Russian
Courses
It has been shown that all things being equal, the acquisition of Russian, is more successfully achieved by students who take two classes per semester. Thus, if possible, students should consider taking RUSS 102 and RUSS 112, at the same time, RUSS 221 and RUSS 212, or RUSS 302 and RUSS 480, etc.
SPRING 2012 COURSES:
RUSSIAN 102 Russian Level II
This is the second course in Russian. The goals in this course are to continue learning the basics of Russian: speaking, writing, comprehension, and reading in a number of situations, from making someone's acquaintance and getting information to making friends, and talking about your preferences in personalities, life style and cultural tastes. In conjunction with this course students are strongly encouraged to take RUSS 112 to provide the necessary amount of spoken practice needed to develop their level of oral proficiency in Russian.
RUSSIAN 112 Russian Conversation Supplement to RUSS 102
One-credit, conversation course focusing on task-oriented activities and practice in conversational Russian. This course offers you the chance to talk Russian, to play games and sing in Russian, to get to know your classmates and to hone your speaking and listening skills at your level. Communicative activities will be based on the vocabulary and grammar learned in RUSS 102 course.
RUSSIAN 202 Russian Level IV
This course is designed to build on the base acquired in the first three semesters of language learning. This course will continue to develop students' command of speaking, reading, listening, and writing as they are exposed to the rich and multifaceted culture of Russia. In conjunction with this course students are strongly encouraged to take RUSS 212 to provide the necessary amount of spoken practice needed to develop their level of oral proficiency in Russian.
RUSSIAN 212 Russian Conversation Supplement to RUSS 202
One credit conversation course designed to give students a chance to converse in Russian. The course will focus on speaking and understanding authentic Russian through dialogues, everyday situations, role-play, and other activities. Expect to hear and speak only Russian in class.
RUSSIAN 302 Russian Level VI
Designed to further develop students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities in Russian. Students will begin to learn points of aspect usage, verbs of motion, impersonal constructions, time expressions, etc. They will also begin to familiarize themselves with more advanced vocabulary and syntactical constructions.
RUSSIAN 402 Russian Level VII
This course provides students with further practice in speaking, reading, listening, and writing of Russian. The purpose of this course is to continue increasing the students' vocabulary and to review those grammatical points that are most useful to students at this level. Conducted primarily in Russian.
RUSS 480 Russian Civilization
This course examines Russian life—intellectual, social, and cultural. It introduces students to major trends in Russian civilization from the Middle Ages to the present, through the study of literature, art, architecture, music, journalism and film in an historical context. Emphasis will be placed on the roles of individuals who shaped the development of Russia and its civilization. There will be opportunity for discussion in class.
RUSSIAN 562 / LINGUISTICS 591 The Structure of Russian II
MORPHOLOGY This course will present a systematic study of Russian morphology, dealing both with the various categories of inflected words (nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs) and with word formation. Russian noun and adjective declension and Russian verb conjugation will be examined in detail, and the various types will be brought into a unified system.
FALL COURSES:
RUSSIAN 101 Russian Level I
This is the beginning course in Russian. The goals in this course are to learn the basics of Russian: speaking, writing, comprehension, and reading in a number of situations, from making someone's acquaintance and getting information to making friends, and talking about your preferences in personalities, life style and cultural tastes. In conjunction with this course students are strongly encouraged to take RUSS 111 to provide the necessary amount of spoken practice needed to develop their level of oral proficiency in Russian.
RUSSIAN 111 Russian Conversation Supplement to RUSS 101
One-credit, conversation course focusing on task-oriented activities and practice in conversational Russian. This course offers you the chance to talk Russian, to play games and sing in Russian, to get to know your classmates and to hone your speaking and listening skills at your level. Communicative activities will be based on the vocabulary and grammar learned in RUSS 101 course.
RUSSIAN 201 Russian Level III
This course is designed to build on the base acquired in the first-year language sequence. This course will continue to develop students' command of speaking, reading, listening, and writing as they are exposed to the rich and multifaceted culture of Russia. In conjunction with this course students are strongly encouraged to take RUSS 212 to provide the necessary amount of spoken practice needed to develop their level of oral proficiency in Russian.
RUSSIAN 211 Russian Conversation Supplement to RUSS 202
One credit conversation course designed to give students a chance to converse in Russian. The course will focus on speaking and understanding authentic Russian through dialogues, everyday situations, role-play, and other activities. Expect to hear and speak only Russian in class.
RUSSIAN 301(H) Russian Level V
Designed to further develop students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities in Russian. Students will begin to learn points of aspect usage, verbs of motion, impersonal constructions, time expressions, etc. They will also begin to familiarize themselves with more advanced vocabulary and syntactical constructions.
RUSSIAN 330 (H) Russian and East European Cinema
Viewing and analysis of significant Russian and East European films. Evolution of the Russian and East European cinema, its place in world cinema, and its relation to cultural, political, and social trends. Cinematic adaptation of literary and theatrical works. Knowledge of Russian or East European languages not required.
RUSSIAN 342 Russian Literature II: From 1900 to the Present
This course will explore Russian literary developments from the Kievan period to the end of the 19th century in a historical and cultural context. Emphasis will be placed on close reading of the text and revealing its meaning in the context of Russian society. Authors to be read will include, Avvakum, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol and Dostoevsky. The format of the course will be informal lectures and class discussions with active student participation.
RUSSIAN 401 (H) Russian Level VII
This course provides students with further practice in speaking, reading, listening, and writing of Russian. The purpose of this course is to continue increasing the students' vocabulary and to review those grammatical points that are most useful to students at this level. Conducted primarily in Russian.
RUSS 561 Structure of Russian I: Word Forms and Word Formation
This course examines the sound system and sentence structure of Russian, dealing with the structural pattern on various levels (phonetic, phonemic, syntactic). Students will learn how the Russian sounds fit together into a system and how to improve their pronunciation. The syntactic component will focus on principles of word order. This course is the prerequisite to RUSS 56200/LING 59200 The Structure of Russian II: Morphology, which will focus on the structure of Russian morphology: nominal declension, verb conjugation, and word-building.
