INTEGRATED DIPLOMA IN RUSSIAN This is an intensive course at the Post-graduate level and is known as `lntegrated Diploma Course in Russian".

The course gives opportunity to students to have better understanding of the language. It is intended to develop the communication skills of the students in relation to both written and spoken Russian at higher level than in the existing Certificate and Diploma courses. Emphasis is given to the training in translation of Russian material in Science and Technology. The course will also help the students to acquaint themselves with few short stories and poems of the Russian authors. The duration of the course is one academic year with about 450 working hours i.e. 100 hours more than the working hour taken together for the Certificate and Diploma courses. No. of seats: 40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Scheme of Examination Marks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paper I Grammar 100 Paper II Translation 100 1. From Russian into English (For short passages of about 150 words from the prescribed text book) 60 2. From English into Russian (Two unknown passages of about 100 words each) 40 Paper III Composition and Technical Translation 100 1. short essay on anyone of the topics given in the syllabus 20 2. Translation of four short Russian passages of about 150 words in English (Two passages related to Science / Technology and two passages related to Humanities) 80 Paper IV Supplementary Reader and Poetry 100 1. Write a composition on any one of the given topics 25 2. Comprehension question based on poetry (about 8 lines) 15 3. Write briefly one of the short stories given 40 (minimum three stories are to be offered) 4. Write down a poem from memory 20 Paper V. Viva-voce 100

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S yllab u s 1. All Grammar portions included in Russian by Wagner and Ovsienko 2. Prose Texts in Wagner and Ovsienko. Lessons from 1 to 40. 3. Poetry Selections from famous Russian and Soviet Poets. 1. . S. PUSHKIN, - Poems 1. Ekho 2. Pismo K. From Eugene Oregon 22 lines beginning from "Zachemvi Positili nas" 2. . . LERMONTOV - Poems 1. Parus* 2. Vikhozhu Odin ya na darogy 3. N. . NEKRASOV - Poems 1. Vechirashnt den V Chestom* 4. . EVTUSAENKO - m 1. Khotyat li Ruskiye voiny (*poems to be learnt by heart) 5. Supplementary Readers Short Stories 1. Bednyei Lyudi - L.N. Tolstoy 2. Ushla - . . Chekhov 3. Mat - From the Reader Russian for Everybody 4. Babushka i Vovka - do 5. Trus - L Panteleev - Raskazy Sovetskikh Pisatelei Composition 1. About Ourselves 2. Friendly Letter Writing 3. Learning Russian Why? 4. The Student's Native State . 5. The Student's Favourite Author