Spring 2027

Advanced Russian Listening & Speaking

Develops advanced Russian listening and speaking skills in formal registers using contemporary media and culture for professional-level language command.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Karen Evans-Romaine3.8/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.85 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Read, interpret, and analyze a variety of Russian-language news articles.

  • Listen to, interpret, and analyze a variety of Russian-language media sources relevant to recent history and current affairs (news reports, interviews, debates, documentary films, and similar).

  • Discuss current affairs in Russia and some of the Russian-speaking world in paragraph-length discourse, in the past and present, and discuss possible outcomes of current events in the future tense and conditional (“what if”).

  • Describe news-making figures and narrate current news events, using vocabulary accessible to the general interlocutor in Russian.

  • Compare and analyze various Russian-language news and media sites.

  • Present on topics of interest in historical and current events and respond to peers’ questions at the ACTFL Advanced level, in at least paragraph-length discourse.

  • Apply knowledge of Russian-language news sites, and, as appropriate, of historical and current events discussed in this course, to your discipline.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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SLAVIC 321

SLAVIC 555

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Raw average: 4.10/5 from 10 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.85 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KAREN EVANS-ROMAINE is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.85 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Contemporary Russian-language media and culture.
  • Recent history and current affairs in Russian-speaking contexts.
  • News-making figures and current news events.

Skills

  • Advanced Russian listening and speaking proficiency in formal registers.
  • Reading, interpreting, and analyzing Russian-language news articles.
  • Comparing and analyzing various Russian-language news and media sites.
  • Applying knowledge of Russian-language news sites and current events to one's discipline.

Grades

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SLAVIC 555 · Spring 2027

Advanced Russian Listening & Speaking

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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