Middlebury College awards four units of undergraduate academic credit for successful completion of each of the following nine-week courses of study. One unit is equivalent to three semester hours of credit. Introductory Russian Evans-Romaine and Staff Students in this class generally have had very little or no previous classroom instruction in Russian. Students completing this course can typically initiate, sustain, and close a conversation, getting into and out of a simple situation requiring communication with speakers of Russian who know no English. Students also learn the basic grammatical structures of the language and acquire a beginning vocabulary.
Careful attention is paid to pronunciation in class activities.
Careful attention is paid to pronunciation in class activities. Students go through a very rapid review of the first few chapters of Golosa Volume 1 and spend most of their time during the summer focusing on Volume 2 of this textbook, as well as selected chapters from V puti and supplementary materials. Basic Intermediate Russian Zaitsev and Staff Students in this class generally have had at least 90 hours of formal classroom instruction in Russian. In this class they review the basic grammatical and syntactical structures of the Russian language and improve their mastery of this foundation of the language while acquiring an active vocabulary of approximately 1,500 words. During class, students act out scenes from the video soap opera on which the textbook is based.