UKR1080

Ukrainian studies I/2A

M Pavlyshyn

6 points
* 4 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites: UKR1070

Objectives The language component of this subject builds upon the skills and knowledge gained in UKR1070. Upon completing the literature component of UKR1080, students should have obtained a knowledge of the major developments in Ukrainian literature in the nineteenth century, including the major features of Ukrainian and European Romanticism and Realism and a familiarity with key texts.

Synopsis (i) Language: a review of Ukrainian grammar; development of conversation and composition skills using texts on contemporary themes. (ii) Literature and society: an introduction to major cultural, social and political developments in Ukraine in the nineteenth century; the study of selected literary texts from Kotliarevs'kyi to Franko.

Assessment Examinations (2 hours): 25%
* Language Weekly homework: 25%
* Two 10-minute tutorial papers: 10%
* Test (30 minutes): 10%
* Literature and culture Essay (1500 words): 20%
* Tutorial paper: 10%

Prescribed texts

Struk D Ukrainian for undergraduates Edmonton, 1982

Recommended texts

Holoskevych H Pravpysnyi slovnyk
Podvezko M Ukrainian- English dictionary