RUSSIAN

RUS 101 Elementary Russian I
RUS 102 Elementary Russian II
RUS 201 Intermediate Russian I
RUS 202 Intermediate Russian II

RUS 101 Elementary Russian I

Introduction to the Russian language. Includes Cyrillic alphabet, greetings, gender, readings, communications, and activities.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Read, write, and speak simple words and phrases.
2. Express formal and informal modes of address.
3. Recite gender differences using pronouns, nouns, and adjectives.
4. Discuss present tense situations, Russian states, people, language, and customs.
5. Express situations using verbs, prepositional and accusative cases.
6. Express verbs of motion and the cases required by these verbs.

Course Outline:

1. Cyrillic Alphabet
2. Beginning vocabulary (nominative case) - simple words and phrases
3. Names of people, cities, and countries
4. Greetings
5. Formal and informal modes of address
6. Prepositional case-singular
7. Absence of the verb "to be" in the present tense
8. Gender
9. Simple grammar and spelling rules
10. Possessive pronouns
11. Nouns -nominative plural
12. Adjectives and pronouns
13. Readings
14. Conjugation of simple verbs - present tense
15. Russian states and people - ethnicity, languages, and customs
16. Certain conjunctions: "I", "a", no"
17. Communication
18. Verbs for the words "to learn" and "to teach"
19. Expression: "na kakom kurse"
20. Prepositional and accusative cases
21. Activities
22. Prepositions that take the accusative case
23. Questions with "gde' and "kuda"
24. Simple verbs of motion
25. Introduction to the past tense of verbs

RUS 102 Elementary Russian II

Prerequisite(s): RUS 101.

Continuation of RUS 101. Includes grammar and vocabulary, housing and furniture, family and professions, shopping, money and measurements, and biographies of people.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Read, write, and speak Russian words and phrases.
2. Read, write, and speak Russian words and phrases involving housing and furniture.
3. Read, write, and speak Russian words and phrases involving family and professions.
4. Read, write, and speak Russian words and phrases involving shopping.
5. Read, write, and speak Russian words and phrases involving money and measurements.
6. Read, write, and speak Russian words and phrases involving expressions of resemblance, location, and time.

Course Outline:

1. Grammar and Vocabulary
2. Oral communication review
3. Written communication review
4. Housing and Professions
5. Genitive case -possession
6. Verbs that indicate location
7. The negative form of expression
8. Family and Professions
9. Accusative case of masculine animate nouns
10. Prepositional case-plural endings
11. Dative case - expressions of age and quantity
12. Shopping
13. Past tense of the verb "to be"
14. Continued discussion of the Dative case-the preposition "po"
15. Simple readings: Zamiatin and other modern Russian writers
16. Money and Measurements
17. Quantity
18. Verbs in the future tense
19. Introduction to verbal aspect
20. Conjugation of the Russian verbs "to eat" and "to drink"
21. Biographies of People
22. Expressions of resemblance
23. Expressions of location
24. Expressions of time

RUS 201 Intermediate Russian I

Prerequisite(s): RUS 102 or two years of high school Russian.

Continuation of RUS 102. Includes grammar review, plural case endings, prepositional/accusative cases, weather and climate, and reflexive verbs.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Read, write, and speak previously covered vocabulary.
2. Apply the plural cases for each gender.
3. Read, write, and speak preposition/accusative cases.
4. Read, write, and speak words and phrases concerning weather and climate.
5. Use the reflexive verbs in writing and speaking.
6. Read, write, and speak words and phrases concerning libraries, books, and journals.

Course Outline:

1. Grammar Review
2. Vocabulary, cardinal numbers, emphatic pronouns, some important verbs and adjectives
3. Oral communication review
4. Written communication review
5. Interactive discussion on current events
6. Plural Case Endings
7. Case endings of nouns and adjectives- agreement
8. Communicating on the telephone: ordering an overseas call
9. Intermediate manipulation of the verbs of motion-transitive and intransitive
10. Prepositional/Accusative Cases
11. Model expressions regarding location and directions
12. Verbal aspect-unidirectional vs. multi-directional
13. Interactive class communication through reading and speaking about city transportation
14. Weather and Climate
15. Weather reports and conditions for travel
16. Russian history and culture-a feel for the country
17. Dative and prepositional cases-commonly used prepositions for these cases
18. Various climatic conditions in the Russian states
19. Reflexive Verbs
20. Movies, radio, and television
21. Reassessing the "kotoryi" construction
22. Reading popular poetry: Akmatova, Pushkin, etc.
23. Libraries, Books and Journals
24. Negative constructions
25. Uses of "-to" and "-nibud"
26. Reading stories in Russian: Baranskaia, Lif, and Petrov, etc.

RUS 202 Intermediate Russian II

Prerequisite(s): RUS 201.

Continuation of RUS 201. Includes grammar review, sports terms, health care terms, postal system, traveling in Russia, and etiquette.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Read, write, and speak previously covered vocabulary.
2. Read, write, and speak words and phrases related to sports, interests, and hobbies.
3. Read, write, and speak words and phrases concerning health care.
4. Speak the correct terminology to utilize the postal system.
5. Request the information and directions concerning travel activities.
6. Use the formal and informal etiquette settings.

Course Outline:

1. Grammar Review
2. Oral communication review - vocabulary
3. Russian history and culture - keeping up with current events
4. Sports Terms
5. Free time: interests, hobbies, etc.
6. Singular and plural of the accusative and prepositional cases
7. Instrumental case :singular and plural
8. Passive, impersonal or the third person
9. Health Care Terms
10. Anatomy of the body
11. Verbs taking instrumental and dative cases
12. Review of the past and future verb tenses - some peculiarities
13. Postal System
14. Continuing the dative case
15. Prepositions with the meaning "to" and "from"
16. Correspondence: business and personal letters
17. Traveling in Russia
18. Time expressions
19. Adjectives following numbers
20. Prefixed verbs of motion
21. Etiquette
22. Meeting people in various formal settings - an interactive approach
23. Greetings, invitations, and correct social behavior
24. Clauses starting with "esli by"
25. Verbal adjectives and adverbs