Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 1

DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC Graduate School and Career Opportunities In an age of rapid internationalization and globalization, proficiency in AND SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND a foreign language is no longer just an auxiliary skill but a necessary one. Courses offered in the department make up an important part of a liberal education, and a major or minor can provide excellent preparation LITERATURES for many careers, particularly when the major or minor is combined with courses in business, economics, political science, journalism, and various Contact Information other fields. Recent graduates have entered careers in international Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures business, journalism, publishing, the sciences, and the travel industry. Visit Program Website (https://gsll.unc.edu/) 426 Dey Hall, CB# 3160 A bachelor of arts with a major in Germanic and Slavic languages and (919) 966-1642 literatures also qualifies graduates for positions in the U.S. Department of State and other government agencies, educational organizations, Eric Downing, Chair foundations, and travel organizations. The presence of over 100 German and Swiss firms in the Carolinas testifies to the demand for a high degree Hana Pichova, Director of Undergraduate Studies of German linguistic and cultural literacy in college graduates. The [email protected] department is also one among very few in the United States that offers a range of critical and/or less commonly taught languages of Central and Aleksandra Prica, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies Eastern Europe. People who know these languages are in particularly gslldus.unc.edu high demand in business and government. Valerie Bernhardt, Administrative Manager The U.S. government designates Russian as one of the languages [email protected] vital for national security and economic competitiveness. The Russian Language Flagship Program (https://russian.unc.edu/) is a national Introduction initiative created to answer that critical need. The University of North The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Carolina Chapel Hill Russian Flagship Program (UNCRFP) is a federally offers instruction and conducts research in the languages, literatures, funded initiative that supports motivated undergraduate students of and cultures of central, northern, and eastern Europe. It offers multiple all majors to attain a professional level of proficiency in the Russian tracks for undergraduate study for those interested in German programs language. (two concentrations), Slavic programs (two concentrations), and Central European studies (one concentration). A major in Germanic and Slavic In addition, the demand for language teachers provides career languages and literatures provides preparatory training that will be useful opportunities for those German and Russian majors who also receive in government employment, internationally-oriented business, journalism, teaching certification from the School of Education. law, the sciences, and teaching; as well as preparing students for German and Slavic majors often go on to graduate programs in graduate study in a range of humanistic and social science disciplines. comparative literature, linguistics, history, law, international business and Faculty has prepared a video (https://gsll.unc.edu/degrees/why-major-or- management, international relations, professional translation, medicine, minor-in-gsll/video/) about the department's programs and opportunities. and education. Some pursue careers as college professors. Many Chapel Hill German and Slavic majors have been welcomed by the most Advising prestigious graduate programs in the country. The department’s faculty members can assist undergraduate majors in selecting appropriate Students can complete any concentration, even if they have no prior graduate programs. experience in the language, provided that they begin taking their language courses as first-year students. It is also very possible for transfer Majors students to complete the concentrations, provided they enter the program with some knowledge of the associated language(s). • Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Major, B.A.– Central European Studies Concentration (http://catalog.unc.edu/ All majors and minors have a primary academic advisor in Steele undergraduate/programs-study/germanic-slavic-languages- Building. Students should meet regularly with their primary advisor and literatures-major-ba-central-european-studies-concentration/) review their Tar Heel Tracker each semester. • Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Major, B.A.–German Literature and Culture Concentration (http://catalog.unc.edu/ However, departmental academic advising is also important for all undergraduate/programs-study/germanic-slavic-languages- students majoring or minoring in the department. Current and prospective literatures-major-ba-german-literature-culture-concentration/) majors and minors should confer with the department’s director, or assistant director, of undergraduate studies regarding plans of study, • Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Major, B.A.–German study abroad course approvals, internship opportunities, and transfer Media, Arts, and Culture Concentration (http://catalog.unc.edu/ credit. undergraduate/programs-study/germanic-slavic-languages- literatures-major-ba-german-media-arts-culture-concentration/) Students seeking certification to teach German or Russian in public • Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Major, B.A.–Russian schools should consult advisors in the School of Education. Language and Culture Concentration (http://catalog.unc.edu/ undergraduate/programs-study/germanic-slavic-languages- literatures-major-ba-russian-language-culture-concentration/) 2 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

• Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Major, B.A.–Slavic GSLL 51. First-Year Seminar: Stalin and Hitler: Historical Issues in and East European Languages and Cultures Concentration (http:// Cultural and Other Perspectives. 3 Credits. catalog.unc.edu/undergraduate/programs-study/germanic-slavic- Critical issues that dominated the 20th century: WWI and Bolshevik languages-literatures-major-slavic-east-european-languages-cultures- Revolution; rise of fascism, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and their roles; origins concentration/) and evolution of Cold War; collapse of Eastern Bloc. Previously offered as GERM 51. Minors Gen Ed: HS, GL. Grading status: Letter grade. • German Minor (http://catalog.unc.edu/undergraduate/programs- study/german-minor/) GSLL 52. First-Year Seminar: Nature and Death: Ecological Crises in • Russian Culture Minor (http://catalog.unc.edu/undergraduate/ German Literature and Film. 3 Credits. programs-study/russian-culture-minor/) This seminar explores ecological crises and their depiction in German literature and film. We will focus on the central themes of nature and • Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Minor (http:// death. The texts and films we will discuss will range from early Romantic catalog.unc.edu/undergraduate/programs-study/slavic-east- fairy tales to present-day documentaries and climate-change literature european-languages-cultures-minor/) (cli-fi). We will encounter (human) animals in crisis. Together, we will face Graduate Programs nuclear catastrophes, flooding, landslides, mass extinction, and climate change. Films with English subtitles; readings and discussions in English. • M.A. in German Studies (http://catalog.unc.edu/graduate/schools- Gen Ed: LA, NA. departments/germanic-slavic-languages-literatures/) Grading status: Letter grade. • Ph.D. in German Studies (http://catalog.unc.edu/graduate/schools- GSLL 53. First-Year Seminar: Early Germanic Culture: Myth, Magic, departments/germanic-slavic-languages-literatures/) Murder, and Mayhem. 3 Credits. Introduction to pre-Christian culture of Germany, Anglo-Saxon England, Professors and Scandinavia from the late Roman Empire through the Viking Age, Ruth von Bernuth, Eric Downing, Clayton Koelb, Richard Langston, Hana as preserved in myths, sagas, charms, inscriptions, and historical Pichova, David Pike, Paul Roberge. documents. Previously offered as GERM 53. Gen Ed: HS, NA, WB. Associate Professors Grading status: Letter grade. Radislav Lapushin, Priscilla Layne, Inga Pollmann, Stanislav Shvabrin, GSLL 54. First-Year Seminar: Once upon a Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Gabriel Trop. Childhood, Then and Now. 3 Credits. Fairy tales from different national traditions and historical periods read through various critical lenses, against a backdrop of changing historical Assistant Professors conceptions of the child. Works from Grimm, Anderson, Brontë, Disney, Adi Nester, Aleksandra Prica, Eliza Rose. etc. Students may not receive credit for both GSLL 54 and GERM 279/ CMPL 279. Previously offered as GERM 54. Teaching Associate Professor Gen Ed: LA, NA. Eleonora Magomedova. Grading status: Letter grade. GSLL 55. First-Year Seminar: Fantasies of Rome: Gladiators, Senators, Teaching Assistant Professors Soothsayers, and Caesars. 3 Credits. Natalia Chernysheva, Matthew McGarry, Joseph Rockelmann, Christina Introduces students to study of humanities by examining how the idea Weiler. of Rome evolved through poetry, history, philosophy, opera, even forgery into a concept that has long outlasted the Romans. Previously offered as GERM 55. Professors Emeriti Gen Ed: HS, CI, WB. Lawrence Feinberg, Walter K. Francke, Madeline G. Levine, Siegfried Grading status: Letter grade. Mews, Christopher R. Putney, Peter Sherwood, Ivana Vuletic. GSLL 56. First-Year Seminar: Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti- Semitism. 3 Credits. Courses This course seeks to explore the historically difficult position of GSLL–Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures minorities in the modern world, using the situation of Jews in Germany Undergraduate-level Courses from the 18th century to the Holocaust as a case study. Previously GSLL 50. First-Year Seminar: Literary Fantasy and Historical Reality. 3 offered as GERM 56. Credits. Gen Ed: HS, CI, NA. The intersection of literary fantasy with historical reality considered in Grading status: Letter grade two ways: (1) fantastic-looking tales based on historical reality; and (2) Same as: JWST 56. stories describing fantastic situations that actually came true. Previously offered as GERM 50. Gen Ed: LA, CI, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 3

