The University of Sussex offers courses in the following languages: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swahili. Classes for these courses run once a week for 20 weeks. Classes for more intensive courses in French and Spanish are held twice a week. Students receive a University of Sussex Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.
The courses, are open to everyone i.e. staff, students and general public. Courses are taught by fully qualified tutors, mostly native speakers, including some who teach undergraduate programmes. All courses give the opportunity to progress language skills and learn about the country and customs concerned. Limited Grammar is included but no class is based entirely on grammar. The main aim is to help to learn how to communicate in the chosen language, making the learning experience as beneficial and enjoyable as possible.
Weekly courses are offered at lunchtimes from 12.15 pm to 1.45pm. or in the evening from 6.30 pm to 8.00pm. and each course meeting lasts for an hour and a half. Classes take place at the University campus and usually run for two terms autumn and spring (twenty weeks).
Fees: £ 200 for two terms.
The course may continue into the summer term for a further six weeks if there is sufficient interest. In this case, an additional fee is charged.
I am curious about Portuguese. Total learning is 30 hours ( 20 weeks and one and half hour each week ). We have a minimum of 80 hours of learning for each of three levels.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the objective of the course? It would be interesting to look at the course content, book used and methodology of teaching. I wonder what kind of exam they have at the end.
The course aims to give sufficient language skills to deal with simple everyday situations like family, directions, time, numbers, travel & transport, food & drink, buying & selling, accommodation, business and so on..
ReplyDeleteGrammer and functions included are genders, articles, verbs...
I will find out about the book used for the course. But the course book forms a frame work for learning and allows student to work independently.
The minimum and maximum number of students required to run the course is 8 and 16 respectively.