Tutoring
Tutoring is a critical component of the Russian Flagship Program that provides students with additional practice and focused, individualized support. Russian Flagship advisors establish broad areas of focus for tutoring (such conversation or academic writing), while students work with their tutors to shape each session according to these priorities as well as their own interests and goals.
Students meet with their assigned tutors for 1–4 academic hours (50 minutes each) per week at mutually convenient times. Depending on a student’s level proficiency, tutoring may take place in small groups with other Russian Flagship students, or or as a combination of group and individual sessions. Students are expected to come prepared to each meeting with topics for discussion or specific language skills they would like to develop.
Individual Tutoring
Students enrolled in 3rd-year Russian and above participate in one hour of individual tutoring per week.
Small-Group Tutoring
Students at all levels of Russian participate in small-group tutoring. Groups are organized by level and usually include 3-4 students.
Russian Across the Curriculum
The one-credit Russian Across the Curriculum (RAC) tutorial for students in 5th-year Russian or above is a type of individual tutoring directly linked to a credit-bearing course or focused on an academic topic of interest, with readings and assignments linked to the syllabus of the course or focused development of subject-area vocabulary and disciplinary expertise.
“My absolute favorite aspect of the program is tutoring. Meeting with a group tutor and an individual tutor is so beneficial. There is a bigger focus on you, so you can ask specific questions and learn about specific topics that interest you. It’s really an amazing part of the program, especially because it gets you to talk, and you can’t learn a language without speaking!”