Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

NNCS-5204

Organization's ID:

RUSS3310

Organization:

National Cryptologic University

Location:

Hybrid

Length:

1 week (40 hours)

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate	2	Russian Language and Culture

Description

Objective:

The course objective is for students to become familiar with common Russian socio-cultural background knowledge found in Russian youth and internet slang, and recognize socio-cultural elements present in reading and listening passages concerning daily life in Russia.

Learning Outcomes:

discuss the author’s intent and emotional overtones in Russian youth and internet slang;
evaluate Russian youth and internet slang with certain communicative situations, type of discourse, age, profession and social status of speakers/writers;
correlate Russian youth and internet slang with certain opinions and attitudes of speakers/writers;
analyze Russian youth and internet slang in line with cultural specifics of the Russian mentality and language expression at various walks of modern Russian society.
identify meaning and syntactic appropriateness of Russian youth and internet slang, correlating those features with neutral (business/unemotional) interpretation in Russian and translation into English