RUS 103 First Year Russian, Term 3

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. Uses Russian as the primary language of class.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher); or completion of 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.)
Recommended: RUS 102, or two years of high school Russian. (With a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond to phrases and sentences.
Interpret main ideas and details from announcements, short narratives and conversations supported by context.
Use sentences and questions to communicate information and ideas.
Initiate and sustain simple conversation.
Interpret main ideas and details from simple narratives.
Interpret main ideas and some details from short authentic materials such as advertisements, letters, and brief articles.
Transcribe dictated material.
Compose short letters, paragraphs, and guided compositions.
Explain and use several polite behaviors and basic nonverbal cues in limited situations.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage, and cultural practices of the Russian-speaking world.

Content Outline

Dative Case
Telling Age
To Give
Dative Case of Singular, Plural, and Irregular Nouns, Personal and Possessive Pronouns, Adjectives
To Like
Possibility and Impossibility
Permission and Prohibition
Instrumental Case of Singular, Plural and Irregular Nouns, Personal and Possessive Pronouns, Adjectives.
Reflexive Verbs, Pronouns, and Adjectives
Use of the Reflexive Verb With the Passive Construction, With and Without Prepositions
Third Person Reflexive Verbs
Special Reflexive Verbs
Reflexive Pronoun Oneself and I Myself
Reflexive Adjective One’s Own
Short Adjectives
To Resemble, Be Similar to
Necessary, Need
Must, Have to, Supposed to, Owe