Polish Level 3

Aims
This course is intended to provide students with:

1. a thorough and accurate knowledge of the Polish language;
2. advanced translation skills;
3. writing skills in Polish;
4. oral communication in Polish;
5. a sound knowledge of several short works of Polish literature across the three genres (poetry, short fiction, drama).

Learning Objectives
By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. translate relatively complex texts from Polish with or without the help of reference books;
2. write essays in Polish on a variety of selected themes;
3. conduct fluent conversations in Polish on a wide range of topics;
4. demonstrate a sound knowledge of selected literary texts in the Polish original;
5. write analytical essays in English on the prescribed texts with reference to critical works in both English and Polish.

The proportion of class time devoted per week to each element of this module is: language - three hours and literature - one hour.

Language element of the module (four hours per week)

a) Translation from Polish: one hour per week. Passages will be chosen for translation from a variety of sources, such as modern literature, magazines and newspapers, technical texts, legal & political material and children’s books; materials from Polish radio and television may also be used. Every other week students are required to hand in a translation for marking, and it will subsequently be returned and discussed in class.

b) Language tutorial: one hour per week. This class will be devoted to practising essay writing. It will also be used for discussing some of the typical language difficulties with which English-speaking learners of Polish are faced. Students are expected to write two language essays in Semester 1 and four in Semester 2. These will be returned and discussed in class.

Writing Project in Polish: students are required to submit a writing project by a set date on a subject of their choice. Detailed student guidelines relating to the writing and assessment of this project will be distributed in class. Students will also be required to submit several drafts of the writing project prior to submitting the final version. The drafts will be assessed for formative purposes and returned to the student. The writing project must be submitted to the Course Convener's Office by mid-May 2007.

c) Oral class: one hour per week. This is a conversation class with the Polish Lektor, in part free conversation and in part based on a discussion of selected excerpts from literary texts, the Polish press and professional magazines on various subjects.

• Władysław Miodunka, Let’s Learn Polish, part 2, Warszawa, 1996;
• Ewa Bajor, Eliza Madej, Wśród ludzi i ich spraw, Warszawa-Łódź, 1999;
• Stanisław Mędak, Język polski a la carte, Kraków, 1995;
• Oscar Swan and Wiesław Oleksy, W labiryncie (a video-based advanced Polish language course), Columbus, 1993;
• Ewa Lipińska, Elżbieta Grażyna Dąmbska, Kiedyś wrócisz tu..., Kraków, 1997;
• Małgorzata Kita, Wybieram gramatykę!, vol.1-2, Katowice, 1998;
• Dana Bielec, Polish. An Essential Grammar, London and New York, 2000;
• --- Basic Polish. A Grammar and Workbook. London, 2001;
• Zofia Kaleta, Gramatyka języka polskiego dla cudzoziemców, Kraków, 1995;
• Halina i Tadeusz Zgółkowie, Językowy savoir-vivre, Poznań, 1993;
• Teresa Iglikowska, Ćwiczenia gramatyczno-leksykalne, Warszawa, 1995
• selected volumes of the PWN series of Słowniki Języka Polskiego;
• Andrzej Markowski, ed, Praktyczny słownik poprawnej polszczyzny nie tylko dla młodzieży, Warszawa, 1995;
• Janusz Anusiewicz and Jacek Skawiński, Słownik polszczyzny potocznej, Warszawa, 1996;
• Mirosław Bańko and Maria Krajewska, Słownik wyrazów kłopotliwych, Warszawa, 1995;
• Jerzy Podracki, Słownik interpunkcyjny języka polskiego. Warzsawa, 1993;
• Józef Wiertnicki, Zasady pisowni łącznej i rozdzielnej. Warszawa, 1995;
• Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz and Philip G Smith (eds), Oxford-PWN Polish-English English-Polish Dictionary, OUP and PWN, 2005.

• Adam Mickiewicz: Selected poems;
• Bolesław Prus: selected short stories (Powracająca fala, Omyłka, Kamizelka, Katarynka) (short fiction);
• Gabriela Zapolska: Moralność pani Dulskiej (drama). OR
• Stanisław Wyspiański, Wesele (drama).

• Czesław Miłosz, The History of Polish Literature, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1983;
• Julian Krzyżanowski, A History of Polish Literature, trans Doris Ronowicz, Warszawa, 1978;
• Adam Gillon, Ludwik Krzyżanowski, Krystyna Olszer, eds, Introduction to Modern Polish Literature, New York, 1982;
• Stanisław Eile and Ursula Philips, eds, New Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature, London, 1992;
• Stanisław Eile, Modernist Trends in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction, London, 1996;
• Jerzy Kwiatkowski, Literatura dwudziestolecia, Warszawa, 1990;
• Zbigniew Jarosiński, Literatura lat 1945-1975. Warszawa, 1996;
• Słownik literatury polskiej XX wieku. (Vademecum Polonisty) ed Alina Brodzka, Wrocław,1992.

Many of the prescribed texts are available on loan from the Slavonic Studies Office. All can be obtained from the University Library.

Formative Assessment
Students will be set written work in the form of language exercises on a regular basis. Some of these exercises may take place in class time and take the form of class tests. Details of these tests will be provided in class.

Assessment and End-of-Course Examination
A mixed-mode scheme of assessment operates for this course.

Language:
Writing Project in Polish (22.2%)
2-hour End-of-Course Examination: Translation into English (22.2%)
Oral examination (22.2%)

If the language component is taken on its own (30 credits) each of the assessment elements shall be weighted at 33.3% of the overall mark.

Literature:
Students will be required to submit three Literature Projects during the course of the session. The first of these should be on a twentieth-century author and will involve a close reading of the text in Polish. The second of these should be on a nineteenth-century author and should also involve a close reading of the original text. Each of these two Projects should be around 2,000 words and each will be worth 10% of the marks. The third Project should be comparative and must include at least two authors not chosen for the earlier Projects. This final Project must also show clear evidence of a close study in Polish of the works being analysed. It should be around 3,000 words and will be worth 13.33% of the marks. Topics for these Projects will be agreed with the tutor concerned. Non-submission of course work and non-attendance may result in credit refusal.