Russian 100 Russian 130 Russian 150 Russian 200 Russian 250 Russian 300 Russian 400 Russian 420 Russian 500   RUSS-100/0 Introduction to Contemporary Russian Five prepared class periods. A yearlong elementary course in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Texts: Kostomarov, Russian for Everybody;(Russky Yazyk, Moscow) reference materials. Return to List of Courses RUSS-130 A Short Course in Beginning Russian Four prepared class periods. Open to Seniors and Uppers. A term-contained introduction to speaking, reading and writing Russian, using conversational text materials. This course enables students to feel comfortable with the somewhat different features of a Slavic language. It also gives a sound foundation for continuing courses in Russian language, history and literature, whether at Andover or in college. Return to List of Courses RUSS-150/5 Accelerated First Year (a two-term commitment) Five class periods. Open to students who have completed the fall term of Russian 100 with distinction and who have been recommended by their instructor. Superior work in this course enables students to enter Russian 250 in the fall, followed by Russian 300 in the winter and spring terms, thereby completing three years of Russian language in two years. An accelerated course in grammar, speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and culture, this course may require more than the standard four to five hours of homework per week. Texts: the same as those of Russian 100 and Russian 200. Return to List of Courses RUSS-200/0 Intermediate Contemporary Russian Five prepared class periods. Completion of the elementary course with continued emphasis on active use. Texts: Kostomarov, Russian for Everybody; Graded Readers; reference materials. Return to List of Courses RUSS-250/1 Accelerated Second Year Russian Five class periods. Open to students with strong learning skills who have completed Russian 150 or its equivalent with distinction. This accelerated course completes the work of Russian 200 with the addition of intensive grammar review and writing. Successful completion of this course qualifies students to enter Russian 300 in the winter term. This course may require more than the standard four to five hours of homework per week. Texts: the same as those of Russian 200 and fall term of Russian 300. Return to List of Courses RUSS-300/0 Third Level Russian Four prepared class periods. Students will improve conversation and composition skills through work with selected 19th and 20th century short stories and with video materials. A review of problematic areas of grammar is integrated into the course. Work with video and audio materials in the Language Learning Center constitutes an important component of the course. Return to List of Courses RUSS-400/1 Fourth Level Russian RUSS-400/2 RUSS-400/3 Four prepared class periods. Further work in conversation and composition. Over the course of the year, there is a transition from texts that are lightly adapted to texts in the original. The focus of all materials is the 20th century. The winter term is devoted to a single text, Two Captains, by V.A. Kaverin. Fall and spring terms examine shorter texts and video materials. Work with video and audio materials in the Language Learning Center constitutes an important component of the course. Return to List of Courses RUSS-420/0 Intensive Fourth Level Russian Four prepared class periods, plus one unprepared. The core materials of the course are identical to those used in Fourth Level Russian. In addition, however, one of the five weekly meetings will be devoted to proficiency-oriented topics. This course may require more than the standard four to five hours of homework per week. Return to List of Courses RUSS-500/1 Fifth Level Russian RUSS-500/2 RUSS-500/3 Four class periods. A central goal of this course is to provide students with an overview of the major themes and developments in the last two centuries of Russian literature. Students will be expected to integrate this knowledge into the base they have acquired in their previous Russian study. At the same time, students will work to improve their ability to diagnose their own language-learning strengths and weaknesses, and, where relevant, to plan their approach to the continued study of Russian at the college level. Prerequisite: successful completion of Russian 400/3 or Russian 420. Return to List of Courses

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