RUS 203 Second Year Russian, Term 3

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

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond logically in familiar conversational situations.
Interpret information 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.
Interpret main ideas and some details from short authentic written materials.
Write accurately structured sentences in the past, present, and future time frames.
Write comprehensible letters, compositions, and paraphrases.
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

Topics for Vocabulary Building, Reading, Writing, and Discussion
- Textbook
- Personal and situational questions
- Cars and city
- Real time: hours, days of the week and months
- My friend Vasya
Structures
- Uses of negative adverbs and expressions
- Use of pronouns everybody, every, everything, each, any, all kinds of
- Positional verbs
- Imperatives
- First/second person commands (patterns)
- Ordinal numbers
- Prefixed verbs of motion
- Prepositions
- Superlatives and comparatives
- Conjunctions
- Subjunctives
- Common idiomatic expressions
Additional Readings
- History of Russia
- Russian literature
- Russian artists