Prereq: Russian Placement Exam. All students who have had two or more years of high school Russian or are native speakers of Russian and are enrolling in college-level Russian for the first time must take the Russian Placement Exam.
Students are introduced to the language through grammatical explanations, recitation practice, and oral as well as written exercises. The course centers on all four skills of language learning (listening, speaking, reading and writing), with emphasis on speaking standard Russian, reading Russian texts, building vocabulary and accurate pronounciation. Lecture, three hours, supervised recitation, one hour per week.
Students are introduced to the language through grammatical explanations, recitation practice, and oral as well as written exercises. The course centers on all four skills of language learning (listening, speaking, reading and writing), with emphasis on speaking standard Russian, reading Russian texts, building vocabulary and accurate pronounciation. Lecture, three hours, supervised recitation, one hour per week.