Undergraduate Course: Foundation Danish Language 2 (ELCS07008)
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 students with a National 5/GCSE/Standard Grade/Foundation 1 in Danish who wish to improve.
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 2 only.
|
| Course description |
Not entered
|
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
Foundation Danish Language 1 (ELCS07009)
|
Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | If not taken Foundation Danish: Danish at Standard Grade (SCE)/GCSE or equivalent evidence of proficiency.
|
| Additional Costs | A course Handbook
A bilingual dictionary |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Entry is subject to a language test by the relevant subject area on arrival and at the discretion of the course organiser. |
| 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 sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of personal relevance, such as personal information, local geography, employment/ study. Can communicate in routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of her/ his background and immediate environment.
- Practice: applied knowledge and understanding: Achieve Danish language competence comparable to the CEFR Level A2/1. Can have short conversations and ask and answer simple questions about familiar topics. Can ask and answer simple questions about things in the past. (e.g., yesterday, last week, last year). Can understand short, simple texts on familiar subjects, which consist of high-frequency, everyday or job-related language. Can write about things and people s/he knows swell using simple language, for example descriptions of friends, what happened during the day.
- Generic cognitive skills: Produce and read texts on basic everyday themes engage in listening, spoken and written language activities at A2/1 level.
- Communication and ICT: Give a short power-point presentation on a trip to Denmark. 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 Danish language activities outside of the classroom (eg. online resources, extra learning materials available from LEARN, main library, DVD library).
|
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 pairs of classes. See Web Timetable.
Classes for this course will appear on students' personalised timetable.
|
| Keywords | OLFDANI2SEM2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Julie Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 1363
Email: Julie.Larsen@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Hope Hamilton
Tel: (0131 6)50 4167
Email: hope.hamilton@ed.ac.uk |
|
|
University Homepage