Most Honours students of Russian take a language laboratory course, which requires them to complete various exercises using material recorded from Russian television; this option is also available for graduate students taking the taught M.Phil. degree in Slavonic Languages. The passages used are taken from a wide range of different sources, so that students may find themsleves translating a commentary on student poverty or part of a discussion on the attractions of prostitution as a career for young Russian women; summarising extracts from a election broadcast by Vladimir Zhirinovskii or an address by a Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church; answering questions on a sequence of advertisements or a discussion about the rights of the consumer who had the misfortune to find a cockroach inside his videorecorder. Videotapes are also used to provide illustrative materials for an Honours option on the Russian Language in the Twentieth Century.
Anyone wanting further information on the Department's videotape collection is invited to contact:
Dr John Dunn
Department of Slavonic Studies
Hetherington Building
University of Glasgow
Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
telephone 0141 330 5591
electronic mail Dr John Dunn@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk
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