Instructor: Dr. Joyce Story
Office: Building 02, Room 121
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E-mail: jstory@student.gc.maricopa.edu
Telephone: 623.845.3686

RUS 095 Speak Russian (1 credit)

RUS 101 Elementary Russian I AA (4 credits)

RUS 102 Elementary Russian II AA (4 credits)

RUS 115  Conversational Russian (3 credits)

RUS 201 Intermediate Russian I AA (4 credits)

RUS 202 Intermediate Russian II AA (4 credits)

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RUS 095 SPEAK RUSSIAN (1 credit)

ABOUT COURSE CONTENT

Course Description
RUS 095 is an introductory course designed to develop initial speaking confidence within the framework of modest vocabulary and minimal grammar.

Goals and Competencies
*    Create oral discourse, with limited vocabulary and grammar.
*    Engage in spontaneous, unmemorized speech.
*    Orally communicate with confidence and ease.
*    Orally form sentences of increasing complexity.
*    Develop skills to comprehend natural spoken discourse as well as possible without knowing all the words.
*    Develop skills to read a text without artificial aids (for example, vocabulary lists) and to "guess in context".
*    Write original dialogues or connected narratives.

Textbook and Coverage
Language Bazaar: Russian, by Zev bar-Lev.  Available from instructor.

ABOUT CLASSROOM POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Attendance
Students are to attend all class meetings, arrive on time, and be prepared; regular attendance and full classroom participation are required for successful completion of the course.   In accordance with college policy, students who have more than one unofficial absence may be withdrawn from class. (Consult your class schedule or catalogue for a list of Official Absences; students must notify the instructor in advance of an absence for official college activities).

Outline/Schedule
Assignments are announced in class.

ABOUT GRADES

Daily oral participation 30%                             The grades of A,B,C,D and F are represented by
Midterm  (oral and written) 30%                        90%, 80%, 70%, 60% and less than 60%
Final  (oral and written) 40%                             of the possible points.

RUS 101 ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN I (4 credits)

ABOUT COURSE CONTENT

Course Description
RUS 101 focuses on the basic grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary of the Russian language. Students practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

Goals and Competencies
*      Use Russian in basic survival situations such as greetings; expressing basic needs, attitudes, and emotions; exchanging
         information; socializing; persuading.
*      Show a reasonable level of acceptable pronunciation so as to be easily understood by a native speaker.
*      Use the Cyrillic alphabet in reading and writing.
*      Write lists, short descriptions, narratives, and guided compositions.
*      Understand simple, nonliterary prose on familiar topics.
*      Apply Russian grammatical rules, including, among others:
          --present tense
          --gender distinction
          --case distinction in nouns, adjectives, and pronouns
 
Textbook and Coverage
Troika and accompanying Workbook, by Marita Nummikoski (John Wiley & Sons, 1996).
Lessons 1-9

ABOUT CLASSROOM POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Attendance
*    Students are to attend  all class meetings, including the language laboratory sessions.
*    Students who accumulate more than four (4) unofficial absences may be withdrawn from class. (See the class schedule of catalogue
      for a list of official absences; students must notify the instructor in advance of an absence for official college activities).
*    Students who arrive late have been marked as absent and must speak to the instructor after class to assure that their mark of
      "absent" is changed to one of "tardy."  Three late arrivals are the equivalent of one absence.

Course Requirements:  All assigned material is to be prepared on a daily basis. Unless students are told otherwise, all written assignment for a given lesson will be turned in to the instructor at the time of the test on that lesson.

Outline/Schedule:   Assignments are announced in class.

ABOUT GRADES

Assignments (10)            30 points each            300 points                The grades of A, B, C, D, and F are represented by
Quizzes (12)                     50 points each            600 points                 90%,  80%,  70%,  60% and less than 60%
Tests (9)                          100 points each            900 points                 of the possible points.
Final Exam                      200 points                     200 points
                                                                                  ________
TOTAL                                                                   2000 points

RUS 102 ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN II  (4 credits)

ABOUT COURSE CONTENT

Course Description
Continued study of  the basic grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary of the Russian language, with emphasis on speaking, reading,  and writing skills. Prerequisites--RUS 101 or departmental approval.

Goals and Competencies
*      Use Russian in basic survival situations such as greetings; expressing basic needs, attitudes, and emotions; exchanging
         information; socializing; persuading.
*      Show a reasonable level of acceptable pronunciation so as to be easily understood by a native speaker.
*      Use the Cyrillic alphabet in reading and writing.
*      Write lists, short descriptions, narratives, and guided compositions.
*      Understand simple, nonliterary prose on familiar topics.
*      Apply Russian grammatical rules, including, among others:
          --verbal aspect
          --present, past, and future tenses
          --gender distinction
          --all cases, nouns, adjectives, and pronouns

Textbook and Coverage
Troika and accompanying Workbook, by Marita Nummikoski (John Wiley & Sons, 1996).
Lessons 10-18.

ABOUT CLASSROOM POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Attendance
*    Students are to attend  all class meetings, including the language laboratory sessions.
*    Students who accumulate more than four (4) unofficial absences may be withdrawn from class. (See the class schedule of catalogue
      for a list of official absences; students must notify the instructor in advance of an absence for official college activities).
*    Students who arrive late have been marked as absent and must speak to the instructor after class to assure that their mark of
      "absent" is changed to one of "tardy."  Three late arrivals are the equivalent of one absence.

Course Requirements:  All assigned material is to be prepared on a daily basis. Unless students are told otherwise, all written assignment for a given lesson will be turned in to the instructor at the time of the test on that lesson.

Outline/Schedule:   Assignments are announced in class.

ABOUT GRADES

Assignments (10)            30 points each            300 points                The grades of A, B, C, D, and F are represented by
Quizzes (12)                     50 points each            600 points                 90%,  80%,  70%,  60% and less than 60%
Tests (9)                          100 points each            900 points                 of the possible points.
Final Exam                      200 points                     200 points
                                                                                  ________
TOTAL                                                                   2000 points

ABOUT COURSE CONTENT
Course Description
Goals and Competencies
Textbook and Coverage
ABOUT CLASSROOM POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Attendance
Course Requirements:
Outline/Schedule:   Assignments are announced in class.
ABOUT GRADES

TEXTBOOK AND COVERAGE: V Puti and accompanying Workbook, by Olga Kagan and Frank Miller (Prentice Hall, 1996).

RUS 202 Intermediate Russian II (4 credits)

TEXTBOOK: V Puti and accompanying Workbook, by Olga Kagan and Frank Miller (Prentice Hall, 1996).

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