Intermediate Polish I

Catalog description

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