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