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Russian 221 - Russian Culture and Civilization to 1905

Русский язык 221 - Русская культура и цивилизация до 1905г.

Курсовые материалы

Benjamin Rifkin and Olga Kagan with Anna Yatsenko, Дела давно минувших дней,
    Advanced Russian Through History (with CD).
Yale University Press, 2007.  ISBN               
    978-0-300-10947-4


Course Grading


        Compositions and oral presentations                                60%      
        Attendance / preparedness (active mastery
            of homework concepts, translations. . .)                        20%
        Take-home final exam                                                      
20%
    

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, 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 >APPLY.  When the panel closes, click OK again.  You have Cyrillic using the Russian
    keyboard.   The screen TRAY will now show an EN or RU.
    Change the language by clicking in the tray or toggle with left SHIFT + ALT.  Download the ASDF PHONETIC
    keyboard (very bottom of the page) @ http://www.netchain.com/PhoneticLayout/  
Clear directions are given on
    this page. 

    Additional information is also available at the following two sites:

             http://WinRus.com

                 http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/cyrinst.html

    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 below.

For MAC OS 10+
MAC users may enable Cyrtillic from within their operating program TIGER or LEPARD.  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.