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FL20245: Russian stage 5 semester 2 (3 credits)

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2013/4
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Further information on credits Credits: 3
Further information on unit levels Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Semester 2
Further information on unit assessment Assessment: CW 100%
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Reassessment not allowed
Further information on requisites Requisites:
Further information on descriptions Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should visit the Foreign Languages Centre website for information regarding enrolment.
This unit will only be available as part of the Community Courses programme, subject to viability. Availability is not therefore guaranteed.
Aims:
The course aims to further broaden students' skills to enable them to undertake spontaneous selection and adaptation of the language.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course students will be able to:
* Express themselves fluently and spontaneously without obvious searching for expressions.
* Use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes.
* Formulate ideas and opinions with a high degree of precision.
* Understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured.
* Understand factual, discursive and literary texts, and some specialised texts aimed at the general reader, appreciating some distinctions of style.
* Express themselves in clear, well structured text, expressing points of view at some length.
* Write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report, underlining what they consider to be the salient issues.

Skills:
Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Research and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.

Content:
This course will enable students to consolidate and develop previously acquired language structures and skills, using all four core competences of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Reading and writing require the Cyrillic alphabet. Idiomatic use of the language is encouraged. The course will extend students' knowledge of social, cultural and political issues by introducing topics not encountered in Semester 1, with the help of up-to-date authentic reading and audio-visual material.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:
NB. Postgraduate programme information will be added when the postgraduate catalogues are published in August 2013

FL20245 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Foreign Languages Centre
Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2013/14 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2014/15 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2013/14.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.