Slavic Studies

Courses

Not all courses are offered all semesters. Please note that Slavic courses are offered under several rubrics: CZCH, PLSH, RUSS, and SLAV, and sometimes COLT, HIST, POLS, INTL and TAPS.

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Courses

Not all courses are offered all semesters. Please note that Slavic courses are offered under several rubrics: CZCH, PLSH, RUSS, and SLAV, and sometimes COLT, HIST, POLS, INTL and TAPS.

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).

Czech Language and Culture

  • CZCH 0100, 0200 Introductory Czech
  • CZCH 0300, 0400 Intermediate Czech

Polish Language and Culture

  • PLSH 0100 & 0200 Introductory Polish
  • PLSH 0300 & 0400 Intermediate Polish 
  • PLSH 0500 & 0600 Advanced Polish

Russian Language and Culture

  • 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

First Year Seminars

  • CZCH 0320B Exploring Robots, Puppets, Artificial Life, and the Human Mind through Creative Works from Czechia
  • RUSS 0320A Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov: The Art of the Novel
  • RUSS 0320C Demons and Angels in Russian Literature
  • RUSS 0320E Crime and Punishment through Literature

Russian Literature and Culture in Translation

  • RUSS 1050 Russian Culture: From Peter The Great to Putin
  • RUSS 1220 Nationalism and Nationalities
  • RUSS 1240 Russian and Soviet Art: 1757-Present
  • 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 1460 Totalitarian Art and Its Opponents
  • RUSS 1530 Russian Orientalism in the Visual, Literary and Performing Arts, 1760-1940
  • RUSS 1550 Beyond the Kremlin: Russian Culture and Politics in the 21st Century
  • RUSS 1650 The Rise and Fall of the Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde
  • RUSS 1660 Sexuality and Revolution in 20th-Century Russian Culture
  • RUSS 1800 Pushkin
  • RUSS 1810 Tolstoy
  • RUSS 1820 Dostoevsky
  • RUSS 1840 Nabokov
  • RUSS 1848 Central Europe: An Idea and its Literature
  • RUSS 1857 Russian Intellectual History
  • RUSS 1860 Chekhov
  • RUSS 1880 Russian Postmodernism and Cold War Narratives
  • RUSS 1960 Independent Study
  • RUSS 1990 Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s
  • RUSS 2017 Roaring Twenties: Literature, Arts, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Russia
  • RUSS 2020 The Eighteenth-Century and Its Legacies
  • RUSS 2610C Russian Romanticism
  • RUSS 2810 Russian Poetry: Silver Age

Czech Literature and Culture in Translation

  • CZCH 1000 Dimensions of Czech Animation: Contexts, Interpretations, and Dialogues with the East

Slavic Cultures & Linguistics

Courses in this area focus on culture and literature from several countries, including Russia, the Czechia, and Poland.

  • SLAV 1300 Sociolinguistics: Former USSR / Eastern Europe
  • SLAV 1770 Prague and St. Petersburg: A Tale of Two Cities
  • RUSS 1848 Central Europe: An Idea and its Literature
  • SLAV 2210 Old Church Slavonic