GSLL 58. First-Year Seminar: Love in the Middle Ages. 3 Credits. GSLL 68H. First-Year Seminar: Intensity, Vitality, Ecstasy: Affects in Examines development of notion of love from antiquity through Middle Literature, Film, and Philosophy. 3 Credits. Ages to today. Discusses marriage, adultery, violence, power, gender This course focuses on three powerful affective states that challenge the roles. Introduces the study of humanities through reading, analysis, and conception of humans as autonomous, independent beings: intensity, research. Previously offered as GERM 58. vitality, and ecstasy. We will examine both philosophical and artistic Gen Ed: HS, CI, WB. representations of these particular states, focusing on the way in which Grading status: Letter grade. they both endanger and enrich our experience of the world. Previously GSLL 59. First-Year Seminar: Moscow 1937: Dictatorships and Their offered as GERM 68. Defenders. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: PH, NA. Stalinist Soviet Union serves as a case study to examine how Grading status: Letter grade. dictatorships develop and how they tend to be enveloped in justifications GSLL 69. First-Year Seminar: Laughing and Crying at the Movies: Film and kept in existence by outside observers. Previously offered as GERM and Experience. 3 Credits. 59. Why is it that we cry at the movies? We will focus on the melodrama but Gen Ed: HS, GL. also look at comedy and horror to think about emotional responses to Grading status: Letter grade. films. Students will learn the basics of film analysis, gain an overview of GSLL 60. First-Year Seminar: Avant-Garde Cinema: History, Themes, genre cinema, and study approaches to emotion, affect, and the body. Textures. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: VP. Students explore the international history, filmic techniques and cultural Grading status: Letter grade. meanings of non-narrative cinema of the 20th century. Students also GSLL 70. First-Year Seminar: Teenage Kicks: Race, Class, and Gender in transform in-class discussions and individual essays into video projects. Postwar Youth Cultures. 3 Credits. Previously offered as GERM 60. This seminar investigates youth cultures from the 1940s to the present Gen Ed: VP. in the United States and around the world. It offers students a history of Grading status: Letter grade. how different youth cultures developed over time, and consideration of GSLL 63. First-Year Seminar: Performing America. 3 Credits. how the constitution of youth cultures has been influenced by factors like The intersection of performance in a theater space and in everyday life race, class, and gender. will serve as a springboard to investigating the diversity of contemporary Gen Ed: LA, EE- Mentored Research, GL. America. Examines how race, class, religion, sexuality, sexual orientation, Grading status: Letter grade. history, and death are performed in America today. Previously offered as GSLL 75. First-Year Seminar: The Book of Books: Literature and the Bible. GERM 63. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: VP. This seminar examines the influence the Bible had on great works of Grading status: Letter grade. Western literature and traces this powerful literary tradition through GSLL 65. First-Year Seminar: German Heroes? Knights, Tricksters, and different cultures and historical periods. Readings and discussions in Magicians. 3 Credits. English. This course seeks to explore literary heroes in European literature from Gen Ed: LA, NA. the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. We will discuss concepts of Grading status: Letter grade. heroism and how those ideas have changed over time. Previously offered GSLL 80. Not Just Dogs: Animals in Russian Literature. 3 Credits. as GERM 65. This course explores the question of the animal in the works of major Gen Ed: LA, NA. Russian writers (Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Grading status: Letter grade. Platonov). Among the topics to be discussed are: The animal as the GSLL 67. First-Year Seminar: Blackness in the European Imaginary, other; animal and human natures: dominance and submission, ethics of Europe in the Black Imaginary. 3 Credits. human/animal relations, and the trope of "talking" animals. Readings and This seminar deals with how encounters between Europe and the African discussions in English. Diaspora have changed notions of race, nation, identity, and belonging Gen Ed: LA, BN. in the 20th century. Through engaging with diverse texts--literary, Grading status: Letter grade. nonliterary, and visual--we will explore the construction of blackness in GSLL 81. First-Year Seminar: Metaphor and the Body. 3 Credits. various national and historical contexts. Previously offered as GERM 67. All human beings inhabit a physical body, with inherent oppositions of Gen Ed: GL, NA. inside/outside, up/down, and left/right. This course examines bodily Grading status: Letter grade. experience as the wellspring of meaning. Previously offered as SLAV 81. GSLL 68. First-Year Seminar: Intensity, Vitality, Ecstasy: Affects in Gen Ed: LA. Literature, Film, and Philosophy. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. This course focuses on three powerful affective states that challenge the GSLL 82. First-Year Seminar: Doctor Stories. 3 Credits. conception of humans as autonomous, independent beings: intensity, Explores and reflects on the experience and significance of being a doctor vitality, and ecstasy. We will examine both philosophical and artistic in Russia and the United States, analyzing "doctors' stories" presented in representations of these particular states, focusing on the way in which fiction, nonfiction, film, and other media. Previously offered as SLAV 82. they both endanger and enrich our experience of the world. Previously Gen Ed: LA. offered as GERM 68. Honors version available Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: PH, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. 4 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

GSLL 83. First-Year Seminar: We, Robots: Identifying with our Automated GSLL 218. Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages. 3 Credits. Others in Fiction and Film. 3 Credits. This course draws on a variety of cultural documents to explore both the The word "robot" was invented by Czech author Karel Capek in 1920. conflict and cross fertilization between the Christian and Islamic cultures Science fiction has had a long-running obsession with robots. Fiction of the Middle Ages. Readings and discussions in English. Previously and film dream up robots who have mastered and often surpassed the offered as GERM 218. strange art that is being human. In this class, we will read and watch Gen Ed: HS, GL, WB. stories about robots from East and Central Europe, with occasional Grading status: Letter grade detours into American culture. Films with English subtitles; readings and Same as: RELI 218. discussions in English. GSLL 225. Popular and Pious: Early Modern Jewish Literature. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA, BN. This seminar covers popular and pious literature written by and for Jews Grading status: Letter grade. in the 15th to 18th century in German-speaking countries. Originally GSLL 84. First-Year Seminar: Terror for the People: Terrorism in Russian written in Old Yiddish, this literature preserved the popular European Literature and History. 3 Credits. genres and nonfiction accounts of Jewish community and family life. Terror was used as a political weapon in 19th-century Russia. This Previously offered as GERM 225. seminar introduces the terrorists through their own writings and fictional Gen Ed: LA, NA, WB. representations in novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad. Grading status: Letter grade Previously offered as SLAV 84. Same as: JWST 225. Gen Ed: LA, BN, CI. GSLL 246. Reality and Its Discontents: Kant to Kafka. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. An examination of "reality," as defined and redefined by Kant and his GSLL 85. First-Year Seminar: Children and War. 3 Credits. successors, in the context of European culture of the late 18th, 19th, and Readings for this seminar include children's wartime diaries, adult early 20th centuries. Readings and discussions in English. Previously memoirs of child survivors, and fiction from Central and Eastern Europe. offered as GERM 246. Previously offered as SLAV 85. Gen Ed: PH, NA. Gen Ed: LA, GL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GSLL 251. Ideology and Aesthetics: Marxism and Literature. 3 Credits. GSLL 87. First-Year Seminar: Literature Confronting Totalitarianism. 3 Examines clash between 20th-century writers and the state in countries Credits. where a single government or party used an exclusive ideology as What is totalitarianism? Can a portrayal of suffering, even death, justification for interference in cultural and literary affairs. Discussions under a totalitarian state, have artistic value, or must it remain only and texts in English. Previously offered as GERM 251. a political pamphlet? This seminar studies authors who reveal the Gen Ed: HS, GL. crimes of totalitarianism, while also showing the moral strength and/or Grading status: Letter grade. weaknesses of humans victimized by the totalitarian state. GSLL 252. South Africa in Literary Perspective. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA. Course aims at an understanding of the South African experience as Grading status: Letter grade. represented by that country's important writers. Readings include works GSLL 88H. First-Year Seminar: Gender and Fiction in Central and Eastern by Gordimer, Coetzee, Mphahlele, Breytenbach, Fugard, Ndebele, Paton, la Europe. 3 Credits. Guma. All materials in English. Previously offered as GERM 252. An introduction to the region, this course examines the role of gender in Gen Ed: LA, BN. central and east European literature from the end of the 19th century to Grading status: Letter grade. contemporary times. Course materials include novels, films, historical GSLL 254. The Division of Germany, Reunification, and Conflict with readings, and essays. Readings and class discussions in English. Russia. 3 Credits. Previously offered as SLAV 88H. Why was occupied Germany divided into two states after World War II? Gen Ed: LA, BN. Were the Cold War and division inevitable? We explore these questions in Grading status: Letter grade. two chronological contexts: 1945-1949 and 1989-present, with emphasis GSLL 89. First-Year Seminar: Special Topics in Germanic and Slavic on the reemergence of Western conflict with Putin's Russia. Readings Languages and Literatures. 3 Credits. and discussions in English. Previously offered as GERM 254. Honors Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. version available Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same Gen Ed: HS, NA. term for different topics; 6 total credits. 2 total completions. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GSLL 254H. The Division of Germany, Reunification, and Conflict with GSLL 212. "Game of Thrones" and the Worlds of the European Middle Russia. 3 Credits. Ages. 3 Credits. Why was occupied Germany divided into two states after World War II? This course offers a historical perspective on the adaptation of medieval Were the Cold War and division inevitable? We explore these questions in culture in "Game of Thrones." We will focus on topics such as family, two chronological contexts: 1945-1949 and 1989-present, with emphasis politics, religion, violence, gender, slavery, outcasts, knighthood, travel, on the reemergence of Western conflict with Putin's Russia. Readings heroes, myths, and magic. Readings and discussions in English. and discussions in English. Previously offered as GERM 254. Gen Ed: LA, WB. Gen Ed: HS, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 5

GSLL 255. Germany and Cold War: Occupation, Division, Reunification, GSLL 272. Poland, Russia, and Germany through the Prism of Film. 3 Renewed Conflict with Russia (1945-Today). 3 Credits. Credits. This course investigates the central role played by the "German question" Explore the relationship between Poland, Russia, and Germany from in the break-up of the wartime alliance, the emergence of East-West World War II until the present day, through films and readings that cover political blocs, the subsequent dissolution of the USSR, and the return to World War II, the fall of Communism in Europe, the Holocaust and the new Russian-Western antagonisms. Readings and discussions in English. post-war situation of Jews, religious faith, Putin's politics, women's rights, Previously offered as GERM 255. and the current refugee situation in Germany. Film directors include Gen Ed: HS, GL, NA. Balabanov, Becker, Fassbinder, Kalatozov, Holland, Mikhalkov, Polanski, Grading status: Letter grade. Wajda, and Wenders. Readings and class discussions in English. Films GSLL 260. From Berlin to Budapest: Literature, Film, and Culture of with English subtitles. Central Europe. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: VP, BN. Central Europe, at the center of dramatic historical changes--WWI, Grading status: Letter grade. emergence of independent nation states, WWII and Holocaust, GSLL 273. Close Your Eyes and See a Film: The Documentary in Central Communism and its end, incorporation into the European Union-- Europe. 3 Credits. produced unprecedented cultural results. The creative voices of writers Aesthetic experiment, agit-prop tool, and instrument of social critique: and filmmakers have relevance far beyond this region. documentary film is a flexible form. In the Socialist Bloc, documentary Gen Ed: LA, GL. was sanctioned by the state but often used to undermine state power. Grading status: Letter grade. This course is a survey of Polish, Czech, Yugoslav and Hungarian GSLL 268. Cultural Trends in Post-Communist Central Europe: Search for documentary film. We will explore studio productions alongside home Identity, Importance of Jewish Voices. 3 Credits. movies, amateur films, and art films. Does documentary simply record We will study how contemporary literary and cinematic works of Central reality, or can it change reality too? Readings & discussions in English. European intellectuals serve as reflections on the everyday life of this Gen Ed: VP, BN. region. Readings and class discussions in English. Films with English Grading status: Letter grade. subtitles. GSLL 277. The Moon in Song, Story, and Science: Mentored Research Gen Ed: LA, BN. Projects in Cultural History. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade Consideration of our satellite both as a natural object that can be Same as: JWST 268. investigated scientifically and as a cultural object that has been the GSLL 269. Springtime for Hitler: Jews on Stage from Shakespeare to Mel subject of highly varied treatments in poems and stories throughout Brooks. 3 Credits. human history. Students engage in mentored research culminating in a This course examines the roles and representations of Jews in the substantial essay. Readings and discussions in English. world of the theater from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice to the Gen Ed: LA, CI, EE- Mentored Research. present, considering dramas, operas, musicals, film adaptations, and Grading status: Letter grade. films. Readings and discussions in English. GSLL 278. Music, Image, Text. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: VP, CI, NA. This course examines the relationship between text, music, and the visual Grading status: Letter grade arts, focusing on the way in which nonliterary aesthetic content may both Same as: CMPL 269, JWST 269. mediate and call into question cultural values. GSLL 270. German Culture and the Jewish Question. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: VP, CI. A study of the role of Jews and the "Jewish question" in German culture Grading status: Letter grade. from 1750 to the Holocaust and beyond. Discussions and texts (literary, GSLL 279. A River Runs Through It: Cultural Geography Through political, theological) in English. Previously offered as GERM 270. Imaginative Literature. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: HS, GL, NA. This course looks at cultural geography through the lens of literature Grading status: Letter grade about rivers. After a brief survey of the world's major rivers and a short Same as: CMPL 270, JWST 239, RELI 239. dive into the way environmental science seeks to understand rivers, GSLL 271. Vampires and Empires. 3 Credits. classes are devoted to poems, stories, novels, histories, and even science An examination of the vampire in the visual and verbal cultures of Central fiction about rivers. Students engage in mentored research culminating in and Eastern Europe, and the popular adaptation of "vampirism" in the a substantial essay. Readings and discussions in English. West. All materials and discussions in English. Previously offered as Gen Ed: LA, CI, EE- Mentored Research. HUNG 271. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: BN. GSLL 280. The Dialectic of Whiteness and Blackness in Atlantic Cultures. Grading status: Letter grade. 3 Credits. Traces the invention of race, racism, and discourses of cultural inferiority/ superiority throughout Western culture. What historical events created the necessity for racist thinking? How did colonialism and transatlantic migration change Atlantic cultures? Why did black culture become fashionable? Is the 21st century "post-racial"? Readings and course descriptions in English. Gen Ed: GL, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. 6 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

GSLL 281. Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe. 3 Credits. GSLL 287. Into the Streets: 1968 and Dissent in Central Europe. 3 Credits. A critical look at varieties of cinematic representation and Protest movements of 1968 are often remembered as one "planetary memorialization of the Holocaust, from those countries of Europe where event." In Western Europe, protesters demanded revolution, while in it mostly took place. Taught in English. All films in (or subtitled in) Eastern Europe, protesters living under communism demanded reform. English. Previously offered as SLAV 281. In this course, we will explore dissent and counterculture in Central Gen Ed: VP, BN. Europe through the lens of 1968. Through film and fiction from Poland, Grading status: Letter grade Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, we will investigate the impact Same as: CMPL 281. of the Central European '68(s) worldwide. Films with English subtitles; GSLL 282. Afropessimism in American and European Film. 3 Credits. readings and discussions in English. Scholars of Afropessimism argue that we are not living in the age of post- Gen Ed: LA, BN, EE- Mentored Research. slavery, but in the "afterlife of slavery" and that Blacks exist outside of Grading status: Letter grade. the world, because the social world is held together by anti-Blackness. GSLL 288. Graphic Medicine: The Intersection of Health and Comics. 3 This argumentation has had important effects within Black German and Credits. Black European Studies. This course seeks to explore these philosophical We will explore the unique possibilities of comics in the form of graphic claims, by comparing American films with European films that deal with medicine: namely comics that thematize physical and mental health. anti-Black racism. How do comic artists work through issues of trauma and pain? How do Gen Ed: VP, NA. artists with chronic illness and disabilities articulate their experience Grading status: Letter grade through comics? This course engages with the Medical Humanities, Same as: AAAD 282. seeking to bring together students of medicine along with students of the GSLL 283. Hungarian Cinema since World War II. 3 Credits. humanities to contemplate how we communicate physical and mental An introduction to Hungarian society and culture since the end of World illness. War II through a selection of film classics. Films with English subtitles. Gen Ed: VP, NA. Readings and discussions in English. Previously offered as HUNG 280. Grading status: Letter grade Gen Ed: VP, BN. Same as: CMPL 288. Grading status: Letter grade. GSLL 295. Research, Creativity, and Innovation in the Humanities. 3 GSLL 284. Philosophy and the Arts. 3 Credits. Credits. This course examines the different ways in which philosophical texts This course serves as an introduction to research methodologies, and works of art presuppose, articulate, and call into question cultural theories, and the university resources available to students seeking to norms and values, with a special emphasis on conceptions of selfhood perform cutting-edge research in the humanities. The goal of the course in various philosophical movements (for example, in Existentialism, the is to produce a substantial research project. The capacities developed Enlightenment, Romanticism, etc.). in this course as well as the project itself could be used as the basis for Gen Ed: PH. grants, scholarships, internship applications, or an honors thesis. Taught Grading status: Letter grade. in English. Honors version available Gen Ed: CI, EE- Mentored Research. GSLL 285. Dissent and Protest in Central Europe. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade This course examines cultures of dissent and protest in Central Europe, Same as: CMPL 395, ROML 295. including student protests of the 1960s and the fall of Communism in 1989. Materials include literature, film, music, theatre, and popular culture GSLL 295H. Research, Creativity, and Innovation in the Humanities. 3 from Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, Hungary, and Poland. Credits. Readings and discussions in English. This course serves as an introduction to research methodologies, Gen Ed: HS, GL. theories, and the university resources available to students seeking to Grading status: Letter grade. perform cutting-edge research in the humanities. The goal of the course is to produce a substantial research project. The capacities developed GSLL 286. The Upright and the Toppled: Public Lives of Monuments in in this course as well as the project itself could be used as the basis for Europe and the American South. 3 Credits. grants, scholarships, internship applications, or an honors thesis. Taught Recent years have seen a worldwide push for emancipatory acts in English. of iconoclasm: calls to "topple" monuments as emblems of social Gen Ed: CI, EE- Mentored Research. oppression. This course examines cases of contested and demolished Grading status: Letter grade monuments in contexts close to home (the Carolina campus) and Same as: CMPL 395H, ROML 295H. geographically remote (Poland, Prague). If demolishing a monument can be a violent act, how might visual objects in public space exert their own GSLL 306. Language and Nationalism. 3 Credits. forces of violence? Readings and discussions in English. This course focuses on language, identity, and nationalism in Gen Ed: VP, GL. contemporary societies, with special emphasis on Europe, Africa, Asia, Grading status: Letter grade. and the United States. Previously offered as SLAV 306. Gen Ed: CI, GL. Grading status: Letter grade Same as: LING 306. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 7

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses GSLL 490. Topics in Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. 3 GSLL 465. Literature of Atrocity: The Gulag and the Holocaust in the Credits. Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 3 Credits. Examines selected themes in the history, culture, society, art, and/or Historical contexts and connections through artistic representation of the literature of Germanic and Slavic/East European countries. Holocaust and Soviet terror in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Taught in Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same English; some foreign language readings for qualified students. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Gen Ed: LA, BN, GL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade GSLL 496. Independent Readings in Germanic and Slavic/East European Same as: JWST 465, PWAD 465. Studies. 1-3 Credits. GSLL 467. Language and Political Identity. 3 Credits. Special readings and research in a selected field or topic related to This course examines the roles of language policy and linguistic Germanic and Slavic/East European Studies, under the direction of a controversies in determining national identity and fueling political faculty member. polarization. It focuses primarily on Western and Eastern Europe and Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit. 12 total credits. 4 total Central Asia. Previously offered as SLAV 467. completions. Gen Ed: BN, CI. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade GSLL 560. Reading Other Cultures: Issues in Literary Translation. 3 Same as: PWAD 467. Credits. GSLL 475. Magical Realism: Central European Literature in a Global Permission of the instructor. Reading knowledge of a language other Context. 3 Credits. than English recommended. Starting from the proposition that cultural This course studies magical realism in Central European literature and literacy would be impossible without reliance on translations, this course film by placing it in a global literary/cinema context. Readings and addresses fundamental issues in the practice, art, and politics of literary discussions in English. translation. Previously offered as SLAV 560. Gen Ed: LA, GL. Grading status: Letter grade Grading status: Letter grade. Same as: CMPL 560. GSLL 480. Interrogating Cultures of Fascism: Introduction to Frankfurt GSLL 683. Moving-Image Avant-gardes and Experimentalism. 3 Credits. School's Critical Theory 1923-Present. 3 Credits. History and theory of international avant-garde and experimentalist This research-intensive seminar for advanced undergraduates covers movements in film, video, intermedia, multimedia, and digital formats. the history of the Frankfurt School as well as the scope of its theory for Content and focus may vary from semester to semester. Previously contemporary social, political, and cultural analysis. Taught in English; offered as GERM 683. some readings in German for qualified students. Students must have Requisites: Prerequisite, ARTH 159, COMM 140, or ENGL 142; permission junior or senior standing or have permission of the instructor. of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: PH. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same Grading status: Letter grade. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. GSLL 481. Grand Hotels and Empty Fields: Inventing Central Europe Grading status: Letter grade. through Culture. 3 Credits. GSLL 691H. Honors Course. 3 Credits. Does Central Europe exist? It is a region with shifting borders, diverse Permission of the director of undergraduate studies. For majors only. languages, and a complex history. In this course, we will explore stories Reading and special studies under the direction of a faculty member. that invent fictional countries in Central Europe from the mist-shrouded Gen Ed: EE- Mentored Research. mountains of Wes Anderson's Zubrowka to Ursula Le Guin's invented Grading status: Letter grade. realm of Orsinia. We will also read work by writers from within the region GSLL 692H. Honors Course. 3 Credits. who mythologized their home environments. Films with English subtitles; Permission of the director of undergraduate studies. For majors only. readings and discussions in English. Reading and preparation of an essay under the direction of a faculty Gen Ed: LA, BN, EE- Mentored Research. member, designed to lead to the completion of the honors thesis. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: EE- Mentored Research. GSLL 489. GSLL Across the Curriculum (LAC). 1 Credit. Grading status: Letter grade. This one-credit hour class aims to develop and facilitate conversational GSLL 693H. Honors Seminar. 3 Credits. skills in a Germanic or Slavic language in the context of the current Permission of the director of undergraduate studies. For majors only. political, economic, and cultural climate. Knowledge of the language of Introduction to research techniques and preparation of an essay, instruction at the upper-intermediate level required. designed to lead to the completion of the honors thesis. Requisites: Prerequisite, BCS 404, CZCH 404, DTCH 404, GERM 204, Gen Ed: EE- Mentored Research. HUNG 404, KAZH 404, PLSH 404, RUSS 204, or UKRN 404; permission of Grading status: Letter grade. instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics; 6 total credits. 6 total completions. Grading status: Letter grade. 8 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

