1st year Russian (fwd)

[Sheila M. McCarthy]

>Dear Colleague:
>        I wonder if you can answer a few questions on teaching 1st-year
>Russian.  Thanks in advance.
>
>1.  What textbook do you use in 1st-year Russian?
>Russian Alive
>2. How many contact hours per week are involved?
>5
>3.  Is there a lab (mandatory or optional for the students)?
>some mandatory, some optional
>4.  If there is a lab, what materials are used there?
>materials which accompany the text; other departmental materials
>5.  How many students do you have enrolled now and how many of those do
>you think you will keep (based on previous experience) all the way to the
>end? 9 in first year Russian; attrition has been very low since
>enrollments have decreased.  We might expect that 5-6 of these students
>will take 4th year Russian.
>
>6.  How many students do you have in the other years?
> 10 in 2nd year, 6 in 3rd year; 6 in 4th year.
>
>Best regards, Vlad Tumanov, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
>vtumanov at JULIAN.UWO.CA