An intensive course designed to enhance practical language skills through a direct experience of current life in Ukraine. UKR 498 employs contemporary popular culture and media, taking maximum advantage of the urban Lviv environment to expand vocabulary and comprehension.
All instruction is in Ukrainian.
Students seeking graduate credit in the course may register in UKR 698. For students with little or no background in Ukrainian, the course emphasizes oral communication while developing basic listening, reading and writing skills. Cultural practices are taught as an integral part of the language. This intermediate language course addresses grammar, conversation, vocabulary building, reading and writing. Newspapers, magazines, TV and the Internet expose students to contemporary culture and serve as the basis of exercises, including student presentations.