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Russian Program coordinators: Margaret H. Mills, Russell Valentino
Professor: Margaret H. Mills
Professors emeriti: Vadim Kreyd, Norman Luxenburg, Ray J. Parrott Jr., Helene A. Scriabine, Harry B. Weber
Associate professor: Russell Valentino
Associate professor emeritus: Christopher A. Wertz
Assistant professor emerita: Miriam J. Gelfand
Undergraduate degree: B.A. in Russian
Undergraduate nondegree program: minor in Russian
Graduate degree: M.A. in Russian
Department web site: http://www.uiowa.edu/~russian The Russian program trains students in both written and spoken Russian and in Russian literature. It also provides them with an understanding and appreciation of Russian culture. A knowledge of Russian is seldom an end in itself; rather it complements another endeavor. Accordingly, the program encourages all of its students to pursue a joint major and to develop their interests in related or complementary fields. Traditionally at Iowa, many students have combined study of Russian with a double major in economics, global studies, history, journalism and mass communication, or political science. Recent trends have shown an increase in Russian students pursuing the International Business Certificate. These students enhance their future employment opportunities and lay a better foundation for graduate and professional programs in Russian area studies. Through the University's Bachelor of Arts degree program in international studies, interested students can focus their undergraduate training on a broader interdisciplinary understanding of this region of the world. For more information on this complementary B.A. program, see the International Studies section of the Catalog. With the increasing importance of Russian as a language of science and commerce, many students find that training in the language is an important asset to careers in the natural and physical sciences, engineering, medicine, and business. Students of journalism, library science, and the social and military sciences also have strengthened their career preparation through the study of Russian. Some students major in Russian before going into law, international relations, or another profession; others study Russian as preparation for graduate work in Slavic languages and literatures, comparative literature, English, or other humanistic disciplines. Russian majors with a B.A. and the required education courses occasionally seek teaching careers in secondary schools (see the relevant teacher-preparation programs in the College of Education section of the Catalog). A number of governmental agencies annually interview job candidates who have advanced training in Russian; these agencies give preference to applicants who couple strong language proficiency with a well-rounded background in area studies. Students who develop an exceptional facility with the language may pursue careers in literary and technical translation and interpretation. Undergraduate Program Students working toward the B.A. in Russian must meet the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences general degree requirements and earn at least 28 s.h. of credit in advanced Russian courses. Required courses are as follows. One of these:
| 041:109 Beginning Composition and Conversation I |
4 s.h. |
| 041:110 Beginning Composition and Conversation II |
4 s.h. |
Both of these sequences:
| 041:111-112 Third-Year Russian I-II |
8 s.h. |
| 041:113-114 Fourth-Year Russian I-II |
8 s.h. |
Three of these:
| 041:098 Introduction to Russian Culture |
3 s.h. |
| 041:100 Russian Literature in Film |
3 s.h. |
| 041:101 Russian Literature in Translation 1800-1860 |
3 s.h. |
| 041:102 Russian Literature in Translation 1860-1917 |
3 s.h. |
| 041:103 Russian Literature since 1917 |
3 s.h. |
| 041:128 Topics in Russian Music and Culture |
3 s.h. |
| 041:155 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky |
3 s.h. |
| 041:156 Invitation to Nabokov |
3 s.h. |
| 041:160 Women in Russian Society |
3 s.h. |
| 041:170 Rise of the Russian Novel |
3 s.h. |
| 041:187 Topics in Russian Language and Civilization I |
3 s.h. |
| 041:188 Topics in Russian Language and Civilization II |
3 s.h. |
Students majoring in Russian are urged to choose elective courses in economics, geography, history, or political science. Nearly every avenue of professional training and employment requires a solid background in Russian area studies. For example, criteria for U.S. Government employment include substantive knowledge in history, economics, political science, sociological disciplines, scientific specialties, demography, military-related skills, and in some cases cultural and religious background. In-depth knowledge of literature or linguistics without other substantive background may be of limited practical use in gaining employment. Four-Year Graduation Plan The following checkpoints list the minimum requirements students must complete by certain semesters in order to stay on the University's four-year graduation plan. Before the third semester begins: competence in first-year Russian and at least one-quarter of the semester hours required for graduation Before the fifth semester begins: competence in second-year Russian and at least one-half of the semester hours required for graduation Before the seventh semester begins: competence in third-year Russian, an additional course in the major, and at least three-quarters of the semester hours required for graduation Before the eighth semester: competence in fourth-year Russian and two more courses in the major During the eighth semester: enrollment in all remaining course work in the major, all remaining General Education courses, and a sufficient number of semester hours to graduate Honors Russian majors of junior or senior standing with a g.p.a. of at least 3.20 in Russian and a University of Iowa g.p.a. of at least 3.20 may enroll in the honors program in Russian. An extensive reading program with discussions, regular reports, and a semester paper constitute each honors work unit of 3 s.h. Students may take up to 9 s.h. of honors in Russian. Minor A minor in Russian requires 15 s.h. with a g.p.a. of at least 2.00. Of the 15 s.h., 12 must be taken at The University of Iowa in advanced courses. The program recommends that students seeking a minor in Russian focus their preparation on 100-level courses, such as the sequences 041:109-110, 041:111-112, and 041:113-114. Up to 3 s.h. in courses taught exclusively in English may be counted toward the minor. Elementary and Secondary Teaching Licensure Russian majors interested in licensure to teach in elementary and/or secondary schools must successfully complete the requirements for a major in Russian and must be admitted to the College of Education's foreign language teacher education program. Several courses in the College of Education are required, as is one semester of student teaching in the senior year. All students in the program have the option of earning a K-12 endorsement to teach Russian, along with the bachelor's degree. For information about the foreign languages teacher education program and graduate programs in foreign language education, contact the College of Education, Division of Curriculum and Instruction. Students who plan to use a Russian minor to teach at the elementary and/or secondary level must contact the College of Education concerning requirements. Language for Nonmajors The program offers a sequence of courses that may be used to complete the General Education Program. Students who have had experience with Russian should take the Russian Foreign Language Placement Test, offered during summer orientation programs and monthly by Evaluation and Examination Service. The test helps determine the level at which a student should begin Russian language study at The University of Iowa. Students with no background in Russian should begin their study with 041:001. The sequence 041:001-002-003-004 can be used to complete the General Education Program foreign language component. The Russian program also offers course work in several East European languages, including Czech, Serbo-Croatian, and Polish. Graduate Program Admission to the graduate program in Russian has been suspended. For information about program requirements, see the 2000-2002 General Catalog. Summer and Study Abroad Programs The program strongly encourages students to participate in intensive programs of language study, both in the United States and in Russia. University of Iowa students participate in summer, semester, or academic year programs under the auspices of the American Council of Teachers of Russia (ACTR), the association that directs academic language training programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Study programs in other cities and regions of Russia can be planned with faculty assistance. Before they study abroad, many students advance and refine their Russian language skills in various intensive summer programs at major American universities, including The University of Iowa. Inquiries should be directed to the Russian program. Course Work for Nonmajors A number of classes are open to all University students and are offered in English. These include survey courses in Russian literature and culture, a monograph course on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and courses on women in Russian society and Russia today. Special Activities The International Crossroads Community is located in Hillcrest Residence Hall. It welcomes both American and international students to broaden their knowledge of international issues and foreign languages and cultures. Its programs, designed for students of Russian as well as other languages, include weekly language dinners with students and faculty, public festivals and celebrations of cultural holidays, educational presentations on topics such as study abroad and international careers, and music and theater performances. Language Media Center The University's Language Media Center provides facilities for language learning, teaching, and research. Equipment in the center includes state-of-the-art computer, audio, and video facilities as well as standard and short-wave radios, tape and cassette recorders, record players, and soundproof recording rooms. An electronic classroom, a soundproof workroom, and a library of tape, disc, and cassette recordings also are available. Courses For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
| 041:000 Cooperative Education Internship |
0 s.h. |
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| 041:001 First-Year Russian I |
4 s.h. |
| Basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing; fundamentals of Russian grammar. GE: foreign language. |
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| 041:002 First-Year Russian II |
