General Polish Language Course under the Project „Multidimensional support for SUM in the field of providing high quality services for students and foreign management (Welcome to SUM)”.
– ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

WHEN?

The course will be conducted in academic year 2019/2020 – the classes starts after the procedure of choosing the external entity will be finished. The classes will end no later than 10th of June.

Participants will attend 30 meetings, 1 to 2 times a week. 1 meeting will last 90 minutes.

The classes will be conducted beside didactic hours. It is planned to organize them in the afternoons, from Mondays to Fridays – however, there might be a single occurrence that classes will take place through weekend.

WHERE?

We plan to conduct the course in locations down below:

• Katowice – Ligota – in the classrooms from the University Campus (Faculty of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Education and Medical Simulation Center)
• Zabrze:
  • Rokitnica – in the classrooms from the Faculty of Medical Sciences Or,
  • Zabrze – Centrum – in the classrooms from Faculty of Medical Sciences or from Education and Medical Simulation Center)

Attention!

In the recruitment form you have declared the chosen location. We will try to put you into the chosen one, but creating this particular group will depend from the number of other interested participants.

WHO CAN APPLY?

You can join the Project and be the participant if:

• you are a foreigner (you don’t have Polish citizentship)
• you are studying at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice (SUM) in English language or you are studying temporarily at the SUM due to your participation in the Erasmus+ Exchange programme in the academic year 2019/2020 for 2 semesters.
• you don’t know Polish language or you have some basic knowledge
• you have dispotion and time to participate in the course until the end of academic year, which is 10th of June 2020.

Remember!

After submitting recruitment forms and enrolling for course, you will become the participant of the project co-financed by EU, which means that the course will be free for you but simultaneously you are obliged to attend classes until June 2020.

Please make a responsible decision – learn Polish language with us and at the end you will be granted with a certificate confirming the time spent on education :)

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FROM THE PARTICIPATION IN THE COURSE?

• thanks to 30 intensive meetings with Polish language, where each will last 90 minutes, you will learn Polish culture, traditions, vocabulary and how to communicate in this language, so it could help you in functioning at our University,
• participation in the course is free – during classes you will receive materials to learn f. ex. book copies or other material copies. We do not cover the cost of buying notebooks or transport expenses,
• after 30 meetings you will be granted with a certificate of course completion,
• you will spend the time nicely and meet the students from all over the world who also study at SUM.

WHAT ARE YOUR DUTIES?

• to attend classes during the whole course (until June 2020). You will need to sign yourself on attendance list at each meeting,
• to participate actively during classes and to prepare before them… but that should be a pleasant thing :)
• in case of absence during classes, you will need to catch up all the missing material.

COURSE DETAILS:

• classes will be conducted in small groups (from 5 to 10 people)
• Teachers will speak in English and Polish language

HOW TO ENROLL?

• wait for recruitment call -> follow the University’s websites https://student.sum.edu.pl/ or http://smk.sum.edu.pl/
• after publishing the recruitment call, submit required documents in specified location.
  • Recruitment form for participants of the Polish language course for foreigners studying at SUM under the Welcome to SUM project
  • Information clause
• wait for recruitment results and further instructions regarding classes organization (about results we will inform you by an e-mail).

Attention!

Recruitment form print-outs are available at the Dean’s Offices. If you want to print them out by yourself, please remember to use the toner with color.

RECRUITMENT DETAILS:

• To enroll into the course you are required to fulfill the formal criteria
• qualification into the course is decided through first-come first-served basis
• please specify in the recruitment form your Polish language knowledge – specified in point 10 of the Recruitment form

In writing	None		Poor		Fair		Good
In speaking	None		Poor		Fair		Good

Fill with „x” the right space. For example – if you don’t know Polish language, put “x” in “None” space, in both rows (in writing and in speaking)

On the basis of your declarations, we will create groups:

• Participants who don’t know Polish language will constitute a group with intensive Polish language course on the beginner level
• Participants who know Polish language a little, will constitute a group with intensive Polish language course. Such group will firstly remind all basic knowledge and then, widen the Polish language command on intermediate level.

Please remember!

Information detailed above are part of Recruitment and participation regulations for foreigners studying in English language at Medical University in Silesia in Katowice in language courses processed under the Project “Multidimensional support for SUM in the field of providing high quality services for students and foreign management (Welcome to SUM)”.

Please acknowledge the Regulations, website and join the Project 😊