequisites: Slavic 275 or equiv or cons inst. Open to Fr
Students expend their vocabulary by engaging with texts from different genres, historical periods and perspectives. Continued work on grammar and vocabulary with written exercises and compositions. This intensive writing course follows the writing process (drafts, revising, editing) and exposes students to different styles: narrative, argumentative, and creative. Readings offer a variety of authentic materials: short stories, novels, poems, and press articles. The program includes also films, music and visual arts.
Slavic 305 Fifth Semester Intensive Polish, 3 credits
Ewa Miernowska, MWF 9:55 AM-10:45 AM
Prerequisites: Slavic 304. Grad st or cons inst.
See Slavic 277/278/331/332 for description.
Slavic 316 Russian Language and Culture II, 2 credits
Anna Tumarkin, TR 1:20 PM-2:10 PM
Prerequisites: Slavic 275 or equiv
Emphasizes speaking and listening skills, helping students to converse on different stylistic levels, with varying degrees of formality, according to the rules of Russian speech etiquette.
Slavic 322 Fourth Year Russian II, 4 credits
Maksim Hanukai, MWF 11:00 AM-11:50 AM
Prerequisite: Slavic 321 or cons inst
Slavic 352 Second Semester Intensive Czech, 3 credits
David Danaher, MTWR, 12:05 PM-12:55 PM
Prerequisites: Slavic 351. Grad st or cons inst
See Slavic 116 for description.
Slavic 362 Drama for Teaching and Learning, 3 credits
001 3:50 PM-5:30 PM MW
002 3:50 PM-5:30 PM TR
Prerequisites: So standing
This is a methods course useful for all involved in teaching and learning, including foreign languages. Introduction to philosophy, methodology, and practice of the use of drama and performance techniques in any educational or recreational settings. Focus on creativity and embodied and contextual learning, based on current neurological, psychological, and sociological research. A practical class which includes demonstration and practice with children.
Slavic 420/ LitTrans 220 Chekhov, 4 credits
Maksim Hanukai, MWF 1:20 PM-2:10 Lecture, T 1:20 PM-2:10 PM Discussion
Prerequisites: Slavic 276 or equiv
Slavic 434 Contemporary Russian Literature, 3 credits
Sergey Karpukhin, MWF 12:05 PM-12:55 PM
Prerequisites: Slavic 322 or cons inst
Second in a two-semester course sequence, this course focuses on those topics in modern Russian cultural history that are most often discussed by Russians and serve as the basis for contemporary political and media discourse.
Slavic 442 Fourth Semester Intensive Serbo-Croatian, 3 credits
Dijana Mitrovic, MWF 9:55 AM-10:45 AM
Prerequisites: Slavic 441 or cons inst
See Slavic 252 for description.
Slavic 454/ LitTrans 455 Moderna srpska i hrvatska literature, 3 credits
Dijana Mitrovic, MWF 12:05 PM-12:55 PM
Prerequisites: Slavic 342 or equiv. Open to Grad st
Slavic 472/ LitTrans 218 Historia literatury polskiej po roku 1863, 3 credits
Halina Filipowicz, MW 5:00 PM-6:15 PM
Prerequisites: Slavic 470
Slavic 705 Special Topics in Russian Language/Linguistics: Adv Russian Grammar and Comp, 3 credits
Karen Evans-Romaine, TR 2:30 PM-3:45 PM
Prerequisites: Graduate or professional standing
Slavic 708 Foundation in Russian Modernism (~1890s-1930s), 3 credits
Irina Shevelenko, M 2:30 PM-5:00 PM
Prerequisites: Graduate or professional standing
Slavic 801 Slavic Critical Theory and Practice, 3 credits
Andrew Reynolds, WF 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Prerequisites: Graduate or professional standing
Slavic 820 College Teaching of Russian, 1 credit
Anna Tumarkin, R 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Prerequisites: Teaching assistant in Russian
Slavic 900 Seminar: Slavic Literature and Culture: Russian Modernism, 1 credit
Irina Shevelenko, T 2:30 PM-5:00 PM
Prerequisites: Graduate or professional standing
This is a modular section that meets January 23, 2018 through May 4, 2018 (5 weeks of instruction)