Graduate Student Courses and Teaching
Upper level Russian language courses, in addition to all advanced literature and culture courses (sequences above 1000), serve both graduate students and undergraduate concentrators in Slavic Studies. They also attract students whose interests range across the entire university curriculum. Students of International Relations and Comparative Literature are particularly well represented among our learners, quite a few of whom go on to study and/or work abroad. Courses with a number in the 2000 sequence are primarily intended for graduate students.
Our language courses provide valuable classroom teaching experience to graduate students. An appointment as a Teaching Assistant or Teaching Fellow requires taking part in a pre-service Second Language TA Workshop and in-service meetings with the course coordinator. These sessions acquaint TAs with issues of language acquisition and pedagogy and seek to influence both the development of the TAs' philosophy of teaching and their teaching practice.
Suggested Courses
- Seminars in Russian Literature:
- RUSS2020 The Eighteenth Century and its Legacies
- RUSS2610 Russian Romanticism
- RUSS2710 Roaring Twenties: Literature, Arts, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Russia
- RUSS2720 Pushkin
- RUSS2810 Russian Poetry: Silver Age
- COLT2650 Theories of Literature ()
- HIST2070 Seminar in the History of Early Modern Europe
- HIST2080 Seminar in European Social History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- TAPS2200 Abstraction and Resistance
- POLS2120 Proseminar in Political Theory
- SLAV2900 Theory and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching (required)
More detailed course information can be found by performing a search at https://cab.brown.edu/. For best results, search under the RUSS, CZCH, PLSH, and SLAV rubrics, as well as COLT, TAPS, HIST, POLS, and INTL.