DTCH–Dutch GERM–German Undergraduate-level Courses Undergraduate-level Courses DTCH 275. Rising Fortunes and Rising Tides: The Dutch Golden Age and GERM 101. Elementary German I. 4 Credits. its Legacy. 3 Credits. Develops the four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) This study abroad course provides students with in-depth exposure to in a cultural context. In addition to mastering basic vocabulary and the history and culture of the Netherlands in the 17th century through the grammar, students will communicate in German about everyday topics. lens of its chief city, Amsterdam. Conducted in English. No knowledge of Students may not receive credit for both GERM 105 and GERM 101 or Dutch is required. 102. Honors version available Gen Ed: EE- Service Learning, NA, WB. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. DTCH 396. Independent Readings in Dutch. 3 Credits. GERM 101H. Elementary German I. 4 Credits. Permission of the instructor. Special readings and research in a selected Develops the four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) field or topic under the direction of a faculty member. in a cultural context. In addition to mastering basic vocabulary and Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same grammar, students will communicate in German about everyday topics. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Students may not receive credit for both GERM 105 and GERM 101 or Grading status: Letter grade. 102. Gen Ed: FL. Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses Grading status: Letter grade. DTCH 402. Elementary Dutch. 3 Credits. The first course in the Dutch language sequence, DTCH 402 is a rapid GERM 102. Elementary German II. 4 Credits. introduction to modern Dutch with emphasis on all fundamental This continuation of GERM 101 emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, components of communication. Completion of DTCH 402 fulfills level 2 of writing in a cultural context. Students enhance their basic vocabulary a foreign language. and grammar and will regularly communicate in German about everyday Gen Ed: FL. topics. Students may not receive credit for both GERM 105 and Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 101 or 102. Honors version available Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 101; permission of the instructor for DTCH 403. Intermediate Dutch. 3 Credits. students lacking the prerequisite. The second course in the Dutch language sequence, DTCH 403 focuses Gen Ed: FL. on increased skills in speaking, listening, reading, global comprehension, Grading status: Letter grade. and communication. Emphasis on reading and discussion of longer texts. Completion of DTCH 403 fulfills level 3 of a foreign language. GERM 102H. Elementary German II. 4 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, DTCH 402; permission of the instructor for This continuation of GERM 101 emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, students lacking the prerequisite. writing in a cultural context. Students enhance their basic vocabulary Gen Ed: FL. and grammar and will regularly communicate in German about everyday Grading status: Letter grade. topics. Students may not receive credit for both GERM 105 and GERM 101 or 102. DTCH 404. Advanced Intermediate Dutch. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 101; permission of the instructor for This third Dutch course completes the language sequence. DTCH 404 students lacking the prerequisite. aims to increase proficiency in language skills (reading, speaking, Gen Ed: FL. writing) and is constructed around a series of themes meant to introduce Grading status: Letter grade. students to Dutch society, culture, and history. Completion of DTCH 404 fulfills level 4 of a foreign language. GERM 105. Intensive Elementary German. 8 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, DTCH 403; permission of the instructor for Experience in German or fluency in another foreign language students lacking the prerequisite. recommended. An accelerated, intensive course that essentially covers Gen Ed: FL. materials of GERM 101 and 102 in one semester. Students may not Grading status: Letter grade. receive credit for both GERM 105 and GERM 101 or 102. Gen Ed: FL. DTCH 405. Topics in Dutch Culture: A Literary Survey. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Ability to read and speak Dutch at intermediate to advanced level recommended. Introduction to Dutch literature from Middle Ages to the GERM 203. Intermediate German I. 3 Credits. present. Survey of topics in Dutch culture. Students acquire necessary materials and opportunities to develop Requisites: Prerequisite, DTCH 404; permission of the instructor for further their language skills in a cultural context. They review and expand students lacking the prerequisite. upon the basic grammar covered in beginning German. Students may not Gen Ed: LA, NA. receive credit for both GERM 206 and GERM 203 or GERM 204. Honors Grading status: Letter grade. version available Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 102; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 9

GERM 203H. Intermediate German I. 3 Credits. GERM 220. Women in the Middle Ages. 3 Credits. Students acquire necessary materials and opportunities to develop This interdisciplinary course examines representations of women, further their language skills in a cultural context. They review and expand concepts of gender, and women's participation in the economic, political, upon the basic grammar covered in beginning German. Students may not religious, and cultural life of the Middle Ages. Discussion and texts in receive credit for both GERM 206 and GERM 203 or GERM 204. English. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 102; permission of the instructor for Gen Ed: LA, NA, WB. students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade Gen Ed: FL. Same as: WGST 220. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 227. Luther and the Bible. 3 Credits. GERM 204. Intermediate German II. 3 Credits. The Reformation was seminal for the development of the modern world. Emphasizes further development of the four language skills (speaking, This course will investigate Reformation literature written in the period reading, writing, listening) within a cultural context. Discussions focus on from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 17th century, and will modern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in literature and film. Students investigate how Reformation ideas resonate through today. Readings and may not receive credit for both GERM 206 and GERM 203 or GERM 204. discussions in English. Honors version available Gen Ed: HS, WB. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 203; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade students lacking the prerequisite. Same as: RELI 227. Gen Ed: FL. GERM 245. Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. An introduction to the writings of three great German writers of the 19th GERM 204H. Intermediate German II. 3 Credits. century who have had enormous impact on the lives of people around the Emphasizes further development of the four language skills (speaking, world. Readings and discussions in English. reading, writing, listening) within a cultural context. Discussions focus on Gen Ed: PH, NA. modern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in literature and film. Students Grading status: Letter grade. may not receive credit for both GERM 206 and GERM 203 or GERM 204. GERM 247. Music, Madness, and Genius: The Pathologies of German Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 203; permission of the instructor for Musical Literature. 3 Credits. students lacking the prerequisite. This course surveys the themes of madness and genius and their relation Gen Ed: FL. to music in German literature of the 19th and 20th century. Readings and Grading status: Letter grade. class discussions in English. Prior knowledge of music is recommended GERM 206. Intensive Intermediate German. 6 Credits. but not required. An accelerated intensive course that covers the materials of GERM 203 Gen Ed: LA, NA. and 204 in one semester. Students may not receive credit for both Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 206 and GERM 203 or GERM 204. GERM 249. German Literature in Translation. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 105; permission of the instructor for The idea of world literature was a German invention, proposed by Goethe students lacking the prerequisite. to describe literature of universal importance for all of humanity. German Gen Ed: FL. thought, and German literature, in particular, remains an important Grading status: Letter grade. component in this canon. This English-language literature course GERM 210. Getting Medieval: Knights, Violence, and Romance. 3 Credits. introduces newcomers to some highlights of German literature. Offers a historical perspective on the portrayal of medieval culture in film Gen Ed: LA, NA. from the 1920s to today. Specific topics include the ideal hero, the quest, Grading status: Letter grade. etiquette, chivalry, rituals, and love. Readings and discussions in English. GERM 265. Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi Gen Ed: VP, NA, WB. Germany. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. An examination of selected cinematic representations (both American GERM 211. Concepts in Medieval Culture. 3 Credits. and German) of Nazi Germany in terms of their aesthetic properties This course examines concepts that medieval texts utilize in order to and propagandistic value. Films with English subtitles; readings and articulate an understanding of human beings, their relations to others, discussions in English. their social, political, and religious worlds. Readings and discussions in Gen Ed: VP, NA. English. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: LA, WB. GERM 266. Weimar Cinema. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Explores important German films of 1919 to 1933, locating them in their GERM 216. The Viking Age. 3 Credits. artistic, cultural, and historical context. Treats the contested course of Lecture/discussion course on Viking culture, mythology, exploration, Weimar film history and culture and provides a theoretically informed and extension of power in northern Europe (approx. 750-1050 CE) as introduction to the study of film and visual materials. Films with English represented in sagas, the Eddas, runic inscriptions, and chronicles. subtitles; readings and discussions in English. Readings and discussions in English. Gen Ed: VP, NA. Gen Ed: HS, NA, WB. Grading status: Letter grade Grading status: Letter grade. Same as: CMPL 266. 10 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

GERM 267. Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema. 3 Credits. GERM 281. The German Idea of War: Philosophical Dialogues with the Examines exciting new directions in German and Austrian cinema from Literary and Visual Arts in WWI. 3 Credits. the past 20 years. By analyzing weekly films, students develop skills in This course brings into dialogue key ideas from seminal German film analysis and criticism; read reviews, interviews, and film-theoretical philosophers who anticipated, experienced, or survived the Great War, texts; write a film review; and produce a critical essay. Films with English with contemporary works of German literature, film, and painting. Of subtitles; readings and discussions in English. Students may not receive concern are the ways philosophy's concepts and art's themes shaped credit for both GERM 267 and 367. both one another and the idea of war. Readings and discussions in Gen Ed: VP, CI, NA. English. Grading status: Letter grade Gen Ed: PH, NA. Same as: CMPL 267. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 268. Auteur Cinema. 3 Credits. GERM 283. Freedom, Terror, and Identity: Modern Philosophy from Kant We will explore the works of one or more German director(s). By watching to Arendt. 3 Credits. a sample of a director's oeuvre over a significant period of time, students This course investigates how philosophical thought motivates, inspires, come to understand the director's arch, identify common threads in their and generates forms of agency and identity against cultural tendencies films, and consider how his or her work relates to larger developments that limit or erode freedom. Readings, lecture, and discussion in English. in German film history. Films with English subtitles; readings and Gen Ed: PH, NA. discussions in English. Grading status: Letter grade Gen Ed: VP, CI, NA. Same as: PWAD 283. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 284. Translations and Adaptations of German Pop Literature. 3 GERM 271. Women in German Cinema. 3 Credits. Credits. Introduction to feminist aesthetics and film theory by the examination of By reading a few longer novels over the course of the semester, students the representation of women in German cinema from expressionism to will learn how to hone their critical thinking and reading skills, become the present. All materials and discussions in English. Previously offered familiar with a foreign culture, and consider how American culture is as GERM/WGST 250. reflected back at them in these post-1960 German texts. Readings and Gen Ed: VP, NA. discussions in English. Grading status: Letter grade Gen Ed: LA, CI, NA. Same as: WGST 271, CMPL 271. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 272. History of German Cinema. 3 Credits. GERM 285. Contemporary German Literature in Translation. 3 Credits. This course explores the major developments of German cinema. All films This class will introduce students to the latest translations of recent with English subtitles. Readings and discussions in English. Previously novels by both established and up-and-coming authors of the post-1989 offered as GERM 275. German literary world. Readings and class discussions in English. Gen Ed: VP, NA. Gen Ed: LA, CI, NA. Grading status: Letter grade Grading status: Letter grade. Same as: CMPL 272. GERM 286. (Un)Welcomed Guests? German Reflections on Exile and GERM 279. Once Upon A Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Immigration. 3 Credits. Now. 3 Credits. This course introduces students to philosophical, literary, and film texts Considers fairy tales from several different national traditions engaging with the ethics of migration. How might the writings by and and historical periods against the backdrop of folklore, literature, depictions of refugees throughout German history resonate with the psychoanalysis, and the socializing forces directed at children. Students current crisis? The course includes a service learning component, so that may not receive credit for both GERM 279/CMPL 279 and GSLL 54. students gain experience working with local refugees and are able to Gen Ed: LA, NA. use their practical experience to reflect on the theoretical discussions in Grading status: Letter grade class. Readings and discussions in English. Same as: CMPL 279. Gen Ed: PH, EE- Service Learning, GL. GERM 280. 20th-Century German Philosophy and Modern Youth Cultures. Grading status: Letter grade. 3 Credits. GERM 290. Topics in German Studies. 3 Credits. This philosophical Approaches course investigates the rich European Examines selected themes in the history, culture, society, art, and/or intellectual foundations on which 20th-century youth culture erected its literature of German-speaking countries. Readings and discussions in triumvirate of sex, drugs, and rock music. English. Gen Ed: PH, NA. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 11

