Class size is limited for language courses in order to promote each student's participation and interaction with the instructors as well as other students. The use of the target language is essential in class.
Polish (POL)
Linguistics
609 Baldy HallNorth Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1030
Ph: 716-645-2177
F: 716-645-3825
W: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/linguistics/undergraduate/non-degree-granting-languages.html
F: 716-645-3825
W: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/linguistics/undergraduate/non-degree-granting-languages.html
The Learning Environment
About Our Facilities
The Department of Linguistics is housed in Baldy Hall, and has several dedicated classrooms and meeting spaces. The department also holds classes in centrally scheduled space throughout the campus, which includes traditional classrooms and lecture halls that can accommodate our program’s different class structures. Members of the faculty also maintain their own research labs to support work in areas such as phonetics and computational linguistics.
About Our Faculty
The faculty of the Linguistics department includes internationally known and respected scholars, with diverse backgrounds and interests. The Polish courses are taught by an adjunct faculty member. A Polish Studies minor is offered through the Department of Transnational Studies.
Faculty List Directory
Please visit the Linguistics department website for additional information about our faculty.
POL Courses
- POL 101LEC Elementary Polish 1st Semester Lecture
Requires no previous knowledge of Polish. Develops speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension skills. Students with some familiarity with spoken Polish are welcome.
Credits: 5
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- POL 102LEC Elementary Polish 2nd Semester
- POL 198SEM UB Seminar Seminar
The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Credits: 1
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the UB seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
- POL 199SEM UB Seminar Seminar
The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the first year seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
- POL 203LEC Intermediate Polish 1st Semester
- POL 204LEC Intermediate Polish 2nd Semester
- POL 205LEC History of Poland Lecture
This course is a broad survey of the history of Poland from ancient times to the present taught through lecture and discussion. It focuses on the many transitions Polish society and Polish people have undergone, from its emergence as the first central European nation-state in the tenth century, to its development into a major empire in the 1600s, to its partitioning in the late eighteenth century by its more powerful neighbors, to its re-emergence as an independent state in the twentieth century. Using a variety of readings and media, the course emphasizes such themes as Poland's multicultural heritage and complex identities, questions of empire and national self-determination, liberty and tyranny, gender, ethnicity and class, and language and culture.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
- POL 210LEC Special Topics Lecture
Explores a selected topic in Polish studies.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
- POL 211LEC Special Topics Lecture
Explores a selected topic in Polish studies.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
- POL 222LEC Polish Culture: Theatre Lecture
Explores differing topics in theatre within the area of Polish studies.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- POL 223LEC Topics in Polish Culture Lecture
Explores differing topics within the area of Polish studies.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Summer
- POL 231LEC Intro to Polish Literature Lecture
Survey of major Polish literary works from the beginning until the 19th century.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- POL 232LEC Intro to Polish Literature Lecture
Survey of major Polish literary works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- POL 305LEC Advanced Polish Lecture
Emphasizes conversation and written compositions. Readings of short stories, poetry, essays, and plays yield vigorous discussions in Polish.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- POL 306LEC Advanced Polish Lecture
Emphasizes conversation and written compositions. Readings of short stories, poetry, essays, and plays yield vigorous discussions in Polish.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- POL 323LEC Polish Literature in Translation Lecture
Considers major figures in Polish literature from the 1930s to the present. Readings and discussions focus on Mrozek (drama), Milosz, Herbert, Rozewicz, Szymborska (poetry), Schulz, Gombrowicz, Andrzejewski, and Konwicki (fiction).
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- POL 324LEC Poland Today Lecture
Examines major socioeconomic, political, and cultural happenings and developments in Poland since World War II, Solidarity, the disintegration and collapse of the Communist regime in 1989, the leap to the market economy, and political pluralism.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- POL 338LEC Poland in Europe Lecture
Considers the rise, decline, disappearance, and reemergence of Poland as an important power and factor in Eastern European politics.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- POL 393LEC Study Abroad: Krakow Lecture
Credits: 1 - 18
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- POL 410LEC Special Topics Lecture
Explores a selected topic in Polish studies.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
- POL 411LEC Explores a Selected Topic in Polish Studies. Lecture
Explores a selected topic in Polish studies.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- POL 499TUT Independent Study Tutorial
Supplements regular offerings of the department. Students must secure permission of the instructor before registering.
Credits: 1 - 6
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring