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SLA Slavic Languages and Literatures CoursesSLA100Y1 The basic features of the grammar. Acquisition of essential vocabulary for practical conversation and for comprehension. Development of reading and writing skills. (May not be taken by students who, in the judgement of the Department, qualify for entry into SLA 220Y) SLA106Y1 Basic vocabulary, essential morphology, simple sentence patterns. Regular language laboratory sessions. Reading of contemporary texts. Open only to students with little or no knowledge of the language. SLA107Y1 Basic phonology, morphology and syntax of the standard literary language, both eastern and western variants. Composition and oral practice. Open only to students with little or no knowledge of the language. SLA108Y1 Basic vocabulary, simple sentence patterns, essential morphology. Regular language laboratory sessions. Open only to students with no knowledge of the language. SLA109Y1 The basic features of the grammar of the Macedonian literary language. Acquisition of essential vocabulary for practical conversation and for comprehension. Development of reading and writing skills. Open only to students with little or no knowledge of the literary language. (Offered in alternate years) SLA117Y1 Basic phonology, morphology and syntax of the standard literary language. Composition and oral practice. Open only to students with little or no knowledge of the language. SLA201Y1 The course teaches students who already have elementary knowledge of Russian to read
texts and research materials in Russian in such fields as history, social sciences,
international relations, etc. Successful completion equals a pass in RLQ. SLA202H1 (formerly SLA102H) 26L SLA205Y1 Grammar, composition, and conversation. Readings from Czech literature. Open only to students with little or no knowledge of the language. SLA206Y1 Intensive study of morphology; translation into Polish. Literary texts; oral practice. SLA207Y1 Introduction to systematic study of morphology. Reading and translation of more complex
texts. More advanced composition and oral practice. SLA208Y1 Study of morphology through grammar drills; oral practice in the language laboratory;
reading of texts from Ukrainian literature. SLA209Y1 Systematic study of morphology. Reading and translation of more complex texts; more
advanced composition; oral practice. (Offered in alternate years) SLA215H1 (formerly SLA215Y) 26L SLA216Y1 Major cultural traditions, historical processes, myths, and figures that have shaped and redefined Polish civilization and national identity are problematized and contextualized with the help of works of literature, history, philosophy, political science, music, visual and performing arts. Readings in English (also available in Polish). (Offered in alternate years) SLA217Y1 (formerly SLA217H) 52L SLA218Y1 A general survey of Ukrainian culture through an examination of selected literary works and their historical context. The course covers the period from Kievan Rus’ to the present. Readings in English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA220Y1 Continuation of morphology. Word formation, composition, and translation. Intensive
reading of classical and contemporary literary texts. Oral practice. Not intended for
native speakers. SLA224H1 Thematic and stylistic analysis of works by Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov, Room, and others in the context of post-revolutionary literature, theatre, visual arts, and aesthetic theory. English subtitles. SLA225H1 From the “New Wave” of the 60s to the present. The films of major directors — Forman, Menzel, Chytilová — and of talented newcomers. Screening of films censored and prohibited over the last 25 years. English subtitles. (Offered every three years) SLA226H1 The “Polish School” in cinema, its predecessors and successors, their artistic accomplishments, major theoretical and thematic concerns, and their place on the map of European cinema. Films of Ford, Wajda, Polanski, Konwicki, Borowczyk, Has, Kawalerowicz, Zanussi, Kieslowski, and of the new generation of Polish film makers. Films and discussions in English. (Offered every three years) SLA227Y1 (formerly SLA227H) 52L SLA228H1 A selection of Soviet Ukrainian novels and short prose in English translation. From the
intellectual novel of the 1920s, through socialist realism, to the new prose of the 1980s.
Authors include Pidmohylny, Antonenko-Davydovych, Honchar, Zahrebelny, Tiutiunnyk, and
Drozd. (Offered in alternate years) SLA238H1 A selection of literary texts depicting or reflecting the experience and perceptions of
Ukrainians in Canada from the first immigrants to the present. Texts include works
originally written in English, French and Ukrainian, but all readings are in English.
Authors include: Kiriak, Kostash, Ryga, Galay, Suknaski, Haas. (Offered in alternate
years) SLA240Y1 Stories and novels by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and others. The
construction of personal and national identity: changing relations between self and
society, women and men, parents and children, rich and poor. The development and diversity
of narrative forms. Readings in English and, for Russian majors, in the original. SLA250Y1 (formerly SLA150Y) 52L SLA251H1 Surveys through lectures and audio-visual presentations the history of religions, literature, folklore, ethnography, architecture and art of the Slavs from their origins to the Baroque era; examines distinctive Slavic cultural elements with explorations of Greco-Roman, Byzantine, West European and Oriental features. SLA252H1 An exploration of the elements of the short story through close readings of works by 19th and 20th century writers. Stories in translation by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Olesha, Babel, and others. SLA299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 42 for details. SLA305Y1 Morphology, syntax, composition and translation, oral practice. Contemporary Czech
texts representing diverse styles. SLA306Y1 Syntax, word formation, and stylistics. Compositions and precis. Critical evaluation of
literary works and articles in Polish. Extensive reading and translation. (Offered in
alternate years) SLA307Y1 Introduction to the syntax of phrases, simple and compound sentences. Translation,
composition and oral practice based on extensive reading from various authors. (Offered in
alternate years) SLA308Y1 Review of morphology and study of syntax. Short compositions based on literary and
critical texts. Voluntary language laboratory. SLA314H1 Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and short works. Dostoevsky’s political, psychological, and religious ideas as they shape and are shaped by his literary art. Readings in English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA315H1 One major Russian novel: its genesis, structure, artistic devices, and philosophical significance. Various critical approaches; cognate literary works. Students are expected to have read the novel before the course begins. Consult the Department for title of novel. Readings in English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA317H1 War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and some shorter works. Tolstoy’s political, psychological, and religious ideas as they shape and are shaped by his literary art. Readings in English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA320Y1 Syntax of the simple sentence. Problems in grammar and word formation. Composition,
translation and conversation. Reading and discussion of literary and non-literary texts. SLA321Y1 Expansion of vocabulary and development of conversational skills. Readings and films
stimulating discussion of Russian history, culture, art, and contemporary events and
issues. SLA326Y1 Study of the poetics of the short story and of structural, stylistic, and thematic
diversity of this genre in Polish literature as it evolved from the period of Romanticism
to the present. Readings in Polish. (Offered in alternate years) SLA327H1 Studies of short stories written since 1950. Focus on innovative writers and current
trends. Readings in the original and English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA330Y1 Structure and history. Reading and linguistic study of Old Slavonic texts. SLA337H1 Classic plays from the Renaissance to the present studied in reference to the
contemporary national, ethnic and ideological background of south-eastern Europe. SLA340Y1 Pre- and post-revolutionary Russian literature. The novel and short prose, Bunin,
Andreev, Remizov, Bely, Sologub, Gorky, Zamyatin, Babel, Olesha, Fadeev, Pasternak,
Solzhenitsyn, and others. Readings in the original and in English. (Offered in alternate
years) SLA343H1 A study of major books and writers of the last forty years (novels, short stories, verse) which are involved in the post-Stalin artistic and cultural liberation, the rediscovery of Russian literature’s links with its own vital tradition, and development of a Russian brand of modern and ‘post-modern’ writing. (Readings in English) SLA347H1 Historical and stylistic study of the oral epic traditions, Christian and Moslem. The
role of folklore and customs in the development of national literature. Readings in the
original and English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA354H1 Studies of the works of a major 19th century writer (Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Leskov, etc.). Consult the department for details of course content. (Readings in English) SLA355H1 Studies of the works of a major 20th century writer (Pasternak, Babel, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, etc.). Consult the department for details of course content. (Readings in English) SLA367H1 Selected stories, plays; stylistic, structural, and thematic analysis, literary and historical context, influence in Russia and the West. Readings in English and, for Specialists in Russian, in the original. (Offered in alternate years) SLA370H1 An introduction to Russian Romanticism through the major works of one or more poets
(chosen variously from Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, et al.). Close readings
of lyric and narrative verse. The rudiments of Russian versification. Relations with
Western European poets. All texts read in Russian. SLA398H0/399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. See page 42 for details. SLA402H1 A series of translation exercises from English to Russian (and some from Russian to
English) designed to expand students’ ability to respond to and translate a variety
of advanced prose texts in different styles and registers. SLA405Y1 Studies in the Czech and Slovak literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries: national
revival; realism; modernism; avant-garde. (Offered every three years) SLA406Y1 Study of drama as a literary and theatrical genre in its thematic and formal diversity in Polish literature from the 16th to the 20th century is combined with investigations of the role of the theatre as cultural institution in different periods of Polish history. Readings in English (in Polish for students in the major program). (Offered every three years) SLA408H1 The development of the short story from Kvitka-Osnovianenko to the present day. All
readings in the original. (Offered every four years) SLA414H1 The much discussed problems of modernity are put into a Central European context. Major
concepts of modernity are analyzed with the help of works from Czech, German, Hungarian,
and Polish literatures. Readings in translation. Co-taught course. Readings in English.
(Offered every three years) SLA416Y1 Innovative reading of Polish fiction from the 18th to the 20th century. Study of narrative strategies, of the function of language and literary conventions, of various styles and poetics, of the issue of representation. In addition to the works of fiction (primarily novels, but also short stories), the reading list includes literary criticism and literary theory. Readings in English (in Polish for students in the major program). (Offered every three years) SLA417H1 Close study of representative modernist works by major twentieth-century poets.
