RUSS330-19S1 (C) Semester One 2019

Advanced Russian Language A

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2019
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 1 March 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 10 May 2019

Description

This is the first of two advanced Russian language courses. It aims at improving students' all-round knowledge of contemporary Russian language and communication skills.

EXPECTATIONS
Students in this course are expected to attend all classes.

Note on attendance:  Languages are learned by doing, and the tutorial-style sessions in this course are designed to create an atmosphere in which students can try out their language skills on each other. If you do not attend regularly and do not keep up with the work, you will therefore not only be hindering your own progress, but you will also be holding back the other students with whom you are working.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course students will have developed good competence in the Russian language:
1. the ability to understand a wide range of sentence structures;
2. a firm understanding of advanced level prose;
3. an understanding of sociolinguistic registers;
4. familiarity with journalistic prose, formal, and informal use of language;
5. developed critical thinking via close-readings, argumentative presentations, and classroom
discussions
6. the ability to compose prose using a variety of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions
and link words;
7. a heightened linguistic sensitivity facilitating the acquisition of other non-English languages

In addition, they will have acquired:
8. an enhanced intercultural understanding of Russian language and civilisation both within
Europe and globally (through history and in relation to current events);
9. a more general sensitivity to cultural diversity in a global context.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

RUSS201, RUSS231 or placement test

Restrictions

RUSS301

Course Coordinator

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Homework assignments 20%
Written test 1 30%
Written test 2 30%
Oral test 20%

Textbooks / Resources

In addition to the lab hour, you can practice vocabulary and grammar in the lab in your spare time.

There is a Learn (Moodle) component to this course.

Other material, which may be helpful, can be found in the Library Subject Guides: http://canterbury.libguides.com/

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,523.00

International fee $6,375.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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