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SL 150 States and Minorities in the Middle East (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with SC 150 Offered Periodically A general survey of Middle Eastern minority narratives within the context of the modern Middle East state system. The course will examine such topics as the political and cultural make up of the Middle East, the status of minorities, minority narratives, and minority rights. Franck Salameh SL 157-158 Praktika russkoj rechi I and II (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: SL 052 equivalent Conducted in Russian. Completion of this course satisfies the undergraduate language-proficiency requirement. A special practicum for the development of active skills in Russian. Extensive vocabulary work, grammar drills, conversation, pereskaz, and composition. Elena Lapitsky SL 167-168 Nihon no kokoro I and II (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: SL 064 or equivalent Conducted in Japanese. A special practicum in Japanese which takes post-intermediate students to the heart of Japanese language and culture. Honorifics and conjugation patterns; ialects, kanji, and untranslatable expressions; reading literature, including poetry and folk tales; catching the essence of a newspaper article; understanding videos, anime, and popular culture; business vocabularies and situations; interviews; auditions; resumes, official letters; greetings; and forms of courtesy. Makoto Takenaka SL 205 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (in translation) (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with EN 303 Conducted entirely in English. Offered Periodically All readings in English translation. For a Russian-language version of this course see SL 308, when it is offered. A comparative study of two giants of world literature, with their opposing perceptions of reality, art, and civilization. A reading of their principal novels and short prose, with a focus on psychological, moral, and religious questions and in light of twentieth-century literary theory. Thomas Epstein SL 223 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in translation) (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with EN 228 Conducted entirely in English. Offered Periodically All readings are in English. Study of major landmarks of Russian literature, in light of Russias turbulent history in the twentieth century. Works by Akhmatova, Babel, Belyi, Berberova, Bunin, Venedikt Erofeev, Gladkov, Olesha, Platonov, Solzhenitsyn, Trifonov, and others. Cynthia Simmons SL 231 Slavic Civilizations (Fall: 3) Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Offered Periodically A survey of various parameters of cultural identity (folklore, religion, language, arts) among the Slavic peoples, from their early shared history and culture, through the Slavic diaspora, to the current interconnectedness of the Slavs of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Mariela Dakova SL 232 Literature of the Other Europe (in translation) (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with EN 229 Offered Periodically All readings in English translation. A survey of outstanding and influential works of and about the political and social upheavals of the twentieth century in Central and South Eastern Europe. A study of the often-shared themes of frontier and identity (political and religious), exile, and apocalypse in the works of selected leading writers, such as Witold Gombrowicz (Poland), Bruno Schulz (Poland), Bohumil Hrabal (Czech Republic), Milan Kundera (Czech), Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia), Mesa Selimovic (Bosnia), Muharem Bazdulj (Bosnia) and Emilian Stanev (Bulgaria). Cynthia Simmons SL 245-246 Advanced Chinese I and II (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: SL 062 or equivalent Offered Periodically Students will continue to learn Chinese grammar, phrases, patterns and sentence structure with extensive practice in reading, conversation, and composition. Students will learn the texts including articles, short stories, poetry, etc. This course will give students better understanding of the Chinese language and culture. Sing-Chen Lydia Chiang SL 249 Women at War and for Peace in Eastern Europe (Spring: 3) Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement A study of the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and ideology in the World Wars in Eastern Europe and the recent Yugoslav wars. In World War I, women confronted their duties to the nation against the backdrop of an on-going struggle for equality. In World War II, women in communist Eastern Europe were liberated by their nations ideology to fight, on all fronts, against tradition. More recently in former Yugoslavia, women, particularly Bosnian Muslim women, flouted tradition in a different way by organizing and fighting for peace. Cynthia Simmons SL 251-252 Advanced Arabic I and II (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: SL 090 or equivalent The goal of this two-semester course is to increase the students knowledge of the Arabic language and culture via a communicationbased approach. Therefore, the emphasis will be placed on functional usage of the language and on communication in context rather than on the conscious learning or memorization of grammatical rules. Therefore, the acquisition of all language skills, listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing, as well as grammatical structures, will be based on application rather than explanation. Franck Salameh 240 The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 ARTS AND SCIENCES

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