Course Description
The continuation of Elementary Hausa I. Increased focus on grammar, culture, reading, and conversation.
Athena Title
Elementary Hausa II
Prerequisite
HAUS 1010
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course continues the development of the foundation in spoken and written Hausa initiated in Elementary Hausa I. There will be more focus on the grammar and culture, as well as more reading and conversational activities than in Elementary Hausa I. At the end of the course, students will be able to speak, write, and comprehend Hausa at a more intense level than in Elementary Hausa I. The students will be able to initiate and maintain conversations beyond simple questions and answers as well as write clear thoughts in the Hausa language. The major goals are: 1. To enable students to develop communicative skills in Hausa through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 2. To provide insights into the key aspects of the language, culture, traditions, and customs of the speakers of Hausa and also use acquired knowledge to critically evaluate material provided in films and texts with a rich cultural content. At the end of the level, students are expected to have a basic understanding of key cultural issues associated with the language and to critically evaluate cultural enhancing material specifically from texts and films. Students will be expected to be able to construct simple sentences that are grammatically correct and pragmatically acceptable by native speakers, write a 300-word essay using simple Hausa, sustain ten minutes of conversation that includes self introduction, introducing others, describing objects, reporting incidents or events, including dates and times.
Topical Outline
1. Introductory information about the history, culture, and geographical location of the Hausa peoples of the Sahelian region of Africa. 2. Basic sound patterns and their cultural base. 3. Basic conversational structures: greetings, introducing oneself, how to maintain a conversation, cultural, and social codes in conversations. 4. Basic sentence structure (focusing on pragmatics, grammatical relations of sentence units that build up simple and complex sentences and their cultural base interpretations). 5. Basic parts of speech and Hausa grammar: - Adjectives and adjectival verbs - Descriptions - Prepositions - More on pronouns - Commands and imperatives - Simple/r questions - More on tenses and verbal elements - Numbers (1-1000) - More on question markers - Food, meals and cooking - Having a guest at home versus eating out - Travel - Nigbati cluster - Lehinti cluster - Prefixes, infixes, and suffixes - Contraction & deletion