Czech III

Catalog description

This course is the first in a series of second-year courses, continuation of Czech II. The course will strengthen students' competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding contemporary Czech and will expand students' active and passive vocabulary on a variety of topics. We will continue the exploration of Czech culture through exciting authentic materials, including songs, videos, short stories, and cultural artifacts. Class work emphasizes development of communicative competence in real-life situations, spontaneous interactions, pair and group work and is conducted almost entirely in Czech. By the end of the course, you will be able to engage in increasingly complex conversations in Czech on many topics in informal and formal contexts concerning your daily life, significant personal and cultural events and situations, important cultural figures. You will be able to write longer messages in a variety of informal and formal contexts.