Courses on Literature

Description of courses

Alexander Pushkin: Life and Creation.
The course includes reading and discussion both Pushkin's works in original and books and articles about his life.

Mikhail Lermontov: Life and creation.
The course includes reading and discussion both Lermontov's works in original and books and articles about his life.

Nikolai Gogol: Life and Creation.
The course includes reading and discussion both Gogol's works in original and books and articles about his life.

Old Russian book, culture and literature.
Students get the possibility to read and study old Slavonic texts (episodes from chronicles, lives of saints, old Russian poetry), to observe the features of Church Slavonic language, to realize the mentality and traditions of that period, to see real old Russian books from the collections of local libraries.

Reading and Commenting of Modern Russian Literature (Shukshin, Astafiev, Petrushevskaja, Dovlatov, Pelevin).

Russian Customs and Folklore.
It is kind of language -literary-cultural course which includes studying Russian folk traditions in connection with mentality (for example, superstitions), reading folk tales and legends, visiting museums.

Terms in 2010/2011:
4 week program: 
October, 4 - October, 29
November, 1 - November, 26
November, 29 - December, 24
January, 10 - February, 4
January, 31 - February, 25
March, 7 - April, 1
April, 4 - April, 29
May, 3 - May, 31

Level:
Intermediate, Advanced

The cost: 

Duration	Individual training	Small group (2 people)	Medium group (3-6 people)
1 hour	500 RUB	260 RUB	210 RUB

Deadline is 2 months before the beginning of the programme. 

Contact person:
Galina Parikhina (Ms),
Head of Department of Educational and Exchange Programmes,
Northern European Open University, Petrozavodsk State University,
Office 412, Anokhina str., 20,
Petrozavodsk, 185640, Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation
tel:  +7 8142 76 58 35 ;  +7 8142 71 96 27 
fax: + 7 8142 78 26 68
e-mail: parikhina@psu.karelia.ru