My Undergrad in Textbooks (second half of 3rd year to my 4th year)

"Crime & Punishment"
"Eugene Onegin"
"Fathers and Sons"
"Gogol Short Stories"

Continuing from where I left off . . .
The latter half of my 3rd year was filled mainly with Russian course (3 of them) while the other two were Latin (continuing from the fall semester) and another
Linguistics course (which was basically course notes again). There was a textbook for my Russian language course, Golosa 2, but my instructor for the course again does not like the Golosa books so he made that optional. As for the other two Russian courses I took that semester one was a literature course and the other was a special course that looked at vocabulary building. The only new book I got for that course was the book of Gogol short stories. My uncle did lend me some of his book (another anthology of Gogol short stories and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina) but the reason I got the book from the bookstore had to do with stories being covered in the course. In the end I ended up using both books when I had to do an essay comparing the works of Gogol with Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. I was able to pass the course only having read Onegin, some of Gogol's stories, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, and a little bit of Crime and Punishment
   

A book on Russian culture
used for vocab building

        For the vocabulary building course there was one textbook (the black one with the bird-like creature on it). The book wasn't used much but what from I've seen of it, it's mostly on Russian culture and the things you would find in Russia and at the same time it would build your vocabulary (there's a page where it names parts of the body as well as a small section on swearing). I still have this book and when I have the time and patience would like to look through it again.

3 Russian textbooks, 2 linguistics text-
books, and a history textbook.

My fourth year was the beginning of the linguistics heavy stuff. The intro to language acquisition was the only course that did not have a textbook as the instructor just e-mailed everyone the notes. I didn't like the history course I took that much, and textbook usage was pretty much "read on your own time and we'll discuss the topic next class". This was also the year that the Russian textbooks changed. The main one was a book that I believe was made in the Soviet Era as the photos seem to be dated and the stories seems to revolve around Russian kids in America. The other books that were for the course were mostly reference/practice materials. The only textbooks that were of use were the phonology and syntax books as I can pick up random words from random languages.

Semantics, Morphology,
Historical Linguistics,
Old Church Slavonic

The second half of my 4th year I somewhat stopped taking Russian language courses because there was none offered that semester. (Technically I challenged that course for credit so there was no set textbook, just whatever materials I had with me). On the other hand I took a course in Old Church Slavonic which happens to be like the grandfather (maybe even great grandfather) to languages Russian, Polish, Belarussian, Ukranian, Slovenian, Czech-Slovak, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Sorbian . . . and I may be missing one or two but you know what I mean. The textbook was chosen on a basis that more than half the class were not linguistics students (since this was listed as a 4th year level linguistics course) and the book was small and cheap (can't remember the cost though). What sucked about the book was the font used was really small and hard to read the Cyrillic and there were some grammatical errors in the examples (in which I remember the instructor pointing things out). I also had that same instructor for historical linguistics which is basically the change of language over time. I'm not sure if I liked that textbook or not, but maybe if I look through it again I might find something that I like. The morphology book is not bad but I hated using it in the course, mainly because we had to look at the morphology of the language featured at the end of each chapter: Kujamaat Joola. I don't seem to have any interest in Niger-Congo languages could be the reason why and if I had change something about the course, is to do a morphology project on a language of choice. The semantics book is quite perplexing. The course description calls for an "introduction to the study of linguistic meaning" but instead the course had to do with logic stuff (the statement is true if x and y =1) as well as some lambda calculus (don't make me go there!). I'd say that the book is somewhat interesting, minus all the math parts.

And there's more to cover. Up next: my summer course and final year