Russian for Heritage Speakers

This course is intended for students with a Russian-speaking family background who seek to acquire / improve their Russian reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as to learn more about Russian/Soviet culture, literature and history. All main linguistic concepts (orthography, word formation, case system, verb conjugation, aspect, etc.) will be taught through literary texts by 19th and 20th century Russian authors, articles from the current Russian media, and excerpts from films. Students who complete this course in combination with RUS 108 satisfy the Language Requirement.