PRLS Course Catalog Spring 2020

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Courses that count toward the Polish Major, Double-Major or Minor include:
Polish LANGUAGE: Elementary, Intermediate & Advanced Levels (102/104/202/203)
POL 140 → Polish Drama in Translation. Between Two Worlds:

Experimental Theater in Multilingual Poland
POL 150 → Introduction to Polish Cinema
POL 202 → Advanced Polish Through Contemporary Culture
POL 203 ! Advanced Polish Through Short Story
POL 220 → Modern Polish Jewish Culture and Literatures
POL 234 → History of Poland
CEES 225 → Introduction to Central and Eastern European Culture

(Be sure to take this if you are thinking of majoring or minoring)
CEES 247 ! Science Fiction & Fantasy. NOT QUITE HUMAN:

New Forms of Life in Central & Eastern European Fiction & Film
CEES 460 → Gender, Embodiment, Resistance: Topics in CEE Lit & Culture

(Taught by a Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Poland)

Courses that count toward the Russian Major, Double-Major or Minor include:
Russian Culture: The Soviet Period  RUSS 116

Russian Lit in Translation: Medicine in Russian Literature  RUSS 130
Introduction to Russian Cinema: Special Effects in Russian Media  RUSS 150

Advanced Russian Through Contemporary Culture ! RUSS 202

TOLSTOY  RUSS 242
Art and Politics. Russian Literature in the Twentieth Century and Now  RUSS 330

Russia and the West  RUSS 460
Introduction to Central and Eastern European Culture  CEES 225

(Try to take this if you are thinking of majoring or minoring!)
Science Fiction and Fantasy. NOT QUITE HUMAN:

New Forms of Life in Central & Eastern European Fiction and Film ! CEES 247
Russia and the West  CEES 435

Gender, Embodiment, Resistance: Topics in CEE Lit & Culture  CEES 460

Lithuanian Language Courses: Beginning & Intermediate Levels (102/104)
LITH 130 → Lithuanian Prose Fiction in International Context. Intro to EE Lit
LCSL 207 → European Cinema
CEES 406 → History of European Standard Languages
LCSL 391 → Internship in Global Studies. 1-3 hours.
LCSL 392 → Internship in Global Engagement and Public Humanities. 0-3 hours.



Russ 116 TR 11:00-12:15

Russian Culture:
The Soviet Period

This course begins with a brief overview of Russian radical
thought and examines how it helped pave the way for

history’s greatest political experiment. We will read works
by such famous writers as Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, and

Solzhenitsyn that reflect the diversity of Soviet reality and
the incongruities between political dictum and human

experience. In addition to literature, we will use film and
the visual arts to examine the consequences of Russia’s

utopian experiment.

Satisfies “World Cultures” gen-ed requirement.

Instructor: Charlie Smith

Spring 2020

POL 140/THTR 140 – Polish Drama in Translation / Spring 2020 / TTh 3:30-4:45

Between Two Worlds:

Experimental Theater in Multilingual Poland

A Creative Arts & World Cultures Course

An introduction to classic and experimental works of Polish and
Yiddish drama, from Mickiewicz’s 19th century theater of the
“marvelous” to present-day memory work of the Borderlands
youth theather in Sejny, Poland. This course approaches the rich
and multilingual arena of theater in Poland as a space “Between
Two Worlds” – the real and the metaphysical, tradition and
modernity, politics and art. Topics discussed will include
improvisation, oral storytelling and prophetic speech; performance
of Self and of Nation; Theater of the Absurd; the mystery or
miracle play; Witold Gombrowicz’s concept of the Interhuman
Church; the traditional Jewish Purim play and its literary legacy,
and Interwar Warsaw cabaret. Our readings and film viewings
include works by Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, artist and
dramatist of the Young Poland movement Stanisław Wyspiański,
modern Polish and Yiddish playwrights Witold Gombrowicz ,
Stanisław Witkiewicz, S. Ansky and Aaron Zeitlin; “Purim-shpiler”;
avant-garde theater director Tadeusz Kantor, and the
contemporary youth performers and community storytellers of
“Sejny Chronicles,” produced by the Borderlands Foundation.

Tadeusz Kantor. “Panoramic Sea Happening,” 1967.

No prerequisites. All texts will be read in English translation,
with the option to read in the Polish or Yiddish original.

Instructor: Karen Underhill
POL 140/THTR 140 - Spring 2020
T/Th 3:30-4:45
For more info contact: [email protected]

Russ 130 Instructor: Charlie Smith
Spring 2020 Office: UH 1604
Tue/Thurs 12:30 – 1:45
215 Lincoln Hall Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: TBD

This course will examine literary representations of the physician and narratives
of illness in Russia from the 1860s to present. We will read fiction and memoirs
by leading literary figures who were physicians (Chekhov, Bulgakov, and Veresaev)
as well as semi-fictional and fictional case histories (Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn,
Ulitskaya, Palei). We will discuss how narratives help us make sense of our lives
and our worlds in times of physical and emotional crisis. We will trace how medical
ideas and history find reflection in literature and how literary concepts get
utilized in medicine. We will analyze how the texts we read reveal and affect
cultural assumptions about disease and medical authority. Addressing some of the
most pressing issues of our era, the readings will challenge us to question our
understanding and reconceptualize notions of normality/disability, health/disease,
and life/death. Located at the intersection of literature and medicine, this course
aims to enhance students’ narrative competency and communication skills, essential
to the practice of either discipline. Satisfies “Creative Arts” and “World
Cultures” gen-ed requirements.

(No knowledge of Russian required)

ART AND POLITICS:
Russian Literature in the Twentieth Century and Now

Russ 330SPRING 2020TTH 2-3:15
Julia VaingurtE-mail: [email protected]

The aim of this course is twofold: to examine the complex
intersection of art and politics and to trace developments in 20th-
and 21st-centuryussian literature in their historical and cultural
context. The course covers the revolutionary art of the Russian
avant-garde, Socialist Realism, the art of dissent and counter-
memory, émigré literature, and post-Soviet postmodernism. We
will examine works by Babel and Brodsky, Mandelstam and
Mayakovsky, Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva, Pasternak and Platonov,
Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov, Nabokov and Bulgakov. We will
address such questions as the relationship between art and
ideology, experimental form and revolutionary content, the
utopian imagination, the art of the fantastic and doublespeak,
laughter as subversion and laughter as social corrective, literature
of exile, postcommunism and postmodernism. No knowledge of
Russian is required.

Russ 460/Hist 435/CEES 435/Russia and the
West

Russ 460/HIST 435/CEES 435• M 3:00-5:30 • Julia Vaingurt

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relationship to the West. We will examine how the images of
concerns, and aesthetic preoccupations. Readings will include works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov,
Solzhenitsyn, Pelevin. No knowledge of Russian is required.

1930’s Yiddish Film – Itzik Manger – Warsaw Cabaret – Bruno Schulz

PRLS: The UIC Department of Polish, Russian & Lithuanian Studies
SPRING 2020 – POL 220/CEES 220/JST 220
T/Th 12:30-1:45

Modern Polish Jewish Culture
& LiteratureS

A creative arts & world cultures course

All texts will be read in English translation.

Before WWII and the Holocaust, Poland was a
country of many cultures, languages and religions,
where East European Jewish culture flourished for
over 700 years. When Poland gained independence
following WWI, Polish Jews -- who represented from
30-80% of residents in every Polish town and city --
helped to shape modern culture in three languages,
Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew. In this course we enter
the rich and dynamic world of Polish Jewish Culture
through engagement with films, short stories, song
lyrics, poetry and essays in English translation.
Studying modern, secular Jewish culture from pre-
war Poland, we ask questions relevant to our own
lives in the US today: How do communities develop
their distinct culture and language, while contributing
to the larger democratic society as a whole? How is
assimilation in pre-war Poland similar to or different
from assimilation into American culture? How do
literature and music change when nationalism is on
the rise? A World Cultures and Creative Arts Course.

Karen Underhill
POL 220 / Spring 2020

T/Th 12:30-1:45
For more info contact: [email protected]

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POLISH, RUSSIAN, and LITHUANIAN STUDIES

Spring 2020 Course Offerings

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LITH 102 Elementary Lithuanian II

4 hours. Continues LITH 101. Prerequisite(s): LITH 101 or the equivalent.

MW 8:00-9:15am Litvinskaite, D.

