Language and Literature Courses

Language and Literature Courses

AALL 121

Guidelines for Self-Placement in Language Courses

ACES

SWA001 Elementary Swahili (first half, offered during Fall semester only)
Alphonse Mutima

This course is for students with no or minimal proficiency. The course focuses on:

1. developing oral and aural proficiency for survival communication;
2. fundamental grammar for simple sentence building.

SWA 002 Elementary Swahili (second half, offered during the Spring semester only)
Alphonse Mutima

This course is for students who have successfully completed Swahili 001 or students with some prior knowledge of Swahili who can produce simple sentences. The course focuses on:

1. attaining oral and aural proficiency to function in daily communication situations;
2. developing reading and writing skills for functional literacy;
3. learning foundational grammar for complex sentence building.

SWA 063 Intermediate Swahili (first half, offered during the Fall semester only)
Alphonse Mutima

This course is for students who have successfully completed Elementary Swahili (001 and 002) or students who can converse on topics of daily concerns and can read in Swahili. This course focuses on developing and enriching literacy experience in Swahili. The course aims at enhancing skills for:

1. reading narrative and expository texts;
2. writing descriptive texts;
3. conversing appropriately on topics related to different situations;
4. acquiring analytical abilities to understand the structure of the Swahili language.

SWA 064 Intermediate Swahili (second half, offered during the Spring semester only)
Alphonse Mutima

This course is for students who have successfully completed SWA063 or students who can converse well on a variety of personal topics and have some reading and writing experience in Swahili. This course aims at improving skills for:

1. reading expository texts and extended narratives;
2. writing descriptive informative texts;
3. verbal communication on a variety of topics;
4. expanding analytical abilities to understand the structure of the Swahili language