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- Advanced Uyghur I
- CEUS-T 331/731
- Gulnisa Nazarova
The Fall Advanced Uyghur course will keep working on improvement of listening, speaking, writing skills. Students will continue developing Uyghur through the listening and reading materials, improve fluency by giving oral presentations, participating in class discussions, practice translation from Uyghur into English and from English into Uyghur using different materials such parts of novel, movies, newspapers, different texts. They also will develop knowledge of Uyghur culture and history by using authentic materials. This course involves many texts for home reading. Besides the thematic topics the course program also includes news from various Uyghur Media. Some homework’s will be sending by email.
Three hours of class per week means independent work out of class, and a strong incentive for the students to contribute both to the overall structure of the class as well as the individual meetings.
Textbooks and dictionaries:
Course Packet may be found on OnCourse
1. Hamit Tomur “Modern Uyghur Grammar”, Istanbul, 2003
2. Online dictionaries
Suggested texts and materials
Online materials, Central Asia news and Cultural Notes (Fund of CeLCAR)
Assignments and grading policy
The assignments include reading for general comprehension, careful reading for translation. Listening for general comprehension, listening for details; Writing of short compositions; Grammar reviews; Different exercises and activities; New vocabulary.
Attendance and active participation are necessary in this class, and so is independent work. There are no regular quizzes. Every two week students will give oral or written presentations, and two times they will have Testing of Reading skill. The Midterm and Final exams will be according the schedule. They will consist from oral and written parts.
Quizzes and tests 20%
Midterm 20%
Final exam 20%
Final Oral Interview 10%
Homework 20%
Participation in class 10%
Absences
Language learning requires greater participation in the classroom than most other subjects in the university curriculum. Students are expected to attend ALL classes. Students are allowed to miss three instructional hours during the course of one semester without grade penalty. Absences beyond three instructional hours will result in grade penalty of 2% per day. Additional absences can be considered by the department only with proper documentation of attested medical needs for which a doctor's note will be required, and with the possibility of a tutoring requirement to preclude class disruption for other students.
Departmental Policies
- Auditing: The Department of Central Eurasian Studies does not allow auditing of language courses. Any inquiries must be addressed to CEUS Chair directly.
- Enrollment: Students enrolled in CEUS language courses obtain a grade at the end of each semester. The Department does not offer pass/fail options.
- Incompletes are not given in CEUS language courses. Any inquiries must be addressed to CEUS Chair directly.
- If you are a native speaker of a language or you are a citizen of a country where the language is commonly spoken, or you graduated from a high school in that country, Indiana University and departmental policy may (or may not) prohibit you from enrollment in this language class. Please direct all related questions to the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Goodbody Hall 157, 855-2233, or ceus@indiana.edu
