Advanced Russian I

Undergraduate / Graduate

This is the first/second/third part of the three-quarter sequence course (which could be taken in any order) designed for advanced students of Russian. This course is also suitable for heritage and native speakers of Russian. It covers various aspects of advanced Russian stylistics and discourse grammar in context. Language skills: This course emphasizes the four communicative skills of listening, reading, speaking, and writing. It builds trans-cultural competence by expanding students' knowledge of the language, culture, history and daily lives of the Russian speaking people. Vocabulary building is strongly emphasized. We add to the existing skills and develop our abilities to analyze increasingly complex texts for their meaning; to identify various styles and registers of the Russian language and to provide their neutral equivalents in standard Russian; we also work on developing our abilities to paraphrase, narrate, describe, support opinions, hypothesize, discuss abstract topics, and handle linguistically unfamiliar situations (in spoken and written format).