Intermediate Russian Language A

Learning Outcomes

• Ability to comprehend more advanced conversations and express oneself in everyday conversational situations;
  
• Ability to understand simple everyday prose;
  
• Ability to understand simple journalistic prose and to produce simple narratives and more difficult prose;
  
• Improved understanding of grammatical concepts and an overall grasp of the workings of the Russian language;
  
• Have a heightened linguistic sensitivity facilitating the acquisition of any non-English language.
  
  This course will also address key attributes of the UC Graduate Profile:
  
• Have competence to use their knowledge of the Russian language in many situations;
  
• Be enterprising in developing their language skills;
  
• Understand the place of other international languages in the cultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand;
  
• Acknowledge the community role of Russian in a land of many tourists, students and immigrants.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

	Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
	Employable, innovative and enterprising Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
	Engaged with the community Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
	Globally aware Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .