RUSS331-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)

Advanced Russian Language B

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This is the second of two advanced Russian language courses. It aims at improving students' all-round knowledge of contemporary Russian language and communication skills. In addition, students' translation skills will be enhanced through work on media sources and fictional texts.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this course students will have:

1. the ability to understand a wide range of sentence structures;
2. an understanding of sociolinguistic registers;
3. familiarity with formal, and informal use of language;
4. the ability to compose prose using a variety of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions and link words;
5. a heightened linguistic sensitivity facilitating the acquisition of other non-English

Prerequisites

RUSS330, or
placement test.

Restrictions

RUSS301

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 19:00 - 20:00 Zoom
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Tutorial B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 19:00 - 20:00 Zoom
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator

Henrietta Mondry

Tutor

Evgenia Dovbysh

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Homework assignments from workbook (10) 20% Due at the end of term
Written essasys (5) 10% Due at the end of term
Written test 1 25%
Written test 2 25%
Oral Test 1 20%

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 RUSS331 Occurrences

  • RUSS331-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025
  • RUSS331-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)
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