Courses - Fall 2025
RUSS101
Intensive Elementary Russian I
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Must have appropriate World Language Placement Test (WLPT) score.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of Russian.
Credit only granted for: RUSS101 or (RUSS111 and RUSS112).
This intensive first-year course is intended to develop the four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking with an emphasis on communicative competence.
This course has been put on a timed release system. Seats will be opened gradually by the registrar's office, to a total of 15 seats per section. If the course is full, please put yourself on the waitlist and contact Dr. Elizabeth Papazian (papazian@umd.edu) for permission to enroll.
RUSS201
Intermediate Russian I
Credits:
5
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: RUSS102 or RUSS114; or must have appropriate World Language Placement Test (WLPT) score.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of Russian.
Continued activation and expansion of skills and knowledge acquired in an elementary Russian course with the goal of communicative competence.
If the course is full, please put yourself on the waitlist and contact Dr. Elizabeth Papazian (papazian@umd.edu) for permission to enroll.
RUSS301
Advanced Russian I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: RUSS202; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of Russian.
Advanced training in written Russian communicative structures.
RUSS303
Russian Conversation: Functional Skills
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: RUSS202; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Intended for students who do not anticipate having the opportunity to study in Russia. Skills for daily life (both function and etiquette) and argumentation (rhetoric).
RUSS386
Experiential Learning
Credits:
3 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Junior standing or higher; and permission of ARHU-School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department.
Contact the department to obtain section numbers.
RUSS398P
Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature; Russian Culture under Putin: Power, Protest, and War
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
RUSS401
Advanced Russian Composition
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: RUSS302; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Restriction: Not open to native speakers of Russian.
Approaches to argumentation, organization of information, contextualized grammar, appropriateness of lexical choice, genre, and register.
RUSS439T
Selected Topics in Russian Literature; Russian Literature of the 19th Century in Russian: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
RUSS499
Independent Study in Russian
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg
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