RUS 201 Second Year Russian, Term 1

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Provides extensive practice in all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening). Includes cultural and literary readings and an in-depth review and expansion of basic Russian grammar and vocabulary, as well as a broadening of the student understanding of Russian culture. Uses Russian as the primary language of the 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 103, or three years of high school Russian. (With a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond simply and logically in familiar conversational situations.
Interpret main ideas from common sources such as announcements and broadcasts.
Communicate information and ideas orally using complete sentences.
Initiate and sustain simple conversation on familiar topics grounded in personal experience.
Interpret main ideas from simple written materials.
Write accurately structured simple sentences in the past, present and future time frames.
Write short comprehensible letters and compositions grounded in personal experience.
Interpret behaviors and basic nonverbal cues appropriate to a range of circumstances.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage, and cultural practices of the Russian-speaking world.

Content Outline

Review
Genitive Case of Numbers, Currency and Prices, Weights, Measures and Portions, Time, Names of Public Places
Verb to Have
Past and Future
To Have Not
Genitive Negative
Perfective and Imperfective Aspects
Formation of the Perfective Infinitive
Perfective Past and Future
Non-Past Tense Endings
When to Use the Perfective and Imperfective
Special Perfectives
Perfective of Simple Verbs of Motion
Perfectives With Added Meanings
Prefixed Verbs of Motion
Adverbs of Location and Direction