Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NNCS-5203
Organization's ID:
RUSS3311
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 to help students develop a deeper understanding of the most frequent authentic Russian criminal slang, military slang, obscenities, and profanities.

Learning Outcomes:

  • discuss the author’s intent and emotional overtones in Russian criminal/military slang and profanities;
  • evaluate Russian criminal/military slang and profanities with certain communicative situations, type of discourse, age, profession and social status of speakers/writers;
  • correlate Russian criminal/military slang and profanities with certain opinions and attitudes of speakers/writers;
  • analyze Russian criminal/military slang and profanities 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 criminal/military slang and profanities, correlating those features with neutral (business/unemotional) interpretation in Russian and translation into English

General Topics:

  • Criminal slang
  • Military slang
  • Obscenities
  • Profanities
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations

Minimum Passing Score:

80%
Supplemental Materials