SECOND SEMESTER YIDDISH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: GNS/JEWISH 105 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Frgn Lang - 2nd semester language Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Deploy Yiddish at the multi-sentence level in written and oral communications Audience: Undergraduate 2. Express opinions about authentic Yiddish texts, including contemporary newspaper articles and poetry selections from the twentieth century Audience: Undergraduate 3. Mobilize a vocabulary of 400+ Yiddish words, including those terms necessary to describe time, weather, calendrical units, literature (children’s books, poetry, and the history of Yiddish publishing) Audience: Undergraduate 4. Be creative with language in past, present, future, imperative, and conditional tenses Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate familiarity with various forms of Yiddish cultural expression, such as Yiddish folksong, Yiddish poetry, Yiddish film, and the politics of Yiddishism Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Deploy Yiddish at the multi-sentence level in written and oral communications Audience: Undergraduate 2. Express opinions about authentic Yiddish texts, including contemporary newspaper articles and poetry selections from the twentieth century Audience: Undergraduate 3. Mobilize a vocabulary of 400+ Yiddish words, including those terms necessary to describe time, weather, calendrical units, literature (children’s books, poetry, and the history of Yiddish publishing) Audience: Undergraduate 4. Be creative with language in past, present, future, imperative, and conditional tenses Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate familiarity with various forms of Yiddish cultural expression, such as Yiddish folksong, Yiddish poetry, Yiddish film, and the politics of Yiddishism Audience: Undergraduate