The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (SLAV) offers courses designed to meet a wide range of needs and interests in Russian, Polish, Czech, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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We offer courses in each of the General Education and College of Arts and Sciences designations: Language, World Culture, Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences, Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Intensive Writing, and Diversity in the United States. In fact, we boast the second largest selection of GenEd courses of any department in the entire IU system.
This is a hands-on introductory course for anyone interested in the practice of translation. Participants in the class will get the chance to translate a variety of short texts from a language or languages of their choice into English. Together we will also explore translation resources, including online dictionaries, computer-assisted translation tools, publication venues, business aspects, and the history and theory of translation.
The Southeast European country of Yugoslavia no longer exists. But throughout the twentieth century, from 1918 to 1992, artists in Yugoslavia created groundbreaking and internationally renowned artwork at the cutting-edge of global modern and contemporary art. This course studies the development of visual art in Yugoslavia, from the country's inception following World War I to its reconfiguration as a socialist federation after World War II, and, ultimately, to its collapse in the 1990s.
The Slavic languages form an important subgroup of Indo-European and are spoken from East and Central Europe, through the Balkans, and across northern Asia, and serve as a lingua franca across Central Asia. Its three branches are composed of over a dozen living languages and boast well over 400 million speakers. A range of linguistic approaches allow students to analyze new data, organize them according to varying criteria, and draw conclusions about the development and current state of the Slavic languages.
Czech literature and history are intimately bound, and the history of the Czechs has often been a painful one. For centuries, literature has served as a means to respond to historical events, from the repression of the Hapsburg Empire through the totalitarian regimes of the Nazis and Soviets.
The course descriptions in the Academic Bulletin are for all courses that have been offered by the department in the last ten years and that we expect could be offered again; actual course offerings change from semester to semester. For a list of courses specific to a particular semester or summer session, refer to the IU Registrar Schedule of Classes.
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