Symbolism, Expressionism, Surrealism and other avant-garde movements. Readings in the
original and English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA418H1 The development of Ukrainian drama from Kotliarevsky to the present day. All readings
in the original. (Offered every four years) SLA419Y1 A survey of Ukrainian poetry from Skovoroda to the present day. All readings in the
original. (Offered every four years) SLA420Y1 Syntactic structures and their relation to meaning and style, word order, intonation.
Consolidation of morphology, vocabulary building through extensive reading. Translation,
composition, and oral practice. SLA424Y1 A study of the effects on aesthetic form of the totalitarian experience in Russia,
Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Russian, Polish, and Czech avant-garde, poised between the
bankruptcy of traditional aesthetics and the search for new forms in the
post-revolutionary/post-Holocaust world. Co-taught course. Readings in English. (Offered
every three years) SLA425Y1 A study of original and translated works to trace the formation and development of the
Czech literary language and to train students to differentiate literary styles, genres,
and epochs. Readings include chronicles, sermons, travel accounts, dialogues and
significant literary texts. (Offered every three years) SLA426H1 A survey of major poets from Kochanowski to Norwid. Renaissance, Baroque,
Neoclassicism, and Romanticism. Readings in the original. (Offered in alternate years) SLA428Y1 Major works by Kulish, Nechui-Levytsky, Myrny, Franko, Kotsiubynsky, Kobylianska,
Vynnychenko, Ianovsky, Pidmohylny, and Honchar. Readings in Ukrainian. (Offered every four
years) SLA429H1 A critical study of Taras Shevchenko. Life, works, and significance. Readings in
Ukrainian. (Offered every four years) SLA430Y1 Historical phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax of Russian. Reading and
linguistic study of Old Russian texts. SLA434Y1 Political, sociological, and historical understanding of nationalism and national
identity as they manifest themselves in Polish literature, history and culture. National
search for self-identification, the politics of identity and history, perceptions of
identity and nationhood. Readings in English. SLA435Y1 (formerly SLA435H) 52P SLA438H1 Beginning with an overview of the synchronic structure of Ukrainian (phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax), the course introduces various styles of contemporary
Ukrainian. Emphasis is on the practical usage of various styles. A number of
sociolinguistic questions are examined: dialects, jargons, slang, and the language
situation in contemporary Ukraine. SLA439H1 Historical phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax of Ukrainian. Reading and
analysis of texts. SLA440Y1 The lyric poetry of Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Nekrasov, Fet, Blok, Akhmatova,
Esenin, Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva and Pasternak. Stylistic and structural aspects. Readings in
Russian. SLA445H1 This class explores Prague as a meeting point of different cultures. Questions of centre and margin of multiculturalism and nationalism are discussed, based on texts by Jan Neruda, F. Kafka, M. Cvetaeva and others. SLA446H1 Major poetic movements, genres, and texts from Mloda Polska (Tetmajer, Kasporowicz,
Staff, Lesmian, Micinski, Wyspianski) to the present. Study of the metaphyscial, ethical,
and aesthetic dimensions of the “Polish School of Poetry.” Readings in Polish.
(Offered every three years) SLA448H1 A survey of Ukrainian literature from the Renaissance to the National Revival:
polemical literature, baroque poetry, school drama, religious and philosophical treatises,
history-writing, dumy and satire. Major figures include Smotrysky, Vyshensky, Prokopovych
and Skovoroda. Works are read in modern Ukrainian and English translations. (Offered every
four years) SLA452Y1 The phonology, morphology and syntax of contemporary standard Russian from a formal and
semantic standpoint. SLA456H1 This course covers the fundamental developments in the history of the West Slavic
languages, with a primary emphasis on the comparative phonology and morphology of Polish
and Czech, but with additional reference to Slovak and Lusatian. SLA458H1 This course introduces students to contemporary Ukrainian using approaches beyond
grammar and traditional classroom interaction. Emphasis is on the enhancement of language
skills in the context of contemporary Ukraine. Students develop practical skills based on
traditional media as well as on multimedia resources, including those of the Internet. SLA466H1 Who is “the other” in Polish literature? Examining the linguistic and
literary means of constructing the image of the other and investigating cultural,
political, and historical reasons for such constructions. Readings in English (in Polish
for students in the major program). SLA468H1 This course introduces the problems of written translation of literary works from
Ukrainian into English: evaluation and comparison of existing translations, practical
exercises; treatment of common difficulties in translating, various literary genres and
styles, dialectical, social, generational and other subvarieties of language, as well as
idiomatic and figurative language. SLA476H1 Theoretical thought and theatre practice of these directors are placed within a context
of theatre reforms in the 20th century, from naturalism and symbolism, through
retheatricalization of theatre, to a ritualistic and mythic holy theatre. Readings in
English. SLA498Y1 A scholarly project on an approved literary or linguistics topic supervised by one of
the Department’s instructors. SLA499H1 A scholarly project on an approved literary or linguistics topic supervised by one of
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