Classroom courses (various) Classroom courses (various): Russian: From intermediate to advanced

Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding the student's cultural literacy. Key features include: * Structured chapters presenting a wide assortment of readings that include blogs, forums and surveys as well as opinion pieces and commentaries.

Each text is accompanied by assignments with increasing levels of difficulty. * Authentic and up-to-date readings, video and audio excerpts covering a range of relevant social and cultural topics, including Demography, Youth Culture, Politics and Society, Economics and Globalization. * Video clips from news programs that are used not only to develop listening comprehension but also introduce students to contemporary Russian society.

* Particular attention to helping students acquire advanced vocabulary and the ability to converse, discuss and argue about issues with extended paragraph-length discourse. * Special focus on the development of strong listening and reading comprehension skills, ensuring that students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse. * A free companion website at http://www.russian.ucla.edu/AdvancedRussian/ offering student and instructor video and audio resources, sample syllabi and tests as well as additional materials.