LITH 104 Intermediate Lithuanian II

4 hours. Continues LITH 103. Prerequisite(s): LITH 103 101 or the equivalent.

ARRANGED Litvinskaite, D.

POL 102 Elementary Polish II

4 hours. Continues POL 101. Prerequisite(s): POL 101 or the equivalent.

MWF 3:00-3:50pm Szawara, A.

RUSS 102 Elementary Russian II

4 hours. Continues RUSS 101. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 101 or the equivalent.

MWF 10:00-10:50am Zdancewicz, B.

MWF 11:00-11:50am Kutceva, S.

Courses that count towards the Major/Minor:
POL 104 Intermediate Polish II

Required course for the Polish Major and Minor

4 hours. Continues POL 103. Prerequisite(s): POL 103 or the equivalent.

MWF 12:00-12:50pm Kaluza, M.

MWF 1:00-1:50pm Kaluza, M.

RUSS 104 Intermediate Russian II

Required course for the Russian Major and Minor

4 hours. Continues RUSS 103. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 103 or the equivalent.

MWF 1:00-1:50pm Gorkovoi, A.

LITH 115 Lithuanian Culture

3 hours. A thematic study of Lithuanian culture from antiquity to the present in an historical and political context. Course

Information: Knowledge of Lithuanian is not required. World Cultures course.

TR 9:30-10:45am Subacius, G.

RUSS 116 Russian Culture: The Soviet Period

3 hours. This course begins with a brief overview of Russian radical thought and examines how it helped pave the way for

history’s greatest political movement. We will read works by famous writers such as Mayakovsku, Bulgakov, and

Solzhenitsyn that reflect the diversity of Soviet reality and the incongruities between political dictum and human experience.

In addition to literature, we will use film and the visual arts to examine the consequences of Russia’s utopian experiment.

World Cultures Course.

TR 11:00-12:15pm Smith, J.

Remember to look for our courses in Polish and Russian culture under the CEES rubric!
(Central & East European Studies), as well as under POL and RUSS.

All of our CEES courses count toward your major or minor in Polish or Russian Studies.

PRLS – The Department of
POLISH, RUSSIAN, and LITHUANIAN STUDIES

Spring 2020 Course Offerings

FIND OUR COURSES UNDER POL, RUSS, LITH, AND CEES RUBRICS!!!

LITH 130 Lithuanian Prose Fiction in International Context. Introduction to Eastern European Literatures

3 hours. This course traces the main developments of Eastern European literature during the twentieth-twenty first centuries

in relation to Western literary traditions. We will focus on Soviet literary characteristics, including socialist realist, dissident,

Thaw, post-Soviet and postmodernist tendencies, as well as émigré literature. Students will be asked to read canonical

literary works by Polish and Russian writers, with a major focus on Lithuanian literature.

MW 9:30-10:45am Litvinskaite, D.

RUSS 130 Russian Literature in Translation: Medicine in Russian Literature

3 hours. This course will examine literary representations of the physician and narratives of illness in Russia from the 1860s

to present. We will read fiction and memoirs by leading literary figures who were physicians (Chekhov, Bulgakov, and

Veresaev) as well as semi-fictional and fictional case histories (Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Ulitskaya, Palei). We will discuss

how narratives help us make sense of our lives and our worlds in times of physical and emotional crisis. We will trace how

medical ideas and history find reflection in literature and how literary concepts get utilized in medicine. We will analyze

how the texts we read reveal and affect cultural assumptions about disease and medical authority. Addressing some of the

most pressing issues of our era, the readings will challenge us to question our understanding and reconceptualize notions of

normality/disability, health/disease, and life/death. Located at the intersection of literature and medicine, this course aims

to enhance students’ narrative competency and communication skills, essential to the practice of either discipline. Creative

Arts and World Cultures Course.

TR 12:30-1:45pm Smith, J.

POL 140 Polish Drama in Translation. Between Two Worlds: Experimental Theater in Multilingual Poland

3 hours. A lively introduction to classic and experimental works of Polish and Yiddish drama, from Mickiewicz’s 19th

century theater of the “marvelous” to present-day memory work of the Borderlands youth theater in Sejny, Poland. In this

course we explore theater in Poland as a space “Between Two Worlds” – between the real and the metaphysical, tradition

and modernity, politics and art. Topics discussed will include Interwar Warsaw cabaret; Theater of the Absurd; Polish

national drama, Physical Theater, Theater of Death, Futurism, Apocalypticism, and contemporary children’s theater from

present-day Poland. How do playwrights and directors use the tools of drama to imagine and perform the self and the nation?

