Sydney University students – your chance to study an Indigenous Australian language this semester!
KOCR2605 – Speaking Gamilaraay 1 – University of Sydney
Gamilaraay is an Indigenous Australian language from the mid-northwest of NSW that is currently undergoing revitalisation. This unit of study will provide students with a basic competence in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Gamilaraay sufficient to recognise and construct simple utterances in the language, and to understand its relationships with other languages. Classes will take the form of three-hour intensive oral workshops that progressively develop each students abilities in the language. Assessment will be by short written assignments based on lesson content and an appraisal of individual oral/aural performance together with a short essay on Gamilaraay culture or a related topic.
Unit coordinator: Br John Giacon
Classes: (1 x 3hr seminar)wk
Assessment: Homework sheets (35%), Oral performance (45%), Essay (20%)
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