Winter Program of Russian Language
Winter program will be held from January 7 until January 31, 2007. The program includes:
20 academic hours per week course in basic conversational Russian
- 4 academic hours per week of optional seminars and lectures
- Cultural event (museum or exhibition excursion, concert or play, party or picnic) — once a week
- Out-of-town excursion — once a week
Daily Schedule, Monday through Friday:
10:00 - 11:30 Russian Language Classes
11:30 - 12:00 Tea/Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30 Russian Language Classes
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:15 Applied Studies Seminar
16:00 - 18:00 Recreational and cultural activities
Saturdays and Sundays
Recreational and sporting events, excursions, and cultural activities.
Optional courses
- Communicative Grammar
- Phonetic and Intonation Patterns
- Difficult Cases of Russian Usage
- Russian Conversational Etiquette
- Russian Written Communication
- Russian in Business
- The Language of the Russian Media
- Text Interpretation and Analysis
- Translation
- Russian Phraseology
- Creative Writing
Culture and Area Studies:
- Political Readings and Discussions
- Russian Economy Overview
- Urban Policies and Regional Development
- History of Russian Philosophy
- Russian History
- History of Religion
- Russian Literature
- Soviet and Russian Film Industry
- Russian Composers
- Iconpainting
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