| Course Title: Elementary Russian |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: Continuation of RES-101. A four-skills course, with increasing emphasis on reading and writing, that completes the study of basic grammar. Major topics include: predicting conjugation patterns, un-prefixed and prefixed verbs of motion, complex sentences, time expressions, and strategies of vocabulary building. Students watch Russian films, read and discuss authentic texts. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , SI - Speaking-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Daniel Brooks | dbrooks@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Discussion | Monday, Wednesday and Friday | 10:00AM - 11:15AM | CIRU - Ciruti | 217 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: RES-101. | Take previously | Required |
| Coreq: RES-102L. | Take concurrently | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in Russian. |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 8 | Available: 10 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: ISBN numbers are provided below if you?d like to track down physical or e-book copies of these texts via Amazon, secondhand sellers, etc. If you acquire the texts on your own, it is imperative that the translation & edition be identical to that used by the class. All non-book-length texts will be made available as PDFs on Moodle. See the course schedule for additional context. 1. [a physical copy of this text will be provided to you by the department] Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (trans. Falen; Oxford UP, 2009) ISBN 9780199538645 2. [a copy of this text will be provided to you by the department] Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (trans. Schwartz; Random House, 2004) ISBN 0812970764 3. [to be purchased; if you don?t wish to purchase, multiple copies of this text will be on reserve at the library] Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Children (trans. Slater & Slater, 2022) ISBN 9781681376356 4. [to be purchased; if you don?t wish to purchase, multiple copies of this text will be on reserve at the library] Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (trans. Ready; Penguin Classics, 2015) ISBN 9780143107637 |