Slavic Languages and Literatures Courses (Croatian; Czech & Slovak; Macedonian; Polish;
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First Year Seminars The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here. The Department reserves the right to place students in the language course best suited to their linguistic preparation Interdisciplinary Courses SLA202H1 Literature about the Jewish community in Slavic countries. How do these Jewish minorities perceive and identify themselves? How are they perceived by others? SLA222H1 Both in popular culture and the headlines, Roma (Gypsies) are often depicted as either romantic or negative. Roma and Slavs have interacted for centuries and this course examines the history of that interaction with particular emphasis on linguistic and educational rights. SLA251H1 Surveys the history, archaeology, anthropology, religions, literature, architecture, and art of the Slavs from their pre-historic origin to the Baroque era. Examines the rise of the medieval Slavic nations, states, churches, and cultures; Scythian, Greco-Roman, Byzantine, Western European, and Oriental influences. Lectures are richly illustrated with slides. SLA253H1 A survey of East Slavic civilizations through art, architecture, literature and religion. Includes the Scythians, whose battle skills and gold fascinated the ancient world; Kyivan Rus’ and its princes, monks and martyrs; the rise of the Cossacks; and Peter the Great, founder of the Russian Empire and St. Petersburg. Lectures, with emphasis on visual presentation. Readings in English. SLA254H1 Evolution of book and written/printed media in the Slavic world: legends (and forgeries) of ancient letters, mediaeval illuminated manuscripts, baroque visual poetry, pocket books for enlightened ladies and peasant comic strips, futurist painting and writing on faces, hand-written and painted books of the modernist artists and poets. Readings in English. SLA255H1 The course introduces the student to the exploration of linguistic relations among Slavic languages and dialects, as well as to language contacts between Slavic and its neighbors. Language is viewed in connection with history, geography, mythology and religion, family and social structure, literature, and alphabets. SLA256H1 An introduction to the comparative study of folk narratives – myths, legends, epics, fairy-tales from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans. Topics include the structural and psychological analysis and interpretation of oral folk traditions; the cultural specificity of Slavic folklore; its adaptation and treatment in literature, music, and visual arts. SLA299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here. SLA302H1 The course examines the genesis and evolution of the image of the Jew, central to all European cultures, from the theology and psychology of Christian anti-Judaism to their reflection in folklore, visual, plastic, and verbal arts, and to the survival of the imaginary Jew in secular forms. Special attention is given to the Jews of Slavic and East European imagination. All readings are in English. SLA303H1 An exploration of Central- and East European authors writing in different languages but united by Jewish ancestry. We examine the responses of artists and intellectual of Jewish extraction (Sholem Aleichem, Babel’, Bialik, Heine, Kafka, Mandel’shtam, Sforim, Zhabotinskii, etc.) to cultural secularization and modernity. Taught in English. Readings in English. SLA380H1 Examines the multi-faceted nature of languages by comparing issues of language contact and conflict in the Former Soviet Union and in Central and Southeastern Europe. Explores issues such as language standards, language rights, language conflict, and linguistic identity. SLA395Y1 This course examines a special topic in Slavic Literature. The topic varies from year to year. Consult the department for more details. SLA396H1 This course examines a special topic in Slavic Studies. The topic varies from year to year. Consult the department for more details. SLA398H0 SLA399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here. SLA424H1 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) SLA453H1 In East European literary texts of the pOST 1990 era, this course examines connections and disconnections between gender and social change, and women's resistant and compliant discourses on war, nationalism, reproduction, the fictional representation of rape as a war crime, and women writers' responses to postcommunist eroticism and feminisms. All readings in English. 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. SLA477H1 This course begins with selected theoretical approaches to performance. It then focuses on the examples of major European artists and performances of the 20th and 21st centuries and their impact on our understanding of contemporary staging practices. Eventually, these theories and practices are used for different forms of analysis of the selected performances, including live productions in Toronto theatres. 