General Information

• Name: First Year Russian I
• Discipline: Russian (RUS)
• Units (Credits): 4
• Schedule History: See when this course was offered over the last three years.
• Transfer Information: Courses with numbers 100 to 299: This course is designed to apply toward a WNC degree and/or transfer to other schools within the Nevada System of Higher Education, depending on the degree chosen and other courses completed. It may transfer to colleges and universities outside Nevada. For information about how this course can transfer and apply to your program of study, please contact a counselor.
• Academic Division: Communications and Fine Arts
• Prerequisites: None

Course Outline

I: Catalog Course Description

Develops language skills through practice in listening, speaking, reading, writing and structural analysis. Includes an introduction to Russian culture.

II: Course Objectives

RUS 111 is the first of a four-course sequence designed to meet the foreign language requirement for those transferring to a college with such a requirement. This course helps students acquire beginning communication skills within a culturally significant context. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Write Russian in full sentences and basic paragraphs incorporating vocabulary and other grammatical points learned over the semester.
• Read and discuss stories, tales, and fables.
• Compose orally and in written small stories about their interests.
• Recognize elements of Russian grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs; analyze a sentence structure.
• Communicate orally to each other using basic Russian to ask and answer questions on a variety of everyday topics, describe people and places and narrate present events.
• Understand some Russian spoken slower than normal pace and develop skills and coping strategies for filling in the gaps.
• Gain cultural knowledge and awareness about the areas of the world in which Russian is spoken.

III: Course Linkage

Linkage of course to educational program mission and at least one educational program outcome.

• College-level skills in reading, writing and oral communication

• Have problem solving and critical thinking skills

• Understand the importance of cultural traditions and diversity in the modern world