Courses
Ukrainian Language Courses
UKRN S-Aab Beginning Ukrainian
(30227)
(8 units: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-12 noon
Alla Parkhomenko, Ph.D., Kyiv State University
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 create with
language, and initiate, maintain and bring to a close simple
exchanges by asking and responding to simple questions. A
variety of genuine sources will be used to establish an authentic
environment.
UKRN S-B Intermediate Ukrainian (31593)
(8 units: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-12 noon
Yuri I. Shevchuk, Ph.D., Kyiv State University
Development of students' conversational skills in a variety
of real life communicative settings gets a 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 further vocabulary acquisition 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,
deal effectively with unanticipated complications in most
informal, and some formal settings on topics of personal
and some general interest.
UKRN S-C Advanced Ukrainian
(30230)
(8 units: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-12 noon
Volodymyr Dibrova, Preceptor, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures, Harvard University
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, Politics, and Literature Courses
HIST S-1512 Modern Ukraine,
1790-2003 (31590)
George Liber, Professor of History, University
of Alabama at Birmingham
This history course provides a narrative overview and analysis
of the evolution of Ukrainian national identity from the
early nineteenth century to the present. It investigates
the incorporation of Ukrainian territories into the Austrian
and Russian Empires; socio-economic and political developments
in these empires; the emergence of the Ukrainian national
movement in the nineteenth century; the revolution of the
1917-1921 period; the formation of the USSR and the Ukrainian
SSR; Ukrainianization; Ukrainian national communism; collectivization,
the famine of 1932-33, and the purges; Ukraine's socio-economic
transformation; the Second World War; the post-Stalinist
period; Gorbachev's reforms; the collapse of the USSR; the
emergence of an independent Ukraine; and post-communist and
post-colonial problems.
By placing the development of the modern Ukrainian national
identity within its socio-economic, political, and intellectual
context, this course probes this identity's evolution and
its variance from region to region over the past two centuries.
GOVT S-1248 Theorizing
Ukraine: Politics, Theory, and Political Theory (31654)
(4 units: UN, GR, NC)
Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers
University, Newark
A historically and comparatively informed examination of
social science approaches to conceptualizing and theorizing
politics and political developments in Ukraine. The course
investigates concepts and theories of the state, revolution,
nation, nationalism, empire, elite, socialism, totalitarianism,
transition, civil society, modernization, political culture,
and democracy. Both concepts and theories will be discussed
in relation to one another, in light of modern Ukrainian
history, and with reference to other countries.
UKRN S-102 Symbolic
Identity: Discourse of Gender in Ukrainian Literature
(4 units: UN, GR)
Tamara Hundorova, Corresponding Member of the National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Head of the Literary
Theory Department, Institute of Literature, NAS (Kyiv,
Ukraine)
This course provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Ukrainian
literature from the point of view of gender studies. It explores
how different types of discourse construct gender identity
and how gender issues influence literary imagination. The
course also looks at the symbolic role of gender in national
identity, and studies gender as a factor in construing modern
and postmodern consciousness. Students will examine different
gender strategies employed by Ukrainian writers from Ivan
Kotliarevs'ky and Marko Vovchok to Yuri Andrukhovych, and
Oksana Zabuzhko.
Prerequisites: reading knowledge of
Ukrainian or permission of the instructor.
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