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 the Departments instructors. SLA107Y1 Basic phonology, orthography, morphology and syntax of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Development of the four basic language skills – reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Acquisition of essential vocabulary for practical conversation and for comprehension. SLA217H1 A survey of the two millennia of Serbian and Croatian culture in literature, science, philosophy, and the fine arts. Topics include: the legacy of the Byzantine and Roman Empires; medieval Serbian and Croatian states; Renaissance, Baroque, and Reformation; national movements; Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Taught in English. Readings in English. SLA247H1 An overview of the Yugoslav cinematic tradition from THE 1950s to the lATE 1980s. Topics include Yugoslav film-making in the context the European New Wave; cinema d’auteur (Makavejev, Pavlovi, Kusturica); art and politics in a communist state; the struggle of experimentalism and traditionalism. Taught in English. All films with subtitles. SLA307Y1 Systematic study of orthography and syntax. Advanced composition and oral practice. Reading and translation of more complex texts from Serbian writers. (Offered in alternate years) SLA316Y1 Systematic study of orthography and syntax. Advanced composition and oral practice. Reading and translation of more complex texts from Croatian writers. (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. SLA337H1 Classic plays from the Renaissance to the present studied in reference to the contemporary national, ethnic and ideological background of south-eastern and central Europe. SLA347H1 Historical and stylistic study of the customs, oral lore and traditions among pagan, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Moslem Slavs. The role of folklore in the ethnogenesis of national culture. Readings in the original and English. SLA357H1 This course explores the experience and definition of exile in the works of South Slavic authors; from Miloš Crnjanski’s depiction of London to Danilo Kiš’s Parisian affair, and Dubravka Ugreši’s weary travels in Berlin. We examine a variety of literary genres in light of exilic studies theory. Taught in English. Readings in English. SLA407H1 Verse siNCE 1900 by the major poets of the nation. Focus on the Croatian Moderna, Expessionism and other Avant-Garde movements. Readings in Croatian and English. SLA417H1 Verse siNCE 1900 by the major poets of the nation. Focus on the Serbian Moderna, Expessionism and other Avant-Garde movements. Readings in Serbian and English. SLA105Y1 Grammar, composition, and conversation. Readings from Czech literature. Open only to students with little or no knowledge of the language. SLA204Y1 Using selected texts of diverse styles, this class surveys Czech grammar and introduces various aspects of syntax, composition and translation. Special attention will be paid to oral practice. SLA215H1 Some of the most important features of Czech and Slovak cultural history are introduced in a survey of the national myths, traditions and cultural trends. (Offered every three years) 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) SLA305H1 Morphology, syntax, composition and translation, oral practice. Contemporary Czech texts representing diverse styles. SLA404H1 Beginning with the forged manuscripts of the early 19th century this course examines Czech Romanticism, Realism and Symbolism within the context of European culture. Readings include works by Macha, Nimcova, Neruda, Zeyer, Havlieek Borovsky. (Offered every three years). Readings in Czech and Slovak. SLA405Y1 The experiments of THE 1920s serve as a point of departure for studies in Czech culture from the early 20th century to the present artistic innovations. Readings include works by Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige, Karel apek, F. Langer, V. Nezval, M. Kundera, V. Linhartová and others. (Offered every three years). Readings in Czech. 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) SLA435H1 Advanced students are presented with a variety of texts - literary, journalistic, scientific - tailored to their needs and interests. (Offered every three years) 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. SLA455H1 Based on the theories of the Prague linguistic Circle this class explores selected concepts of Czech stylistics and syntax. Examples include a variety of literary styles, genres, and epochs. This is a Literature course that requires an advanced knowledge of Czech. SLA465H1 Introduces the problematics of public places and private spaces through various works of Czech writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. A variety of texts by modern Czech authors are explored through the prism of contemporary narrative theory. Special attention is paid to questions of differences in styles and epochs. SLA475H1 Introduces students to the most important plays of contemporary Czech authors. (This is graduate/undergraduate course) SLA485H1 Laughter and forgetting is a recurrent theme in both Kundera’s fictional and essayistic work. This class will examine the variations of this topic in Kunders’s work and discuss the prosaic, dramatic and essayistic texts of his Czech period and attempt to place Kundera within the European context of the ‘art of fiction’. All readings in English. 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) SLA209Y1 Systematic study of morphology. Reading and translation of more complex texts; more advanced composition; oral practice. (Offered in alternate years) 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. SLA206Y1 Intensive study of morphology; translation into Polish. Literary texts; oral practice. 