QUERY: Spets(ial'nyye )kursy

[Alina Israeli]

It's an elective usually pertaining to the specialization, the major.

It's a course that is taught outside the grid. All students in a given 
program have to choose some spetskursy to narrow their specialty (say a 
math student takes algebra spetskursy). But they also can take some for 
fun, for general interest.

AI

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Would the Russian academics be so kind as to explain this in terms 
> that an American academic would understand?
>
> Are we speaking of...
> Courses in the major?
> Individualized (independent-study) courses?
> Electives?
> Something else I haven't thought of?
>
> The undergraduate grade transcript I'm working on lists 21 such 
> courses out of a total of almost 70.
>
> MTIA
>

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