ADVANCED RUSSIAN A 16.7 2nd year, 3rd year and 4th years Assoc Prof P Cubberley. Intermediate Russian or equivalent. First semester
126-259:
three lectures and a tutorial.
126-359/459:
three lectures and two tutorials.
By the end of the subject students should be able to:
  • demonstrate a very solid control of the basic grammatical system, and at least passive knowledge of such finer points as occur in the textbook;
  • demonstrate a fairly large active and passive vocabulary, sufficient for the following;
  • translate medium-difficulty texts (R-E) without a dictionary and difficult ones with a dictionary;
  • write and converse in Russian on relatively serious topics (e. g. social or political issues);
  • understand normal spoken Russian texts (e. g. lecture, broadcast talk) on any general topic;
  • demonstrate an understanding of the content and literary structure of selected literary texts (by commenting and translating).
Advanced grammar. Translation in both directions. Composition. Close study of literary texts. A 2-hour test on each of the language and literature parts; a 20-minute oral exam; assignments totalling up to 2,000 words. Townsend C Continuing with Russian Slavica ADVANCED RUSSIAN A 16.7 Assoc Prof P Cubberley. Intermediate Russian or equivalent. First semester. 259: three lectures and a tutorial. 359: three lectures and two tutorials By the end of the subject students should be able to:
  • demonstrate a very solid control of the basic grammatical system, and at least passive knowledge of such finer points as occur in the textbook;
  • demonstrate a fairly large active and passive vocabulary, sufficient for the following;
  • translate medium-difficulty texts (R-E) without a dictionary and difficult ones with a dictionary;
  • write and converse in Russian on relatively serious topics (e. g. social or political issues);
  • understand normal spoken Russian texts (e. g. lecture, broadcast talk) on any general topic;
  • demonstrate an understanding of the content and literary structure of selected literary texts (by commenting and translating).
Advanced grammar. Translation in both directions. Composition. Close study of literary texts. A 2-hour test on each of the language and literature parts; a 20-minute oral exam; assignments totalling up to 2,000 words. Townsend C Continuing with Russian Slavica