Undergraduate Course: The Golden and Silver Ages of Russian Literature (1820-1920s) (ELCR08006)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Course type	Standard	Availability	Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate)	Credits	20
Home subject area	European Languages and Cultures - Russian Studies	Other subject area	None
Course website	http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/russian/undergd.html	Taught in Gaelic?	No
Course description	The Russian literature course introduces students to a range of literary texts by the recognised literary "greats" from the nineteenth and twentieth century, such as Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Bunin and others. One aim of the course is to give students an opportunity to appreciate the aesthetic and humanist qualities that have traditionally been valued in Russian literature. The social and historical context of these works will also be considered. Lectures will aim to give overviews of literary movements such as Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and provide close readings of texts on the syllabus. Course aims: To provide an introduction to the advanced study of Russian literature of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century; To develop understanding of the key historical events and developments of the period, of the various literary genres studied; To enable students to develop certain transferable skills: in study and research; in analysis, in criticism and evaluation; in oral and written communication; in presentation.

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Delivery period: 2012/13 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1)						WebCT enabled: Yes		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Central	Lecture	Lecture	1-22		13:10 - 13:50
Central	Tutorial	Tutorial	1-22				13:10 - 13:50 or 16:10 - 17:00
First Class	First class information not currently available
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)			2:00

Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)						WebCT enabled: No		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Central	Lecture	Lecture	1-22		13:10 - 13:50
Central	Tutorial	Tutorial	1-22				13:10 - 13:50 or 16:10 - 17:00
First Class	First class information not currently available
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)			2:00

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able: to demonstrate a good knowledge and understanding of the literary, historical and cultural developments in Russian literature of the nineteenth - beginning of the twentieth century and of the formal and thematic issues raised by the set texts to demonstrate familiarity with the recommended secondary material relevant to the periods and to the authors studied to identify the literary and rhetorical techniques used in the texts studied in lectures and tutorials to demonstrate understanding of the relationship between the texts and their socio-political context to gather, select and apply information and concepts from a variety of primary and secondary sources to demonstrate the acquisition of certain transferable skills, including ability to criticise, evaluate and interpret evidence, ability to consider a problem from a number of different perspectives, ability to accommodate ambiguity and advance reasonable conjectures, ability to argue cogently and persuade effectively - in oral and written form.

Assessment Information
coursework - 50% degree examination - 50% Visiting Student Variant Assessment coursework 50% examination 50%

Special Arrangements
None