Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Marika Kalyuga
Contact via email
Friday, 1pm-2pm
Tutor
Tatiana Oitzinger
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
RSN350
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
In this unit students develop their ability to follow complex lines of argument in spoken and written texts in Russian in a range of genres and to identify and extract key information. The unit focuses on practicing skills in expressing and defending sophisticated arguments and opinions and employing strategies to understand and respond to unfamiliar material in preparation for applying language knowledge to social and professional situations. Students will use their judgement in decision-making around communicative tasks (written, oral, spontaneous and prepared) in meaningful everyday contexts.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Indicative examples of assessment tasks will be available on iLearn.
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Class participation / quiz | 15% | No | ongoing |
4 Grammar and vocab. quizzes | 20% | No | Tue, weeks 3, 5, 7 & 9. |
Language portfolio | 20% | No | Tue, weeks 9 & 12 |
Final written examination | 45% | No | Exam period |
Due: ongoing
Weighting: 15%
Students have to demonstrate their knowledge and engagement with material explained during semester 2.
Due: Tue, weeks 3, 5, 7 & 9.
Weighting: 20%
Grammar and vocabulary quizzes.
Quiz 1 is due Tuesday week 3, Quiz 2 is due Tuesday week 5, Quiz 3 is due Tuesday week 7, and Quiz 4 is due Tuesday week 9.
Due: Tue, weeks 9 & 12
Weighting: 20%
The aim of the Language portfolio is to showcase students' skills in all four language competency areas: Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking.
Due: Exam period
Weighting: 45%
The purpose of the written examination is to check students’ knowledge of all aspects of grammar and vocabulary that they learn throughout the semester.
There are no required textbooks for this course but ALL STUDY MATERIALS FOR LECTURES, TUTORIALS AND ASSIGNMENTS ARE AVAILABLE via the online unit.
Levine J. S. Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
University Co-operative Bookshop Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Tel: +61 2 9850 7618
Online Unit
Login is via: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/
Is my unit in iLearn?: http://help.ilearn.mq.edu.au/unitsonline/ to check when your online unit will become available.
Technology
Students are required to have regular access to a computer and the internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.
For students attending classes on campus we strongly encourage that you bring along your own laptop computer, ready to work with activities in your online unit. The preferred operating system is Windows 10.
Students are required to access the online unit in iLearn by the end of Week 1 and follow any relevant instructions and links for downloads that may be required. If applicable, students are required to download the relevant language package prior to Week 2.
Please contact your course convenor before the end of Week 1 if you do not have a suitable laptop (or tablet) for in-class use.
Week One |
Direct and Indirect Speech
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Week Two |
The Pronoun ‘сам’
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Week Three |
Prefixed Verbs of Motion |
Week Four |
Prefixed Verbs of Motion |
Week Five |
The words ‘некогда’, ‘некому’, ‘негде’, etc
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Week Six |
Collective numerals |
Week Seven |
Participles |
Week Eight |
The Passive Voice |
Week Nine |
Verbs for emotions |
Week Ten |
Verbs for emotions |
Week Eleven |
Verbs for emotions
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Week Twelve |
Verbal adverbs
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Week Thirteen |
Revision |
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Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. They will be able to articulate the structure of knowledge of their discipline, be able to adapt discipline-specific knowledge to novel situations, and be able to contribute from their discipline to inter-disciplinary solutions to problems.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Date | Description |
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11/07/2018 | clarification of the assessment dates |