Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

1. Manage most communicative tasks in a variety of social situations.
2. Communicate effectively with some rephrasing and circumlocution with most native speakers.
3. Narrate and describe with increased detail and length using a variety of time frames and modes and all six cases with consistent accuracy.
4. Understand the values underlying cultural behaviors and attitudes within the Russian-speaking world and how it relates to one’s own cultural perspective.
5. Compare and contrast historical and cultural movements through analysis of selected words of art, literature, music, film and/or performing arts
from the target culture.
6. Analyze and develop responses to hypothetical and increasingly complex ideas in a variety of authentic material in the target language.

Students are expected to attend all classes, participate actively in classroom activities, and prepare oral and written homework assignments. Students may meet with the teacher in conferences. After the introduction to the course, Russian will be used in the classroom at all times. Students should plan to spend about hour in preparation and practice outside of class for each class hour.

1. Active participation in class
2. Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading, writing, cultural and aural competencies
3. Oral interviews with instructor
4. In class, interactive student role-plays and other pair activities
5. Individual and group presentations

Include all or most of the following:

1. Uni-directional and multi-directional verbs of motion in past, present and future
2. Usage of uni-directional and multi-directional verbs of motion
3. Review of stating destination/location using accusative and prepositional cases
4. Stating destination/location at person’s house using dative and genitive cases
5. Stating откуда оrigin using genitive case
6. Environmental/social impact of driving in Russia
7. Travel and vacations
8. Prefixed verbs of motion formation and usage in past, present, and future
9. Prefixed verb of motion, prepositions and case governance
10. Describing direction and routes
11. Solutions to environmental/social issues of driving in Russia
12. Relative clauses with который-singlular and plural all cases
13. Formation and aspect usage of imperative verbs
14. Russian superstitions and folk beliefs
15. Making comparisons
16. Formation of regular and irregular comparative adjectives
17. Expansion of professions vocabulary
18. Discussing professions and work
19. Jobs/employment in Russia
20. Real and hypothetical conditions and the conditional mood
21. Subjunctive mood to state wishes
22. Russian novella “Goluboe i zelyonoe”

Competencies and Skills:

1. Manages increasingly detailed discussions about itinerary, travel and vacations, environmental issues related to driving, superstitions, school, work, career plans, unemployment, job skills, real and hypothetical situations
2. Speaks in the present tense with high degree of accuracy and a greater range of verbs
3. Correctly uses verbal aspect in both past and future tenses but not consistently
4. Speaks about hypothetical situations with limited accuracy
5. Speaks using the six cases with much greater accuracy
6. Communicates effectively using some circumlocution and rephrasing with most native speakers.
7. Comprehends normal rate native speech in contextual settings.
8. Writes using detail and multiple paragraphs in a variety of time frames and modes and all six cases with consistent accuracy.
9. Reads and understands the main ideas and details of more complex authentic texts including selected short stories and a short novella.
10. Uses increased contextual and linguistic clues to consistently deduce the meaning of new vocabulary
11. Begins to analyze and develop responses to hypothetical and increasingly complex ideas in a variety of authentic material in the target language
12. Begins to understand the values underlying cultural behaviors and attitudes in regard to education, work, vacation, environmental issues, and superstitions within the Russian-speaking world in relation to one’s own cultural perspective
13. Begins to compare and contrast historical and cultural movements through analysis of selected words of art, literature, music, film and/or performing arts from the target culture.