A continuation of Elementary Swahili I. Emphasis on register variation, advanced grammar, and culture.
Athena Title
Elementary Swahili II
Prerequisite
SWAH 1010
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will explain key cultural issues associated with the Swahili language.
Students will evaluate cultural enhancing materials specifically from texts and films.
Students will construct simple sentences that are grammatically correct and pragmatically acceptable by native speakers.
Students will comprehend medium-length conversations and more complex texts on everyday topics and short conversations on special topics.
Students will write longer essays 200-400 words, letters, and messages.
Students will demonstrate improved speaking skills by using more vocabulary in conversations.
Students will hare information about self, friends, and family; describe people, express preferences, negotiate, report on tasks, and give reasons.
Topical Outline
Introductory information about the history, culture, and geographical location
of the Swahili peoples
Basic sound patterns and their cultural base
Basic conversational structures: greetings, introducing oneself, how to start a
conversation, cultural and social codes in conversations
Basic parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition,
conjunction
Basic sentence structure (focusing on pragmatics, grammatical relations of
sentence units that build up simple and complex sentences and their cultural base
interpretations)
The cultural implications of voice: active and passive, causative, reflexives
(these will be introduced with reference to the different verb forms that affect
the overall meaning of a statement/utterance)
