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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Screen Scoring
  

  • SCOR 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8
    Selected topics of current interest.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 501 Individual Instruction

    Units: 1, 2
    Max Units: 08
    Secondary instruction for graduate music majors or instruction for graduate non-music majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 502 Individual Instruction in Advanced Screen Scoring

    Units: 1, 2
    Max Units: 4
    Individual instruction and review of students’ work. Selected composers, orchestrators, filmmakers, and other important industry collaborators offer their insights on scoring and career building.
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 520 and MUCO 545
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 503a Advanced Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television

    Units: 2
    Scoring principles involved in designing, timing, and composing scores for video projects, including documentaries, animated, and live-action projects. Will also include composing for live recording sessions. 
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 440a
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 503b Advanced Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television

    Units: 2
    Scoring principles involved in designing, timing, and composing scores for video projects, including documentaries, animated, and live-action projects. Will also include composing for live recording sessions. 
    Prerequisite: SCOR 503a 
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 440b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 504a Orchestral Scoring

    Units: 2
    Explores the sounds of and notations for the major orchestral instruments; provides instruction on implementation of those instruments in scoring and orchestrating for the screen.
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 443a
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 504b Orchestral Scoring

    Units: 2
    Explores the sounds of and notations for the major orchestral instruments; provides instruction on implementation of those instruments in scoring and orchestrating for the screen.
    Prerequisite: SCOR 504a 
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 443b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 505a Advanced Game Scoring and Integration

    Units: 2
    Explores more sophisticated principles and techniques involved in the unique aspects of composing and integrating music for video games.
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 540a
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 505b Advanced Game Scoring and Integration

    Units: 2
    Explores more sophisticated principles and techniques involved in the unique aspects of composing and integrating music for video games.
    Prerequisite: SCOR 505a 
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 540b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 506 Applied Techniques in Contemporary Scoring

    Units: 2
    Explores the most recent artistic and technological innovations in film/television scoring, and includes creating cues from adapted themes.
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 522b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 511a History of Film Scoring

    Units: 2
    Examines the evolution of movie music from 1920s to present. Includes recorded interviews with the most significant film composers and film clips of their work.
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 442a
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 511b History of Film Scoring

    Units: 2
    Examines the evolution of movie music from 1920s to present. Includes recorded interviews with the most significant film composers and film clips of their work.
    Prerequisite: SCOR 511a 
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 442b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 512 Entrepreneurialism for the Screen Composer

    Units: 2
    Addresses challenges facing emerging screen composers, including negotiating deals; establishing a studio, production budgets, and a publishing business; tracking royalties; licensing music; and engaging representation. 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 521a Recording, Mixing and Editing for the Screen Composer

    Units: 2
    Addresses the need for modern-day screen composers to produce and digitally record, sweeten, mix, and edit much of their own music.
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 560a
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 521b Recording, Mixing and Editing for the Screen Composer

    Units: 2
    Addresses the need for modern-day screen composers to produce and digitally record, sweeten, mix, and edit much of their own music.
    Prerequisite: SCOR 521a 
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 560b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 523a Advanced Screen Scoring Technology

    Units: 2
    Explores sophisticated principles and applications of technologies for screen scoring, including the use of synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers.
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 523a
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 523b Advanced Screen Scoring Technology

    Units: 2
    Explores sophisticated principles and applications of technologies for screen scoring, including the use of synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers.
    Prerequisite: SCOR 523a 
    Duplicates Credit in former MUCO 523b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the Master’s Degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SCOR 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: max 8
    Selected topics of current interest.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCOR 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit


Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
  

  • SCRM 511 Developmental Biology and Human Embryology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Survey of anatomical, cellular and molecular processes that underlie human development and congenital malformations, with discussion of other species for comparison.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 513 Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A comprehensive investigation of embryonic, fetal and adult stem cells and the application of stem cell biology to treat disease.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 515 Bringing Stem Cells to the Clinic

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Lectures addressing the business, legal, ethical, manufacturing and regulatory aspects involved in moving stem cells or related product into clinical practice.
    Recommended Preparation: SCRM 513 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 517 Historical and Contemporary Stem Cell Research

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Historical and contemporary stem cell research using hematopoietic stem cells as a model system.
    Prerequisite: SCRM 513
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master and doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 519 Historical and Contemporary Research: Neural Stem Cells

