Information for prospective SILMW Students

Application Quick Links:

1. Undergraduate, Non-degree application:
• Undergraduate Non-Degree Application

2. Graduate, Non-degree application:
• Graduate Non-Degree Application (application guidelines)

SILMW Student Orientation: June 9, 10 am - 12 pm; Location: FLB 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge)

The student orientation session will bring together SILMW students, instructors, and Program administrators. While the first hour will be dedicated to introducing the students to the program, we would like to reserve the second hour for socializing: attendees will get a chance to meet each other and ask questions about the program, teachers, materials, etc. Lunch will be provided.
Orientation is required for ALL SILWM students (domestic and coming from other institutions).

Course Materials

The following materials are used in the SILMW 2012 courses:

ARABIC:
Brustad, Al-Batal & Al-Tonsi
ALif Baa, 3rd edition. Georgetown Press.

Brustad, Al-Batal & Al-Tonsi
Al-Kitaab fii ta'allum al'arabiya, 3rd edition. Georgetown Press.

SWAHILI:
Muaka & Muaka (2006). Tusome Kiswahili. NARLC Press.

Hinnebusch, T. and S. Mirza (1998). Kiswahili/Swahili (2nd edition). Maryland: University Press of America. (Nine available in the Illini Union bookstore)

Awde, N. (2000). Swahili-English- English-Swahili Practical Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. (five available in the Illini Union bookstore)

Online Swahili Materials:
1. Recorded lessons for Hinnebusch & Mirza
2. Kiko: Kiswahili kwa Kompyuta
3. Online dictionaries: africanlanguages.com/swahili/ and yale.edu/Swahili/