Offered in alternate years. Sixteen credits top Russian Intensive For the student who has no previous experience in Russian this course provides the equivalent of two years of college Russian through the January intersession, the spring semester, and a June program at Saint Petersburg State University. Phonetic, grammatical, and syntactic foundations of contemporary spoken and written Russian are introduced with the help of audiovisual materials. The June program in St. Petersburg includes twenty-four hours a week of Russian language classes and an extensive cultural program of museum visits, theater performances, and concerts, as well as tours of the St. Petersburg environs. This program prepares the student to pursue advanced Russian study at Saint Petersburg State University in a fall semester exchange program as well as advanced language study and cross-disciplinary tutorials at Bard.
Students attend eight hours of class per week, plus two hours with the Spanish tutor.
Oral communication and reading and writing skills are developed through a variety of approaches. The text, Espa ol en espa ol, is supplemented by the innovative video program Destinos, frequent drill in the language laboratory, and a variety of cultural activities outside of class. During the month in Mexico, students complete daily intensive study of Spanish at a language institute, live with a Mexican family, and make excursions to surrounding areas of interest. Admission by permission of instructor.