Ukrainian Language Courses
UKRN S-Aab. Beginning
Ukrainian (30227)
(8 units: UN, GR, NC)
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 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)
Yuri I. Shevchuk, Ph.D., Kyiv State University
An intensive review of basic structures is followed
by expansion of these grammar fundamentals. Emphasis
will be on oral communication using basic conversational
patterns. Major emphasis will be 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, 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)
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,
Linguistics, and Literature Courses
HIST S-1512. Modern Ukraine in the
20th Century (31590)
(4 units: UN, GR)
Georgiy Kasianov, Professor, Department of Humanities,
National University "Kyiv Mohyla Academy"
A retrospective analysis of the contradictory transition
of Ukraine from the beginnings of a national state to
Communism and then to the new order conventionally identified
with democracy, the free market, and civil society. The
course will investigate different concepts, visions,
and practices of state-building and institutional development.
It will also look at trends and developments in culture,
education, public attitudes, politics, and everyday life;
analysis of models of "Ukraine"
produced by 20th century political thinkers, intellectuals
and policy-makers will be emphasized as well as the practical
aspects implementing these models.
UKRN S-101. 20th
Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the Canon
(31790)
(4 units: UN, GR, NC)
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.
UKRN S-127 Ukraine
as Linguistic Battleground (31791
(4 units: UN, GR, NC)
An exploration of the Ukrainian language in linguistic,
historical, sociolinguistic, anthropological, and political
terms. Topics will include the historical emergence of
Ukrainian on East Slavic territory, its varied relationships
to Russian, the status of Rusyn within the Ukrainian
language sphere, the typology and function of Ukrainian
linguistic hybrids (surzhyks), current problems of Ukrainian
standardization, and Ukrainian language politics. |
