Goucher College 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
Goucher College 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

WL 381 - Twentieth Century Satire (4 Cr.)

(cross-listed as RUS 281, RUS 381, and WL 281)
In Russian and/or English. Intensive writing and speaking course structured around the works of Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov and Bulgakov. Designed for high intermediate, advanced, and native speakers. Part of a four-year cycle of rotating topics in 20th-century prose, poetry, drama, or cinema involving close textual analysis of the works of a single author, study of a particular genre, in depth analysis of a single novel, genre or soviet or Russian cinema. Special emphasis is placed on the writing of longer critical essays. Projects include authentic soviet periodicals. English speakers read the works in translation. May be taken more than once under a different topic for minor and major credit. Prerequisite: any 200-level Russian literature course, RUS 312  or instructor’s permission. Spring semester. Samilenko.