RASA at UCF is pleased to announce that The College of Arts and Humanities will implement a Russian as a Critical Language undergraduate certificate program! Be sure to check this out through the Modern Languages Department if you are interested. This will be effective as of Fall 2021. Ben
Hello everyone! International Week at UCF begins this Monday. There will be multiple events related to Russian language, culture, and career opportunities. Below is the schedule for these events. See you there! International week organized by the Russian Language program:Monday November 16th, 11:30 – Guest Speaker, Dr. Barry Morris, NAFSA Board, Washington D.C.“Russian Language and Literature in the International Education”, coordinator is Dr. Kourova.https://ucf.zoom.us/j/97828841669?pwd=MU9WaHhoWUFrOEtnWVRkcWtQejJvZz09 Monday, November 16th, 5:00pm – Guest Speaker, Natalia Rydvanova, Cultural Office of the Embassy of the…
Dr. Alla Kourova will be hosting a virtual seminar titled “From Orlando to Russia Through Cultural Projects.” She will be discussing how she uses cultural projects with the students in the classroom to teach Russian language and culture. Anyone interested in learning about cultural projects is invited to register for the event at the link https://www.cah.ucf.edu/seminars/. The seminar will begin on Zoom on Thursday June 25th at 1:00pm. Ben
In this video, members of R.A.S.A. discuss why they love Russian culture. This project is titled, “I Love Russia.” These students discuss why the chose to learn Russian language, what interests them in the Russian culture, and what similarities have they noticed between Russians and Americans. Thank you Michelle Verbitskaya for creating an editing this video. Enjoy! Ben
Here are the links to the video of some of our members of RASA, former UCF Russian language students, and Dr. Alla Kourova reading Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin,” “Wind Wind, You Are Mighty,” “I Loved You,” and “Winter Morning.” These videos were created for the online event, “Let’s Honor Pushkin,” dedicated to the 221st anniversary of the great poet. The Russian Cultural Center in Washington D.C. uploaded these videos to their Facebook page. The video of RASA members and Dr. Kourova…
We invite you to take part in the online event “Let’s Honor Pushkin,” dedicated to the 221st anniversary of the great poet! Anyone can become a participant of the action: for this it is necessary to read Pushkin’s poetic lines in Russian or English, record your own speech and post the video on social networks with hashtags #Let’sreadPushkin2020 and #PushkinUSA2020 or just send your video to us at 📧rcc@rccusa.org. You can speak both individually, and in a team of up…
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 CARTA (Central Association of Russian Teachers of America in cooperation with Russian Cultural Center in Washington D.C.) Essay Contest “US – Soviet Relations During World War II: The Path to Victory over Fascism”. All the universities across the United States participated in this contest. UCF participants were from the first and second year of Russian program and high schools students from the summer STARTALK program. The winners are below and they will be…
Dr. Kourova has recived STARTALK grant. This is the sixth year. STARTALK is a federal grant program funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK grants fund summer world language learning programs as well as professional development programs for world language teachers. STARTALK grants support programs for students and teachers of eight critical need languages. During first 4 years it was a program for Russian Language and Culture…
Student from the Russian Advanced group, Eric Tangarifle, received the ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Laureate Award for promoting Russian Language and Culture at UCF and being an active Russian Club officer, president, and STARTALK teacher assistant for last 4 years. Congratulations Eric on this achievement! Ben
Dr. Kourova has received Excellence in Teaching Russian Language national award from CARTA (The Central Association of Russian Teachers of America, MLA affiliation)! She will be recognized at the Awards Luncheon of the CARTA Conference (it was postpone because of the COVID 19 and will be probably in September). Ben