Russian 401 is offered Fall Term and Russian 402 is offered Winter Term every academic year. Students read short stories of different Russian authors, write compositions on given topics and make oral reports. Analysis of Contemporary Spoken Russian. Russian 415 is offered Fall Term and Russian 416 is offered Winter Term every academic year. Russian 415 and 416 emphasize difficult aspects of the Russian language, such as colloquial Russian, idioms and set phrases, use of the polite form in Russian speech, and practical stylistics as an instrument of style, synonymy of short and long adjectival forms, use of particles in spoken Russian, and analysis of different styles.
Progress is checked by term paper.
Students read short stories by different Russian authors, plays, articles from newspapers and magazines, and write compositions and give oral reports. Russian 402 or 403 or equivalent. Only Russian 419 is offered Fall Term, 1983. There are handouts with notes and exercises and passages for translation. There is a midterm, a final and periodic quizzes.