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Ukrainian

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  • GOVT S-1248 Theorizing Ukraine: Politics, Theory, and Political Theory

UKRN S-Aab Beginning Ukrainian (30227)
(Print version)
Alla Parkhomenko
(8 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-noon, Emerson Hall, Room 104. Eight-week session. Required daily 1-hour sections to be arranged. Tuition $4,550. Limited enrollment.
Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

This is an intensive course for students with little or no knowledge of Ukrainian. Basic grammatical structures are introduced and reinforced through an active oral approach. By the end of the course students are expected to develop the ability to conduct short conversations in a range of familiar situations related to daily activities, understand simple factual texts, and write routine messages. They are able to initiate, maintain, and bring to a close simple exchanges by asking and responding to simple questions. A variety of original sources are used to create an authentic environment.

UKRN S-B Intermediate Ukrainian (31593)
(Print version)
Yuri I. Shevchuk
(8 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-noon, Robinson Hall, Room 106. Eight-week session. Required daily 1-hour sections to be arranged. Tuition $4,550. Limited enrollment.
Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

Development of students' conversational skills in a variety of real life communicative settings is given priority treatment in the course. This is accompanied by a review of basic structures and further expansion of grammar fundamentals. Major emphasis is placed on the development of vocabulary through readings and viewing videotaped programs focusing on contemporary cultural and political issues. By the end of the course, students are able to narrate and describe in major time frames and deal effectively with unanticipated complications in most informal and some formal settings on topics of personal and general interest. Prerequisite: UKRN S-Aab or the equivalent.

UKRN S-C Advanced Ukrainian (30230)
(Print version)
Volodymyr Dibrova
(8 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-noon, Sever Hall, Room 212. Eight-week session. Optional sections to be arranged. Tuition $4,550. Limited enrollment.
Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

This is an intensive course for students who wish to develop their mastery of the language. Reading selections include annotated articles on contemporary issues in business, economics, politics, and culture. Short written reports and oral presentations are part of the course. By the end of the course students are able to discuss extensively a wide range of general interest topics and some special fields of interest, hypothesize, support opinions, and deal with linguistically unfamiliar situations. Classes are conducted largely in Ukrainian. Prerequisite: Two years of college-level Ukrainian or the equivalent.

UKRN S-101 Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the Canon (32109)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
George G. Grabowicz
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) M,W 12:30-3 pm, Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 114. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.
Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

A survey of the major writers and works of Ukrainian literature from the 1920s through the present with a special focus on how their reception and evaluation has been reconfigured by Ukraine's independence. The course examines such movements and developments as modernism, the "executed renaissance" (rozstriljane vidrodzhennja), socialist realism, the literature of dissent and emigration, underground literature, and postmodernism through close readings of representative works. Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Ukrainian or permission of the instructor.

UKRN S-127 Ukraine as Linguistic Battleground (32110)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
Michael S. Flier
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 3:30-6 pm, Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 316. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.
Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

This course explores the Ukrainian language in linguistic, historical, sociolinguistic, anthropological, and political terms. Topics include the historical emergence of Ukrainian on East Slavic territory, its varied relationships to Russian, the status of Rusyn within the Ukrainian language sphere, the typology and function of Ukrainian linguistic hybrids (surzhyk), current problems of Ukrainian standardization, and Ukrainian language politics.

 



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