Time Schedule:
Berhane Mehary
AFRAM 498
Seattle Campus
Topics in which students and faculty have developed an interest as a result of work done in other classes or as a result of the need to investigate in greater depth Afro-American Studies issues. Topics vary.
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Instructor class Description
Time schedule: 4:30PM - 5:20PM
Winter Quarter 2009 AFRAM 498 A Instructor: Berhane Mehary, Ph.D.
Seattle Campus
Intermediate Tigrinya The intermediate Tigrinya course will concentrate on the language’s elemental conversation and written skills
Class Description
Second Quarter Tigrinya Language program AFRAM 498 A, Fall 5 credits, AFRAM 498 A, Winter 5 credits, AFRAM 498 A, and Spring 5 credits Class Schedule is the same as the previous Quarter: 4: 30 p.m. to 5: 30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
Course Description
This is an intermediate level course in Tigrinya language. It is designed to build on the first quarter beginners’ level that emphasized on the Geez alphabets “fidel”. Incremental words / vocabularies (nouns, pronouns, verbs etc.) and some common phrases are applied as building blocks. This helps stimulate and accelerate appropriate conversational as well as writing and reading skills. In addition, this level provides essential practice materials in an accessible form for developing the learners’ ability to communicate effectively in Tigrinya. Materials for reading and writing will be assigned from Tigrinya News papers, radio, Internet web sites, like the Voice of America (VOA) including the Instructor’s hand outs. AFRAM 498 A is divided into three Quarters (see also above). Materials to be covered are provided by the instructor at the beginning of each quarter.
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- General method of instruction,
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- Class assignments and grading,
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* All the above requirements are provided explicitly in the Tigrinya Syllabus, Fall 2009. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________
Berhane Mehary, Ph.D. (Urban Design / Planning), Tigrinya Language Instructor Cell: 206 832 9624
Advanced Tigrinya Language Course
The Advanced Tigrinya course will concentrate on the language’s advanced conversational, reading and written skills: composition, dictation, critical thinking responses and the like. In addition; grammatical sentence structure, word order, advanced readings from: News papers / Tigrinya oriented web sites – VOA and so on
Third Quarter Advanced Tigrinya Language program AFRAM 498 A, Fall 5 credits, AFRAM 498 A, Winter 5 credits, AFRAM 498 A, and Spring 5 credits. Prerequisite – Beginners’ and Intermediate level classes or permission of the instructor
Course Description
This is an advanced level course of Tigrinya language. It is designed to build on the intermediate level that emphasized on incremental words / vocabularies (nouns, pronouns, verbs etc.), short passage readings, simple dictation and, theme writing skills. In addition, the advanced level course provides clear explanations and all the tools students will need to learn and practice the course. The text book is a valuable upper – level that introduces authentic Tigrinya literary passages and provides a variety of opportunities to review vocabularies in context and analyze sentence structure in terms of word order. In its last chapter (chapter 3) the text created in “Dialogues” at different periods of the day in the form of greetings between two to three people to engage in conversation at different places: common places or in a Bar / Café. Topics include: personal identification, family, house / home, geographical surroundings, weather, travel / transport, holidays, accommodation, food /drink, shopping / services, health, free time and education. Additional materials for reading and writing will be assigned from Tigrinya News papers, radio, Internet web sites, like the Voice of America (VOA) including the Instructor’s hand outs. AFRAM 498 A is divided into three Quarters (see also above). Materials to be covered are provided by the instructor at the beginning of each quarter.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
