Russian

"Oberlin's Russian program, which enjoys a national reputation, offers a wide range of study. Language courses enable students to acquire both linguistic and cultural proficiency. Students interested in literature can take courses taught in the original and in English translation. Two majors and a minor are offered." [1]

[edit] Faculty

• Amanda Blasko
• Arlene Forman
• Tom Newlin
• Tim Scholl

[edit] Courses

• Elementary Russian
• Intermediate Russian
• Conversational Russian
• Russian Civilization From Rurik to the Golden Age
• Russian Civilization From Pre-Revolutionary to Post-Soviet Russia
• Advanced Conversational Russian
• Russian Cinema
• Delusions and Grandeur
• The Meaning of Life: Dispatches from Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
• Literature of Dissent from Stalin to the Present
• Literature and the Land: Writing Nature in Russia and America
• Northern Naturalism: Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg
• Introduction to Russian Literature

[edit] First-year seminars

• Re-envisioning Russia: A Task of Mythic Proportions
• Tolstoy’s War and Peace

[edit] External links

• Department web site
• opinions on classes and winter term program (2006 Oct 24)