GERM 301. Advanced Applied German: Life, Work, Fun. 3 Credits. GERM 310. Höfische Kultur/Courtly Culture. 3 Credits. Introduction to present-day German-speaking societies with an emphasis Introduces students to the rich culture and exciting literature of medieval on practical contexts of everyday life (business, media, culture). The Germany. Topics include knights and ladies, castles, weaponry, clothing, course initiates a sustained reflection on class, gender, race, and political food, and fantasy. All materials and discussions in German. economy and prepares students for studying and interning in German- Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for speaking Europe. Further goals include improvement of pronunciation students lacking the prerequisite. and the mastery of grammar. Gen Ed: LA, NA, WB. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 204; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade. students lacking the prerequisite. GERM 311. The Crusades. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: CI, NA. Examination of the medieval notion of the crusade, conflicts and Grading status: Letter grade. exchange between East and West, and the ambiguous portrayals of the GERM 302. Advanced Communication in German: Media, Arts, Culture. 3 East in Western medieval literature. Readings and discussions in German. Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for Emphasis is on advanced communication and writing based on shorter students lacking the prerequisite. readings from contemporary life and culture in German-speaking Gen Ed: HS, NA, WB. societies. The readings provide subject matter for in-class discussion and Grading status: Letter grade. regular written compositions that explore a variety of practical genres GERM 325. Fools and Laughter in Early Modern German Literature. 3 (report, article, essay). Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 204; permission of the instructor for Fools are everywhere. Human folly is one of the most distinctive students lacking the prerequisite. preoccupations of German literature of the early modern period. This Gen Ed: SS, CI, NA. course will explore the multiple meanings of the German term "fool" in Grading status: Letter grade. works from the 15th to the 18th century. Readings and discussions in GERM 303. German Literature and Culture. 3 Credits. German. Readings, discussions, and essays in German. An appropriate conclusion Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for to GERM 101-204, it also provides the background for more advanced students lacking the prerequisite. undergraduate literature and culture courses. Gen Ed: LA, NA, WB. Requisites: Pre- or corequisite, GERM 301 or 302; permission of the Grading status: Letter grade. instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. GERM 330. The Age of Goethe. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA, CI, NA. German literature from the Enlightenment to Romanticism. Readings Grading status: Letter grade. include works by Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and the Romantics. GERM 304. Business German. 3 Credits. Readings and lectures in German. An introduction to the language and culture of German business, Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for commerce, and industry. Special emphasis is given to the acquisition of students lacking the prerequisite. advanced business-related language skills. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 204; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade. students lacking the prerequisite. GERM 349. Vienna-Munich-Berlin: Revolutions in German Art c. 1900. 3 Gen Ed: NA. Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Investigation of the interconnectedness of turn-of-the-century arts, GERM 305. Business German. 3 Credits. philosophy, psychoanalysis with focus on Berlin and Vienna. Works by GERM 304 recommended but not required. As a continuation of Nietzsche, Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Freud, Hesse, Hofmannsthal/Strauss, GERM 304 the course offers a more advanced treatment of the current Kafka, Rilke, T. Mann. Readings and lectures in German. German economic and business debates and events while further Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for strengthening relevant German language skills. students lacking the prerequisite. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 204; permission of the instructor for Gen Ed: LA, NA. students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: NA. GERM 350. Modern German Literature. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Study of major works of German literature from 1890 to the present by GERM 306. Introduction to German Translation. 3 Credits. such authors as Thomas Mann, Kafka, Brecht, Hesse, Böll, and Grass. This course provides a practical and theoretical introduction to Readings and lectures in German. translation from and into German. Translation practices will be discussed Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for not only from a linguistic perspective, but also from a cultural and students lacking the prerequisite. historical perspective. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade. students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: NA. Grading status: Letter grade. 12 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

GERM 367. Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema. 3 Credits. GERM 379. German-Language Swiss Literature and Culture. 3 Credits. Examines exciting new directions in German and Austrian cinema from This course offers an introduction to the German-language literature the past 20 years. By analyzing weekly films, students develop skills in and culture of Switzerland. Possible authors include: Jeremias Gotthelf, film analysis and criticism; read reviews, interviews, and film-theoretical Gottfried Keller, Robert Walser, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch, Christian texts; write a film review; and produce a critical essay. Readings and Kracht. discussions in German. Students may not receive credit for both Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for GERM 267 and 367. students lacking the prerequisite. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Gen Ed: VP, CI, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 380. Austrian Literature. 3 Credits. GERM 370. Readings in German Intellectual History. 3 Credits. Presents Austria from the Biedermeier period to the end of the monarchy. Introduction to German intellectual history from the Enlightenment to the Readings of works by authors such as Stifter, Schnitzler, Roth, Freud, rise of fascism. Close readings and discussions of texts by Kant, Schiller, Herzl, who articulate artistic, political, historical themes. Readings and Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Benjamin. Readings and lectures in lectures in German. German. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Gen Ed: PH, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 381. Berlin: Mapping a (Post) Modern Metropolis. 3 Credits. GERM 371. The German Novella. 3 Credits. Exploration of the rich cultural and turbulent political history of 20th- Famous novellas by authors such as Kleist, Brentano, Meyer, Keller, and century Germany by focusing on the literature, film, art, and architecture Kafka, from the early 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. produced in and about the city of Berlin. All materials and discussions in Readings and discussions in German. German. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 372. German Drama. 3 Credits. GERM 382. Representations of Violence and Terrorism in Contemporary German drama from the late Enlightenment to the present. Texts include German Literature and Film. 3 Credits. plays by dramatists such as Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hauptmann, Brecht, Investigates literary and cinematic response to rise in terrorism in and Dürrenmatt. Readings and lectures in German. Germany since 1970. Focus on cultural and political significance of the Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for gangster, the freedom fighter, and the terrorist. Readings and discussions students lacking the prerequisite. in German. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 373. "Denk ich an Deutschland. . .": German Lyrical Poetry through GERM 383. Adaptations of the Past: Literature of the German Democratic the Centuries. 3 Credits. Republic. 3 Credits. Survey of German lyric poetry from 18th to 21st century; major poets, Explores the practice in East Germany of adapting earlier literatures forms, literary movements discussed. Readings, class discussions, and and setting contemporary narratives in distant times. East German public recitation in German. authors used cultural heritage as a screen for utopian sentiments and for Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for pursuing the relationships between everyday life, historical conditions, students lacking the prerequisite. and political circumstances. Readings and discussions in German. Gen Ed: VP, EE- Performing Arts, NA. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: NA. GERM 374. German Theater: Words Speak as Loudly as Actions. 3 Grading status: Letter grade. Credits. GERM 384. Guilt, Suffering, and Trauma in Post War Germany. 3 Credits. Students study German plays, write original monodramas, and give two German texts from 1945 to the present trace the depth of fascist violence public dramatic performances. Readings, discussions, rehearsals in and its aftermath in German historical writing and identity. How have German aim to enable critique of dramas and theoretical texts. Germans positioned themselves toward their history over time? Does Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for one understand oneself as perpetrator, victim, or both? Readings and students lacking the prerequisite. discussions in German. Gen Ed: VP, EE- Performing Arts, NA. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit. 6 total credits. 2 total Gen Ed: PH, NA. completions. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 13

GERM 385. Schein/Sein: Turkish German Culture, 1964 to Today. 3 Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses Credits. GERM 400. Advanced German Grammar. 3 Credits. Students will learn about Turkish migration to Germany following Review of basic and advanced grammatical structures. Course WWII. Students will read texts written about Turkish guest workers, as strengthens application of grammar in context for undergraduate and well as first-hand accounts from guest workers and literary texts by graduate students. Graduate students also work with grammar issues Turkish artists of the first, second, and third generation. Readings and encountered in the foreign language classroom. discussions in German. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 204; permission of the instructor for Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: LA, CI, GL. GERM 450. Nietzsche, Hesse, and Mann. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Explores Nietzsche on literature, and Hesse's and Mann's literary GERM 386. Germany Goes East: Contemporary German Literature by thematization of Nietzsche's philosophy. Emphasis on conceptions of Eastern European Immigrants. 3 Credits. character, myth, music, and language, and Nietzsche's cultural and moral Since 1989, writers born in the former Eastern Bloc have taken German critique and its reevaluation in light of the 20th century political crises. literature by storm. We investigate this contemporary prose, exploring Taught in English; some readings in German for qualified students. themes like homeland and diaspora, communism and capitalism, German Gen Ed: LA, NA. history and the European Union. Grading status: Letter grade. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for GERM 466. Language Remains: German-Jewish Dialogues and Beyond. 3 students lacking the prerequisite. Credits. Gen Ed: LA, GL. This course explores German-Jewish writing before and after the Grading status: Letter grade. Holocaust, focusing on the social and political position of Jews in GERM 388. Discussion Section in German. 1 Credit. German-speaking countries and how those are manifest in their relation Students may enroll only in conjunction with a German Department to the German language. course offered in English that features an accompanying discussion Gen Ed: LA, NA. section. All materials and discussions in German. May count toward the Grading status: Letter grade major or minor in German. Same as: JWST 466. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 204; permission of the instructor for GERM 479. What is a Medium? German Media Theory from Aesthetics to students lacking the prerequisite. Cultural Techniques. 3 Credits. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit. 4 total credits. 4 total This seminar provides students across the humanities with an overview completions. of the historical and cultural relevance of German media theories. We Grading status: Letter grade. will discuss the distinction between "art" and "medium", the role of GERM 389. LAC Recitation. 1 Credit. technology and techniques, as well as the interaction of media theory A recitation section for selected courses that promote foreign language and practice with politics. Films with English subtitles; readings and proficiency across the curriculum (LAC). Readings and discussions in discussions in English. German. May count toward the major and minor in German. Gen Ed: VP, CI. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 204; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade students lacking the prerequisite. Same as: CMPL 479. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same GERM 493. Internship in German. 3 Credits. term for different topics; 4 total credits. 4 total completions. This course enables a student to earn a maximum of three credit hours Grading status: Letter grade. for a faculty-supervised internship directly related to the study of German GERM 390. Topics in German Studies. 3 Credits. literature or culture, or that uses the German language in day-to-day Examines selected themes in the history, culture, society, art, and/or conduct of business in a German-speaking environment. literature of German-speaking countries. Readings and discussions in Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303. German. Gen Ed: EE- Academic Internship, NA. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit. 6 total credits. 2 total students lacking the prerequisite. completions. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Grading status: Letter grade. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same GERM 500. History of the German Language. 3 Credits. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Development of phonology and morphosyntax from ancient times to Grading status: Letter grade. present. Political, social, and literary forces influencing the language. GERM 396. Independent Readings in German. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisites, GERM 302 and 303; permission of the Special readings and research in a selected field or topic under the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. direction of a faculty member. Grading status: Letter grade. Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Grading status: Letter grade. 14 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

