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2009 Summer Session Course Listings
Note: Northwestern day school students need permission from the dean of their school to enroll in School of Continuing Studies courses. SCS courses are indicated by a -CN after the course number (example: ACCOUNT 204-CN Sec. 28). The majority of Summer Session courses do not need dean approval.
Slavic Languages and Literature
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
SLAVIC 106-Z Sec. 26 
Elementary Czech
CAESAR Class Number: 40138
6 weeks,
Off Campus,
6/15 - 7/31
Days and times are TBA
Staff
This course is taught in Prague; for more information, please call the Center for International and Comparative Studies at 847-467-1152. The course is designed to give students the ability to handle everyday situations in Czech by focusing on speaking, listening, and reading comprehension. The course also introduces Czech grammar and basic writing skills.
SLAVIC 267-Z Sec. 26
Modern Czech Film: History on Screen
CAESAR Class Number: 40136
6 weeks,
Off Campus,
6/15 - 7/31
Days and times are TBA
Staff
This course is taught in Prague; for more information, please call the Center for International and Comparative Studies at 847-467-1152. The course provides insight into the issues that shaped historical and sociocultural developments in Czechoslovakia through an examination of major feature films and documentaries. Students will gain a deep understanding of the unique central European experience of modernity through the work of famous filmmakers, including such directors as Academy Award laureates Milos Forman and Jiří Menzel. Screenings will include films covering World War II, the Stalinist era, the period of political and cultural thaw of the 1960s, the post-1968 Soviet invasion years, as well as the trends and controversies that stemmed from the post-1989 Velvet Revolution. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
SLAVIC 313-0 Sec. 28 
Cancelled
Nabokov
CAESAR Class Number: 42774
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 8/13
MTh 5:30 - 7pm
Nina Wieda
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2410.
Vladimir Nabokov's major Russian and American prose, from his émigré years (The Defense, The Eye, and Invitation to a Beheading) to his celebrated English-language works (Lolita, Pnin, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and Pale Fire). This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
SLAVIC 392-0 Sec. 28
Cancelled
Contemporary Easter European Literature: The Forest of Perpetual Darkness
CAESAR Class Number: 42775
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 8/13
TuTh 6 - 8pm
Nada Petkovic
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2415.
The Forest of Perpetual Darkness: Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian life as seen by the greatest masters of the short story.In this course the students will be introduced to a dozen short stories by great contemporary Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian authors, such as Hemon, Albahari, Ugresic, Basara, David, Kis, and others. The premise of the course is that the verbal artist deals differently, and perhaps more profoundly, with political, social, national and historical issues than the so-called objective media. These fictional texts may well give the reader a more informed and nuanced understanding of a very complex part of Europe. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
Indicates an Evening Course.
Indicates a Study Abroad Course.
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