Institute of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners

The course program is dependent on the partcipant’s level of language competence.

• Each partcipant will be accepted into a group (with a specifc level of advancement) based on an online writen placement test as well as an oral test held on the inauguraton day of the course.
• Partcipants enrolled in the one-year program are accepted into groups in the second semester on the basis of their exam results (writen and oral) at the end of the frst semester as well as the opinions of their language instructors.

All of the courses offered by the Center for Polish Language and Culture in the World are conducted in accordance with the ECTS* grading system.

According to the requirements of the Center, students who wish to obtain a diploma must:
• earn 30 ECTS** credit points in each semester,
• meet all of the course requirements,
• pass all of the exams.

Important: course partcipants receive one diploma afer completing the one-semester or one-year program that they have selected.

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* European Credit Transfer and Accumulaton System.
** The number of credit points corresponds to the course’s level of difculty as well as the work that is required in order to pass the course.</sub>

BEGINNER LEVEL – A1
AND ELEMENTARY LEVEL – A2

At the A1 and A2 levels, language courses are organized in two blocks:
Grammar and Communicaton (12 hours per week) and Fluency and Vocabulary (8 hours per week)*.
In total there are 20 hours of obligatory language courses per week. Within the language competence block, a student develops his/her listening comprehension, comprehension of writen texts, and writng skills in Polish. Students earn 28 ECTS credit points through partcipaton in the obligatory courses. The remaining 2 points can be earned by atending lectures or additonal language classes.

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_{* In groups in which there are students of Slavic heritage, we propose a greater number of teaching hours focused on vocabulary and productve fluency (speaking and writng) and fewer
hours devoted to developing receptve fluency (listening and reading comprehension).}

Afer passing an exam (the mid-semester or fnal exam), students can gain the following number of ECTS points:

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL – B1

At the B1 level, language courses are organised in the following blocks:
Grammar and Communicaton (8 hours per week) and Fluency and
Vocabulary (12 hours per week)*. In total there are 20 obligatory
hours of language classes per week. In the fluency block, students
develop listening comprehension, speaking, reading comprehension
and writng skills in Polish.
Atendance in the obligatory courses allows a student to earn 26 ECTS
credit points. The remaining 4 credit points can be earned by atending lectures or additonal language classes.
* In groups in which there are students of Slavic heritage, we propose a greater number of teaching hours focused on vocabulary and productve fluency (speaking and writng) and fewer
hours devoted to developing receptve fluency (listening and reading comprehension).13
Afer passing an exam (the mid-semester or fnal exam) students can
earn the following number of ECTS credit points:

UPPER INTERMEDIATE LEVEL – B2

At the B2 level, language courses consist of Grammar (4 hours per
week), Vocabulary (2 hours per week) and language fluency: Listening Comprehension (2 hours per week), Communicaton and Conversaton (4 hours per week), Reading Comprehension (4 hours per
week) as well as Compositon and Editng of Texts (4 hours per week).
In total, there are 20 obligatory hours of language classes per week.
Through partcipaton in the obligatory courses, students earn 26 ECTS
credit points. The remaining 4 points can be earned by atending lectures or additonal language classes. Afer passing an exam (the midsemester or fnal exam) students can earn the following number of
ECTS credit points:

ADVANCED LEVEL – C1

At the C1 level, the obligatory language courses are Grammar (4 hours
per week), Vocabulary and Phraseology (2 hours per week) and language fluency: Listening Comprehension (2 hours per week), Communicaton and Conversaton (2 hours per week), Reading Compre14
hension (3 hours per week) and Compositon and Editng of Texts
(3 hours per week). In total, there are 18 hours of obligatory language courses per week.
Through partcipaton in the obligatory courses, students earn 24
ECTS credit points. The remaining points can be earned by atending
lectures or additonal language classes. Afer passing an exam (the
mid-semester or fnal exam), students can earn the following number of ECTS credit points:

PROFICIENCY LEVEL – C2

At the C2 level, the obligatory language courses are Grammar (4 hours
per week), Vocabulary and Phraseology (2 hours per week) and language fluency: Listening Comprehension (2 hours per week), Communicaton and Conversaton (2 hours per week), Reading Comprehension (2 hours per week) and Compositon and Editng of Texts
(2 hours per week). In total, there are 14 hours of obligatory language classes per week.
Through partcipaton in the obligatory courses, students earn 20
ECTS credit points. The remaining points can be earned by atending
lectures or additonal language classes. Afer passing an exam (the
mid-semester or fnal exam), students can earn the following number of ECTS credit points:

LECTURES
Lecture Title Language of
the Lecture
Number of Hours
Per Week ECTS
Polish Grammar English 2 2
An Introducton to Polish History (Semester I) Polish 2 3
History of the Poles (Semester II) Polish 2 3
An Introducton to Polish History (Semester I) English 2 2
Poland under Communism (Semester II) English 2 2
Contemporary Polish Society Polish 2 3
Contemporary Poland English 2 2
Polish Culture (workshop classes) Polish 3 3
Theater Workshop Polish 2 3
Polish Art Polish 2 3
ADDITIONAL

Level A:

• Grammar and/or Vocabulary 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Listening Comprehension and Communicaton 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Pronunciaton and Intonaton 2 hours 2 ECTS points

Level B1:

• Communicaton and Conversaton 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Grammar Review 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Spelling 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Pronunciaton and Intonaton 2 hours 2 ECTS points

Level B2:

• Grammar Review 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Reading of Newspaper Artcles 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Spelling 2 hours 2 ECTS points

Level C:

• Reading of Newspaper Artcles 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Grammar Review 2 hours 2 ECTS points
• Reading of Literary Texts 2 hours 3 ECTS points

IMPORTANT!

• The Center reserves the right to make changes to the list of courses that are offered.
• Partcipants in the course can atend, free of charge, a greater number of hours than the number required to earn a diploma. They can also earn credit points for them.
• A diploma is earned only by students who earn 30 credit points per semester and pass all of the required exams.
• Students who partcipate in the course only part-tme can obtain a certfcate.
• If necessary, all students can receive a transcript of studies – an ofcial document confrming studies at the Center, statng fnal grades and the number of hours completed by the student. Before arriving at the Center, the student should arrange the transfer of credits with his/her university.