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) 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) SLA306H1 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) SLA336H1 Continuation of 306H1. A variety of cultural materials are used to advance skills in composition, translation, and conversation. Reading and discussion of literary and non-literary texts. SLA346H1 Probes the paradoxes of politics, culture and everyday life by analyzing the complex coexistence of art and literature with changing cultural politics in a totalitarian and post-totalitarian system, with simplistic ideology and political dissent, and with prevailing myths about the West and the East. Readings in English (Polish for majors). SLA356H1 The amazing cultural transformations of Poland in the last fifteen years within a changing Europe. The impact of these changes on Poland’s social consciousness and the perception of identity, history, and nationhood. The most recent literature, fine arts, music, and popular culture. Readings in English (Polish for majors). SLA406H1 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) SLA436H1 An advanced course on artistic, political, aesthetic, philosophical, and ideological dissenters who questioned, undermined, and redefined the main traditions in Polish culture from the 18th to the 21st centuries.Readings in English (Polish for majors). SLA100Y1 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 SLA210H1 or SLA220Y1). SLA210H1 This course is designed for students with Russian background – students who are raised at home where Russian is/was spoken, who speak or merely understand basic Russian but are otherwise illiterate in Russian (cannot/have difficulty reading or writing). This course helps heritage learners of Russian develop/maintain writing and reading skills as well as develop cultural literacy. SLA211H0 Emphasis on expansion of vocabulary, developing conversational and listening skills, and intensive practice in real-life situations. Offered as part of Summer Program in Moscow. SLA220Y1 Continuation of morphology. Word formation, composition, and translation. Intensive reading of classical and contemporary literary texts. Oral practice. Not intended for native speakers. SLA231H0 Usually offered during the summer through the Woodsworth Summer Abroad program. Content varies from year to year based on instructor. SLA234H1 A survey of the Russian cinematic tradition from its beginnings through the first decade following the disintegration of the USSR. The course examines the avant-garde cinema and film theory of THE 1920s; the totalitarian esthetics of THE 1920s–1940s and the ideological uses of film art; the revolution in film theory and practice in THE 1950s–1960s; cinema as medium of cultural dissent and as witness to social change. Students also acquire basic skills of film analysis. Taught in English, all films subtitled in English. SLA240H1 A novel in verse (Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin), a novel stitched from stories (Lermontov’s Hero of Our Times); a mock epic (Gogol’s Dead Souls), and others. Struggling with social change and new ideas, Russian authors create unique works of fiction. Readings in English and, for majors, in the original. Offered alternate years. SLA241H1 Fathers and Children (Turgenev), Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), The Cossacks (Tolstoy), Lady With A Dog (Chekhov): why do these great Russian works and others still have the power to fascinate and change us? Readings in English and, for majors, in the original. Offered alternate years. SLA242H1 The course examines the development of the nineteenth-century European novel in terms of changing representations of the family, with the Russian literary tradition as a case study. Topics include the aristocratic family, illegitimacy, adultery, social and political conflict, and the family as locus of inherited madness, degeneracy, and criminality. SLA244H1 An examination of the understanding and practice of film genre in Russian and Soviet cinema. Various genres and generic hybrids – comedy, melodrama, action, war, horror, fantasy, etc. – are studied in the context of critical literature on the problem of film genre and against the backdrop of international cinematic traditions. SLA250Y1 A chronological multimedia survey of Russian culture from pre-Christian to post-Soviet times, emphasizing the clash between established authority and dissent, and tracing the conservative and radical currents in Russian literature and the arts, social thought and spirituality. Readings in English of classic poems, stories and novels, supplemented by videos and slides. 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. JSH300H1 History and literature were always interconnected in Russia. Writers not only sought to reflect the society around them, but were themselves often social critics and political figures. The course examines key texts in the Russian literary tradition both as works of art and as primary sources for the historian. SLA311H1 Fantastic and grotesque works by the most hilarious, obsessive, and delusional character in Russian literature, who teased, fascinated, and polarized readers. Gogol’s writings are examined with various theoretical approaches. Includes cinematic (Taras Bulba, Viy, Overcoat) and musical (Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Christmas Eve,” Shostakovich’s “Nose”) re-creations of Gogol’s works. All readings in English. SLA312H1 A study of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels written in Europe and the United States. Special attention is paid to the nature and evolution of Nabokov’s aesthetics; the place of his novels in European and American literary traditions; Nabokov’s creative uses of exile to artistic, philosophical and ideological ends; the aesthetic and cultural implications of the writer’s switch from Russian to English. Novels studied: Defense, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire. The course is taught in English. All readings are in English. 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. 