Films will be an integral part of this course. The general at-home viewing will be followed up by class discussion, film analysis, and watching particular scenes in class/or as homework. While the course's main purpose is the development of students' oral proficiency, it also includes texts for reading comprehension and exercises that focus on the acquisition of written skills and grammatical accuracy.
Texts:
1. Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume 1, by Kashper, Kagan, and Morozova.
2. Russian in use: an interactive approach to advanced communicative competence, by Sandra Rosengrand, 2006