Course Description
Intensive oral and written training in Zulu, with emphasis on fluent conversation skills and comprehension of literature written in Zulu. The structure of the language will be taught directly and indirectly through written texts and oral assignments, tests, midterm and final exams, and computer-assisted exercises, tests.
Athena Title
INTERMEDIATE ZULU I
Prerequisite
ZULU 1002
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
As a continuation of ZULU 1002, this course aims to develop an intermediate-level knowledge of Zulu, with an emphasis on fluent conversational skills and a basic understanding of literature written in Zulu. The objectives include: 1. To strengthen language skills already acquired. 2. To develop superior communication skills in Zulu through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 3. To understand more complex cultural aspects of the language. 4. To be able to do a critical analysis of simple literary texts in the language. At the end of the course, students are expected to perfect their spoken Zulu, to construct dialogs, manage readings on the style, culture, customs, and traditions of the Zulu-speaking people, computer-assisted exercises, and to develop a mastery of the language that would enable them to critically evaluate key cultural concepts associated with the language that were introduced in level one and reinforced at this level.
Topical Outline
Students will enhance communications skills in Zulu through oral exercises, reading and writing assignments, language laboratory exercises, tests and examinations. Among the topics addressed will be: Social communication skills in Zulu; Zulu grammar and agreement systems; Zulu concepts of time marking; Nouns and related agreement systems; Adjectival and adverbial agreement systems; Storytelling techniques.
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture