For current course offerings, see courses@brown. Be sure to look at all three rubrics: RUSS (for Russian language, culture, and literature), PLSH (for Polish language), CZCH (for Czech language, culture and literature), and SLAV (for inter-Slavic subjects).
Russian Language
- RUSS 0100, 0200 Introductory Russian
- RUSS 0110 Intensive Russian
- RUSS 0300, 0400 Intermediate Russian
- RUSS 0500, 0600 Advanced Russian
- RUSS 1110 Special Topics in Russian Studies I: Advanced Reading and Conversation
- RUSS 1120 Special Topics in Russian Studies II: Advanced Reading and Conversation
- RUSS 1500 Approaches to Russian Literature
Russian Literature and Culture in Translation
First Year Seminars
- RUSS 0320 Gogol: A Journey into the Fantastic
- RUSS 0320 Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov: The Art of the Novel
- RUSS 0320 Demons and Angels in Russian Literature
- RUSS 0320 Crime and Punishment
Other Courses
- RUSS 1000 Russian Modernism and the Arts
- RUSS 1020 Russia Rediscovered
- RUSS 1050 Russian Culture: From Peter The Great to Putin
- RUSS 1200 Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction
- RUSS 1220 Nationalism and Nationalities
- RUSS 1250 Russian Cinema
- RUSS 1290 Russian Literature in Translation I: Pushkin to Dostoevsky
- RUSS 1300 Russian Literature in Translation II: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
- RUSS 1340 The Russian Novel
- RUSS 1440 Imagining Moscow: Utopia and Urban Spaces in 20th-Century Russian Culture
- RUSS 1450 Love, Adultery, and Sexuality
- RUSS 1550 Beyond the Kremlin: Russian Culture and Politics in the 21st Century
- RUSS 1600 Literature and History: Russian Historical Imagination in the European Context
- RUSS 1660 Sexuality and Revolution in 20th-Century Russian Culture
- RUSS 1800 Pushkin
- RUSS 1810 Tolstoy
- RUSS 1820 Dostoevsky
- RUSS 1840 Nabokov
- RUSS 1857 Russian Intellectual History
- RUSS 1860 Chekhov
- RUSS 1880 Russian Postmodernism and Cold War Narratives
- RUSS 1960 Independent Study
- RUSS 2010 Eighteenth-Century Literature
- RUSS 2410 Movements and Genres in Russian Literary Culture
- RUSS 2610, 2620 Seminars in Russian Literature:
- Eugene Onegin
- Russian Romanticism
- RUSS 2710, 2720 Seminars in Russian Literature
- Pasternak
- Russian Decadence and Symbolism
- Poetic Structure
- RUSS 2810 Russian Poetry: Silver Age
Polish Language and Culture
- PLSH 0100 & 0200 Introductory Polish
- PLSH 0300 & 0400 Intermediate Polish
- PLSH 0500 & 0600 Advanced Polish
- PLSH 1050 Polish Cinema: Uneven Histories, Uneasy Aesthetics
Czech Language and Culture
- CZCH 0100, 0200 Introductory Czech
- CZCH 0300, 0400 Intermediate Czech
Czech Literature and Culture in Translation
- CZCH 1000 Dimensions of Czech Animation: Contexts, Interpretations, and Dialogues with the East
- CZCH 1050 Contemporary Czech Society and Literature in Translation
Slavic Cultures & Linguistics
Courses in this area study culture and literature from several countries, including Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
- SLAV 1260 Aesthetics at War: Eastern European Film and Military Conflicts
- SLAV 1300 Sociolinguistics: Former USSR / Eastern Europe
- SLAV 1770 Prague and St. Petersburg: A Tale of Two Cities
- SLAV 1790 Central European Literature
- SLAV 1890 Slavic Contributions to Literary Theory
- SLAV 1950 Independent Study
- SLAV 1970 topics rubric offering different courses, including:
- Václav Havel: Playwright, Philosopher and Politician
- Spirituality in Russian Literature
- Introduction to the Historical Phonology of Slavic Languages
- Gender and Identity in Modern and Contemporary East Central European Visual Arts
- SLAV 1981 Independent Research in the Slavic Language(s)
- SLAV 1990 Senior Thesis
- SLAV 2210 Old Church Slavonic
- SLAV 2610, 2620 Topics in Comparative Slavic Linguistics