| Course ID: | RUSS 2010. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Russian for Heritage Speakers |
Course
Description: | Instruction in grammar, development of reading comprehension,
and practice in composition for speakers of Russian who have
had little or no formal instruction in reading or writing the
language. |
| Oasis Title: | RUSS HERITAGE SPEAK |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in RUSS 1001, RUSS 1002 or RUSS 2001 or RUSS 2002 or RUSS 3001 |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The goal of this course is to provide for the special needs of
heritage speakers of Russian, who have some significant degree
of proficiency in speaking and oral comprehension, but who have
been educated primarily or exclusively in an English-speaking
environment.
Expected learning outcomes: Students will be able to read,
write, and speak Russian at least at the level of students who
have completed RUSS 3001. They will be able to read unadapted
texts in Russian and write short compositions with an
acceptable level of mastery of the grammar and orthography.
They will increase their vocabulary and reduce the number of
errors in their speech. |
| Topical Outline: | The following is a representative topical outline. Actual
topics may vary, depending on the needs of students in the
course.
1. Alphabet, handwriting, and spelling rules. Reading: Short
biographies of Russian cultural figures
2. Grammatical terminology. Gender and case of nouns, plural
forms. Russian and non-Russian names, speech etiquette.
Reading: Selected Russian fairy tales.
3. Theme: Childhood. Overview of verbs and aspect. Reading:
Excerpts from selected short stories and other short non-
fiction texts.
4. Theme: Education in Russian, comparison of the Russian and
American educational systems. First-declension nouns, first-
conjugation verbs. Reading: Short story related to theme, short
non-fiction texts.
5. Theme: Russian and American society, friendship in Russian
and American culture. Second-declension nouns, second-
conjugation verbs. Reading: Short story related to theme, short
non-fiction texts.
6. Theme: Work and business, writing business letters and
resumés. Third-declension nouns, numbers, word-formation.
Reading: Short story related to theme, short non-fiction texts.
7. Theme: The media. Declension of personal names, time
expressions, verbs of motion. Reading: Short story related to
theme, short non-fiction texts.
8. Theme: Russian history and geography. Participles and
gerunds. Reading: Short story related to theme, short non-
fiction texts. |