RUSS330-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)

Advanced Russian Language A

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This is the first of two advanced Russian language courses. It aims at improving students' all-round knowledge of contemporary Russian language and communication skills.

This is the first of two advanced Russian language courses. It aims at improving students’ all-round knowledge of contemporary Russian language and communication skills.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course students will have developed good competence in the Russian language:

  • The ability to understand a wide range of sentence structures;
  • A firm understanding of advanced level prose;
  • An understanding of sociolinguistic registers;
  • Familiarity with journalistic prose, formal, and informal use of language;
  • Developed critical thinking via close-readings, argumentative presentations, and classroom discussions
  • The ability to compose prose using a variety of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions and link words;
  • A heightened linguistic sensitivity facilitating the acquisition of other non-English languages

    In addition, they will have acquired:

  • An enhanced intercultural understanding of Russian language and civilisation both within Europe and globally (through history and in relation to current events);
  • A more general sensitivity to cultural diversity in a global context.

    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;

Prerequisites

RUSS231, or
placement test.

Restrictions

RUSS301

Course Coordinator

Henrietta Mondry

Tutor

Evgenia Dovbysh

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Homework assignments 25% weekly
Written tests (4) 40% Held weeks 4, 6, TBC and 12
Oral test 15% held week 12
Zoom conversation sessions 20% twice weekly

Textbooks / Resources

The required textbook for the course is Golosa, Book 2. The books are available for purchase at UBS. You need to buy 2 separately sold items: the textbook (packaged with student tape) and the workbook (softcover).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,788.00

International fee $8,200.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All RUSS330 Occurrences

  • RUSS330-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025
  • RUSS330-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)