HUSI-2007 Courses
Beginning Ukrainian (8 Units)
Alla Parkhomenko, British Council, Kyiv, Ukraine
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
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.
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.
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.
Ukraine as Linguistic Battleground (4 Units)
Michael S. Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology,
Harvard University
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 (surzhyk),
current problems of Ukrainian standardization, and Ukrainian
language politics.
Theorizing Ukraine: Politics, Theory, and Political
Theory (4 units)
Alexander J. Motyl, Professor, Department 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.
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