Query: Spetskurs

[Alina Israeli]

>  "spetskursy po
>vyboru" for the students of the 3rd year, and "objazatel'nyje
>spetskursy" for the students of the 4th year, and many-many others.
>However, "spetskursy po vyboru" are electives.

This is probably getting too detailed and too complicated. A student 
in any department (fakul'tet) may or may not be already in certain 
"otdelenie" from the very beginning. Later on there is specialisation 
(po kafedre chego-to). So each kafedra may or may not have obligatory 
"spetskursy". There are no blanket obligatory spetskurs'es because 
then by definition it is a kurs, and nothing "spets"/special about it.

So "electives" is still probably correct, given that in the US, for 
example, there may be some limitations on electives within one's 
major: so many of that level, or such and such distribution of 
courses and so on. This type of electives is opposed to true 
electives, like underwater basket weaving for math majors.

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Alina Israeli
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