Russian Beginner for Academic Purposes I-II.
Instructor: dr. Palágyi Angela
Email: palagyia@ceu.edu
Course description:
This course offers a great opportunity to the students who need for academic reasons to learn Russian. It is originally aimed at teaching Russian as a source language to CEU students who will need it for their research. The course will explain elementary vocabulary and grammatical structures of beginner level. On the other hand, the course will develop students’ skills of reading adapted texts about Russian history and culture.
Aims:
Learn the Cyrillic alphabet, the pronunciation and intonation rules,
acquire basic vocabulary,
learn elementary grammar rules,
develop recognition skills for identifying grammatical structures and categories,
practice Russian reading in adapted texts about Russian history and culture,
acquire abilities to work independently (with the help of a dictionary) with adapted texts: answer questions about the texts, translate them,
learn to use Russian language programs that can help students work with Russian texts, while conducting research.
Homework assignments:
This syllabus includes a list of Russian texbooks available in PDF format. Due to the high likelihood of significant variance in students’ level of Russian, the readers can range from A1 to B1 levels.
Students will have to:
regularly submit written homework before each class,
regularly work with the selected texts (read, listen, translate, etc), to which the instructor will pose questions that the student will need to answer before or during the class.
Alternatively, students can bring a reader, or source materials of their choosing that closer relate to their field of research for instructor’s review and approval, upon which those materials can be used as homework assignments source.
Depending on the progress in class, additional home assignments related to the main textbook may also be given.
Final exam:
At the end of the semester each student will be required to translate a text from Russian to English in class with the help of a dictionary and other materials.
Grading system:
Attendance and active participation: 40 %
Homework assignments: 30 %
Final exam: 30 %
- Instructor: Angela Palagyi