2022 Fall

YIDDISH 101A 001 - LEC 001

Elementary Yiddish

"Elementary Yiddish"

Alec E Burko

Aug 24, 2022 - Dec 09, 2022

Mo, We, Fr

01:00 pm - 01:59 pm

Social Sciences Building 180

Class #:33876

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through German

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 5

Enrolled: 3

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 8

Waitlist Max: 0

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.

In this beginners' course students will learn to speak, read, and write Yiddish, the original lannguage of East European Jews. Using the communicative method and the new textbook In Eynem, students will focus in class on speaking by playing out short dialogues. Grammar will be taught inductively, through examples. The course will introduce Yiddish culture through a variety of songs, stories, film clips, and illustrations.

Class Description

In this beginners' course students will learn to speak, read, and write Yiddish, the original language of East European Jews. Using the communicative method and the new textbook In Eynem, students will focus in class on speaking by playing out short dialogues. Grammar will be taught inductively, through examples. The course will introduce Yiddish culture through a variety of songs, stories, film clips, and illustrations.