Czech Language 3 CZECH3002

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Modern Languages and Cultures
  • Credits: 30
  • Level: Level 3 (SCQF level 9)
  • Typically Offered: Runs Throughout Semesters 1 and 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

Czech 3 Language will build on the work of the Level 2 (Intermediate) Czech language class. It will provide students with advanced Czech writing, translation, and oral skills (Level B2/C1 of the CEFRL).

Timetable

The course comprises 3x1 hour classes weekly over both semesters as scheduled on MyCampus. The classes will comprise a weekly grammar workshop; composition/oral in the target language; translation into English.

Teaching will take place in weeks 1-5 and 7-11.
Week 6 will be dedicated to guided independent study.

 

Requirements of Entry

Grade D or above in Czech Language 2

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Written Exam (2 hours) 50%

Oral Exam (15mins) 25%

Assessed language exercises
(throughout semester 1 & 2)25%

Main Assessment In: April/May

Course Aims

This course aims to:

- Further expand students' existing skills of the target language already acquired at language 2.
- Ensure students can understand read, write and speak the language at post-intermediate level, which is broadly equivalent to B2/C1 within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- Ensure students can use the target language with ease in everyday situations and professional environments.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of the course students will be able to:

- Read, comprehend, analyse, and translate intermediate-level and some advanced-level texts of a variety of styles in the target language.
- Speak with confidence and present ideas effectively in the target language on a range of topics reflecting work done on the course, using appropriate register, intonation, and a wide range of structures and idioms.

■ Respond accurately and with confidence to questions posed both orally and in writing, using advanced grammatical structures of the target language accurately and appropriately.

■ Produce texts written in the target language that show an active commend of vocabulary, grammar and idiom at an advanced level reflecting the work contained in the course materials.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.