Courses

Objective: The course is intended to introduce students to the importance of this sample course.

This course is a continuation of KISW 303. It will focus on building fluency which at this level is important. Students are expected to enhance their reading and comprehension skills by presenting papers on selected topics on Kiswahili culture. It will expand...

The focus of this course is effective reading and understanding of texts as well as fluency of speech.  Texts covering various topics will be provided for students to discuss and comment on. These texts are geared towards helping students to acquire an...

This course is a continuation of KISW 301. It introduces students to complex aspects of Kiswahili syntax with particular focus on grammatical structures. The course will look at new sentence structures in Kiswahili with the aim of enhancing students’...

The course will discuss more advanced aspects of inflectional morphology including the conditional tenses NGE and NGALI. Other topics that will be discussed include: Dimunitive –ki-, augmentative, comparative (kuliko, kushinda), emphatics, “o...

Having been introduced to the literary history of the Swahili people in KISW 102, this course offers students a brief treatment of each of the three components of Kiswahili literature, namely; poetry, drama and prose. It will also discuss introductory topics...

The course constitutes a general survey of the history of the Kiswahili people and their culture. Specifically, it will trace the impact of foreign colonization especially that of Arabia and Europe on the culture and lifestyle of the Swahili people from the...

This course is a continuation and strengthening of aspects learnt in SWAH 203. It is designed to help students improve their writing and oral comprehension skills and build their confidence, by engaging them in more complex oral and writing exercises. There...

The main focus of this course is oral and writing proficiencies. Thus students will be required to sharpen their tools to achieve high proficiency in oral expression and writing both short and long composition pieces. Short writing exercises will include...

This course is the continuation of 201. The objectives include strengthening those aspects of Kiswahili grammar already covered and to focus on new topics concerning derivational morphology such as nominal and verbal derivations, verb extensions including...