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Focuses on historic achievements in stem cell research and how contemporarily, research and its related technological advances have fostered breakthroughs the understanding of NSCs.
    Recommended Preparation: SCRM 513 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 521 Historical and Contemporary Research: Tissue Development Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Focuses on the components of cell, molecular biology, and basic tissue development to comprehend its uses within the realm of synthetic biology and cellular/tissue engineering.
    Recommended Preparation: SCRM 513 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 522L Biological Imaging in Stem Cell Research

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theory and practice of using microscopy and flow cytometry in stem cell biology, including sample preparation, digital processing and data analysis.
    Concurrent Enrollment: SCRM 524L 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 524L Culture and Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Classroom and laboratory experience in the techniques for deriving, culturing and differentiating human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and related cell types.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: SCRM 522  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 555 Writing About Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Instruction in writing for various audiences on topics related to stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 574 Stem Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar Series

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in DSR 574 )
  

  • SCRM 580 SCRM External Speaker Seminar Series

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Reading and discussion of recent papers by the SCRM speaker of the week, and attendance at the speaker’s seminar.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SCRM 590 Independent Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 16.0
    Independent research conducted under the guidance of faculty in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
    Prerequisite: SCRM 511 , SCRM 513 , SCRM 515 , SCRM 522 , SCRM 524 , SCRM 555 , SCRM 580 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SCRM 610 Current Topics in Regenerative Medicine

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in DSR 610 )
  

  • SCRM 620 Current Topics in Stem Cell Biology and Organogenesis

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in DSR 620 )

Slavic Languages and Literatures
  

  • SLL 020 Course in Reading Russian

    Units: 2
    For graduate students wishing to use Russian as a scholarly tool. Emphasis on basic grammar and reading skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SLL 025 Course in Reading Russian

    Units: 2
    Continuation of SLL 020 . Reading of authentic materials from Russian press and students’ areas of interest.
    Prerequisite: SLL 020 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SLL 120 Beginning Russian I

    Units: 4
    Introduction to the Russian language with emphasis on basic conversational skills, major points of grammar, and reading.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 122 Elementary Polish I

    Units: 4
    Structure of the language, pronunciation, basic communication, and reading in modern Polish.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 130a Elementary Czech

    Units: 4
    Structure of the language, basic grammar, pronunciation, and oral communication. Readings in Czech; discussion of Czech history and culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 130b Elementary Czech

    Units: 4
    Continuation of SLL 130a .
    Prerequisite: SLL 130a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 150 Beginning Russian II

    Units: 4
    Continuation of SLL 120 .
    Prerequisite: SLL 120 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 152 Elementary Polish II

    Units: 4
    Continuation of SLL 122 .
    Prerequisite: SLL 122 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 199 Chess and Critical Thinking

    Units: 2
    Analysis of significant chess games, reflecting societal attitudes toward science, competition, art, gender, psychology, politics, and technology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SLL 210 Masterpieces of the Russian Short Story

    Units: 4
    Critical reading of selected masterpieces of the Russian short story; works by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and others. In English.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 220 Intermediate Russian I

    Units: 4
    Development of thematic conversational skills with emphasis on extended dialogue. Review of basic morphology with special attention to verbs of motion. Reading of authentic material is emphasized.
    Prerequisite: SLL 120 , SLL 150 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 222 Readings in Polish Literature I

    Units: 4
    Continuation of elementary Polish and introduction to outstanding works in Polish literature.
    Prerequisite: SLL 122  and SLL 152 .

     
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 250 Intermediate Russian II

    Units: 4
    Continuation of SLL 220 . Development of proficiency in conversation skills, reading, and writing.
    Prerequisite: SLL 220 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 252 Readings in Polish Literature II

    Units: 4
    Continuation of SLL 222 .
    Prerequisite: SLL 222 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 255 Business Russian

    Units: 4
    Language and culture course for intermediate Russian level students interested in business. Prepares students to communicate in Russian-speaking business settings in a linguistically sensitive manner.
    Prerequisite: SLL 220 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 260x The Trans-Siberian Experience

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to Russian language and culture by means of a study-tour on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 270a Russian for Native Speakers