No prerequisites. Discussion-based classes, including group readings and film showings. Light reading load. All texts will

be read in English translation, with the option to read in the Polish or Yiddish original. Same as THTR 140. Creative Arts

Course, and World Cultures Course.

TR 3:30-4:45pm Underhill, K.

POL 150 Introduction to Polish Cinema

3 hours. In this class, we will discuss how Polish Cinema was able to depict topics that were silenced due to social taboos,

conservative norms, or political censorship. How did the power of the moving picture allow Polish filmmakers to discuss

the topics absent from other forms of cultural production? Taught in English. Films screened with English subtitles. Creative

Arts, and World Cultures course.

TR 5:00-6:15pm Brylak, A.

Remember to look for our courses in Polish and Russian culture under the CEES rubric!
(Central & East European Studies), as well as under POL and RUSS.

All of our CEES courses count toward your major or minor in Polish or Russian Studies.

PRLS – The Department of

POLISH, RUSSIAN, and LITHUANIAN STUDIES

Spring 2020 Course Offerings

FIND OUR COURSES UNDER POL, RUSS, LITH, AND CEES RUBRICS!!!

RUSS 150 Introduction to Russian Cinema: Special Effects in Russian Media

3 hours. Any moviegoer knows that the charm of visual spectacle, the “movie magic” of cinema, keeps us coming back for

more. But how can we understand the popularity of special effects in Russian media, which grew from a socialist visual

culture, where art was expected to tell only the truth? Our course will explore the emergence of Soviet montage, the birth

of Soviet animation, the transition to Soviet sound cinema, experiments in Soviet 3D cinema, and recent developments in

Russian CGI and digital media to better understand the world of Russian and Soviet cinema, television, and games. We

will pay special attention to how the history of Russian special effects has differed from other visual traditions. Taught in

English. Films screened with English subtitles. Creative Arts Course, and World Cultures Course.

MWF 10:00-10:50am Kendall, M.

POL 202 Advanced Polish Through Contemporary Culture

3 hours.. Designed to continue the development of advanced language skills. The course will attempt to deepen your

understanding of Polish everyday life and culture. We will read about and discuss topics such as: myth and folklore, village

life, minorities in Poland, LGBTQ issues, Jewish life in Poland, and more. All materials will be provided by the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): POL 104.

MW 4:30-5:45pm Szawara, A.

RUSS 202 Advanced Russian Through Contemporary Culture

3 hours. Continues RUSS 201. Designed to continue the development of advanced language skills. The course will attempt

to deepen your understanding of Russian everyday life and culture. All materials will be provided by the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): RUSS 104.

MWF 9:00-9:50am Kutceva, S.

POL 203 Advanced Polish Through Short Story

3 hours. This class devoted to learning advanced Polish through reading short literary texts will be devoted to the dynamic

between the private and the public. How do public narratives shape our private life and how do private experiences make

us relate to the public sphere? Reading and Instruction in Polish. All materials will be provided by the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): POL 104.

TR 2:00-3:15pm Brylak, A.

LCSL 207 European Cinema

3 hours. In this course we will watch a selection of movies, including both classics of European cinema and recent films;

dramas, comedies, cartoons and independent experimental productions to explore both conventional and non-conventional

representations of motherhood, and mother-daughter relations. Mother-daughter relationships have long been thematized

in European culture – along the lines of traditional psychoanalysis – in terms of antagonism or rivalry. In the 20th

century popular culture, especially film, perpetuated images of self-sacrificing mothers, as well as of absent or monstrous
mothers. 21st century cinema, however, begins to explore other narrations of motherhood, including: mothers and daughters

in the context of anti-system resistance, queer motherhood, the transgenerational transmission of trauma, horizontal

“sisterhood” genealogies, and many others. No prerequisites. Same as GER 207 and SPAN 207.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 160. Creative Arts course, and World Cultures course.

MWF 10:00-10:50am Chromik, A.

Remember to look for our courses in Polish and Russian culture under the CEES rubric!
(Central & East European Studies), as well as under POL and RUSS.

