RUS 212 - Intermediate Russian 23 credit hours - Three hours lecture weekly; one term.
Master intermediate vocabulary and grammar structures. Read short poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction in Russian. Discuss Russian culture.
Prerequisite(s): RUS 211 or three years of high school Russian or permission of department chair.
Note: This course is not for students who are already proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Russian.
Location(s) Typically Offered: Online (OL)
Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the main idea and flow of events expressed in various time frames in intermediate-low level conversations, discussions, and paragraph-length fictional texts.
- Exchange information in conversations on familiar topics and some researched topics, creating sentences and series of sentences and asking a variety of follow-up questions.
- Present a variety of familiar topics and some concrete research topics, using sentences and series of connected sentences through spoken and written language.
- Combine a variety of grammar structures and vocabulary to respond to a range of intermediate-low level writing and speaking prompts.
- Formulate comparisons between students’ cultural experiences and the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of Russian-speaking cultures.
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