Modern Greek Language B2+: Aspects of the Greek Society (2020/21) (Nikolaos Giallelis, MA)

ECTS:

2

Syllabus
Week 1: Διατηρητέα Νεοκλασική Αρχιτεκτονική
Week 2: Δημοτικά τραγούδια στη σύγχρονη εποχή
Week 3: Ελευθερία του τύπου και περιορισμοί
Week 4: Γυναικεία χειραφέτηση
Week 5: Οι παραδοσιακοί ρόλοι του άνδρα και της γυναίκας

Module aim
• The objective of the course is the practical study of Modern Greek as a foreign language. Students develop their language skills (writing, reading and speaking) at an advanced level B2+/C1. They learn basic vocabulary and become acquainted with the grammar of Modern Greek as well as with the cultural and pragmatic context.
• At the end of the course and after its successful completion students should be in a position to understand and to express themselves in oral and written language with accuracy and to use the language in a wide variety of communicative situations.
• They should also be in a position to draw specific information and views presented in the context of conversations between several native speakers on a wide variety of topics; to express personal views and to participate efficiently in a longer conversation.
• Besides understanding specific information, students should furthermore recognise the style and the aiming of text passages taken either from newspapers, magazines, regulations and official letters and reports, or from the literature, which reflect the basic characteristics of the culture, the interpersonal relations and the social issues in Modern/Contemporary Greece.

Information
Year: 2020/2021
Semester: Summer
Hours: 20
Language: Modern Greek,English
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Module code: 09-MGLAGS-11

Prerequisites
Module title: Modern Greek Language B2+: Aspects of the Greek Society in the 2nd half of the 20th Century (traditional and modern forms of social life/press freedom and the military dictatorship 1967-74/woman’s emancipation and equality)
Language: Modern Greek – Communication in English, German, Polish possible
Summer Semester 2021 (15/03/21-18/04/21)

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
• Upper intermediate level (B1/B2) of knowledge of the Modern Greek Language.
• Equivalent competence in oral and written communication.
• Any further knowledge in Ancient, Medieval or Modern Greek Language/History/Culture could be beneficial.

Lecturer
Nikolaos Giallelis, MA
Academic title: lecturer
Email: nikgiall@o365.amu.edu.pl

Reading list
Πλουτίζω τα ελληνικά μου, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 1982
Β. Ζούκα - Ν. Γουντικιάν – Μ. Κουφάκη, Νέα Ελληνικά για ξένους, Athens 2007
D. Holton - P. Mackridge - I. Philippaki-Warburton, Greek, A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Greek Language, London and New York, 2008