    Units: 4
    For native Russian speakers who cannot read or write Russian. Emphasis on essentials of grammar, vocabulary, and orthography, and the reading and writing of simple texts in Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 270b Russian for Native Speakers

    Units: 4
    Continuation of SLL 270a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 299 Chess — Advanced Thinking Techniques

    Units: 2
    Development of advanced understanding of the game of chess. Critical analysis of games and of the problem-solving techniques applicable in various game situations.
    Prerequisite: SLL 199 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SLL 300 The Russian Novel

    Units: 4
    The rise of the novel as the dominant form in Russian literature of the 19th century. Major works by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. In English.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 301 Russian Literary Avant-Garde

    Units: 4
    Russian modernism and the avant-garde: development of modern sensibility in literature and the arts from 1880 to 1930. Readings in Chekhov, Sologub, Bely, Mayakovsky, and others. Conducted in English.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 302g Modern Russian Literature

    Units: 4
    Survey of the major developments in Russian literature during the 20th century, from modernism to the post-Soviet era. Readings in English.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 303 Contemporary Russian Literature

    Units: 4
    Developments in Russian Literature from the 1960s to the present. Literature of moral resistance directed against official cultural models. In English.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 310 Advanced Russian in Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Advanced conversation topics, readings and analysis of Russian press, films and other popular materials. Advanced grammar. Conducted in Russian.
    Prerequisite: SLL 250 ;
    Recommended Preparation: SLL 120 , SLL 150 , SLL 220 .

     
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 321 Russian Culture

    Units: 4
    Survey of Russian civilization from the beginnings to the Soviet period focusing on major cultural and artistic trends.
    Prerequisite: four semesters of Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 330gp Russian Thought and Civilization

    Units: 4
    Russian cultural identity from its beginnings until today. The Eastern Orthodox tradition, its traumatic confrontation with Western culture, and their continuous interaction.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: MDA 140.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter, Discussion

  

  • SLL 340 Intercultural Communication in Russian

    Units: 4
    Advanced language training focusing on specific issues of communication with Russians. Analysis and translation of literary texts. Advanced syntax. Conducted in Russian.
    Prerequisite: SLL 250 ;
    Recommended Preparation: SLL 120 , SLL 150 , SLL 220 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 344g Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist

    Units: 4
    Tolstoy’s major works in the context of his ethical views. Readings and lectures in English.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category V: Arts and Letters
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 345g Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsky

    Units: 4
    Dostoevsky’s novels as psychological and philosophical analyses of modern alienated man. Readings in Dostoevsky and selections from Gide, Kafka, Camus, and Sartre. Conducted in English.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category V: Arts and Letters
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 346 Russian Drama and the Western Tradition

    Units: 4
    Representative plays from the 18th century to the present. Development of the Russian theater in the European context. Conducted in English.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 348g The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov

    Units: 4
    Survey of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels written in Europe and America from the 1920s–1960s. Primary focus on the structure of the novels and their themes of art and emigration. Readings in English.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 370 Advanced Russian for Native Speakers

    Units: 4
    For students with basic oral proficiency in Russian who need to develop native fluency in an array of genres and situations. Emphasis on advanced grammar, reading (literary and scholarly texts), written expression (scholarly, administrative, and business genres), spelling, and punctuation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 378 Modern Russian Art

    Units: 4
    Changing concepts of aesthetic value as expressed in the development of 19th and 20th century Russian art (painting and architecture).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AHIS-378
  

  • SLL 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 397 Literature and Film in Eastern European Historical Experience

    Units: 4
    Exploration of key moments in the recent historical experience of Eastern Europe through close readings of literature and film. Taught in English.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 465 Seminar in Russian Studies

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Readings and discussion in Russian of current topics in Russian culture, politics and society. Content varies each time offered.
    Prerequisite: SLL 250 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 500 Topics in Advanced Russian

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 8.0
    Study of Russian required for graduate work and professional activities.
    Prerequisite: four years of college Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 501 Proseminar in Russian Literature

    Units: 3
    Introduction to graduate study of Russian literature: research methods, bibliography, transliteration, development of critical writing skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 510 Old Church Slavonic

    Units: 3
    Study of the earliest recorded Slavic language; linguistic interpretation of original texts; knowledge of a Slavic language or general linguistics will be helpful.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 512 History of the Russian Language

