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Russian 51 - Intermediate
SYLLABUS

Prof. Nalibow
421 Waterman
Office hrs.: Mon. 1:10-2:10; T. 10-11 and 12:15-1:15  or by app't.
PHONE: 6-1474; H: 864 4881
E-mail - Knalibow@zoo.uvm.edu
 

Required Texts:
 

Davis, Oprendekš et al, Making Progress in Russian:š A Second-Year Course
     ISBNš 047-117710-5. John Wiley Publ.

Kenneth Katzner, English-Russian, Russian English Dictionary (revised
    and expanded ed.).š ISBNš 047-101707-8.š John Wiley Publ.

Otto Bond, Graded Russian Readers I-V. [Used in First Year Russian.]
    Library of Congress Cat. #61-9142

Nalibow, Kenneth, Russian 51 Course Packet, avail. at UVM Bookstore
 

On the WEB

 Salient and updated material for this course such as the latest homework
 assignments, will appear on the web at Prof. Kennethš Nalibow’s Home Page.
 
The web site address is:  http://www.uvm.edu/~knalibow/
 Click on Russian 51 – Intermediate Russian  and navigate to homework,
 syllabus, links etc.

Course objectives

The main objectives are to continue your learning of Russian and


To accomplish these goals we shall have daily homework assignments, and lots of oral practice.š Most Mondays, we will meet and work together in the Audio Lab of the Language Resource Center.
 

Course grading

Hour exams                                                          50%
Dictations, dialogues, quizes, oral assignments         10%
Attendance & preparednes                                     10%
Final Exam                                                            30%

 

What We Shall Cover

 During the opening of the course, we shall review noun, adjective and pronoun declension
     We shall also review dates, time by the clock, cardinal and ordinal numerals
       Ch. 2 - Review and Fine Tuning of Verbal Aspect 
       Ch. 5 – Genitive Case
       Ch. 6 – Accusative of Negation (and other exceptions)
       Ch. 10 – Non-Prefixed Verbs of Motion including new verbs
       Ch. 11 – Prefixed Verbs of Motion
       Ch. 12 – continuation of Prefixed Verbs of Motion

 We shall complete Pushkin’s Stationmaster
 We may have time to read Pushkin’s The Shot
 

Attendance

Attendance is obligatory.š Diligence is a requirement for learning a foreign language.š Since ours is a four day-a-week course, it may happen that you have a critical exam or piece of work in another course that keeps you from being fully prepared for Russian 51.š Do not cut!š Come to me just before the class meeting, explain yourself and request that I not call on you.š Since much can be learned from osmosis, you do not lose out!

If you are assigned an oral presentation, report etc., you will be expected to do that work when it is due.š (Class periods are designed around these items.)š Do NOT expect to present a last minute excuse;š failure to show up or failure to complete such an assignment when due will result in a failing grade for that assignment!
 

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.š The second grade shall reflect unexcused absence and shall be entered on the spread sheet as a zero.š 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.

 

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 >OK.  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 SHIFT + ALT.  Download the ASDF PHONETIC keyboard @ http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/russian.html  
Clear directions are given on this page.  Although MAC information is listed below, the bottom of this page also contains information for phonetic keyboards in the MAC operating system.

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

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.