The Yale program offers regular courses in three major African languages: Swahili, Yoruba, and Zulu. These are taught at Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced levels using multimedia materials. The courses are open to undergraduates and graduate students, and the small class size helps foster communicative competence.
- Elementary courses train students to converse in social settings, and to read and write short texts and dialogues.
- Intermediate courses emphasize reading and conversational fluency, by means of contemporary materials drawn from print media and literature.
- Advanced courses focus on extended discourse, and on longer texts from literature, politics and the media.
Tutorials
Tutorials are offered for a variety of African languages, depending on student demand and the availability of instructors. Popular recent offerings include:
- Afrikaans · South Africa & Namibia
- Amharic · Ethiopia
- Arabic · North, West & Coastal East Africa
- Chichewa · Malawi & Zambia
- SeSotho · Lesotho & South Africa
- Setswana · Botswana & South Africa
- Shona · Zimbabwe
- SiSwati · Swaziland & South Africa
- Wolof · Senegal & Gambia
- Xhosa · South Africa
Directed Instruction
A new program at Yale supports students who want to study an African language through self-instruction. The DILS program assists students in obtaining materials and locating a conversation partner, and supervises the learning and examining. Recently, Igbo and Oromo were offered through the program, and this year Tigrinya and Ge'ez will also be available. For more information see the DILS web site.
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