GERM 501. Structure of German. 3 Credits. GERM 521. Variation in German. 3 Credits. LING 101 recommended for undergraduates. Introduction to formal LING 101 recommended for undergraduates. Major topics in analysis of German grammar (phonology, morphophonemics, prosodics, sociolinguistics: development of the German language, traditional morphology, syntax) within the framework of generative grammar. dialects, variation in contemporary speech, German as a minority Requisites: Prerequisites, GERM 302 and 303; permission of the language (Alsace, Belgium), German outside of Germany (Austria, instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Switzerland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein). Grading status: Letter grade Requisites: Prerequisites, GERM 302 and 303; permission of the Same as: LING 567. instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. GERM 502. Middle High German. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Introduction to medieval German language, literature, and culture. GERM 545. Problems in Germanic Linguistics. 3 Credits. Readings in English, German and Middle High German. Discussions in LING 101 recommended for undergraduates. Special problems will be German. selected for intensive investigation. Subject matter of the course will be Requisites: Prerequisite, GERM 303; permission of the instructor for adapted to the particular interests of the students and instructor. students lacking the prerequisite. Requisites: Prerequisites, GERM 302 and 303; permission of the Grading status: Letter grade. instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. GERM 505. Early New High German. 3 Credits. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit. 6 total credits. 2 total Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Reading and linguistic completions. analysis of Early New High German texts, with study of phonology, Grading status: Letter grade. morphology, and syntax. On demand. GERM 590. Topics in Germanic Linguistics. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. LING 101 recommended for undergraduates. GERM 508. Old High German. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisites, GERM 302 and 303; permission of the Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Reading and linguistic instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. analysis of Old High German texts, with study of phonology, morphology, Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit. 12 total credits. 4 total and syntax; comparison of the various dialects with other older dialects completions. of Germanic. On demand. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 601. Elementary German for Graduate Students. 3 Credits. GERM 511. Old Saxon. 3 Credits. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. With GERM 602, a two- Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Reading and linguistic semester sequence designed as preparation for the reading knowledge study of biblical texts (Heliand, Genesis) in Old Saxon, with study of examination for higher degrees in the humanities, social sciences, phonology, morphology, and syntax; comparison with Old English, Old physical sciences, etc. High German, and other Germanic dialects. On demand. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 602. Elementary German for Graduate Students, Continued. 3 GERM 514. Old Norse I (Old Icelandic). 3 Credits. Credits. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Reading and linguistic Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Continuation of analysis of Old Norse (Old Icelandic) texts, with study of phonology, GERM 601. morphology, and syntax; comparison with other older dialects of Grading status: Letter grade. Germanic. On demand. GERM 605. Comparative Germanic Grammar. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. LING 101 recommended GERM 515. Old Norse II (Old Icelandic). 3 Credits. for undergraduates. Analysis of phonological, morphological, and Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Continuation of syntactic development from Indo-European to the older stages of GERM 514. On demand. Germanic dialects. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 517. Gothic. 3 Credits. GERM 614. Foundations in German Studies I. 3 Credits. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Reading and linguistic First part of a three-semester sequence offering students a analysis of Gothic biblical texts, with study of phonology, morphology, and comprehensive, text-based survey of German literary history from the syntax; comparison with other older dialects of Germanic. On demand. High Middle Ages to the present. The course introduces students to Grading status: Letter grade. medieval German language, literature, and culture. Readings in English, German and Middle High German. Discussions in German. Permission of GERM 520. Stylistics: Theory and Practice. 3 Credits. the instructor for undergraduates. LING 101 recommended for undergraduates. Study of stylistic theories Grading status: Letter grade. and practices in literature and linguistics, analysis of a large variety of texts, written exercises, training in the use of stylistic devices. GERM 615. Foundations in German Studies II. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisites, GERM 302 and 303; permission of the Second part of a three-semester sequence offering students a instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. comprehensive, text-based survey of German literary history from Grading status: Letter grade. the High Middle Ages to the present. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 15

GERM 616. Foundations in German Studies III. 3 Credits. BCS–Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Third part of a three-semester sequence offering students a Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses comprehensive, text-based survey of German literary history from BCS 401. Elementary Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Language I. 3 Credits. the High Middle Ages to the present. Permission of the instructor for Proficiency-based instruction at the elementary level that develops the undergraduates. four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing). In addition to Grading status: Letter grade. mastering basic vocabulary and grammar, students will communicate in GERM 625. Early Modern Literature. 3 Credits. the target language about everyday topics. Previously offered as SECR Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. German literature of the 401. 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Close readings, lectures, and discussions Gen Ed: FL. of representative texts. Grading status: Letter grade. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same BCS 402. Elementary Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Language II. 3 Credits. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction in BCS 401. Course Grading status: Letter grade. emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, writing in a cultural context. GERM 630. 18th-Century Literature. 3 Credits. Students enhance their basic vocabulary and grammar and will regularly Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Literature in the communicate in the target language about everyday topics. Previously Age of Enlightenment. Close readings, lectures, and discussions of offered as SECR 402. representative texts. Requisites: Prerequisite, BCS 401; permission of the instructor for Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same students lacking the prerequisite. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 640. Early 19th-Century Literature. 3 Credits. BCS 403. Intermediate Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Language I. 3 Credits. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Literature of the Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction started in Elementary Romantic period. Close readings, lectures, and discussions of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian. Previously offered as SECR 403. representative texts. Requisites: Prerequisite, BCS 402; permission of the instructor for Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same students lacking the prerequisite. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 645. Later 19th-Century Literature. 3 Credits. BCS 404. Intermediate Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Language II. 3 Credits. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Literature of Realism, Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction started in BCS 403. Naturalism, and related movements. Close readings, lectures, and Previously offered as SECR 404. discussions of representative texts. Requisites: Prerequisite, BCS 403; permission of the instructor for Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same students lacking the prerequisite. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 650. Early 20th-Century Literature. 3 Credits. BCS 405. Advanced Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Language I. 3 Credits. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Major figures of the Advanced readings and discussion in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian on period from the turn of the century to World War II. Close readings, humanities and social science topics. Previously offered as SECR 405. lectures, and discussions of representative texts. Requisites: Prerequisite, BCS 404; permission of the instructor for Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same students lacking the prerequisite. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Gen Ed: BN. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. GERM 655. Later 20th-Century Literature. 3 Credits. BCS 406. Advanced Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Language II. 3 Credits. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Literature since World Advanced readings and discussion in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian on War II in both the Federal Republic and the former GDR. Close readings, humanities and social science topics. Continuation of BCS 405. lectures, and discussions of representative texts. Previously offered as SECR 406. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same Requisites: Prerequisite, BCS 405; permission of the instructor for term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: BN. GERM 685. Early 21st-Century German Literature. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Literature since BCS 411. Introduction to South Slavic Literatures and Cultures. 3 Credits. German unification in 1989. Close readings, lectures, and discussions of Introduction to South Slavic literatures and cultures with an emphasis on representative texts. 19th- through 21st-century prose. Taught in English. Some readings in Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same target language for qualified students. Previously offered as SECR 411. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. 16 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

BCS 490. Topics in South Slavic Cultures. 3 Credits. CZCH 411. Introduction to Czech Literature. 3 Credits. Study of topics in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and other South Slavic Introduction to Czech literature with an emphasis on 19th- and 20th- literatures and cultures not currently covered in any other course. The century prose. Taught in English. Some readings in Czech for qualified specific topic will be announced in advance. Taught in English. Some students. readings in target language for qualified students. Previously offered as Gen Ed: LA, BN. SECR 490. Grading status: Letter grade. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same CZCH 469. Milan Kundera and World Literature. 3 Credits. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. This course traces Milan Kundera's literary path from his communist Grading status: Letter grade. poetic youth to his present postmodern Francophilia. His work will be compared with those authors he considers his predecessors and CZCH–Czech influences in European literature. Taught in English. Some readings in Undergraduate-level Courses Czech for qualified students. CZCH 280. Closely Watched Trains: Czech Film and Literature. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA, BN. This course examines Czech film and literature against the backdrop of Grading status: Letter grade key historical, political, and cultural events of the 20th century. Films with Same as: CMPL 469. English subtitles. Readings and discussions in English. Gen Ed: LA, BN. CZCH 490. Topics in Czech Culture. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Study of topics in Czech and/or Slovak literature and culture not currently covered in any other course. The specific topic will be announced Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses in advance. Taught in English. Some readings in Czech for qualified CZCH 401. Elementary Czech I. 3 Credits. students. Proficiency-based instruction at the elementary level that develops the Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing). In addition to term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. mastering basic vocabulary and grammar, students will communicate in Grading status: Letter grade. Czech about everyday topics. Gen Ed: FL. HUNG–Hungarian Grading status: Letter grade. Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses CZCH 402. Elementary Czech II. 3 Credits. HUNG 401. Elementary Hungarian. 3 Credits. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction in CZCH 401. Course Pronunciation, structure of language, and reading in modern Hungarian. emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, writing in a cultural context. Gen Ed: FL. Students enhance their basic vocabulary and grammar and will regularly Grading status: Letter grade. communicate in Czech about everyday topics. HUNG 402. Elementary Hungarian. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, CZCH 401; permission of the instructor for Pronunciation, structure of language, and reading in modern Hungarian, students lacking the prerequisite. continued. Gen Ed: FL. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. CZCH 403. Intermediate Czech I. 3 Credits. HUNG 403. Intermediate Hungarian Language. 3 Credits. Continuation of proficiency-based instruction begun in Elementary Czech. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction begun in Elementary Requisites: Prerequisite, CZCH 402; permission of the instructor for Hungarian. students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: FL. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. HUNG 404. Intermediate Hungarian Language. 3 Credits. CZCH 404. Intermediate Czech II. 3 Credits. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction begun in Elementary Continuation of proficiency-based instruction begun in Elementary Czech. Hungarian, continued. Requisites: Prerequisite, CZCH 403; permission of the instructor for Gen Ed: FL. students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: FL. HUNG 405. Advanced Hungarian. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Advanced readings and discussion in Hungarian in humanities and social CZCH 405. Advanced Czech I. 3 Credits. science topics. Advanced readings and discussion in Czech in humanities and social Requisites: Prerequisite, HUNG 404; permission of the instructor for science topics. students lacking the prerequisite. Requisites: Prerequisite, CZCH 404; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade. students lacking the prerequisite. HUNG 406. Advanced Hungarian. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Advanced readings and discussion in Hungarian in humanities and social CZCH 406. Advanced Czech II. 3 Credits. science topics, continued. Advanced readings and discussion in Czech in humanities and social Grading status: Letter grade. science topics, continued. Requisites: Prerequisite, CZCH 405; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 17

