Second-Year Russian II

Yale Summer Session

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Batumi,

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May 28 - Jul 25

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An intensive "at-home-and-abroad" program featuring language study at the second-year level of Russian. The program is a sequel to Live from Russia entitled Welcome Back! It is also built around a contextualized video story of Kevin, Misha, Tanya, Olya et al. and uses a four-skill approach –reading, writing, listening, and speaking with the emphasis on grammatical structure and communication practice.

The program consists of a language course in conjunction with a separate Culture course (RUSS S244) – Georgia, Russia, and the Caucasus in Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts – that meets for 90 minutes twice per week both in New Haven and Georgia. The Culture course is an interdisciplinary and hands-on exploration of Georgian and Russian cultural history through literature, cinema, and visual arts. Topics include Georgian and Russian cultures in their historical transformations and interrelations, reflections of Georgia and the Caucasus in Russian literature, Georgian contributions to world literature and artistic culture, Russian-Georgian literary and visual avant-garde connections, the age of Stalin, politics and culture of the USSR and its aftermath. The course is also supplemented by 12 hours of the Georgian language instruction at the elementary level.

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