Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
Russian (RUSS)

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RUSS 102   INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND CUL Credits 4.00  Spring 02
Continuation of Russ 101. Enrollment limited to 20.
Fulfills Part 2 of Language Requirement.
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM         Cooke, Olga               Enr: 3 Max: 20

RUSS 202   INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTUR Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Continuation of Russ 201. Enrollment is limited to 20.
001 RH 305 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Cooke, Olga               Enr: 6 Max: 20

RUSS 331   RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND COLONIALISM       Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course includes a broad survey of postcolonial theories starting with
Edward Said and including Homi Bhabha, Leela Gandhi, Gayatri Spivak, Michael
Hechter, Helen Tiffin and others. The course is based on Ewa M. Thompson
Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism published by Greenwood
in 2000. Lietrary readings include Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace; Alexander
Pushkin's "Bronze Horseman" and "Journey to Arzrum"; Valentine Rasputin's "Live
and Remember" and other stories; Anatoly Rybakov's Children of the Arbat;
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward; Ludmila Petrushevskaya's "Night", Tatiana
Tolstaia's Sleepwalker in a Fog; and Valeiya Novodvorskaya's essays.
Also offered as SLAV 331
001 RH 302 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Thompson, Ewa M.          Enr: 1 Max: 0

RUSS 352   DOSTOEVSKY                               Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Study of the major works of Dostoevsky.  No knowledge of Russian required.
Novels discussed include The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The
Idiot; The Possessed; Notes form the Dead House; Notes from the Underground.
Also offered as Huma 381.
001 RH 204 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Thompson, Ewa M.          Enr: 10 Max: 0

RUSS 411   MODERN POLISH POETRY IN TRANSLATION      Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course presents the living poets of Poland, from Nobel Prize winners
Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996) to their youngest
competitors, Krzysztof Koehler and Maciej Swietlicki. The course explores how
resistance and collaboration, Catholicism and Communism, have shaped and
continued a major literary tradition of Europe basing on a selection of poetry
in English translations.
Also offered as SLAV 411
001 RH 302 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Skorczewski, Dariusz      Enr: 3 Max: 0

RUSS 450   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Content varies depending on student interests and the availability of
instructors.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0