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 or 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. SLA320Y1 Syntax of the simple and compound sentence. Participles and gerunds. 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. Discussion of a variety of topics (history, culture, art, politics, law, social and economic problems, contemporary events). Class is taught in round-table format. SLA322H1 Language, life and the media in contemporary Russia. The course will be based on reading Russian newspapers, listening to Russian media, and discussing contemporary events in Russia. SLA331H1 Painting and literature fROM 1890–1930s. New revolutionary paths for the advancement of man and society through art. Symbolism, neoprimitivism, futurism, suprematism, and constructivism. Kandinsky, Bely, Zamyatin, Goncharova, Malevich, Tatlin, Filonov, and many others. All readings in English. SLA332H1 This course, on the interaction between artistic genres, introduces a series of Russian and other literary works of the 19–20th C that have inspired Russian musical masterpieces in the operatic, song, and symphonic repertoire. Texts are studied in translation. Basic Russian and musical literacy useful, but not obligatory. SLA339H1 The course explores Russia’s artistic and intellectual responses to social and cultural upheaval in the two decades preceding WWI. Students engage in a comparative study of modernist art and thought in Russia and Western Europe. Topics may include Symbolism and Decadence in literature (Sologub, Belyi, Huysmans, Wilde, etc.); the fin de siècle sensibility in Russian and West European thought (Solòv’ev, Rozanov, Nordau, Weininger); visual and plastic arts (Art Nouveau, Secession, World of Art), music, and film. Taught in English. All readings are in English. No prior knowledge of Russian language or culture is required. SLA340H1 The course examines experimental approaches to story-telling and genre limitations in Russian prose, as well as conservative reactions to these experiments, fROM 1917 to the end of the USSR. Topics may include: formalism, expressionism, stylization, and avant-garde in THE 1920s (I. Babel’, M. Zoshchenko, Iu. Olesha, A. Remizov, D. Kharms, V. Nabokov); the esthetics of Socialist Realism; the prose of poets (M. Tsvetaeva, B. Pasternak, O. Mandel’shtam, Vl. Khodasevich); underground and émigré memoirs (N. Mandel’shtam, E. Ginzburg, N. Berberova); genre crossovers: documentary novels, fictional criticism (V. Grossman, Abram Terts, L. Tsypkin). Taught in English. All readings are in English. No prior knowledge of Russian language or culture is required. 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) SLA344H1 The experience of prison as reflected by Russian writers. The rise and persistence of the prison camp system; physical and spiritual survival; the literary value of the prison experience. Works (in translation) by Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Ginzburg and others. SLA351H1 A practical course in Russian phonetics. Development of pronunciation skills. For students of all levels excluding native and heritage speakers. 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. SLA400H1 Explores the development of the types of writing (e.g. chronicles, vitae, epics, tales, poetry) used to capture the cultural, political, religious, and aesthetic experiences of Mediaeval Rus’ from the 11th to 17th century. Readings in English. Where appropriate, majors will read some excerpts in the original. 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. SLA403H1 This course follows on from SLA 402, which is, however, not a Prerequisite for enrolment. The course provides complex and stylistically varied exercises in translation from Russian into English and vice versa, and should be of equal benefit to those with native Russian and native English. SLA415H1 The prose, poetry and dramaturgy of the most prominent literary figures of the eighteenth century, including Karamzin, Lomonosov, Fonvizin, Derzhavin and Krylov; aspects of literature during the reign of Peter I; literature and satirical journalism during the reign of Catherine II. (Taught in Russian) 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. SLA423H1 War and Peace in depth, and from various points of view, literary, political, philosophical, historical, and psychological. Various critical approaches; cognate literary works. Students are expected to have read the novel before the course begins. Readings in English. SLA433H1 Anna Karenina in depth, and from various points of view, literary, political, philosophical, historical, and psychological. Various critical approaches; cognate literary works. Students are expected to have read the novel before the course begins. Readings in English. SLA440H1 Starting with pre-Pushkinian Classicism this course surveys the development of Russian lyric verse (with some excursions also into narrative verse); major topics studied include: Pushkin, Russian Byronism, the Pushkin Pleïade, Nekrasov’s civic verse; philosophical verse by Tyutchev; Impressionist and Decadent poets. Readings in Russian. SLA441H1 This course follows on from SLA440H1, although the latter is not a Prerequisite for enrolment. A chronological survey begins with Symbolist verse; special attention is devoted to Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Mayakovsky; other modernists studied include Tsvetaeva, Esenin, Zabolotsky; study of the post-Stalin revival begins with Voznesensky and Evtushenko, concluding with Iosif Brodsky. Readings in Russian. SLA442H1 Course provides a general introduction to Russian Decadent/Symbolist culture. Attention concentrates