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RUSS3405B-L09

Advanced Russian II

For students with at least 400 hours of prior formal instruction in Russian, or fewer hours of formal instruction but a semester or more in Russia. In this class, students tackle the more complicated grammatical and syntactical structures of the Russian language and significantly increase their vocabulary by studying Russian root-based semantic groups, idioms, and synonyms. The course focuses a good deal of attention on the development of students’ lexical competence (active vocabulary of 2,500 words) by acquainting them with prototypical models of the word formation and derivation processes of contemporary standard Russian. Much of the class’s work is devoted to the detailed analysis of a few famous Russian films, including Burnt by the Sun, The Stroll, The Sniper (Kukusha), Brother-2, Piter-FM, and The Diamond Hand, as well as the reading of contemporary poems, short stories, and excerpts of longer prose works. Students give short presentations on the writers whose works they read. Students typically complete this course with advanced low to advanced mid language skills.

Primary Textbooks: Rosssiia i Amerika: Dialog kul’tur (Shchepina), Vyrazhenie ustupitel’noi semantiki v russkom iazyke (Yatsenko), Leksika i slovoobrazovanie (Kozhevnikov & Kozhevnikova), all published in Russia; coursepack of readings and grammar exercises. Shchepina & staff.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60297
Subject Code:
RUSS
Course Number:
3405
Section Identifier:
B

Course

RUSS 3405

All Sections in Summer 2009

Summer 2009

RUSS3405A-L09 Lecture (Shchepina)
RUSS3405B-L09 Lecture (Dvinova)