PROGRAM DATES
The Program will take place during spring of 2007 and will roughly correspond to the Carleton term.

DIRECTOR
Diane Nemec Ignashev, Professor of Russian

Diane Nemec Ignashev teaches Russian language, as well as Russian culture and theories of culture, and her research focuses on Russian theater, gender, and canon formation. She has lived and worked in Russia for many years, and the 2007 Moscow program is her eleventh academic tour to Russia since 1988.

PREREQUISITES
Students with sophomore, junior or senior status during 2006-2007 who will have completed at least two terms of Russian (101-102) at Carleton, or the equivalent, by the end of winter term 2006 are encouraged to apply.

COURSE OF STUDY, 18 CREDITS

All courses apply toward the Certificate of Advanced Study in Russian as well as toward the Russian Studies Concentration and the major in Russian. The applicability of credit may differ for individual students depending on level and categories within the major and concentration to be fulfilled. You are advised to consult with the department. All students will register for 9 credits of language courses, which meet from six to nine periods per week and are taught by members of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. Students at all levels of Russian experience will also register for a spring break reading course prior to the seminar as well as for the “Magical Russia” course.

RUSSIAN 290-17: READING FOR RUSSIA (3 credits)
Over the spring break students will read works related to the seminar courses of study and excursions. An examination of the reading will be given in the beginning of the term.
Instructor: Professor Nemec Ignashev

RUSSIAN 226 or RUSSIAN 326: MAGICAL RUSSIA (6 credits, RAD/AL)

In this course we investigate Russia’s unique situation as mediator between “East” and “West” and the “magical” culture that has arisen at their juncture: so-called “double faith” (the simultaneous practice of monotheistic and polytheistic rites), “holy folly,” the “apocalyptic” city of St. Petersburg, and Soviet Moscow as the devil’s haunt. Readings include fiction—fairy tales, saints’ lives, short works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Erofeev, and Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita—as well as Siberian legends, travelogues, and scholarly articles on Russian practice of shamanism, orthodox Christianity, and Buddhism. Discussions are complemented by field trips around Moscow, to St. Petersburg, and to shamanistic and Buddhist centers in the Lake Baikal region and Buryatia. Students who register for RUSS 326 do all of their work in Russian; permission of the instructor is required for this level.
Nemec Ignashev, D.

STUDENTS CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING BLOCKS:

ADVANCED LANGUAGE BLOCK

RUSSIAN 307-07 ADVANCED GRAMMAR: 3 credit

RUSSIAN 308-07: ADVANCED PHONETICS AND INTONATION : 2 credits
RUSSIAN 309-07 ADVANCED COMPOSITION: 4 credits
These three courses combine advanced work in Russian grammar, composition, and phonetics. Conversational Russian will be practiced throughout the homestay environment as well as in meetings with Russian students. Students who register at this level will have completed at least 6 credits beyond Russian 205 and/or 206 and may already have studied in Russia.

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INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE BLOCK

RUSSIAN 207-07: INTERMEDIATE GRAMMAR: 4 credits
RUSSIAN 208-07: INTERMEDIATE PHONETICS: 2 credits
RUSSIAN 209-07: INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATION: 3 credits
These courses are for students at the intermediate level who have completed Russian 205 and/or 206. Focus at this level will be on vocabulary enrichment, grammar, and phonetics. Conversational Russian in class will be supplemented throughout the homestay environment as well as in meeting with Russian students.

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BEGINNING LANGUAGE BLOCK

RUSSIAN 107-07: BEGINNING GRAMMAR: 4 credits
RUSSIAN 108-07: BEGINNING PHONETICS: 2 credits
RUSSIAN 109-07: BEGINNING CONVERSATION: 3 credits

These courses are for students who have just recently begun their study of the Russian language, having completed or tested beyond elementary Russian 102. At this level students work on a combination of grammar, conversation practice, reading, and phonetics.

HERITAGE STUDENTS
Heritage Students will do a combination of language study and independent study in a field of their choice in addition to Russian 226/326.

LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
Students will reside with host families scattered throughout the city of Moscow with ready access to public transportation. Families, screened by Carleton staff members, will provide students breakfast and supper daily. Students will lunch on their own with an allowance provided by the program. The program will provide transit passes valid on all forms of mass transportation within the city of Moscow.

TRAVEL AND EXCURSIONS
Barring unanticipated changes in visa regulations or radical fluctuations in the Russian economy, we will travel by train to St. Petersburg for 4-5 days over the traditional May 1-May 9 holidays. If time and finances allow, we will travel to the Lake Baikal region in Eastern Siberia for a week in late May. In addition, course work within Moscow will be supplemented by travel in and around the city’s suburbs. Students who intend to travel in Russia after the program’s completion should be advised that their visa will be valid for ninety days beyond the day of our arrival; at the time of this writing, visa extensions are very difficult (read: impossible) to obtain, unless you are willing to register (for reasonable tuition rates) as a summer-school student with our Moscow State University affiliate.

EXPENSES
Students pay the 2006-2007 Carleton comprehensive fee, which covers the costs of instruction, room, board, public transportation in Moscow, tickets and admissions, program travel, and social events. Students are responsible for the cost of books, personal expenses, and transportation to and from Moscow, and personal travel during the seminar. Estimates for expenses beyond plane fare run from $250 to $500. Student financial aid is applicable as on campus. See the Off-Campus Studies Planning Guide for further information regarding work contracts, loans, and other subjects of financial aid.

APPLICATIONS
Application forms are available from the Office of Off-Campus Studies, Leighton 119. For consideration spring term 2004, applications must be submitted by April 28, 2006 to Mary Tatge, Administrative Assistant to Modern Languages Department, LDC 340. Initial decisions regarding acceptance will be completed soon thereafter. A few spaces will be reserved for a second round of recruiting to be held in the fall term.

INFORMATION MEETING
February 16, 2006, 4:30-6:00 p.m., LDC 330