GLITS/Slavic Spring courses

Discuss poetry from around the world and write original poems. In this course, you will discover and cultivate the artist within while exploring poetry as a vehicle for engaging in cross-cultural dialogue and investigating various social and political themes such as love, war, death, feminism, and nationhood. We will do our best to dispel the myth that poems are created in a vacuum and that poets are aloof weirdos!

Covers science fiction in film and literature of Central and Eastern Europe as shaped by world wars, totalitarianisms, and revolutions. Explores radical and uncompromising thought experiments and daring aesthetics found in works by Polish, Russian, and Czech artists and others against the volatile cultural modernity of the twentieth century.

Emphasizes international cultural, artistic, and historical diversity by introducing select contemporary Eastern European film directors. Focuses on a single filmmaker and studies his/her opus in depth, both in his/her Eastern European country of origin and abroad. Special attention paid to Eastern European filmmakers in Hollywood.

Explores Russian literature and culture during the twentieth century before perestroika, a period of "revolutions" and unprecedented change in political, cultural, and economic life.

Examines diverse phenomena related to the language known as Serbo-Croatian, and to the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian languages. Explores concepts such as language death, birth, politics, standardization, and codification. The relation between dialect and language is observed in an ecology exhibiting ethnic and religious diversity.