Columbia University offers four Ukrainian studies courses (09/08/02)

Columbia University offers four Ukrainian studies courses

NEW YORK - The Ukrainian studies courses offered this fall at Columbia University, where registration commenced September 3 and continues through September 18, are courses in politics, literature and language.

"Ukrainian Politics and Identity" (U8477) is taught by Prof. Volodymyr Kulyk of The Harriman Institute. The course presents the complex relationship between political processes in post-Soviet Ukraine and identities of its elites and masses, largely determined by their Soviet experience. It seeks to describe Ukraine both as a typical post-Communist state undergoing a painful process of transition and as a very peculiar case in view of its historical legacy imposing further constraints on the transition. The course will deal with various aspects of Ukrainian politics and state-society relations, including the formation of post-Soviet power bodies and political parties, the constitutional process, foreign and security policy, economic transformation, the media, religion, as well as ethnolinguistic and cultural politics. The discussions will seek to disentangle impacts of historical legacies and current decision-making in the post-Soviet development. The influence of outside actors, such as Russia, the United States and international organizations, also will be analyzed. The course will also demonstrate how these contradictory processes influence the identity of Ukrainian elites and masses and shape a post-Soviet identity of the Ukrainian state and society. The course, which begins on September 10, will be held on Tuesdays at 4:10-6 p.m., Room 1219, International Affairs Building.
"Modern Ukrainian Prose" (W4040), Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky: The course surveys the most important developments in Ukrainian prose from the 1890s to the present, in a broad cultural context. Among authors to be discussed are Olha Kobylianska, Vasyl Stefanyk, Mykhailo Kostiubynsky, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Mykola Khvyliovy, Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Ivan Bahrianyi, Valerii Shevchuk, Yurii Andrukhovych and Oksana Zabuzhko. The course, which is offered by the Slavic Department, will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays, starting September 4, at 10:35-11:50 a.m., Room 616, Hamilton Hall.
"Language Development in Post-Totalitarian Space (U6888), is taught by Prof. Antonina Berezovenko. While the main focus will be on current processes in language development in three areas, i.e., Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian language within and outside Russia, the course will also consider problems from a diachronic perspective, extending to the Soviet and late imperial period. The syllabus is available on the Harriman Institute website at http://sipa.columbia.edu/REGIONAL/HI/home.html. The course, which began September 4, is being held Wednesdays, at 4:10-6 p.m. For more information call the institute, (212) 854-4623.
Elementary and Intermediate Ukrainian is offered by the Slavic Department, with Profs. Paola Castagna and Antonina Berezovenko, respectively, as instructors. Elementary Ukrainian will be held in Room 518, Hamilton Hall. Classes for intermediate students will be held in Room 609, Hamilton Hall. Both courses, which commenced September 4, will be taught on Mondays and Wednesdays, at 5:40-6:55 p.m. For additional information call the Slavic Department, (212) 854-3941.

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