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