RUS 101 First Year Russian, Term 1
Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4
Introduces the Russian language (including listening, speaking, reading and writing) and culture (including geography, customs, daily life, heritage and literature), facilitated by the study of vocabulary, grammar, short readings and guided conversation. Instructor and students use Russian as the primary language of the class.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 or higher; or WR 090 (or concurrent enrollment), or WR 115 or higher; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Understand spoken Russian, as follows; Respond simply and logically to words and phrases. Respond simply and logically to simple questions and statements supported by context and redundancy.
- Speak simple Russian, as follows; Pronounce words understandably, list objects and activities, and identify and describe people and objects.
- Read Russian, as follows: Interpret words and phrases, including cognates, interpret main ideas from simple text through repeated reading and contextual clues.
- Write simple Russian, as follows: Transcribe and spell words accurately, and compose lists, questions, and simple sentences.
- Understand concepts of Russian culture, as follows: Interpret a few behaviors and basic nonverbal cues in very limited situations. Can also describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage, and cultural practices of the Russian-speaking world.
Content Outline
- Lesson 1: Getting Started
- Russian alphabet
- Personal pronouns
- Neuter demonstrative pronoun
- Gender of nouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Absence of the linking verb in present tense
- Introducing a person
- Pointing to an object
- Greeting and bidding farewell
- Finding out who the person of interest is
- Finding out what the object of interest is
- Lesson 2: Getting Started (2)
- Hard and soft consonants
- Voiced and unvoiced consonants
- Stressed and unstressed vowels.
- Continuation of personal pronouns, gender of nouns, and possessive pronouns
- Addressing a person
- Finding out a person’s social status
- Getting acquainted
- My family
- Lesson 3: What’s Your Name
- Russian names
- Continuation of personal pronouns, gender or nouns, and possessive Pronouns
- Agreement between possessive pronouns and nouns
- Thanking people and replying to an expression of gratitude
- Determining the belonging of an object
- Friends and family relationships
- Introducing people
- Lesson 4: Beginning with the Ending
- Continuation of Russian names, personal pronouns, gender of nouns, and possessive pronouns, and agreement between possessive pronouns and nouns
- Introducing people
- Determining whether your interlocutor speaks a specific language
- Reporting the language(s) he/she speak
- Asking someone to translate a word or phrase into another language
- Lessons 5 and 6: Naming Things and People, and Getting Personal
- Continuation of Russian names, personal pronouns, gender of nouns, and possessive pronouns, and agreement between possessive pronouns and nouns, and singular and plural nouns
- Addressing a person
- Finding out the person’s social status
- Getting acquainted
- Family
- Thanking people and replying to an expression of gratitude
- Determining the belonging of an object.
- Friends and family relationships
- Introducing people
- Lesson 7: What Kind of…?
- The normative case of adjectives: masculine, feminine, and neuter, special adjectives (possessive pronouns)
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