All of our CEES courses count toward your major or minor in Polish or Russian Studies.

PRLS – The Department of

POLISH, RUSSIAN, and LITHUANIAN STUDIES

Spring 2020 Course Offerings

FIND OUR COURSES UNDER POL, RUSS, LITH, AND CEES RUBRICS!!!

POL 220 Modern Polish Jewish Culture and Literatures

3 hours. Before WWII and the Holocaust, Poland was a country of many cultures, languages and religions, where East

European Jewish culture flourished for over 700 years. When Poland gained independence following WWI, Polish Jews --

who represented from 30-80% of residents in every Polish town and city -- helped to shape modern culture in three

languages, Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew. In this course we enter the rich and dynamic world of Polish Jewish Culture through

engagement with films, short stories, song lyrics, poetry and essays in English translation. Studying modern, secular Jewish

culture from pre-war Poland, we ask questions relevant to our own lives in the US today: How do communities develop

their distinct culture and language, while contributing to the larger democratic society as a whole? How is assimilation in

pre-war Poland similar to or different from assimilation into American culture? How do literature and music change when

nationalism is on the rise? All text read in English translation. Same as CEES 220 and JST 220. Creative Arts Course, and

World Cultures Course.

TR 12:30-1:45pm Underhill, K.

CEES 220 Introduction to Central and Eastern European Culture

Required course for the Polish/Russian Major and Minor

3 hours. This course introduces students to rich, multinational, and polyglot culture of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

through a variety of media. Students will become familiar with the multinational and multilingual cultural entity called

Central and Eastern Europe. Together we will perform close readings of literary texts representing the diverse heritage of

the region, and we will practice using different media (film, photography, theater) to understand differences and similarities

between national cultures within Central & Eastern Europe and Western Europe.

TR 9:30-10:45am Markowski, M.

RUSS 242 Tolstoy

3 hours. The Russian Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is primarily known as a writer of novels, stories, plays,

and essays. However, Tolstoy also made major contributions in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and religious interpretation. In

this course we will turn to Tolstoy’s “What is Art?” as well as his fictional writings to explore the relationship between

aesthetic, morality and spirituality in his work. Taught in English. Creative Arts Course.

MWF 2:00-2:50pm Ruvinsky, I.

CEES 247 Science Fiction and Fantasy. Not Quite Human: New Forms of Life in Central & Eastern European

Fiction and Film

3 hours. Do utopian visions of a new life redefine humanity, or do they deprive it from being human at all? The disconcerting

subjects of artificial intelligence, alien life forms, and beings that are only vaguely human fill the fiction of Central and

Eastern Europe, but where does our fascination with these images come from? Our course will investigate the role that

strange or uncanny representations of humanity have played in a region characterized by revolution, where attitudes toward

labor, sexuality, and difference were in constant upheaval. While learning how Marxism, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis

can give us insight into stories of Yuri Olesha, Carl Čapek, Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Stanislaw Lem, we will

investigate the afterlife and re-interpretation of these fictions in the work of Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Leguin, as well

as in Soviet Sci-fi cinema. Throughout our course, we will ask how fantastic narratives emerged alongside real revolutions,

and if Sci-fi and Fantasy can propose solutions to real social problems.

MWF 12:00-12:50pm Kendall, M.

Remember to look for our courses in Polish and Russian culture under the CEES rubric!
(Central & East European Studies), as well as under POL and RUSS.

All of our CEES courses count toward your major or minor in Polish or Russian Studies.

PRLS – The Department of

POLISH, RUSSIAN, and LITHUANIAN STUDIES

Spring 2020 Course Offerings

FIND OUR COURSES UNDER POL, RUSS, LITH, AND CEES RUBRICS!!!

POL 234 History of Poland

3 hours. This course will consider the political, social, and cultural transformations of the historic Polish lands from 966

CE to the present. We will take as our starting premise that the history of Poland is the history of a multicultural and

multiethnic society. As a result, we will study the various people, social groups, and cultures that have shaped Polish history

over the past millennium. Beginning with the first Polish state under the Piast dynasty, we will continue with the union of

Lithuania and the formation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the period of partitioning by the German, Austrian,

and Russian empires and the rise of Polish nationalism, the interwar politics of Polish independence, life under occupation

during World War II and the Holocaust, communism and its collapse in 1989, and the more recent post-socialist state. Same

as HIST 234. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 161. Individual and Society, and Past course.

