Slava Paperno - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Professor: Slava Paperno

Department: Literature

College: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA1131
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Slava is approachable, accommodating, patient, friendly, fun, occasionally quite funny, and, most importantly, a great communicator, which makes for an excellent language teacher.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA1121
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Slava is definitely an amazing professor. He is very enthusiastic about teaching Russian. Some things to be aware of is that the expectations are pretty high and the workload is on the heavier side, but not without its due reward. The grading system is very fair and you'll be speaking Russian.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA2203
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Excellent teacher, and I found him to be a very helpful instructor in terms of teaching us grammar and giving us the chance to apply what we've learned and engage in conversation. Always found his sections to be insightful and useful.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA1121
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

best professor at cornell

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA3305
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

GREAT PROFESSOR. Really passionate about the language and really knows what he's talking about. His anecdotes and backstories are fun to listen to, but he still drills in the grammar rules pretty well. He's so so chill and a fun prof. Don't get me wrong, if you don't have any formal background in Russian, be prepared to work.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA1121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Slava is very helpful and a great teacher! He's rather intimidating at first, but as the class moves on you realize that he really cares about helping students learn Russian. One of the first vocabulary words is "caviar".

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA3309
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Outstanding professor. His ad-libs are better than most professors' prepared remarks. Can help ANYONE learn Russian.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: RUS310
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Interesting and useful. Great text selection

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA303
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

You'll learn a lot from Slava. Perhaps a bit of an eccentric personality and once in awhile can seem critical/unfriendly in a blunt way, but no different from rest of dept. in that regard. He really knows how to explain Russian, his English is the best of all teachers in the department, so he understands the kinds of mistakes we make and can help.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA125
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not much regular work involved. Just gotta survive a few hrs long final for the class. Slava is definitely a good teacher!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: 305
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Good Guy, Fun Class!!!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA121122
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He's the best language teacher I've ever had. He actually KNOWS how to teach Russian.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA309
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Unlike the rest of the passively hostile Russian department, this man is actively belligerent and unpleasant.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA310
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

slava is cool, the russian 310 reading class is very interesting

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA310
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Based on this course and RUSSA 634, I can tell you that any course you take with him will not be your hardest, but will probably be the most intersting. Excellent choice of texts, very organised, excellent discussions and a great guy to boot.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: RUSSA309
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great class for people who feel up to the task of reading some 150 pages a week in Russian. He picks out excellent literature, and the discussions are very worthwhile.