4 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:001, which is prerequisite. GE: foreign language. |
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| 041:003 Second-Year Russian I |
4 s.h. |
| Transition to upper-level study through oral practice, grammar exercises, tapes, videos, readings from the Russian press. GE: foreign language. Prerequisite: 041:002 or equivalent. |
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| 041:004 Second-Year Russian II |
4 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:003, which is prerequisite. GE: foreign language. |
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| 041:098 Introduction to Russian Culture |
3 s.h. |
| Development of art forms in Russia from middle ages to present; painting, music architecture, literature viewed against their political, historical, and social settings. Taught in English. GE: foreign civilization and culture. |
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| 041:099 Russia Today |
3 s.h. |
| Contemporary Russia, with focus on prevailing social, political, economic, ethnic, environmental conditions; attention to historical evolution of problems, current factors; what these factors might portend for the future. Taught in English. GE: foreign civilization and culture. |
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| 041:100 Russian Literature in Film |
3 s.h. |
| Transposition between the media of literature and film. |
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| 041:101 Russian Literature in Translation 1800-1860 |
3 s.h. |
| Major writers, themes, genres, and movements, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Chernyshevsky, Goncharov, Dostoevsky; analytical and literary/historical approach, with attention to the polemic between Westernizers, Slavophiles. Taught in English. GE: humanities. |
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| 041:102 Russian Literature in Translation 1860-1917 |
3 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:101, with focus on large-form novel and rebirth of short-form fiction, drama, and Symbolist novel in the Silver Age; Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Bely. Taught in English. GE: humanities. Same as 048:107. |
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| 041:103 Russian Literature since 1917 |
3 s.h. |
| Major writers, themes, genres, movements associated with post-1917 Russian literature, especially the literary ferment of the 1920s; regimentation of literary expression from the early 1930s to Stalin's death; major trends in post-Stalin literature. Taught in English. |
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| 041:104 Health Care and Health Reforms in Russia |
3 s.h. |
| Societal changes and their continuing effect on the Russian health care system; guest lectures from political science, public health, nursing, sociology, cultural anthropology. |
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| 041:108 Special Readings |
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| Russian-language materials determined by student and instructor. Prerequisite: 16 s.h. of language instruction. |
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| 041:109 Beginning Composition and Conversation I |
4 s.h. |
| Oral/aural skills developed through idiomatic usage, stylistics, phonetics, intonation, grammar review; supplemented by short stories, newspaper texts. Taught in Russian. Prerequisite: 041:004. |
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| 041:110 Beginning Composition and Conversation II |
4 s.h. |
| Oral-aural skills developed through idiomatic usage, stylistics, phonetics, intonation, grammar review; supplemented by short stories, conversation handbooks, current periodicals. Taught in Russian. Prerequisite: 041:004. |
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| 041:111 Third-Year Russian I |
4 s.h. |
| Advanced grammar, reading, conversation, and written skills through oral reports, compositions, conversation. Prerequisite: 041:004 or equivalent. |
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| 041:112 Third-Year Russian II |
4 s.h. |
| Advanced grammar, reading, conversation, and written skills through oral reports, compositions, conversation. Prerequisite: 041:111 or equivalent. |
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| 041:113 Fourth-Year Russian I |
4 s.h. |
| Perfecting spoken Russian and aural comprehension of native speech. Taught in Russian. Prerequisite: 041:112 or three years of college-level Russian or equivalent. |
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| 041:114 Fourth-Year Russian II |
4 s.h. |
| Perfecting spoken Russian and aural comprehension of native speech. Taught in Russian. Prerequisite: 041:113 or three years of college-level Russian or equivalent. |
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| 041:121 First-Year Polish I |
4 s.h. |
| Basic language skills--listening, reading, speaking, writing; fundamentals of grammar; emphasis on student participation; first of a two-semester sequence. |
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| 041:122 First-Year Polish II |
4 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:121, which is prerequisite. |
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| 041:123 Second-Year Polish I |
4 s.h. |
| Proficiency in vocabulary and grammatical foundations of elementary Polish; use and recognition of oral, aural, written, and reading language skills. Prerequisite: 041:122. |
