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IGETC Foreign Language (required for UC only)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

This course provides students with basic vocabulary and fundamental sentence structures in the present and past tenses, using the nominative, locative and accusative and genitive case of nouns and pronouns. Basic listening and reading comprehension is developed, and students engage in conversation, make oral presentations, and write brief compositions. Significant geographic, historical, literary and contemporary political, social and cultural issues are also introduced.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities), Foreign Language (required for UC only)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Advisory: RUSS 1*.

This continuation of Russian 1 increases basic vocabulary and introduces students to sentence structures, including the past and future tenses in both imperfective and perfective verb aspects, and completes the cases (adding genitive, instrumental, and dative cases, including plural forms. Basic listening and reading comprehension are developed, and students engage in conversations and write brief compositions using all tenses and cases. It includes reading excerpts from modern Russian sources (online newspapers and magazines) and discussing significant geographic, historical, literary, and contemporary political, social and cultural issues is continued and developed. This course is taught in Russian except in cases of linguistic difficulty as determined by the professor.

*The advisory for this course is comparable to two years of high school Russian.

• Prerequisite: RUSS 2.

This course provides an opportunity to acquire fluency in spoken Russian with emphasis on natural, colloquial use.

Applied and service-learning field experience within a public agency, educational institution, and citizen volunteer groups is a requirement of this class.

• Corequisite: Any course in Russian.

This course — taken in tandem with another course in the discipline — enables a student to apply course content in a meaningful and relevant way to a particular activity. In this hands-on course, students engage in applied learning through unpaid experiential activities organized by the student (in conjunction with SMC’s applied/service learning center) and approved by the instructor. Students will develop a customized reading list relevant to their particular activity, complete a minimum of 15 hours of volunteer work with that activity, and submit academically-sound written reports regarding the activity. By applying course material to their experience, students develop a deeper understanding of the discipline.