• Semester(s) Offered: Spring of even-numbered years
  • Credits: 3
  • Counts for Russian major requirement: Lang, Readings in Russian
  • Counts for minor: RussLang&Lit, RussLang, SEES
  • Course Code: 01:860:404

Taught primarily in Russian, the course fosters advanced language skills of conversational fluency, listening comprehension, writing and composition, expanded vocabulary, recognition of stylistic registers, and advanced syntax. These skills are practiced while exploring the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the independent nations occupying this territory since 1991.