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| 041:124 Second-Year Polish II |
4 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:123, which is prerequisite. |
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| 041:126 Cult Films of the Last Soviet Generation |
3 s.h. |
| Same as 048:126. |
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| 041:128 Topics in Russian Music and Culture |
3 s.h. |
| A wide variety of works, from 19th-century operas to popular songs of the 1960s; musical and textual features that make the works distinctively Russian. |
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| 041:130 Russian Humor in Literature |
3 s.h. |
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| 041:131 The Best of Soviet Film 1920's-1980's |
3 s.h. |
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| 041:132 Russian Women Writers, Artists, Composers |
3 s.h. |
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| 041:133 Eroticism in Russian Fiction |
3 s.h. |
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| 041:141 First-Year Czech I |
4 s.h. |
| Basic language skills--listening, reading, speaking, writing; fundamentals of grammar; emphasis on student participation; first of a two-semester sequence. |
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| 041:142 First-Year Czech II |
4 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:141, which is prerequisite. |
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| 041:143 Second-Year Czech I |
4 s.h. |
| Proficiency building in vocabulary and grammatical foundations of elementary Czech; use and recognition of oral, aural, written, and reading language skills. Prerequisite: 041:142 or equivalent. |
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| 041:144 Second-Year Czech II |
4 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:143, which is prerequisite. |
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| 041:155 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky |
3-4 s.h. |
| Tolstoy's War and Peace, Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and short stories. Taught in English. Same as 008:150. |
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| 041:156 Invitation to Nabokov |
3 s.h. |
| Nabokov's works and his writings on Russian literature. Same as 008:156, 048:156. |
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| 041:160 Women in Russian Society |
3 s.h. |
| Historical developments that have shaped women's role in contemporary Russian society; readings in cultural history, political science, autobiographical and fictional literature, contemporary film. Taught in English. |
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| 041:164 Topics in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies |
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| Same as 048:164. |
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| 041:168 Twentieth-Century Czech Authors |
3 s.h. |
| Twentieth-century prose literature of Czechoslovakia; philosophical works of Capek, Hrabal, Paral, Kundera, Klima, Havel. Taught in English. |
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| 041:170 Rise of the Russian Novel |
3 s.h. |
| Russian literary history, theory of the novel, genre theory; Pushkin to Dostoevsky. Taught in English. Junior or higher standing required. Same as 048:170. |
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| 041:171 First-Year Uzbek I |
4 s.h. |
| Basic language skills--listening, reading, speaking, writing; fundamentals of grammar; emphasis on student participation; first of a two-semester sequence. |
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| 041:172 First-Year Uzbek II |
4 s.h. |
| Continuation of 041:171, which is prerequisite. |
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| 041:181 First-Year Serbo-Croatian I |
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| Basic language skills--listening, reading, speaking, writing; fundamentals of grammar; emphasis on student participation; first of a two-semester sequence. |
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| 041:182 First-Year Serbo-Croatian II |
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| Continuation of 041:181, which is prerequisite. |
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| 041:187 Russian Language and Civilization I |
3 s.h. |
| Five periods of Russian language and civilization: Old Slavs and Eastern Slavs, Christianity in Russia, Tartar period, Moscow period, St. Petersburg period; historical, language, and literary analysis of each period. |
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| 041:188 Topics in Russian Language and Civilization II |
3 s.h. |
| Orthodoxy. |
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| 041:199 Honors |
arr. |
| Consent of program coordinator required. |
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Primarily for Graduate Students
| 041:276 Seminar: Russian Linguistics |
3 s.h. |
| May include Russian morphosyntax, colloquial Russian, Russian pragmatics, Slavic gender linguistics. |
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| 041:279 Independent Research |
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| Directed study. Consent of instructor required. |
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