Polish for Reading Knowledge

Catalog description

This course is designed for advanced undergraduates (or graduate students), who wish to develop reading competence in Polish with the aid of a good dictionary. Using texts from various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, as well as journalistic and technical writings, students will learn the fundamentals of grammar and syntax, and how to decipher the meaning of a text, proceeding from very basic to more and more complex readings. Students will acquire a basic reading vocabulary and understanding of Polish grammar through analytical discussion, grammar exercises, and extensive reading of selected texts in the field of individual students.