Prerequisite: First-year course of any Slavic language (cf. Language is viewed in connection with history, geography, mythology and religion, family and social structure, literature, and alphabets. The course introduces the student to the exploration of linguistic relations among Slavic languages and dialects, as well as to language contacts between Slavic and its neighbors. Stone Books to Sky Books: Book as Institution, Commerce and Art in the Slavic Tradition Įvolution of book and written/printed media in the Slavic world: legends (and forgeries) of ancient letters, mediaeval illuminated manuscripts, baroque visual poetry, pocket books for enlightened ladies and peasant comic strips, futurist painting and writing on faces, hand-written and painted books of the modernist artists and poets. Lectures, with emphasis on visual presentation. Includes the Scythians, whose battle skills and gold fascinated the ancient world Kyivan Rus and its princes, monks and martyrs the rise of the Cossacks and Peter the Great, founder of the Russian Empire and St. Lectures are richly illustrated with slides.Įast Slavic Civilizations to the 18th Century Ī survey of East Slavic civilizations through art, architecture, literature and religion. Examines the rise of the medieval Slavic nations, states, churches, and cultures Scythian, Greco-Roman, Byzantine, Western European, and Oriental influences. Surveys the history, archaeology, anthropology, religions, literature, architecture, and art of the Slavs from their pre-historic origin to the Baroque era. Roma and Slavs have interacted for centuries and this course examines the history of that interaction with particular emphasis on linguistic and educational rights. How do these Jewish minorities perceive and identify themselves? How are they perceived by others?īoth in popular culture and the headlines, Roma (Gypsies) are often depicted as either romantic or negative.
Literature about the Jewish community in Slavic countries.
To place students in the language course best suited to their linguistic
Staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial Work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to Russian Serbian Slavic Linguistics Ukrainian) (Croatian Czech & Slovak Macedonian Polish
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