Russian Language Courses for Foreign Students

 A-02.1. PRE-INTERMEDIATE/INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. The course length – 16 weeks. 16 academic hours per week (Grammar – 4h; Conversation – 4h; Phonetics – 4h; Analytical Reading – 4h). (256h., Exam., 8 ECTS)

A-02.2. INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED RUSSIAN. The course length -16 weeks. 20 academic hours per week (Grammar – 4h; Conversation – 4h; Phonetics – 4h; Analytical Reading – 4h; Special Course – 4h). (320h., Exam., 10 ECTS).

Bg-01. RUSSIAN FOR BEGINNERS. Duration - 4 weeks. The course is offered for 20 academic hours a week and consists of closely related parts: Pronunciation – 6h; Grammar – 10h; Conversation – 4h. These classes are designed to give a start in Russian to complete beginners. All the teaches can speak English. (80h., Exam., 2,5 ECTS)

El-01. ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN. Duration – 4 weeks. 16 academic hours a week. The course includes Pronunciation (4h a week), Grammar (6h a week), Conversation (6h a week). (64h., Exam., 2 ECTS).

El-02. Elementary Russian. Duration – 4 weeks. 20 academic hours a week. The course includes Pronunciation (4h a week), Grammar (8h a week), Conversation (8h a week). (80h., Exam., 2,5 ECTS.)

P-In-01. PRE-INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. Duration –4 weeks. 16 academic hours a week. The course includes Phonetics (4h a week), Grammar (6h a week), Conversation (6h a week). (64h., Exam., 2 ECTS).

P-In-02. PRE-INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. Duration – 4 weeks. 20 academic hours a week. The course includes Phonetics (4h a week), Grammar (8h a week), Conversation (8h a week). (80h., Exam., 2,5 ECTS).

In-01. INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN Duration – 4 weeks. 16 academic hours per week. The course includes Phonetics (4h a week), Grammar (4h a week), Conversation (4h a week), Analytical Reading (4h a week). (64h., Exam., 2 ECTS).

In-02. INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. Duration – 4 weeks. 20 academic hours per week. The course includes Phonetics (4h a week), Grammar (4h a week), Conversation (4h a week), Analytical Reading (4h a week). Video Course (4h a week). (80h., Exam., 2,5 ECTS).

H-In-01. UPPER-INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. Duration – 4 weeks. 20 academic hours a week. The course includes Phonetics and Intonation (4h. a week), Grammar (6h. a week), Conversation (6h.a week), Analytical Reading and Stylistics (4h. a week). (80h., Exam., 2,5 ECTS) .

 

H-In-02. UPPER-INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED RUSSIAN. Duration – 6 weeks. 16/20 academic hours per week. The course includes Phonetics and Intonation (4h a week), Grammar (4h a week), Conversation + Video (4h a week), Analytical Reading and Stylistics (4h a week), one special course (4h a week) – upon request. (96h/120h., Exam., 3/4 ECTS).

Adv-01. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. Duration – 6 weeks. 16/20 academic hours a week. The course includes Phonetics and Intonation (2h a week), Grammar (4h a week), Translation (4h a week), Conversation (6h a week), one special course (4h a week) – upon request. (96h./120h., Exam., 3/4 ECTS).

Adv-02. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. Duration – 4 weeks. 16/20 academic hours a week. The course includes Phonetics and Intonation (2h a week), Grammar (4h a week), Translation (4h a week), Conversation (6h a week), one special course (4h a week) – upon request. (64/80h., Exam., 2/2,5 ECTS).

Adv-03. ADVANCED RUSSIAN – INTENSIVE. Duration – 2 weeks. 30 hours per week; 6 hours per day). The course includes 20 hours of Translation; 20 hours of Grammar; 20 hours of Conversation. (60h., Exam., 8 ECTS)

Adv-Syn. ADVANCED SYNTAX. The course is designed for students and graduate students who are majoring in Russian Language and Russian Literature. (12h./24h.,Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

* Available upon request.

 In-Gram. GRAMMAR. INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. The course is designed for students who would like to improve their grammar. The course covers the main grammar topics of intermediate level. (16h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

 Adv-Gram. GRAMMAR. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. The objectives of the course are the learning and training grammatical difficulties of Russian. Special attention is paid to the Russian verbal system: aspect and tense forms in functioning, verbs of motion with prefixes in direct and indirect meaning, position verbs with prefixes in indirect meaning and difficult cases of verb government. (12/24h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

In-Ph. PHONETICS. INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. The course is designed for students who would like to improve their pronunciation. (16h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

Adv-Ph. PHONETICS. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. The course is designed for those who would like to get rid of the accent. The audio and video materials help the students to work on phonetics and intonation of spoken Russian. (12h./24h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

EL-Cnv. CONVERSATION. ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN. The course is designed for students who need to strengthen their speaking abilities. It covers everyday vocabulary and phrases for typical situations. (16h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

In-Cnv. CONVERSATION. INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN. The course is designed for students who would like to widen the emotional and abstract vocabulary in functional capacity, to strengthen the ability to held discussions in Russian. (12h./24h.

Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

Adv-Cnv. CONVERSATION. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. This course is specifically focused on the usage of everyday vocabulary and based on the use of the up-to-date audio and video materials. The audio and video materials help the students to work on phonetics and intonation of spoken Russian. (12h./24h. Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

 In-AnR. ANALYTICAL READING. INTERMADIATE RUSSIAN. The course is designed to introduce Russian Literature to the students, to extend their vocabulary. Students are offered a few units of texts of different periods and genres, united by one topic. Students are supposed to get acquainted and to read the texts beforehand. Reading of some extracts and analysis of the text are held by teacher’s guidance. (24h/32h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

Adv-AnR. ANALYTICAL READING. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. The course is designed for students who are majoring in Russian Language and Russian Literature and would like to widen their vocabulary and to get acquainted with stylistic peculiarities of different texts. (24h./32h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

Adv-Styl. STYLISTICS. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. The course is designed for graduate students who are interested in stylistic peculiarities of different genres. Course can be divided into several parts: Style of Literature, Newspaper Writing, Official Style. (24h./32h./48h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

Adv-T. TRANSLATION. ADVANCED RUSSIAN. Classes include translation from and into Russian. Special attention is paid to compound syntactical structures and colloquial patterns. Synchronous translation in the language laboratory is a required part of the course. (24h./32h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

** PREPARATION COURSE FOR THE TEST OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (TORFL)

This course is designed for foreign citizens who would like to take the exam in Russian as a Foreign Language. The course program uses formal grammar teaching and vocabulary extension as well as extensive reading, further written practice, listening and discussion to improve students’ overall Russian to the appropriate level. Students will also be prepared for the particular format of the exams. The program of the course as well as applicant’s language level depends on his/her requirements. Before you start the Course we will give you a Placement Test to determine your language level.

Courses for Special Purposes:

BUSINESS RUSSIAN

This course is designed for people, who would like to develop business contacts in Russia and have elementary level of Russian. The course includes texts, excerpts from documents, dialogues and language assignments. Each lesson is followed by vocabulary and grammar charts. The volume of the vocabulary is 700 words and word combinations. It is possible to take this course intensively. The topics of this course:

Banking: The main characteristics of bank’s activity; Clients; Bank’s branches; License of International Activity; Technical equipment of the bank; Auditors of the bank.

Bank Service: Banking facilities; Attraction of financial recourses; Management of bank funds; Issue (Release) of shares; Subjects of bank’s activity.

Opening an Account with a Bank: Opening an account by juridical person; Opening an account by natural person.

Business Contacts: Making an appointment; Talking to bank officers; Telephoning; Business talks. Marketing

(32h., Exam., ECTS – in combination with other courses).

 RUSSIAN HISTORY.

This course is designed for those who are interested in Russian history and politics and have Intermediate level of Russian.

The course includes texts, excerpts from texts, newspaper articles, video-films and exercises based on that material. Classes are held in a form of discussion. Amount of hours of the course can be changed according to student’s preferences. The topics of this course: The beginning of Russia: People of Russia in XI century; Everyday life and traditions of ancient Slavs; Ancient Slavs’ creeds; Introduction of Christianity. Great Novgorod: Novgorod veche; The end of Novgorod independence. The First Tsats of the House of Romanov: Mikhail Feodorovich; Alxey Mikchailovich. Ancient Cities: Moscow, Kremlin. Peter the Great: Birth and childhood of Peter the Great; First years of his government; Acquaintance with foreigners; Peter’s reforms; Foundation of the northern capital – St. Petersburg; Successors of Peter the Great.

Catherine the Great: The age of the Enlightenment; Customs and manners; Annexation of the Crimea. War with France of 1812: Fights against Napoleon. The Last Emperor of Russia: Nikolaj II and his time. The October Socialist Revolution: Phenomenon of Lenin; “Religion is opium for people”. The Period of Stalin: The war against his own people; The war against Fascist Germany. The Period of Cold War: From Chrustchev to Gorbachev. Socialism in its activity. Perestrojka: How it happened. Political Process Today: Struggle for power; Future of Russia

** Topics, amount of hours – upon request.

ANALYTICAL READING/RUSSAIN LITERATURE

The Course is designed for those who are interested in Russian Literature and have Intermediate level of Russian. The aim of the course is to introduce Russian literature to the students, to extend their vocabulary, to acquaint them with stylistic peculiarities of different texts.

Students are offered a few units of texts of different periods and genres, united by one topic. Depending on their own interest students can form a 24-hour course according to their choice.

Students are supposed to get acquainted and to read the texts beforehand. Reading of some extracts and analysis of the text are held by teacher’s guidance.

** Topics, amount of hours – upon request.