ClassInfo - Spring 2021 Russian Classes

Spring 2021 | RUSS 3411 Section 001: Dostoevsky in Translation (65803)

Instructor(s): Gary Jahn
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Meets With:: RUSS 5411 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021

Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Open (26 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2023

Course Catalog Description:: Novels, stories, and miscellaneous writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gjahn+RUSS3411+Spring2021
Class Description:: This course provides a survey of the literary career of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), one of the greatest of the nineteenth-century Russian writers. A portion of the course will be devoted to lectures concerning Dostoevsky's biography and literary career. Most of the course, however, will be devoted to the detailed discussion of the required readings. These will include Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. All students will write one 5-8 page essay for each novel. Students enrolled for Russ 5411 must in addition write a 12-15 page research paper on a subject mutually agreed to by themselves and the instructor; students enrolled in Russ 3411 are not obliged to write such a paper.
Who Should Take This Class?:: The class is taught entirely in English.
Grading:: 75% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:: There are no exams.
Class Format:: 20% Lecture
80% Discussion
Workload:: 150 Pages Reading Per Week
3 Papers
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65803/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 2 November 2020

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