Swahili

African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University

Swahili Courses

Course Number -- Course Title-- Credit Hours

• 1101 -- Elementary Swahili -- 04
• 1102 -- Elementary Swahili -- 04
• 1103 -- Elementary Swahili -- 04

Development of oral proficiency in Swahili through basic listening, speaking and reading skills using a competency-based curriculum.

Not open to native speakers of this language through regular course enrollment or students with 2 or more years of study in this language in high school except by permission of dept. 

Course Number -- Course Title-- Credit Hours

1121 -- Bridge Swahili Course -- 05

The course is designed to meet the foreign language requirement for the students who took Swahili 101 before the university converted to the current semester system.

Course Number -- Course Title-- Credit Hours

• 2201 -- Intermediate Swahili -- 04
• 2241 -- Intermediate Swahili -- 04
• 3301 -- Intermediate Swahili -- 04

Enhances the students’ proficiency in speaking, reading and writing of the Somali language in meaningful communicative contexts. Cultural and historical overview of the Swahili people and their location in East Africa. 

Course Number -- Course Title-- Credit Hours

• 4401 -- Advanced Swahili -- 04
• 4402 -- Advanced Swahili -- 04

Students work with advanced Swahili grammatical patterns, and explore contemporary issues of a Swahili speaking world.

Course Number -- Course Title-- Credit Hours

• 5798.02 -- Study Abroad in Africa and the Diaspora -- 3-9

Swahili 1103-4402 can be taken through the summer study abroad program to Tanzania. Specific content, location, duration of offering, and prerequisites vary, contact department office for details.

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