QUERY: Spets(ial'nyye )kursy

[Edward M Dumanis]

Alina is correct here but only for the classes taught at Universities. In 
technical institutes, spetskursy used to be mandatory classes.
In both cases they could be called topics in subjects related to major, 
e.g., topics in Heat Exchange, topics in Crystallography, topics in the 
Culture of Ancient Egypt, and so on.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>


On Mon, 18 May 2009, Alina Israeli wrote:

> 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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