Slavic Languages and Literatures

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The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures offers a major in Russian at the undergraduate level and minors in Russian and Russian Area Studies. The major combines thorough preparation in the Russian language with the study of Russian literature, art and culture. Particular emphasis is placed on developments in contemporary Russia. Students are required to study four semesters of Russian language as a prerequisite to the major. The major itself requires an additional three semesters of language study, three semesters of an advanced seminar on Russian culture (with varying content), and two elective courses, either in Russian literature and culture (in translation or Russian, depending on course scheduling) or in Russian area studies.

Taper Hall of Humanities 255
(213) 740-2735
FAX: (213) 740-8550
Email: slavic@dornsife.usc.edu
dornsife.usc.edu/sll
Chair: Thomas Seifrid, PhD

Faculty

Professors: John Bowlt, PhD*; Sharon Carnicke, PhD (Dramatic Arts); Marcus Levitt, PhD*; Sarah Pratt, PhD*; Azade-Ayse Rorlich, PhD (History); Thomas Seifrid, PhD*; Alexander Zholkovsky, PhD*

Associate Professors: Robert English, PhD (International Relations); Roumyana Pancheva, PhD (Linguistics)

Assistant Professor: Anna Krakus, PhD; Greta Matzner-Gore, PhD

Professor (Teaching) of Russian: Tatiana Akishina, PhD

Associate Professor (Teaching) of German: Britta Bothe, PhD

Assistant Professors (Teaching) of German: John W. Arensmeyer Jr., PhD; Eve Lee, PhD

Lecturer: John Adam Peters III

Emeritus Professor: Anthony M. Mlikotin, PhD

*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.

Graduate Degrees

Master of Arts in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

See Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture  in this catalogue.

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (Specialization in Slavic Linguistics)

Application deadline: January 1

See Linguistics  in this catalogue.

Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching

The Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching provides certification in the theory and practice of second or foreign language teaching for student language teachers concurrently enrolled in graduate degree programs in foreign languages or related graduate programs at USC; for graduates of such programs who are teaching languages; for external candidates concurrently enrolled in similar programs at accredited colleges or universities; or for graduates of such programs who are teaching languages. The certificate is meant to supplement graduate study in the literature or linguistics of foreign languages. It is also meant to supplement classroom teaching. Refer to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese  for course work requirements.

Programs

• Central European Studies (BA)
• Russian (BA)

• Russian Area Studies Minor
• Russian Minor

• Slavic Languages and Literatures (PhD)

Courses

• SLL 020 Course in Reading Russian
• SLL 025 Course in Reading Russian
• SLL 120 Beginning Russian I
• SLL 122 Elementary Polish I
• SLL 130a Elementary Czech
• SLL 130b Elementary Czech
• SLL 150 Beginning Russian II
• SLL 152 Elementary Polish II
• SLL 199 Chess and Critical Thinking
• SLL 200 Russian Moral Dilemmas in the 20th Century
• SLL 201 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society
• SLL 210 Masterpieces of the Russian Short Story
• SLL 220 Intermediate Russian I
• SLL 222 Readings in Polish Literature I
• SLL 250 Intermediate Russian II
• SLL 252 Readings in Polish Literature II
• SLL 255 Business Russian
• SLL 260 x The Trans-Siberian Experience
• SLL 270a Russian for Native Speakers
• SLL 270b Russian for Native Speakers
• SLL 299 Chess — Advanced Thinking Techniques
• SLL 300 The Russian Novel
• SLL 301 Russian Literary Avant-Garde
• SLL 302g Modern Russian Literature
• SLL 303 Contemporary Russian Literature
• SLL 310 Advanced Russian in Popular Culture
• SLL 321 Russian Culture
• SLL 330gp Russian Thought and Civilization
• SLL 340 Intercultural Communication in Russian
• SLL 344g Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist
• SLL 345g Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsky
• SLL 346 Russian Drama and the Western Tradition
• SLL 348g The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
• SLL 370 Advanced Russian for Native Speakers
• SLL 378 Modern Russian Art
• SLL 390 Special Problems
• SLL 397 Literature and Film in Eastern European Historical Experience
• SLL 420 Seminar in the Russian Language
• SLL 465 Seminar in Russian Studies
• SLL 490x Directed Research
• SLL 499 Special Topics
• SLL 500 Topics in Advanced Russian
• SLL 501 Proseminar in Russian Literature
• SLL 510 Old Church Slavonic
• SLL 512 History of the Russian Language
• SLL 514 Structure of Modern Russian: Phonology
• SLL 516 Structure of Modern Russian: Morphology
• SLL 530 Early Russian Literature and Culture (11th–17th Centuries)
• SLL 532 18th Century Russian Literature
• SLL 542 Symbolism
• SLL 544 Russian Short Story
• SLL 545 19th Century Russian Poetry
• SLL 546 The Russian Novel
• SLL 548 History of Russian Literary Criticism
• SLL 550 Russian Modernism
• SLL 555 Soviet Literature I (1917–1953)
• SLL 557 Soviet Literature II (1953–present)
• SLL 575 Socialist Realism
• SLL 584 Russian Fiction and the West
• SLL 585 20th Century Russian Literary Criticism
• SLL 590 Directed Research
• SLL 593 Practicum in Teaching the Liberal Arts
• SLL 599 Special Topics
• SLL 650 Seminar in Russian Literature
• SLL 660 Seminar on a Single Author or Work
• SLL 665 Seminar in Russian Culture and the Arts
• SLL 790 Research
• SLL 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• SLL 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• SLL 794c Doctoral Dissertation
• SLL 794d Doctoral Dissertation
• SLL 794z Doctoral Dissertation