ADVANCED RUSSIAN LISTENING & SPEAKING
Development of advanced skills in Russian listening and speaking proficiency, with an emphasis on formal registers. Covers a variety of areas related to contemporary Russian-language media and culture necessary for a professional-level command of the language, regardless of the student's discipline.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: SLAVIC 321 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Frgn Lang - 5th + semester language Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Read, interpret, and analyze a variety of Russian-language news articles. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Listen to, interpret, and analyze a variety of Russian-language media sources relevant to recent history and current affairs (news reports, interviews, debates, documentary films, and similar). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss current affairs in Russia and some of the Russian-speaking world in paragraph-length discourse, in the past and present, and discuss possible outcomes of current events in the future tense and conditional (“what if”). Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe news-making figures and narrate current news events, using vocabulary accessible to the general interlocutor in Russian. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Compare and analyze various Russian-language news and media sites. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Present on topics of interest in historical and current events and respond to peers’ questions at the ACTFL Advanced level, in at least paragraph-length discourse. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Apply knowledge of Russian-language news sites, and, as appropriate, of historical and current events discussed in this course, to your discipline. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Read, interpret, and analyze a variety of Russian-language news articles. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Listen to, interpret, and analyze a variety of Russian-language media sources relevant to recent history and current affairs (news reports, interviews, debates, documentary films, and similar). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss current affairs in Russia and some of the Russian-speaking world in paragraph-length discourse, in the past and present, and discuss possible outcomes of current events in the future tense and conditional (“what if”). Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe news-making figures and narrate current news events, using vocabulary accessible to the general interlocutor in Russian. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Compare and analyze various Russian-language news and media sites. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Present on topics of interest in historical and current events and respond to peers’ questions at the ACTFL Advanced level, in at least paragraph-length discourse. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Apply knowledge of Russian-language news sites, and, as appropriate, of historical and current events discussed in this course, to your discipline. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027