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UKRN S-Aab Beginning Ukrainian (30227)
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Alla Parkhomenko
Workshop. (8 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-noon. Eight-week session. Required daily 1-hour sections to be arranged. Tuition $4,400. Limited enrollment.
This course continues to meet during the final examination period. 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.
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UKRN S-B Intermediate Ukrainian (31593)
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Yuri I. Shevchuk
Workshop. (8 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-noon. Eight-week session. Required daily 1-hour sections to be arranged. Tuition $4,400. Limited enrollment.
This course continues to meet during the final examination period. Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

An intensive review of basic structures is followed by expansion of these grammar fundamentals. Emphasis is on oral communication using basic conversational patterns. Major emphasis is placed on the development of vocabulary through readings and viewings of 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.
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UKRN S-C Advanced Ukrainian (30230)
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Volodymyr Dibrova
Workshop. (8 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-F 9 am-noon. Eight-week session. Required daily 1-hour sections to be arranged. Tuition $4,400. Limited enrollment.
This course continues to meet during the final examination period. 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 equivalent.
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UKRN S-125 Independent Ukraine: Politics, National Identity, and Democratization (31985)
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Andrew L. Wilson
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) M,W 1-3:30 pm. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,200.
Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

This course provides a detailed study of Ukraine since independence in 1991, focusing on the interaction between the post-Soviet political system, the complexities of modern national identity, and the attempt to build a functioning democracy based on European values. The course looks in detail at Ukraine's initial progress as a new state under President Kravchuk (1991–1994), at how Ukraine gained a reputation for political drift and corruption under the second presidency of Leonid Kuchma (1999–2004), and at how hopes were dramatically revived by the Orange Revolution in 2004. The course examines the Orange Revolution, how it happened and why it happened; and concludes by looking at the prospects for the new Ukraine under President Yushchenko, asking whether the new authorities can deliver on the hopes invested in the Orange Revolution, and whether they can find a meaningful place for Ukraine in the new Europe.
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UKRN S-131 The Myth of Kyiv: A City Through Centuries and Cultures (31984)
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Taras Koznarsky
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 1-3:30 pm. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,200.
Online registration is not available for this course. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.

Throughout its history spanning more than a millennium, the Ukrainian capital experienced glorious times and devastating downfalls. Kyiv became an integral part of various historic and cultural traditions, a place where Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews reconstructed their own versions of the city, its origins, and its roles. The course focuses on the literary texts and cultural processes (from the early nineteenth century to contemporary times, with a few detours into the medieval period) that shaped the symbolic topography/geography and myth of the city.
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  • HIST S-1512 Modern Ukraine, Late Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century


 


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