Beginning Ukrainian (8 Units) Alla Parkhomenko, British Council, Kyiv, Ukraine Course
Syllabus
An intensive course for students with little or no knowledge of Ukrainian. Basic
grammatical structures are introduced and reinforced through an active oral approach.
By the end of the course students are expected to develop the ability to conduct
short conversations in a range of familiar situations related to daily activities,
understand simple factual texts, and write routine messages. They will be able
to initiate, maintain and bring to a close simple exchanges by asking and responding
to simple questions. A variety of original sources will be used to establish
an authentic environment.
Intermediate Ukrainian (8 Units) Yuri I. Shevchuk, Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia
University Course
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Development of students’ conversational skills in a variety of
real life communicative settings gets priority treatment in the course. This
is accompanied by a review of basic structures and further expansion
of grammar fundamentals. Major emphasis is placed on the development
of vocabulary through readings and viewings of videotaped programs focusing
on contemporary cultural and political issues. By the end of the course
students will be able to narrate and describe in major time frames and
deal effectively with unanticipated complications in most informal, and
some formal, settings on topics of personal and some general interest.
Advanced Ukrainian (8 Units) Volodymyr Dibrova, Preceptor, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Harvard University. Course
Syllabus
This is an intensive course for students who wish to develop their mastery
of the language. Reading selections include annotated articles on contemporary
issues in business, economics, politics, and culture. Short written reports
and oral presentations will be part of the course. By the end of the
course the students will be able to discuss extensively a wide range
of general interest topics and some special fields of interest, hypothesize,
support opinions and deal with linguistically unfamiliar situations.
Classes will be conducted largely in Ukrainian.
History and Literature Courses:
History of Ukraine (4 units) Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
The course explores the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings and
the Christianization of Rus’ (988) to the disintegration of the USSR and
formation of an independent Ukrainian state (1991). It puts the history of Ukrainian
territory and its people into a broad context of political, social and cultural
changes in Eastern Europe in the course of the last millennium. Special emphases
are put on the role of Ukraine as a cultural frontier of Europe, positioned on
the border between settled areas and Eurasian steppes, Christianity and Islam,
Orthodoxy and Catholicism, as well as a battleground of major imperial and national
projects of modern era.
Twentieth Century Ukrainian
Literature: Rethinking the Canon (4
Units)
George G. Grabowicz, the Dmytro Cyzevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature,
Harvard University
A survey of the major writers and works of Ukrainian literature from
the 1920s century through the present with a special focus on how their
reception and evaluation has been reconfigured by Ukraine’s independence. The
course will examine among others such movements and developments as modernism,
the “executed renaissance” (rozstriljane vidrodzhennja),
socialist realism, the literature of dissent and emigration, underground
literature and post-modernism through close readings of representative
works. Prerequisites: reading knowledge of Ukrainian
or permission of the Instructor.
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