This paper offers the opportunity to engage with advanced use of the Ukrainian language in stimulating and intellectually challenging ways, through the analysis of texts of various types and genres under a prescribed topic as specified by the Faculty Board. At the moment, the main focus of the paper is "Identity". Students will be expected to engage critically with relevant texts, placing them in their cultural contexts and analysing their formal features and content through written work in Ukrainian.
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The aim of the paper is to provide the students with an opportunity to consolidate and expand their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills acquired in SL9 and during the Year Abroad. The paper will explore various thematic units in the course of the year. 4 sub-topics around the central theme of identity will be discussed each year, including themes such as history, society, art and culture, law, language, philosophy, geography, politics, and religion.听 Some of the questions students will be expected to be able to discuss are: How was the Ukrainian identity formed and changed over the course of time? Which factors are relevant for the formation of a Ukrainian identity?听 How is identity defined by language and religion in the Ukrainian context? How does the law reflect on changes in society?
By the end of the course, the students will be expected to:
- demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the text and audio/video materials;
- define the principal themes and ideas of the text;
- locate the text in its historical, cultural or political context;
- formulate and develop a clear argument of their own in both written and oral forms;
- comment on formal features of the text and point out the most salient linguistic devices used by the author (word choice, syntax, figures of speech and tropes);
- demonstrate grammatical accuracy, fluency and idiomatic use of the Ukrainian language.
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All course materials, including the course schedule, suggested reading, texts, and internet links to texts and audio/video materials for discussion in class and in supervisions, will be available on Moodle website.
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The paper will be taught fortnightly in hour-long faculty classes. Students may also have up to 4 supervisions on their written work for the paper. Students will be asked to submit up to 6 pieces of written work per year. Students read and analyse texts (including films) in advance of attending classes. In classes, we will discuss the texts and related cultural issues as well as the stylistic properties of the texts. During the Lent term there will be the opportunity for students to give an oral presentation on a topic they have become interested in and which they would like to explore further.
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The examination Paper will consist of two texts in Ukrainian, each of between 600 and 750 words, relating to the topics discussed in class. The students will be required听 to analyse critically one of these texts in an extended essay.
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Andrii Smytsniuk |
