RUSS

4 11:15am Grineva 709 Hamilton Hall

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RUSS

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

11:15am Grineva 709 Hamilton Hall

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

11:15am Marina Tsylina 5.00 8/12 707 Hamilton Hall RUSS UN2102 SECOND-YEAR RUSSIAN II. 5.00 points. s groups. Reading, composition, and grammar review Spring 2026: RUSS UN2102 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Prerequisite

RUSS UN2101 RUSS V1102 or the equivalent. RUSS UN2101 or the equivalent. Drill practice in small

11:15am 607 Hamilton Hall

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

11:25am Mikhailova 317 Hamilton Hall RUSS UN3102 THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN II. 4.00 points. permission. Enrollment limited. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian Spring 2026: RUSS UN3102 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Prerequisite

RUSS UN2102 RUSS V3101 or the equivalent. RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent and the instructors

11:25am Mikhailova 316 Hamilton Hall LING UN3101 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS. 3.00 points. An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination Fall 2025: LING UN3101 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

302 Barnard Hall RUSS UN3221 LIT # REVOLUTION (20TH C LIT). 3.00 points. The revolutionary period (1905-1938) in Russia was not only one of extreme social upheaval but also of exceptional creativity. Established ideas about individuality and collectivity, about how to depict reality, about language, gender, authority, and violence, were all thrown open to radical questioning. Out of this chaos came ideas about literature and film (just for example) which have shaped Western thought on these subjects to this day. In this course we will study a variety of media and genres (poetry, manifestos, film, painting, photomontage, the novel, theoretical essays) in an effort to gain a deep understanding of this complex and fascinating period in Russian cultural history Spring 2026: RUSS UN3221 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Othr Other Lipovetsky RUSS UN3222 TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY. 3.00 points. Two epic novels, Tolstoys War and Peace and Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; A Gentle Creature, a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required Spring 2026: RUSS UN3222 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Othr Other Lipovetsky CLRS UN3313 Resistant Mind: Colonial Power, Optics, Narrative. 3.00 points. “Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other,” writes Toni Morrison. The immersion in the Other’s inner self is one of the most valuable experiences we derive from reading fiction, but how, exactly, is this immersion effect created? What makes it possible for us to know fictional characters more intimately than we know our closest friends? Is it not slightly disturbing and even unethical to expose a subject, albeit fictional, as radically as the fiction writer exposes and studies the hero? This course surveys a variety of ways in which the private life and the consciousness of the Other can be represented through discursive practices of literature, film, and photography. Drawing its perspective from postcolonial t studies, formal narratology, and poststructuralist criticism, this course examines how different methods of narrating the Other participate in constructing an ethics of power and resistance within a work of art. We read and view a diverse selection of works ranging from the classics of Russian and American fiction to postcolonial photography and documentary productions which experiment with perspective and power dynamic. No prerequisites

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

609 Hamilton Hall RUSS UN3333 VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU. 3.00 points. For non-native speakers of Russian. permission. permission. The course is devoted to the reading, analysis, and discussion of a number of Russian prose fiction works from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Its purpose is to give students an opportunity to apply their language skills to literature. It will teach students to read Russian literary texts as well as to talk and write about them. Its goal is, thus, twofold: to improve the students’ linguistic skills and to introduce them to Russian literature and literary history. In 2007-2008: A close study in the original of the “fallen woman” plot in Russian literature from the late eighteenth century. Conducted in

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Prerequisite

two years of college Russian or the instructor's two years of college Russian or the instructor's

709 Hamilton Hall Grineva RUSS UN3431 RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPKRS II. 3.00 points. is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3430, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian Spring 2026: RUSS UN3431 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Prerequisite

RUSS V3430 or the instructors permission. This course

709 Hamilton Hall RUSS UN3595 SENIOR SEMINAR. 4.00 points. A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Content is determined by students thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography. Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis Fall 2025: RUSS UN3595 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

913 Milstein Center CLSL GU4000 Hebrew: History, Politics, Culture, Literature. 3.00 points. This class offers an introduction to Hebrew culture from a historical and literary perspective, focusing on the intersection of linguistic ideology, and literary and cultural creativity. What, we will ask, is the relationship between what people think about Hebrew and what they write in Hebrew? We will investigate the manners in which Hebrew was imagined – as the language of God, the language of the Jews, the language of the patriarchy, the language of secularism, the language of Messianism, the language of nationalism, a dead language, a diasporic Eastern European language, a local Middle Eastern Language, ext., and how these conflicting imaginaries informed Hebrew creativity. This class does not require prior knowledge of Hebrew. Students proficient in Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Ladino, and/or European languages are encouraged to contact the instructor in advance for supplementary material in these languages CLRS GU4011 DOSTOEVSKY,TOLSTOY # ENG NOVEL. 3.00 points. A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (Netochka Nezvanova; The Idiot; A Gentle Creature) and Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Family Happiness; Anna Karenina; The Kreutzer Sonata) in conjunction with related English novels (Bronte's Jane Eyre, Eliot's Middlemarch, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway). No knowledge of Russian is required Fall 2025: CLRS GU4011 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrol

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

709 Hamilton Hall

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

609 Hamilton Hall Mikhailova CPLS GU4740 The Narratology of “Modernity”. 3.00 points. We have a consciousness of ourselves as placed specially in history, in an epoch which is essentially different from all that has come before: the modern. In respect of having such a discourse about ourselves, minimally, it may be true. Since at least the seventeenth century, intellectuals have been elaborating histories of modernity’s origin and theories of its distinction. This course does not attempt to adjudicate what is the true or best theory of the modern, but rather inquires into the discursive and historical conditions for telling narratives about modernity’s advent and constructing theories of its nature, and their aporiai. Topics will vary but may include the advent of “history” as a genre and non-Western “historical” genres; providential time, the saeculum, and prophecy; the dialectic of break and period; the delimiting of non-modernities, such as the primitive/traditional, the feudal, and the postmodern; the search for narrative agents, such as the nation, the state, and the class; schemes of the ontological disunity of modernity; modernism, the avant-garde, and the aesthetic forms of historicity; capitalism, socialism, and revolution; philosophy’s claim to historical diagnosis and the therapeutic refusal thereof; the desire for and attempts to construct anti-historical forms of narration and their limits RUSS GU4910 LITERARY TRANSLATION. 4.00 points. Workshop in literary translation from Russian into English focusing on the practical problems of the craft. Each student submits a translation of a literary text for group study and criticism. The aim is to produce translations of publishable quality Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 593 Russian Literature and Culture (in

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu

Prerequisite

four years of college Russian or the equivalent. four years of college Russian or the equivalent.

709 Hamilton Hall LING GU4800 LANGUAGE # SOCIETY. 3.00 points. How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power Spring 2026: LING GU4800 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

Subject

RUSS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.barnard.edu