Vasilij Perov's oil on canvas portrait of Dostoevsky, 1872, six years after the publication of Crime and Punishment
Welcome to Russian 204, portal course to advanced Russian!
Our topic this semester will be readings, composition and discussion of Crime and Punishment.
Here is my syllabus. Please read it to see how I envision this class.
Thank you very much for your interest! Congratulations for going this far in Russian. I was pleased and excited by your take-home finals.
Work for Week 2, Jan 20--
Work for Week 3, Jan 25--. Please read this for assignments for Friday, Jan 29. Also, I'd like to know more about the Schismatics -- thanks to Sasha and Harry for their superb introduction. I have a further assignment.
Notes on Grammar and Word-Formation, 29 Jan
Work for Week 4, Feb 1
Work for Week 5 and 6, Feb 8-19
The assignment for this week (5), which you will find in Russian pdf above, is to read the whole of Chapter Two in English, especially those pages (31-49 in our edition) which we will not read in Russian, and then to read the conclusion of Marmeladow's speech and his walk home with Raskol'nikov's help (this text appears on pp. 49-60 of our edition). For Friday after Mardi Gras I ask for a composition of 2 pp. on one of two themes outlined on the pdf.
Work for Week 7, Feb 22
Please submit 2-page composition on Friday, 19 Feb. A printed hard copy in Cyrillic script would be welcome, most welcome...
Work for Week 7, further assignments for Feb 22 and Friday Feb 26
Syntactic handout, Feb 24
Work for Week 8, 1 Mar Ñ 5 Mar
Handout on March 5: syntax and Dream of Beaten Horse chapter
Work for Week 9, 8 Mar Ñ12 Mar
Work for Week 10, 15 Mar Ñ 19 Mar
Work for Week 11, 22 Mar Ñ 26 Mar
Work for Week 12, 7 April Ñ 12 April
Work for Week 13, 12 April Ñ 19 April
Work for Week 14, 19 April Ñ 26 April
Schedule for Oral Inclass Presentations
Here is an essay on a grammar topic. You might like the examples on pp. 32 ff.
Work for Week 15 and Presentation of Final Take-home exam.
Monday, April 26, at 6:00 in Newcomb 115 we will show Crime and Punishment with pizza. Better fare than Raskol'nikov got. Please come. You'll meet 102 fellow travellers.
The following week is Spring Break, including Monday April 5.
Note: I'm considering a take-home final for 204, on the order of what we did for 203. These essays can be quite valuable. The essay will be due on the date of the scheduled final for 204 or on a date we agree on.
Don't forget that we will all have presentations on individual topics.
Assignments and dates for individual reports in English, April, 2010
Thanks for your superb patience and interest!
I'm still doing my blog; see two notes on the Saints for this month, also there are some things on the structure of the contemporary language.
russlangcourses09-10.blogspot or something like that. I will check.
I am competing remarks on Jakobson's theory of Russian conjugation. Too difficult, no one is reading it.
I'll switch to something else soon. Anyone who reads my blog and comments on it will be thanked.
gmc