Course Description:
Conducted in Russian, this course uses interactive approach and offers advanced practice in oral work and written composition. The goal is to raise the linguistic skills of the students to the intermediate-advanced threshold and maximally enrich students’ vocabulary.
Variety of resources are used in the course to facilitate the understanding of cultural complexities, including folk, classical and modern literature, music and song lyrics, poetry, art, drama, newspaper, magazine, radio and Internet reports, film and cartoons.
Please note that the students entering this course are usually of different language levels, including heritage speakers of the Russian language. Therefore, the grading of assignments, projects and other work in this course will be based on your work in the course and your progress rather than on a comparison with other students in the same class.
Course Evaluation:
Grading will be based on your attendance and participation, homework, two presentations and the final written paper. No exams.
Attend 10%
Homework 20%
Quizzes 25%
Midterm paper 10% due date Feb 26
Presentations 15%
Final in-class essay 20%
Required Course Materials:
Required readings will be assigned by instructors.
Course format:
Classes will be conducted in an interactive, seminar style, using a combination of direct instruction, small and large group discussion, and small and large group activities.