HUNG 407. The Structure of Modern Hungarian. 3 Credits. PLSH–Polish Introduction to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of modern Undergraduate-level Courses standard Hungarian, with emphasis on some of its distinctive typological PLSH 280. The Modern Cinema of Poland. 3 Credits. features. An overview of Polish cinema from the 1950s into the 21st century. Requisites: Prerequisite, HUNG 401 or LING 101. Includes films of Kieslowski, Munk, Polanski, Wajda, and others. Films Grading status: Letter grade. with English subtitles. Readings and discussions in English. HUNG 411. Introduction to Hungarian Literature. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: VP, BN. An introduction to Hungarian literature of the last five centuries through Grading status: Letter grade. a selection of works in English translation, with supporting background materials including films (with English subtitles). Taught in English; some Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses readings in Hungarian for qualified students. PLSH 401. Elementary Polish I. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Proficiency-based instruction at the elementary level that develops the Grading status: Letter grade. four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing). In addition to mastering basic vocabulary and grammar, students will communicate in HUNG 490. Topics in Hungarian Culture. 3 Credits. Polish about everyday topics. Study of topics in Hungarian literature and culture not currently covered Gen Ed: FL. in any other course. The specific topic will be announced in advance. Grading status: Letter grade. Taught in English; some readings in Hungarian for qualified students. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same PLSH 402. Elementary Polish II. 3 Credits. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction in PLSH 401. Course Grading status: Letter grade. emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, writing in a cultural context. Students enhance their basic vocabulary and grammar and will regularly MACD–Macedonian communicate in Polish about everyday topics. Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses Requisites: Prerequisite, PLSH 401; permission of the instructor for MACD 401. Elementary Macedonian. 3 Credits. students lacking the prerequisite. Pronunciation, structure of language, and reading in modern Macedonian. Gen Ed: FL. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. PLSH 403. Intermediate Polish I. 3 Credits. MACD 402. Elementary Macedonian. 3 Credits. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction begun in elementary Pronunciation, structure of language, and reading in modern Macedonian, Polish. continued. Requisites: Prerequisite, PLSH 402; permission of the instructor for Gen Ed: FL. students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: FL. Grading status: Letter grade. MACD 403. Intermediate Macedonian. 3 Credits. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction begun in Elementary PLSH 404. Intermediate Polish II. 3 Credits. Macedonian. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction begun in elementary Gen Ed: FL. Polish, continued. Grading status: Letter grade. Requisites: Prerequisite, PLSH 403; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. MACD 404. Intermediate Macedonian. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: FL. Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction begun in Elementary Grading status: Letter grade. Macedonian, continued. Gen Ed: FL. PLSH 405. Advanced Polish I. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Advanced readings and discussion in Polish on humanities and social science topics. MACD 405. Advanced Macedonian. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, PLSH 404; permission of Instructor for students Advanced reading and discussion in Macedonian in humanities and lacking the prerequisite. social science topics. Gen Ed: BN. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. MACD 406. Advanced Macedonian. 3 Credits. PLSH 406. Advanced Polish II. 3 Credits. Advanced reading and discussion in Macedonian in humanities and Advanced readings and discussion in Polish on humanities and social social science topics, continued. science topics, continued. Grading status: Letter grade. Requisites: Prerequisite, PLSH 405; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: BN. Grading status: Letter grade. 18 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

PLSH 411. 19th-Century Polish Literature and Culture. 3 Credits. RUSS 203. Intermediate Russian Communication I. 3 Credits. An overview of the major literary, cultural and social movements in 19th- Transitional skills for fluent speaking, writing, listening, and reading for century Poland (Romanticism, Positivism and Young Poland) as they intermediate learners. Furthers learners' competency for communication relate to Europe more broadly. All readings and discussions in English; on everyday topics. Prepares learners for communication on subjects readings available in Polish for qualified students. beyond their immediate needs. Expands interactive skillset necessary to Gen Ed: LA, BN. maintain conversations and present individual opinions using complex Grading status: Letter grade. structures. Employs adapted and non-adapted learning materials to PLSH 412. From Communism to Capitalism: 20th- and 21st-Century promote mastery of contemporary standard Russian. Polish Literature and Culture. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 102; permission of the instructor for An overview of the literary and cultural movements in 20th and 21st students lacking the prerequisite. century Poland as they relate to major historical changes of the century Gen Ed: FL. (World War I and World War II, Communism, Post-communism, accession Grading status: Letter grade. to the European Union). All readings and discussions in English; readings RUSS 204. Intermediate Russian Communication II. 3 Credits. available in Polish for qualified students. Skills for fluent speaking, writing, listening, and reading for intermediate- Gen Ed: LA, BN. to-advanced learners. Develops and deepens learners' mastery of Grading status: Letter grade contemporary standard Russian. Stresses communication, individual Same as: JWST 412. expression, and fosters cultural sensitivity through systematic expansion PLSH 490. Topics in Polish Culture. 3 Credits. of learners' ability to conduct conversations in contemporary standard Study of topics in Polish literature and culture not currently covered Russian on a widening variety of culturally relevant subjects. in any other course. The specific topic will be announced in advance. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 203; permission of the instructor for Taught in English. Some readings in Polish for qualified students. students lacking the prerequisite. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same Gen Ed: FL. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. RUSS 270. Crimes and Punishments: Russian Literature of the 19th Century. 3 Credits. RUSS–Russian Reading and discussion of great works of 19th century Russian literature Undergraduate-level Courses (Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov). Readings RUSS 101. Basic Russian Communication I. 4 Credits. and lectures in English. Essential basics of Russian for everyday conversations. Lays foundation Gen Ed: LA, BN. for development of four language skills (speaking, writing, listening, Grading status: Letter grade. and reading) indispensable for communication on everyday topics in a RUSS 272. Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Revolution. 3 Credits. variety of contexts. Fosters interaction through acquisition of essential Literary situations and authors of 1880 to 1917, with emphasis on communicative and conversational strategies. Introduces learners to Chekhov and the Symbolists. Lectures and readings in English. structure of contemporary standard Russian through culturally relevant Grading status: Letter grade. materials. Gen Ed: FL. RUSS 273. Russian Culture and Society: 1890-1917. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Examines the extraordinary diversity of turn-of-the-century Russian culture (1890s to 1917); the proliferation of visual and performance RUSS 102. Basic Russian Communication II. 4 Credits. arts; the rise of popular culture; new artistic explorations of gender and Further basics of Russian for everyday conversations. Continues to lay sexuality. Lectures and readings in English. the foundation for development of four language skills (speaking, writing, Gen Ed: VP, BN. listening, and reading) indispensable for communication on everyday Grading status: Letter grade. topics in a variety of situational contexts. Fosters further interaction through acquisition of essential communicative and conversational RUSS 274. Russian Literature from the Revolution to Today. 3 Credits. strategies active in contemporary standard Russian through culturally Russian writers and literary problems from the Revolution to the present. relevant materials. Lectures and readings in English. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 101; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Gen Ed: FL. RUSS 275. Russian Fairy Tale. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. An introduction to the Russian fairy tale with attention to its roots in Russian folklore, its influence on Russian culture, and its connections with American folk and popular culture. Lectures and readings in English. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Grading status: Letter grade. RUSS 276. Mystery and Suspense in Russian Literature. 3 Credits. The study of mystery and suspense in Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Readings and class discussions in English. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 19

RUSS 277. Love, Sex, and Marriage in Soviet Culture. 3 Credits. RUSS 410. Intermediate-to-Advanced Russian Communication, A survey of the themes of love, sex, and marriage as they developed Conversation, and Composition in Context II. 3 Credits. in Russian literature and culture from the Bolshevik Revolution to Hones skills necessary for advanced communication, conversation, Perestroika. Readings and class discussions in English. and composition. Presents phonetics and grammar in contemporary Gen Ed: LA, BN. cultural context. Learners expand their practical knowledge of Grading status: Letter grade. contemporary standard Russian in the context of present-day culture, RUSS 278. Russian and Soviet Science Fiction. 3 Credits. while developing applied skills pertaining to comprehension, production This course will focus on key works of Russian and Soviet science fiction. of, and communication in Russian actively using authentic cultural Readings and discussions in English. materials. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 409; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade. students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: BN. RUSS 279. Sunstrokes in Dark Alleys: Russian Short Stories. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. An introduction to the Russian short story, focusing on the topic of love in all its intriguing aspects. The readings include works from the 18th RUSS 411. Advanced Communication, Conversation, and Composition in century to the 20th. Taught in English. Previously offered as RUSS 460. Contemporary Standard Russian I. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Develops and maintains advanced skills for speaking, writing, Grading status: Letter grade. listening, and reading in contemporary standard Russian in a variety of communicative situations. Assists advanced learners in solving a RUSS 280. Russian Villains, Western Screens: Ethno-Cultural wide range of communicative tasks with the aid of unadapted authentic Stereotypes on Page and Stage, in Movies and Minds. 3 Credits. cultural materials. A survey of fascinating history of Hollywood stereotypes of Russian Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 410; permission of the instructor for villainy from Elizabethan England to Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, Ivan students lacking the prerequisite. Drago, and Xenia Onnatop. What do these theatrical buffoons, cartoon- Grading status: Letter grade. movie monsters, and cinematic seductresses tell us about Russia -- and about ourselves as consumers of stereotypes? Readings and discussions RUSS 412. Advanced Communication, Conversation, and Composition in in English. Contemporary Standard Russian II. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: VP, BN. Prepares advanced learners of contemporary standard Russian for Grading status: Letter grade. communication with educated native speakers of the language in the area of their professional competence. Furthers interactive skills for RUSS 282. Russian Literature in World Cinema. 3 Credits. speaking, writing, listening, and reading in a variety of communicative Survey of masterpieces of Russian literature in the context of their situations pertaining to the learners' professional expertise. cinematic adaptations. Lectures and readings in English. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 411; permission of the instructor for Gen Ed: LA, BN. students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade Grading status: Letter grade. Same as: CMPL 282. RUSS 415. Introduction to Russian Literature. 3 Credits. RUSS 296. Selected Readings in Russian. 1-12 Credits. Reading and discussion of selected authors in Russian aimed at Permission of the instructor. Directed readings in Russian on topics in improving reading skill and preparing the student for higher level work in literature and linguistics not normally covered in scheduled courses. Russian literature. Readings and class discussions in Russian. Course Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same previously offered as RUSS 250. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 410; permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade. students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses Grading status: Letter grade. RUSS 409. Intermediate-to-Advanced Russian Communication, Conversation, and Composition in Context I. 3 Credits. RUSS 445. 19th Century Russian Literature and Culture. 3 Credits. Intermediate-to-advanced communication, conversation, composition, A survey of the major novels and stories of 19th century Russian fiction, phonetics, and grammar in contemporary cultural context. Meets which have entered the canon of world classics and redefined the idea the needs of learners looking to expand their practical knowledge of of literature. Taught in English; some readings in Russian for qualified contemporary standard Russian in the context of present-day culture, students. while developing active applied skills pertaining to comprehension, Gen Ed: LA, BN. production of, and communication in Russian. Grading status: Letter grade. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 204; permission of the instructor for RUSS 450. The Russian Absurd: Text, Stage, Screen. 3 Credits. students lacking the prerequisite. Examines "The Absurd" in Russian literature and culture as it developed Gen Ed: BN. from 19th century to the present. Through works by important Russian Grading status: Letter grade. writers and representative films students encounter facets of "The Russian Absurd" viewed as literary, cultural, and social phenomena. Taught in English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Grading status: Letter grade. 20 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

