自学语言课程 (单列直插式组件)

Description of the Program and Student Responsibilities

The Self-Instructional Language Program (单列直插式组件) provides students with the opportunity to study critical languages via an academically rigorous program that combines self-study of appropriate texts with audio and visual materials, conversation, and drill sessions with an instructor who is a native or a near-native speaker of the target language. Participation in the Self-Instructional Language Program is a privilege and as such 承担一定的责任.

Classes, which consist of less than ten students, meet for two hours per week. 事先未安排的 class times are decided at a mandatory meeting with the instructor. 学生将 不 be guaranteed a place in the class if they do 不 attend this meeting.

教练

教练 are generally native speakers who bring to the classroom a wealth of cultural 语言知识.  Their role is to provide communicative opportunities to the students, and to create a self-guided environment for students to work on their 语言学习.

学生的期望

Not every student is ready to be an independent language learner. 有以下经历的学生 been successful in regular language courses, who enjoy figuring things out for themselves, who are comfortable with less instructor interaction, and who have a strong motivation to learn the language are good candidates for 单列直插式组件.

Students are expected to work independently with limited supervision. 学生的动机 and discipline are essential to the successful completion of 这门课 and acquisition 语言的.

Students are required to attend all meetings with the instructor. 教师应该 be contacted directly if a student is unable to attend a session.  这是自由裁量权 of the 单列直插式组件 coordinator in consultation with the instructor to withdraw a student from 这门课 if assignments are 不 completed when due.

课程成绩

The final grade is awarded by an external examiner through a final examination

The exam will be held during final exams week (time and date determined by examiner) and no alternate times can be scheduled. Should the student have a conflict with a不her final exam, he or she should make arrangements to change the other final examination, as the 单列直插式组件 examiner is available 只适用于所选时段. 想念的学生 the scheduled final exam will receive 这门课得了F

语言要求

Two consecutive 2-credit 单列直插式组件 courses would fulfill Skidmore’s language requirement.

政策声明

资格政策: All students who have successfully completed their first semester at Skidmore are eligible to participate in the program. Native or Heritage speakers of the target language are 不 eligible to participate in the 单列直插式组件 program.

安置政策: Students must present in writing a description of their prior study or knowledge of the foreign language for which they are registering. 指导员会决定 the appropriate level of placement for the student no later than the first class meeting 本学期的.

Attention: Any student who deliberately, knowingly, and willfully enrolls in a class below his or her language proficiency level is in violation of the 火博体育大学 Honor Code and may be referred to the Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Advising and/or the Integrity Board for further action. Students should be aware that the penalties attached to an academic integrity violation may jeopardize their standing at the College. Students should also be aware that those who have committed academic integrity violations are ineligible for College honors, including but 不 limited to Dean's List, graduation honors, and inclusion in certain honor societies.

出勤政策: 想念的学生 三个多小时的课 with the instructor, will 不 qualify to take the final exam, resulting in an F in 这门课.

剽窃政策: In the case of documented plagiarism, a student will receive an F for 这门课 regardless of his or her proficiency in the language. 抄袭的案例将被 referred to the Integrity Board, in accord with the College’s honor code (see 火博体育学院荣誉守则).

Please feel free to contact the chair of the Department of 世界语言文学, if you require any further information.