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Course Description
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             Russian 142   -  ListeningComprehension
              Русский язык 142 -  Понимание устной речи  
               Syllabus
                 Курсовой план
Required Texts:
Sandra Freels Rosengrant, Russian in Use:An Interactive Approach to Advanced Communicative Competence.
Yale University Press, 2007.  ISBN9-300-10943-1


Course Grading

        Compositions and oral presentations                                70%      
        Attendance / preparedness (active mastery
            of homework concepts, translations. . .)                        30%
    

Explanation - Grades for classroom performance

Classroom performance shall receive two grades. One grade shall indicate performance while you are present in the course. This grade shall reflect your preparedness, activity in the course, willingness to take part.  The second grade shall reflect unexcused absence and shall be entered on the spread sheet as a zero. Since the dates of absence shall be recorded on the computer, the amount of time averaged at "zero" shall be directly averaged with your classroom performance grade.

Example:  15 week semester
—Unexcused absences =12 (4 full weeks of a 3 day per week course).
—Classroom performance grade for time in class ==B (85) [=11 X 85 = 935]

Setting up Cyrillic on your computer

For WINDOWS

If you are using XP / VISTA, go to >SETTINGS, >CONTROL PANEL, >REGIONAL and LANGUAGE OPTIONS.  In the drop-down
menu go to >LANGUAGE and click DETAILS. Click >ADD.  In the language list find >RUSSIAN and click >OK.  When the panel closes, c
lick OK again.  You have Cyrillic using the Russian keyboard.   The screen TRAY will now show an EN, RU, or Rt.
Be sure to tell the system how you wish to toggle between EN and RU.  The Standard is SHIFDT + ALT.  Change the language by clicking
in the tray or toggle with SHIFT + ALT. 

VISTA requires its own phonetic keyboard driver, the FIRST item on the page
@http://web.wm.edu/modlang/tech_notes/ruskbd.php?svr=www
Phonetic keyboard drivers for MAC and for XP are also on thius page.


The following web site contains down loadable fonts and keyboard drivers if you are using something other than XP.  There are
TWO standard Russian keyboards.  I recommend neither, but rather the so-called  "phonetic" or "homophonic" keyboard.  In this
layout, most Russian letters are found where their English equivalents would be.  This speeds typing.

       http://aatseel.org/fonts/wincyrillic.html 
 http://www.klm32.com/

For MAC

MAC users may enable Cyrtillic from within their operating program.  The phonetic keyboard for MAC is located at
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/gavinscoolesteverrussianphonetickeyboardlayout.html . 
This is FREE shareware. The MAC phonetic keyboard download is also @ http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/wordproc.html
Go to the chart with FONTS and KEYBOARD LAYOUTS.  Download from the "phonetic" listing.