Polish Studies at University of South Florida

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POL 1120 Beginning Polish I @

4 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course features all four major skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Grammar exercises, dictation, readings and vocabulary-building are central in this first course. Knowledge of Russian can help

POL 1120L Beginning Polish I Laboratory @

1 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Concurrent enrollment with a lecture session is required, and, if dropped, then dropped simultaneously. S/U only. A laboratory designed to offer additional practice using various instructional technologies and media.

POL 1121 Beginning Polish II @

4 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course continues the four basic skills of POL 1120, with continued emphasis on structures, dialogues, readings, dictation, and vocabulary-building. Knowledge of Russian can help.

POL 1121L Beginning Polish II Laboratory @

1 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A laboratory designed to offer additional practice using various instructional technologies and media. Concurrent enrollment with a lecture session is required, and, if dropped, then dropped simultaneously .

POL 2200 Polish III @

4 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: For language students who intend to attain basic proficiency

POL 2201 Polish IV @

4 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Practice of wrting, speaking and listening skills for language students who intend to attain basic proficiency.

Caflisch, Jacob , Professor, Theoretical Linguistics, University of South Florida @

Ph.D. Indiana University, 1974
Phone: 813. 974.3658 / Fax: 813. 974.1718 / E-Mail: caflisch@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Linguistic theory; Slavic & Altaic linguistics; Cognitive Domain-theory
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
PRESENTATIONS::

• The pro-drop continuum in Czech, Polish, Russian, and Serbian-Croätian. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 19977
• Pragmatosemantic filters in parameter theory for pro-drop in Czech, Polish, and Russian. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1996
• A pedagogical assessment of palatalized segments in Slavic systems: Polish & Russian, Florida Foreign Language Conference, 1982
• Some Polish nominal and adjectival morphophonemic patterns, Regional AATSEEL Symposium, Miami, Florida, 1980
• Paradigmatic/syntagmatic interference filters in English & Polish: TESL strategies, TESL Conference, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1980

Gieron-Korthals, Maria , Professor of Pediatrics Department, University of South Florida @

M.D., Medical School, Warsaw, Poland, 1971
Phone: . . . / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: mgieron@com1.med.usf.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Neurology and Developmental Disabilities; ADHD or like behaviors

Wiranowska, Marzenna , Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy, University of South Florida @

Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980
Phone: (813) 974-3289 / Fax: (813) 974-2058 / E-Mail: mwiranow@hsc.usf.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Neuroimmune relationships in health and disease. The specific area of research is biology of malignant glioma, their progression and various antiglioma immunotherapeutical approaches.

Poland-Related Resources