RUSSIAN 100

Beginners' Russian 1


Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for RUSSIAN 100.

Description

Course Overview

An introductory course intended for students with no prior knowledge of Russian, with attention to a variety of language skills: listening comprehension, reading, speaking and writing. Students get a good start on learning the essential grammar of Russian and a core vocabulary of approximately 700 words.

Course Objectives

This course will help help you to:

  • Read simple texts and identify parts of speech
  • Gain basic “survival skills”—listening comprehension and speaking ability sufficient to “get by” in some everyday situations
  • Learn a core vocabulary of approximately 600 words
  • Gain an understanding of the essential grammar of Russian, including gender, number and case agreement of nouns and their modifiers; forms and meanings of three (of six) grammatical cases; verb conjugation

Please note that if you are a Native Speaker of this subject, or have passed a more advance language acquisition course in this subject, you cannot take this course.

If you are a Native Speaker and enrol into this course it could be considered cheating which may result in you being found to have committed Academic Misconduct.

Native Speaker refers to those who can speak fluently and read and write without difficulty. You may have acquired this language from early childhood and speaking this language remains one of your primary means of communication.

Students enrolled into this course will need to complete a Language Proficiency Declaration.

Availability 2021

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Reading/Texts

Richard Robin, Golosa ("Voices"): A Basic Course in Russian Book One, 5th ed.

A ten-unit textbook-workbook package that strikes a good balance between a rigorous treatment of grammar and a communicative approach. The course is supported with ample audio resources and video for practice and to bring the language alive.

RUSSIAN 100 covers Units 1–5 in Golosa; units 6–10 in the same textbook are covered in RUSSIAN 101 in Semester 2.

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

RUSSIAN 100: 15 points

Restrictions

May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed