This course is designed to familiarize students with the major topics and events in Slavic cultural history, from the prehistoric origins of the Slavs to twenty-first-century issues of identity and sociopolitics. Readings will come from a variety of sources, including historical chronicles and saints’ lives, fairy tales, poetry, short stories, excerpts from novels, mass media, and scholarly articles. In addition, subtitled films and film excerpts highlighting different aspects and periods of Slavic culture will be screened during the semester.
This course is an introduction to Old Church Slavic (OCS), the oldest documented Slavic language. The goal of the class is to learn to read OCS texts with the aid of dictionaries and grammars. Students will be introduced to OCS grammar, with a particular focus on inflectional morphology. The course will also examine the OCS textual canon and its relationship to Church Slavonic texts produced throughout the Orthodox Slavic world into the eighteenth century and beyond.
Undergraduate
Slavic 39M: Linguistic Diversity: Languages of the Former Soviet Union
Slavic 50: Introduction to Slavic Cultures
Slavic 100: Slavic Undergraduate Seminar
Ling 100: Introduction to Linguistics
Ling 111: Introduction to Phonology
Ling 130: Historical Linguistics
Slavic/Ling C137: Introduction to Slavic Linguistics
Graduate
Ling 211B: Advanced Phonology: Contrast
Ling 211B: Topics in Advanced Phonology
Ling 240A-B: Field Methods. Language: Turkmen
Russian 202: Advanced Academic Russian
Slavic 210: Old Church Slavic
Slavic 220: Comparative Slavic
Slavic 222: Descriptive Grammar of Russian
Slavic 280: The Living Word Workshop [Co-taught with A. Muza]