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
RSN360 or RSN460
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The aims of the unit are to extend written and spoken communicative proficiency as well as promoting a more comprehensive and sophisticated knowledge of contemporary Russian. This unit includes practice in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Russian through the use of authentic Russian language materials.
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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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One Online Participation Quiz | 15% | No | ongoing |
4 Grammar and vocab. quizzes | 20% | No | Tue, weeks 3, 5, 7 & 9. |
Oral test | 20% | No | Wed, week13 |
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%
4 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: Wed, week13
Weighting: 20%
For the oral test, students have to prepare a three-minute talk on a topic of their choice. An Oral test for external students will be conducted online via Zoom on Wednesday, week 13.
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 SEMINARS AND ASSIGNMENTS ARE AVAILABLE via the online unit.
Levine J. S. Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
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.
During this semester students will have thirteen lectures on the following aspects of Russian grammar:
Week One |
The Prefix ЗA- |
Week Two |
The Prefix ДО- |
Week Three |
The Prefix НА- |
Week Four |
The Prefixes ПОД-and НАД- |
Week Five |
The Prefixes O- and ОБ- |
Week Six |
The Prefixes ПЕРЕ- and ПРЕ- |
Week Seven |
ThePrefixesПО- andРАЗ- |
Week Eight |
ThePrefixС- |
Week Nine |
The Prefix ОТ- |
Week Ten |
The Prefix ПРО- |
Week Eleven |
The Prefix У- |
Week Twelve |
The Prefix ИЗ- |
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:
Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.
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:
The unit aims at fostering language skills to level C1, described as follows in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR): As a proficient user you can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognise implicit meaning; express yourself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions; use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes; produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
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10/07/2018 | clarification of the assessment dates |