Introduction to complex linguistic and cultural structures, role of culture in language learning, reading and writing of literary texts, social history of the language.
Athena Title
Intermediate Swahili I
Prerequisite
SWAH 1020 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will create extensive spoken and written dialogues.
Students will comprehend readings on the lifestyles, culture, customs, and traditions of the Swahili-speaking people.
Students will demonstrate the ability to use their vocabulary-bank and computer assisted exercises to critique and advance their written and reading comprehension of literary texts, video, films, and slide shows.
Students will show mastery of the language at an intermediate level with a proficiency testing level of Intermediate Mid/High, such as sustaining fifteen minutes of conversation with a native Swahili speaker.
Students will evaluate key cultural issues associated with the language that were introduced in level one and reinforced at this level.
Students will construct complicated sentences that are grammatically correct and pragmatically acceptable by native speakers, write a 1,000-word essay that may include a critical analysis of literary texts, reports/summaries.
Topical Outline
Additional information on the history, culture, geography, environment,
and globalization issues
Intermediate conversational structures: cultural and social codes in
conversation, understanding the role of metaphors, idioms, and proverbs in everyday
language use.
More on parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, prepositions,
conjunctions as used in simple literary texts
Sentence structure (focusing on complex grammatical relations of the units that
build up simple and complex sentences)
Advanced use of voice: active and passive, causatives, reflexives
