Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

INST 3904 - Special Topics in African Languages and Literature


To develop communicative skills, oral and written, to enable the learners to engage in meaningful activities with other speakers. There is no language proficiency requirement.

Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:  
  • Be able to systematically integrate culture and language in class activities.
  • Be able to use additional communicative grammatical constructions with a basic knowledge of the African literature.
  • Demonstrate evidence of acquisition of increased skills in the use of African languages in daily interactions such as greetings, interpersonal conversation and understanding of some aspects of the African culture.
  • Enable students to achieve both linguistic and cultural proficiency for developing communicative competence.


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