FIRST SEMESTER YIDDISH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Frgn Lang - 1st semester language Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Read the Yiddish alphabet and write in Yiddish cursive Audience: Undergraduate 2. Express oneself in Yiddish at the sentence level in written and oral communications Audience: Undergraduate 3. Read short Yiddish texts in the present, past, and future tenses Audience: Undergraduate 4. Mobilize a vocabulary of 200+ Yiddish words, including those terms necessary to describe one’s family, the life of the student, travel plans, daily life, and different geographic centers of Yiddish cultural production Audience: Undergraduate 5. Name and describe major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century Yiddish culture Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Read the Yiddish alphabet and write in Yiddish cursive Audience: Undergraduate 2. Express oneself in Yiddish at the sentence level in written and oral communications Audience: Undergraduate 3. Read short Yiddish texts in the present, past, and future tenses Audience: Undergraduate 4. Mobilize a vocabulary of 200+ Yiddish words, including those terms necessary to describe one’s family, the life of the student, travel plans, daily life, and different geographic centers of Yiddish cultural production Audience: Undergraduate 5. Name and describe major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century Yiddish culture Audience: Undergraduate