RUS 202 Second Year Russian, Term 2

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 201, or four years of high school Russian. (With a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond logically in familiar conversational situations.
Interpret main ideas and some details from common sources such as announcements, and broadcasts.
Communicate information and ideas orally using complete sentences and short paragraphs.
Initiate, sustain, and close conversation on familiar topics grounded in personal experience.
Interpret main ideas and some details from simple authentic materials.
Write accurately structured sentences in the past, present, and future time frames.
Write comprehensible letters compositions and paraphrases 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.

Statewide General Education Outcomes:

Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life.
Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.

Content Outline

Dative Case
Telling Age
To Give
Dative Cases
- Singular, plural, and irregular nouns
- Personal and possessive pronouns
- Adjectives
To Like
Possibility and Impossibility
Permission and Prohibition
Instrumental Cases
- 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 prepositions
- Without prepositions
Third Person Reflexive Verbs
Special Reflexive Verbs
Reflexive Pronoun
- Oneself
- I myself
Reflexive Adjective One’s Own
Short Adjectives
To Resemble, be Similar to
Necessary, Need
Must, Have to, Supposed to, Owe