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COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
TMCC
Revised 10/21/2013
Course Prefix, Number and Title: RUS 111, First-Year Russian I
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Nadya Surikova-Klein
Contributing Faculty: Nancy Faires
Academic Year: 2014-2015
Complete and electronically submit your assessment report to your Department Chair/Coordinator/Director. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or
a narrative description of the assessment activities in your course.
Course Outcomes
In the boxes below. summarize
the outcomes assessed in your
course during the year.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
Effect on Course
In the boxes below, summarize
the methods used to assess course
outcomes during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
the results of your assessment
activities during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
how you are or how you plan to
use the results to improve student
learning.
Based on the results of this
assessment, will you revise your
outcomes? If so, please
summarize how and why in the
boxes below:
Students will demonstrate
proficiency in their ability
to read, understand,
interpret, and communicate
spoken and/or written
Russian at a beginner's
level by completing
exercises, in-class
activities, and
examinations.
In the fall 2014 semester,
all the students have
mastered the Cyrillic
alphabet ( I00%}; some
were so good at writing in
cursive Russian that their
written work looked almost
like calligraphy (20%); all
the students were able to
differentiate between the
printed and handwritten
letters and texts ( 100%).
The students were able to
identify the letters of the
Cyrillic alphabet, read
printed texts, and write in
cursive Russian.
The assessment indicated
that the students were able
to write, read, and
pronounce Russian without
difficulty as well as
understand the concept of
grammatical genders.
Because these are an
essential element of
learning the Russian
language it has created a
foundation to proceed with
teaching and learning the
basic Russian grammar.
There is no need to revise
the assessment plan in this
respect. It needs to be
pointed out that the
vocabulary of the first
semester Russian class is
I imited by design. The
students should feel
comfortable using correctly
most of the time only
nouns, pronouns, adjectives
and verbs they learned
during the semester.
Outcome#l
Students will read,
understand, interpret, and
communicate spoken and/or
written Russian at a
beginner's level.
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The Russian phonetic
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COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: RUS 111, First-Year Russian 1
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Nadya Surikova-Klein
Contributing Faculty: Nancy Faires
Academic Year: 2014-2015
system is very different
from that of the English
language. Apart from the
fact that there are 33 letters
and signs in the Cyrillic
alphabet (while in the Latin
alphabet there are 26
letters), there are some
Russian sounds that are
difficult to learn. The
ability to speak Russian
correctly and to be
understood by others
depends on how well the
students can articulate the
vowels and the consonants
as well as how to use the
proper intonation. A
specially designed phonetic
course (with CDs) was used
to teach the standard
Russian pronunciation. All
the students of the Russian
111 class were able to learn
to pronounce correctly hard
and soft Russian
consonants, fricatives, and
distinctive vowels. The
students were able to speak
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: RUS 11 I, First-Year Russian I
Division/lJ nit: Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Nadya Surikova-Klein
Contributing Faculty: Nancy Faires
Academic Year: 2014-2015
Russian and be understood
by their fellow students
during conversational
practice in class.
The concept of
grammatical genders is
extremely important in
learning Russian. Only
after having understood
the concept will the
students be able to think
in Russian while other
elements of grammar are
introduced. Because the
concept of grammatical
gender, especially that of
neuter gender (if students
are familiar with other
Romance or Germanic
languages), is nonexistent in the English
language, the
students were required to
identify every noun,
pronoun, or adjective they
came across. The
Exercise Book compiled
by the instructor was used
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: RUS 111 , First-Year Russian I
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Nadya Surikova-Klein
Contributing Faculty: Nancy Faires
Academic Year: 2014-2015
in class and every home
assignment was graded.
The students of the
Russian 111 class were
able to comprehend this
important concept of
grammatical genders.
Several tests were given
on the subject of gender.
Most students (90%) got
an A or an A- on these
tests. The assessment
indicated that the students
were beginning to think
in Russian. 1t was
especially evident during
oral tests when the
students were asked to
describe themselves, their
families, activities, likes
and dislikes. Only a few
of the students { 10 % )
were hesitant while using
Russian words in a
correct way as far as
grammatical gender is
concerned. While reading
new texts or writing
essays of their own the
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COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT {CAR)
TMCC
Course Prefix, Number and Title: RUS 111, First-Year Russian I
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Nadya Surikova-Klein
Contributing Faculty: Nancy Faires
Academic Year: 2014-2015
students demonstrated
their full understanding
of the concept of
grammatical genders and
rarely made mistakes.
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Outcome# 2
Students will be able to
identify personal values and
cultural mores different
than their own in custom
and usage.
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During d is cuss ions in
class (in Russian) the
students of Russian 111
used their sense of humor
and cultural awareness to
illustrate mistakes the other
students made.
A cultural-comparative
approach will be drawn
throughout the course.
Students will be able to
demonstrate global and
cultural awareness by
structured activities such as
research projects,
presentations,
examinations, and
discussions, etc.
This type of assessment
indicated that the students
were using cultural
awareness to point out
errors in language usage.
There is no need to revise
the assessment plan as far
as culture is concerned.
Outcome#J
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: RUS 111, First-Year Russian I
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Nadya Surikova-Klein
Contributing Faculty: Nancy Faires
Academic Year: 2014-2015
Department Chair/Coordinator/Director
Dean
Vice President of Academic Affairs
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