University of Delhi - DU Courses

Certificate Course in Polish

Eligibility:-

The eligibility requirements for admission to the various part-time courses in the Department shall be that a candidate should have passed Senior Secondary School Certificate examination or Graduation or Post-graduation with minimum 55% marks in the aggregate.

Course Details:-

1. Grammar
2. Translation
3. Oral Exam

Topics for Oral Examination:

• The First Piast Monarch
• Introduction of Christianity in Poland
• The reign of the Jagiellons (Poland and Lithuania united)
• The downfall of Polish Commonwealth
• National Uprising (Kiosciuszko Insurrections, November Uprising, January Uprising, Warsaw Uprising)
• Poland during the First World War 1914 – 1918
• Poland during the Second World War 1939 – 1945
• Poland as a part of Eastern Block
• Activation of the working class 1980 – 1981
• The beginning of the new political order in Poland after 1989

Books Prescribed

• W. Bisko, S. Karotak, D. Wasilewska, S. Karukl Mowimy po polsku: A Beginner’s Course of Polish, Warszawa, 1966