ADVANCED GAELIC WRITING SKILLS FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS A

ADVANCED GAELIC WRITING SKILLS FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS A
Course Code
GH 3003
Credit Points
15
Course Coordinator
Dr M Watson

Pre-requisites

GH 2503 or GH2508.

Co-requisites

Gaelic Translation: Theory and Practice A - for Gaelic Studies Single Honours.

Notes

Only available for students with Native Speaker Higher or equivalent.

Overview

This course builds on Gaelic language classes at level one and two and complements other language options available at levels 3 and 4. The course runs all year. Students will attend 1 one-hour seminar per fortnight. This seminar will provide vocabulary for specific linguistic domains, set writing tasks and discuss students' performance in their writing tasks. Students will be required to undertake a directed programme of writing tasks and submit exercises on a fortnightly basis.

Structure

1 one-hour seminar per fortnight.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): four 1,000 word exercises.

Resit: 1 three-hour examination.