Undergraduate Course: Foundation Swedish Language 1 (ELCS07007)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A course for beginners with no previous knowledge of Swedish, designed to give absolute beginners a basic, working knowledge of spoken and written Swedish.
1. Auditing (Class Only) is not allowed. All students must take all elements of assessment, including the examination.
2. Students will be allocated into a group. Each group has two classes, which run twice a week. You must be able to attend both.
3. Students with previous knowledge of the language are not permitted and may be asked to withdraw from the course.
This course runs in semester 1 only.
On successful completion of the course students will be eligible to take Foundation Swedish Language 2 (ELCS07006) (20 credits), which follows on from Foundation Swedish Language 1 and runs in semester 2. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | No previous knowledge of Swedish required. |
| Additional Costs | A course book
A bilingual dictionary |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Knowledge and understanding: Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of concrete needs; can understand simple personal questions when people speak slowly and clearly.
- Practice: Applied knowledge and understanding: achieve Swedish language competence comparable to the CEFR Level A1/1+; Can introduce him/ herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where s/he lives, people s/he knows and things s/he has. Reading comprehension of short simple texts regarding personal information; Can write about him/ herself, using short, simple phrases.
- Generic cognitive skills: Produce and read texts on basic everyday themes; engage in listening, spoken and written language activities at A1/1+ level.
- Communication and ICT: Develop critical skills to ensure the use of reliable language resources both printed and/or digital (e.g. bilingual dictionaries, grammar books, translation tools).
- Autonomy, accountability and working with others: Take responsibility for independent vocabulary acquisition and grammatical study; for monitoring one's engagement in Swedish language activities outside of the classroom (eg. online resources, extra learning materials available from LEARN, main library, DVD library).
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/open-languages |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
This course is open to all students as a credit bearing course, or over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course.
Auditing this course is not allowed. You must be enrolled as CE
(Class and Assessment including centrally arranged exam).
DELC students may only take this course if it over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course.
Visiting students may only take the course for credits. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Students must attend both classes.
Classes for this course will appear on students' personalised timetable. |
| Keywords | OLFSWED1SEM1 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Sanna Sjogren
Tel: (0131 6)50 4023
Email: s.sjogren@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Gillian Paterson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3646
Email: Gillian.Paterson@ed.ac.uk |
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