CULP: Russian Through Film, History and Culture

Prerequisites£

A language course for students who have an upper-intermediate command of the Russian Language (completed B2), ideally suited to those students who have completed the CULP Intermediate 2 course or have taken Russian at AS Level. The level is upper-intermediate/advanced.

For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.

• Please note students need to contact CULP Administrator on culp@langcen.cam.ac.uk for the link to make a payment.

• University staff and students
• Further details regarding Language Centre eligibility criteria are available

• CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference): B2

Number of sessions: 8

By the end of the course students will be able to:

• Listening/Speaking: Contribute effectively to discussions about cultural, historical and geographical topics as portrayed in the literary tradition and film and keep up a casual conversation with a good degree of fluency, coping with narrative and some idiomatic expressions.
• Reading: Read graded written works and film reviews with a good degree of understanding, enough to cope with an advanced course, to read the media for information as well as to understand some non-standard pieces.
• Writing: Construct a short narrative/descriptive piece or commentary about a story or a film and/or other topics covered.

The Course will introduce students to the following upper-intermediate learning skills:

• Achieve spoken fluency whilst using appropriate vocabulary and descriptive/narrative grammatical structures;
• Apply their language skills effectively to story-telling;
• Acquire an understanding of the main aspects of historical, political and cultural events connected with Russia;
• Improve their reading and writing skills, with an emphasis on the narrative/descriptive styles;
• Improve their delivery of oral presentations and debate in Russian.

• Presentations, practicals and online learning

• Raven access is required
• Further information regarding Raven is available

• Students Fees: £150 to be paid online. Please select ‘Concessionary’ under the course fee when you make your booking.
• Staff Fees: £165 to be paid online. Please select ‘All charged’ under the course fee when you make your booking.
• Links to the online store will be provided with your confirmation email.
• Payment is required within 24 hours of your booking to secure your place.
• Refunds available after the first lesson only.
• Payment for the courses is made on the Online Store (CULP General Purpose courses), (Raven log in).
• Course materials can be found on Moodle (Raven log in), once the course has started.

This course will not be formally assessed and students who attend regularly (80% of sessions) will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

• Students are required to attend 80% of sessions
• Full details of all Language Centre programmes can be found on the Language Centre website and Language Centre Online website.

• Eight taught sessions of two hours plus online learning

• Three times per year (subject to demand)

• CULP: Russian Advanced
• CULP: Russian Intermediate 2