on belletristic prose, verse, and theatre of major Symbolists, as well as attendant theoretical and critical writings. Comparisons are made with similar trends in Western European literature, and links are established with similar phenomena in art, music, philosophy. SLA449H1 Social and political change, and national and spiritual destiny in the philosophical, journalistic and critical writings of nineteenth century Russia. From Slavophiles and Westernizers to anarchists, nihilists and revolutionary populists. Readings in English and, for Russian majors, in the original. Offered in alternate years. SLA451H1 This course examines the Acmeist phenomenon, studying writings by Kuzmin, Gorodetsky, Narbut, Nadezhda Mandelstam and others, making a special study of Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Gumilev. Other topics include: critical reception of Acmeist writings, Acmeist posts’ interaction with other contemporary writers, ideological and cultural aspects of the movement. All readings in Russian. SLA450H1 Lyric poetry, poems, selected prose and Evgeny Onegin. Pushkin and the idea of a writer in the Russia of his time; his image as a national poet. Readings in Russian. SLA460H1 Major writers and literary groupings of the past decade; the literary process in post-Soviet Russia. (Taught in Russian) SLA461H1 An examination of twentieth-century literature through exploration of major literary scandals, including Blok/Bely, Mayakovsky, Voloshin, Zoshchenko/Akhmatova, the Nobel and Booker Prizes; how these illustrate tensions within literature and reveal the literary process. (Taught in Russian) SLA462H1 The characteristics and the tradition of Russian comic writing, from Chekhov’s early stories to the Soviet “meshchanin” of Mikhail Zoschenko and the émigrés of Sergei Dovlatov. (Taught in Russian) SLA463H1 What is distinctive about Russian realism? The course will examine nineteenth century Russian realist fiction in relation to various theoretical approaches from Erich Auerbach to Roman Jakobson, and will read contemporary works of criticism or thought from Russia and Europe that may have influenced it. SLA464H1 An examination of the most prominent Russian novelists of the last several decades, including Erofeev, Bitov, Sorokin and Azolsky. The genesis, structure, artistic devices and philosophical significance of their novels, critical approaches to them, cognate works. (Taught in Russian) SLA330Y1 Structure and history. Reading and linguistic study of Old Slavonic texts. SLA452Y1 The phonology, morphology and syntax of contemporary standard Russian from a formal and semantic standpoint. SLA108Y1 Basic vocabulary, simple sentence patterns, essential morphology. Internet language laboratory drills. Intended for students with little or no knowledge of the language. SLA208Y1 Study of morphology through grammar drills; oral practice; reading of texts from Ukrainian literature. SLA218Y1 A general survey of Ukrainian culture through an examination of selected literary works and their social, political, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic context. The course covers the period from Kyivan Rus’ to the present. Readings in English. (Offered in alternate years) SLA228H1 A selection of twentieth century Ukrainian novels and short prose in English translation. From the intellectual novel of THE 1920s, through socialist realism, to the new prose of THE 1990s. Authors include Pidmohylny, Antonenko-Davydovych, Honchar, Shevchuk, Andrukhovych and Zabuzhko. (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, Kulyk Keefer. (Offered in alternate years) SLA248H1 This course examines the presentation of women and women’s themes in works of Ukrainian literature. The subjects covered include: role models, freedom, socialism, nationalism, feminism, and sexuality. SLA308Y1 Review of morphology and study of syntax. Short compositions based on literary and critical texts. Voluntary language laboratory. SLA318H1 A cultural history of the Ukrainian capital; Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Jewish “versions” of the city; artworks and literary texts that capture the complexity of Kyivan history and culture. Readings in the original languages encouraged but not required. SLA328H1 Contemporary Ukraine is an amalgam of various cultural traditions. This course examines its languages, religions, nationalities, literature, cinema, arts, print and broadcast media, regions, education, and social groups. Special attention is given to the factors that influence public perceptions of identity. All readings are in English. SLA338H1 Ivan Franko is one of the most important and innovative figures in the history of Ukrainian literature. This seminar explores a selection of the belletristic writings by this fascinating and factious poet and novelist in the context of Ukrainian culture in Austria-Hungary. Taught in English. All readings are in English. SLA408H1 The development of the short story from Kvitka-Osnovianenko to the present day. All readings in the original. (Offered every four 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) SLA428Y1 Major works by Kulish, Nechui-Levytsky, Myrny, Franko, Kotsiubynsky, Kobylianska, Vynnychenko, Ianovsky, Pidmohylny, Honchar, Andrukhovych, and Zabuzhko. Readings in Ukrainian. (Offered every four years) SLA429H1 A critical study of Taras Shevchenko. Life, works, and significance. Readings in Ukrainian. 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. 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. 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. 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. |