FIRST-YEAR INTENSIVE YIDDISH LANGUAGE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None. Not open to students with credit for JEWISH/GNS 106 . Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Frgn Lang - 2nd semester language Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Honors - Accelerated Honors (!) Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate in Yiddish at the multi-sentence level in writing and orally in the past, present, future, imperative, and conditional tenses. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand a vocabulary of 400+ Yiddish words and decipher and interpret Yiddish texts about a range of topics related to daily life (both historically and in the present). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Implement learning strategies when engaging with Yiddish-language sources to discern and create meaning and to recognize grammar patterns and semantic nuances. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate familiarity with various forms of Yiddish cultural expression. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Negotiate meaning across language and culture and draw comparisons between Yiddish-speaking cultures and those of their own. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate in Yiddish at the multi-sentence level in writing and orally in the past, present, future, imperative, and conditional tenses. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand a vocabulary of 400+ Yiddish words and decipher and interpret Yiddish texts about a range of topics related to daily life (both historically and in the present). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Implement learning strategies when engaging with Yiddish-language sources to discern and create meaning and to recognize grammar patterns and semantic nuances. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate familiarity with various forms of Yiddish cultural expression. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Negotiate meaning across language and culture and draw comparisons between Yiddish-speaking cultures and those of their own. Audience: Undergraduate