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Ukrainian Courses
- UKRN S-Aab Beginning Ukrainian
- UKRN S-G Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge
- UKRN S-101 Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the Canon
- UKRN S-128 Contemporary Ukraine: History, Geography, and Political Thought
UKRN S-Aab Beginning Ukrainian (32853)
Class times: Mondays-Fridays, 8:30 am-1:30 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit $5,400.
For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
Limited enrollment.
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. (8 credits)
UKRN S-G Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge (32718)
Class times: Mondays-Fridays, 9 am-12:30 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit $5,400.
For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
Limited enrollment.
This 8-unit language course is designed primarily for graduate students of humanities who wish to acquire a reading knowledge of Ukrainian for research purposes. Texts from a variety of fields are used. Prerequisite: some previous background in Ukrainian, Russian, or other Slavic language. (8 credits)
UKRN S-101 Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the Canon (32828)
Class times: Mondays, Wednesdays, noon-3 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit $2,700.
For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
This course is 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 modernism, the "executed renaissance" (rozstriljane vidrodzhennja), socialist realism, the literature of dissent and emigration, underground literature, and post-modernism, among others, through close readings of representative works. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Ukrainian, or permission of the instructor. (4 credits)
UKRN S-128 Contemporary Ukraine: History, Geography, and Political Thought (32856)
Class times: Mondays, Wednesdays, 8:30-11:30 am.
Course tuition: noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit $2,700.
For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
What is it like to live in a new capitalist society after 75 years of socialism? This course aims to analyze the era of Ukraine's independence by examining individual experience in a state of conflicting ideologies and value systems. Through readings and class discussions, students gain an understanding of the essence of current social and political issues in Ukraine. (4 credits)