RUSS 455. 20th-Century Russian Literature and Culture. 3 Credits. RUSS 477. Wicked Desire: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, on Page and Screen. As Russia became a laboratory for sociopolitical experiments of 3 Credits. global significance, its culture reflected on the most spectacular of its Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955) became a global phenomenon aspirations and failures. Course surveys 20th-century literary, musical due to its unflinching portrayal of pedophilia. This course will delve and cinematic artifacts that emerged to affect the world profoundly. deeper into the novel's moral complexity, its international context, and Taught in English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. its reflection in mass culture, including movies by Stanley Kubrick (1962) Gen Ed: LA, BN. and Adrian Lyne (1997). Taught in English; some readings in Russian for Grading status: Letter grade. qualified students. RUSS 462. Russian Poetry of the 19th Century. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA, NA. Readings and lecture on 19th-century Russian poetry. Taught in English; Grading status: Letter grade some readings in Russian for qualified students. Same as: CMPL 477. Grading status: Letter grade. RUSS 479. Tolstoy. 3 Credits. RUSS 463. Russian Drama: From Classicism to Modernism. 3 Credits. Study of the major works of Tolstoy and a survey of contemporary Survey of Russian drama as a literary and theatrical phenomenon from authors and literary trends relevant to his creative career. Taught in the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Taught in English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade. RUSS 480. Russian-Soviet Jewish Culture: Lofty Dreams and Stark RUSS 464. Dostoevsky. 3 Credits. Realities. 3 Credits. Study of major works of Dostoevsky and a survey of contemporary This course delves into the scintillating literary, visual, musical, and authors and literary trends relevant to his creative career. Taught in cinematic culture created by Jewish universalists seeking to build their English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. new secular identity under the aegis of the Soviet Communist experiment Gen Ed: LA, BN. in the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik coup. Surveys the works of Isaac Grading status: Letter grade. Babel, Eduard Bagritsky, Marc Chagall, Sergey Eisenstein, Ilya Ehrenburg, Masha Gessen, Vasily Grossman, Osip Mandelshtam, and others. Taught RUSS 465. Chekhov. 3 Credits. in English; some readings in Russian for qualified students; films with Study of major works of Chekhov and survey of contemporary authors English subtitles. Honors version available and literary trends relevant to his creative career. Taught in English; some Gen Ed: LA, BN. readings in Russian for qualified students. Grading status: Letter grade Gen Ed: LA, BN. Same as: JWST 480. Grading status: Letter grade. RUSS 480H. Russian-Soviet Jewish Culture: Lofty Dreams and Stark RUSS 469. Bulgakov. 3 Credits. Realities. 3 Credits. Study of major works of Mikhail Bulgakov, including Master and This course delves into the scintillating literary, visual, musical, and Margarita, and a survey of contemporary Russian history and culture cinematic culture created by Jewish universalists seeking to build their relevant to his creative career. Taught in English; some readings in new secular identity under the aegis of the Soviet Communist experiment Russian for qualified students. in the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik coup. Surveys the works of Isaac Gen Ed: LA, BN. Babel, Eduard Bagritsky, Marc Chagall, Sergey Eisenstein, Ilya Ehrenburg, Grading status: Letter grade. Masha Gessen, Vasily Grossman, Osip Mandelshtam, and others. Taught RUSS 471. Gogol. 3 Credits. in English; some readings in Russian for qualified students; films with Study of major works of N. V. Gogol and a survey of contemporary English subtitles. authors and literary trends relevant to his creative career. Lectures and Gen Ed: LA, BN. seminar discussions. Taught in English; some readings in Russian for Grading status: Letter grade qualified students. Same as: JWST 480H. Gen Ed: LA, BN. RUSS 486. Exploration of Russian "Women's Prose" and Svetlana Grading status: Letter grade. Alexievich (Nobel Prize in Literature 2015). 3 Credits. RUSS 475. Literature of Russian Terrorism: Arson, Bombs, Mayhem. 3 Using Alexievich as our beacon, we will explore the writers behind Credits. the term "Russian Women's Prose": Valeria Narbikova, Lyudmila Literary representations of Russian revolutionaries and terrorists in the Petrushevskaya, Tatyana Tolstaya, and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. The course 19th and early 20th centuries. Readings by Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, will delve into gender identity and body politics as they manifest Bely, Joseph Conrad, and by some of the terrorists themselves. Taught in themselves in the literary texts of lasting aesthetic quality and social English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. relevance. Taught in English; some readings in Russian for qualified Gen Ed: LA, BN, CI. students. Grading status: Letter grade RUSS 490. Topics in Russian Culture. 3 Credits. Same as: PWAD 475. Study of topics in Russian literature and culture not currently covered in any other course. The specific topic will be announced in advance. Taught in English. Some readings in Russian for qualified students. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Grading status: Letter grade. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 21

RUSS 511. Russian Mass Media I. 3 Credits. RUSS 562. Structure of Russian. 3 Credits. Module 1. Fifth-year Russian, intended to expand and master the Examines Russian from the perspective of linguistic analysis. How knowledge of the language necessary for understanding deep ongoing do sounds, words, and sentences pattern in Russian? How do these changes in different spheres of Russian society. compare with patterns in other languages? Also considers the influence Requisites: Prerequisites, RUSS 411 and 412; permission of the instructor of evidence from Russian on the development of linguistic theory. for students lacking the prerequisites. Requisites: Prerequisite, LING 101 or RUSS 102; permission of the Gen Ed: BN. instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Grading status: Letter grade. Grading status: Letter grade RUSS 512. Russian Mass Media II. 3 Credits. Same as: LING 562. Module 2. Fifth-year Russian, intended to expand and master the knowledge of the language necessary for understanding deep ongoing SLAV–Slavic changes in different spheres of Russian society. Undergraduate-level Courses Requisites: Prerequisites, RUSS 411 and 412; permission of the instructor SLAV 86. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Madness. 3 Credits. for students lacking the prerequisites. The seminar considers the relationship between literature and madness Gen Ed: BN. through the works of major Russian writers (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Grading status: Letter grade. Turgenev, Chekhov, Nabokov). Gen Ed: LA. RUSS 513. Russian Culture in Transition I. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. Fifth-year Russian, intended to expand knowledge of the language necessary for understanding social changes that are taking place in SLAV 101. Introduction to Slavic Civilizations: Peasants, Popes, and Russian society, in literature, art, culture, and everyday human mentality. Party Hacks. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 411; permission of the instructor for Introduction to the essentials of Slavic cultures, including religion, students lacking the prerequisite. literature, history, art, cinema, folklore, geography, and music. Course Gen Ed: LA, BN. materials include films, slides, and recordings. Lectures and readings in Grading status: Letter grade. English. Gen Ed: BN, WB. RUSS 514. Russian Culture in Transition II. 3 Credits. Grading status: Letter grade. RUSS 513 is not a prerequisite. Fifth-year Russian, continuing with the theme of RUSS 513 offered in the fall semester. SLAV 248. Childhood and Adolescence in Slavic Literature. 3 Credits. Requisites: Prerequisite, RUSS 412; permission of the instructor for Childhood and adolescence as portrayed in both fictional and students lacking the prerequisite. autobiographical form by 19th-and 20th-century Russian, Polish, Czech, Gen Ed: LA, BN. and other East European writers, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Grading status: Letter grade. I. B. Singer, Schulz, Milosz. Lectures and readings in English. Honors version available. RUSS 515. Advanced Russian Communication, Composition and Grammar in the Professions I. 3 Credits. SLAV 248H. Childhood and Adolescence in Slavic Literature. 3 Credits. RUSS 515 provides advanced learners with opportunities to develop Childhood and adolescence as portrayed in both fictional and linguo-cultural skills necessary to practice their profession in Russian. autobiographical form by 19th-and 20th-century Russian, Polish, Czech, While engaged in academic discourse in contemporary standard and other East European writers, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Russian, learners research topics in their academic majors, prepare I. B. Singer, Schulz, Milosz. Lectures and readings in English. and give presentations and lead discussions focusing on their areas of Gen Ed: LA, BN, CI. professional competence. In addition to student-centered segments, Grading status: Letter grade. the course comprises instructor-led discussions of current affairs and SLAV 250. Introduction to Non-Russian Slavic/East European Culture. 3 academic subjects. Readings, viewing materials, and discussions in Credits. Russian. Reading and discussion of selected authors in the target language aimed Requisites: Prerequisites, RUSS 412 or permission of the instructor for at improving reading and analytical skills and preparing the student for students lacking the prerequisite. higher level work. Gen Ed: BN, EE- Mentored Research. Requisites: Prerequisite, BULG 404, CZCH 404, HUNG 404, MACD 404, Grading status: Letter grade. PLSH 404, or BCS 404; permission of the instructor for students lacking RUSS 516. Advanced Russian Communication, Composition and the prerequisite. Grammar in the Professions II. 3 Credits. Gen Ed: LA, BN. A continuation of RUSS 515, RUSS 516 develops and maintains the Grading status: Letter grade. linguo-cultural skills of advanced-to-professional learners by preparing SLAV 296. Directed Readings in a Slavic Language. 1-12 Credits. them for professional study-abroad experiences at Russophone Permission of the instructor. Directed readings in a Slavic language other institutions of higher learning. A seminar-style course with rotating than Russian on topics in literature and linguistics not normally covered instructors, it engages learners in contemplation, research, and in scheduled courses. discussion of subjects within the instructor's professional expertise. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same Readings, viewing materials, and discussions in Russian. term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Requisites: Prerequisites, RUSS 515 or permission of the instructor for Grading status: Letter grade. students lacking the prerequisite. Gen Ed: BN, EE- Mentored Research. Grading status: Letter grade. 22 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate-level Courses SLAV 464. Imagined Jews: Jewish Themes in Polish and Russian Literature. 3 Credits. Explores the fictional representation of Jewish life in Russia and Poland by Russian, Polish, and Jewish authors from the 19th century to the present. Taught in English; some foreign language readings for qualified students. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Grading status: Letter grade Same as: JWST 464. SLAV 469. Coming to America: The Slavic Immigrant Experience in Literature. 3 Credits. Fictional and autobiographical expressions of the Slavic and East European immigrant experience in the 20th century. Readings include Russian, Polish, Jewish, and Czech authors from early 1900s to present. Taught in English; some foreign language readings for qualified students. Gen Ed: LA, GL. Grading status: Letter grade Same as: JWST 469. SLAV 470. 20th-Century Russian and Polish Theater. 3 Credits. A comparative survey of the major trends in 20th-century Russian and Polish dramaturgy and theatrical production, with attention to aesthetic, professional, and political connections between the two. Taught in English; some foreign language readings for qualified students. Gen Ed: LA, BN. Grading status: Letter grade. SLAV 490. Topics in Slavic Culture. 3 Credits. Comparative study of topics in non-Russian Slavic literatures and culture not covered in any other course. Specific topics will vary and will be announced in advance. Taught in English; some foreign language readings for qualified students. Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions. Grading status: Letter grade. SLAV 580. East European Literary Criticism. 3 Credits. Survey of 20th-century Slavic literary criticism. Russian formalists, Bakhtin and his circle, Czech structuralists, Soviet semiotics. Emphasis on influence of Slavic criticism on development of Western literary criticism. Grading status: Letter grade.