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Russian and East European Institute
Southeast European Courses at Indiana University
Q101/Q501 -- Elementary Macedonian I Course Description: This course will provide a fundamental background of the language in order to enable the student to function in Macedonian in the most common communicative situations as well as to prepare the student to continue his study of the language according to his own interests and needs. The instruction is proficiency-oriented and pays equal attention to speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension. An important part of the course is allowing the students to practice their conversational skills in Macedonian. Students will practice their conversation skills following the regular coursework during a required conversation class that will center on a specific topic mirroring the textbook and following the specific events that are important for Macedonian culture. Additional resources will supplement classroom instruction: teacher’s materials, multimedia material, CD-s, Internet sites etc. Q102/Q502 -- Elementary Macedonian II Course Description: This course will continue to provide a fundamental background of the Macedonian language as well as prepare the student to continue his study of the language according to his own interests and needs. The instruction will continue to be proficiency-oriented with attention to speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension. The students will practice their conversational skills in Macedonian following the regular coursework during a required conversation class that will center on a specific topic mirroring the textbook and following the specific events that are important for Macedonian culture. Additional resources will supplement classroom instruction: teacher’s materials, multimedia material, CD-s, Internet sites, and for reading comprehension: newspapers, journals, books, etc. S101/S501 -- Elementary Serbian & Croatian I Course Description: This course will concentrate on the acquisition of language skills, oral and written, for the purpose of reading, listening, composition and conversation. The elements of modern Serbian/Croatian grammar will be introduced to enhance proper and correct use of the language. Near the end of the fall semester several abridged versions of literary texts by authors from different parts of the former Yugoslaviawill be read in order to give the students an idea of the language beyond the limits of the textbook. The students also will be invited to comment on these texts in Serbian/Croatian, both in written and oral forms. In addition, at least two contemporary films in Serbian/Croatian will be shown (with English subtitles) and discussed in the class, which will enable the students to enlarge not only their linguistic but also cultural understanding of the region in which Serbian/Croatian is spoken. S102/S502 -- Elementary Serbian & Croatian II Course Description: This course will concentrate on the acquisition of language skills, oral and written, for the purpose of reading, listening, composition, and conversation. The further elements of modern Serbian/Croatian grammar will be introduced to enhance proper and correct use of the language, together with some review of previously covered material. Considering acquired knowledge of grammar and the vocabulary, the instructor will put more emphasis on conversation and composition, thus making students put into practice what they are learning. Some literary texts by authors writing in Serbian/Croatian will be read in the class. These texts will serve as a basis for further building up of vocabulary and as a source of topics for compositions written in Serbian/Croatian. S201/S503 -- Intermediate Serbian & Croatian I Course Description: This course will concentrate on the improvement of acquired language skills, oral and written, for the purpose of conversation, reading, composition and listening. Considering the already acquired knowledge of the grammar, the instructor will mainly stress conversation and composition practice. However, a thorough review of the grammar also will be conducted, stressing the problems that were not discussed during the elementary course, including: the usage of the Aorist, Exact Future and Imperfect Tense, and the different kinds of participles. A number of literary texts, both abridged and unabridged, will be read and discussed both in written and oral forms. The texts will include the works of some of the most prominent or popular modern and contemporary Serbian and Croatian authors, like, Dubravka Ugresic, Momo Kapor, or the Nobel Prize winner, Ivo Andric. At least two contemporary movies (one with and one without English subtitles) will be shown and discussed in the class for the purpose of the improvement of the students' listening comprehension skills. S202/S504 -- Intermediate Serbian & Croatian II Course Description: This course will concentrate on the improvement of acquired language skills, oral and written, for the purpose of conversation, reading, composition and listening. Considering the previously acquired knowledge of grammar, the instructor will insist on conversation and composition, just revising certain grammatical problems, the use of the cases in the first place. A number of literary text in Serbian/Croatian will be read and discussed in Serbian/Croatian in the class. S363/S563 -- Literatures and Cultures of the South Slavs
I S364/S564 -- Literatures and Cultures of the South Slavs II Course Description: The goal of this course is to read as much of the twentieth-century literatures of South Slavic and Balkan peoples as is possible in the course of the semester. Each unit of the course is organized around one of the major nationalities of the region: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Albanian. In each unit there is a general introductory lecture concerning the modern culture of the nationality. This is followed by a discussion of one or more major work, read by everyone in the class. In addition each student is required to choose (in consultation with the instructor) one work to report about in class; graduate students also write a research paper.
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