MW 3:00-4:15pm Wilczewski, M.

RUSS 330 Art and Politics. Russian Literature in the Twentieth Century and Now

3 hours. The aim of this course is twofold: to examine the complex intersection of art and politics and to trace developments

in 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature in their historical and cultural context. The course covers the revolutionary art

of the Russian avant-garde, Socialist Realism, the art of dissent and counter-memory, émigré literature, and post-Soviet

postmodernism. We will examine works by Babel and Brodsky, Mandelstam and Mayakovsky, Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva,

Pasternak and Platonov, Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov, Nabokov and Bulgakov. We will address such questions as the

relationship between art and ideology, experimental form and revolutionary content, the utopian imagination, the art of the

fantastic and doublespeak, laughter as subversion and laughter as social corrective, literature of exile, postcommunism and

postmodernism. No knowledge of Russian is required.

TR 2:00-3:15pm Vaingurt, J.

CEES 406 History of European Standard Languages

3 or 4 hours (graduate). The phenomenon of the "standard language" in Western and Eastern Europe. Course Information:

Same as LCSL 406 and LING 406. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Taught in English. Previously listed as CEES

405. In cases where students speak languages other than English, they might receive tasks to research literature in that

language (and on that language) and to present their research results. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above; and consent

of the instructor.

T 3:30-6:00pm Subacius, G.

CEES 460 Topics in Central & Eastern European Literature and Culture

3 or 4 hours (graduate). This course investigates the discourses of gender, embodiment, and resistance at the intersections

of textuality (literariness, text, poetic language) and visuality (painting, materiality, artistic intervention). The list of topics

includes somatic narratives of memory and vulnerability, artistic strategies of “soft resistance” and healing, and the

embodiment of representation (rhythm, touch, gesture). In a broader perspective, the course revolves around discourses of

maternity, feminist new materialism, and the ethics of care. During the seminar we will be studying poems, works of art,

documentations of performances and art films – mainly by Polish artists or artists related to Poland. These examples will be

culture-specific, but clear and appealing enough for the students to relate them to their own experience and to engage in a

discussion. To provide theoretical and methodological context for these conversations we will read a number of texts related

to gender studies, feminist theory of sexual difference, trauma studies, affect and materiality in contemporary art.

W 5:00-7:30pm Chromik, A.

Remember to look for our courses in Polish and Russian culture under the CEES rubric!
(Central & East European Studies), as well as under POL and RUSS.

All of our CEES courses count toward your major or minor in Polish or Russian Studies.

PRLS – The Department of

POLISH, RUSSIAN, and LITHUANIAN STUDIES

Spring 2020 Course Offerings

FIND OUR COURSES UNDER POL, RUSS, LITH, AND CEES RUBRICS!!!

RUSS 460/HIST 435/CEES 435 Russia and the West

3 or 4 hours (graduate). This course explores the central and most controversial issue of the Russian literary and

philosophical tradition: its relationship to the West. We will examine how the images of the West reflect Russia’s own

cultural biases, national concerns, and aesthetic preoccupations. Readings will include works by Pushkin, Dostoyevsky,

Tolstoy, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Pelevin. No knowledge of Russian is required.

M 3:00-5:30pm Vaingurt, J.

Internship Opportunities for Undergraduates:

LCSL 391. Internship in Global Studies. 1-3 hours.
Professional field experience with an international agency or organization in the private or public sector. Course
Information: May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite(s): Completion of one year of a basic language program
and approval of a pre-arranged internship by the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics. Class Schedule
Information: To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Conference and one Practice.

LCSL 392. Internship in Global Engagement and Public Humanities. 0-3 hours.
Professional field experience with an international agency or organization in the private or public sector. Course
Information: May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite(s): Completion of one year of a basic language program
and approval of a pre-arranged internship by the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics. Class Schedule
Information: To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Conference and one Practice.

Remember to look for our courses in Polish and Russian culture under the CEES rubric!
(Central & East European Studies), as well as under POL and RUSS.

All of our CEES courses count toward your major or minor in Polish or Russian Studies.

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