    Units: 3
    Phonetic, morphological, syntactical changes from common Slavic to the present. Russian literary language; influence of 19th century Russian authors and old church Slavic on contemporary Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 514 Structure of Modern Russian: Phonology

    Units: 3
    Articulatory phonetics, phonemics, morphophonemics, and intonational patterns of modern Russia.
    Prerequisite: three years of college Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 516 Structure of Modern Russian: Morphology

    Units: 3
    Essential issues in current linguistic description of the syntax and morphology of modern Russian. Considers word order, negation, verbal aspect.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 530 Early Russian Literature and Culture (11th–17th Centuries)

    Units: 3
    Major monuments of medieval Russian literature examined in their cultural, literary, and theological context, with special emphasis on issues of genre. Focus on problems of Russian cultural identity and Russia’s complex relationship to Byzantine and Western traditions.
    Prerequisite: SLL 510  and SLL 514 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 532 18th Century Russian Literature

    Units: 3
    Major works and genres of the 18th century. The development of a “modern” literary tradition, focusing on problems of Russia’s indigenization of Western literary movements (classicism and sentimentalism).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 542 Symbolism

    Units: 3
    Russian symbolist literature; cultural and philosophical background of this late 19th and early 20th century movement.
    Prerequisite: three years of college Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 544 Russian Short Story

    Units: 3
    Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov.
    Prerequisite: three years of college Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 545 19th Century Russian Poetry

    Units: 3
    Analysis of major works of 19th century Russian poetry in the context of developing aesthetic principles and cultural history.
    Prerequisite: SLL 501 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 546 The Russian Novel

    Units: 3
    Genre of the novel as exemplified in the works of one or more Russian authors. Readings from Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and others.
    Prerequisite: three years of college Russian.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 548 History of Russian Literary Criticism

    Units: 3
    History and principles of literary criticism in Russia with attention to major periods and movements from the early 19th century through the Formalists.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 550 Russian Modernism

    Units: 3
    “Russian Modernism” subsumes theoretical ideas, practical achievements, and stylistic movements which contributed to Russia’s cultural renaissance between ca. 1890 and ca. 1925.
    Prerequisite: SLL 340 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 555 Soviet Literature I (1917–1953)

    Units: 3
    The course surveys the major writers and literary schools of Soviet literature in the crucial period from the Revolution to the death of Stalin.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 557 Soviet Literature II (1953–present)

    Units: 3
    De-Stalinization of Soviet culture, the reappropriation of Russia’s literary past, and new directions in contemporary literature.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 575 Socialist Realism

    Units: 3
    The course examines the origins, doctrine, and ideology of socialist realism, the predominant, and officially prescribed, aesthetic of Soviet literature.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 584 Russian Fiction and the West

    Units: 3
    A survey of major Russian fiction in the context of Western European literary movements from the late 18th through late 19th centuries. The course presumes the students’ basic acquaintance with the major monuments.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 585 20th Century Russian Literary Criticism

    Units: 3
    Relationship between practical and theoretical literary criticism: Formalism and Structuralism, Sociological school, and Bakhtin; theoretical approaches applied to specific literary texts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SLL 593 Practicum in Teaching the Liberal Arts

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in MDA 593 )
  

  • SLL 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 650 Seminar in Russian Literature

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Detailed study of single literary period, movement or genre; two or more selected authors; specific school of literary criticism. May be repeated, with departmental permission, if content of the seminar is different.
    Prerequisite: three years of college Russian;
    Recommended Preparation: one year of graduate study.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 660 Seminar on a Single Author or Work

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Theme varies from year to year. An author or major work will be selected for intensive study; research paper required. May be repeated, with departmental permission, if content of the seminar is different.
    Prerequisite: three years of college Russian;
    Recommended Preparation: one year of graduate study.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 665 Seminar in Russian Culture and the Arts

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Subject varies from year to year. A trend or major figure will be studied in its cultural and artistic contexts. May be repeated, with departmental permission, if content of the seminar is different.
    Prerequisite: three years of college Russian;
    Recommended Preparation: one year of graduate study.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 670 Seminar in Eastern European Cinema

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 09
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Topics in Eastern European cinema selected for intensive study. May be repeated with varying content.
    Recommended Preparation: two years of graduate study
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • SLL 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • SLL 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

 

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