Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

YOU 101 — Introduction to Yorùbá People, Language and Culture

YOU department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• describe the people of the target language (their culture and language)
• read and write in the standard orthography of the language
• explain the thoughts and beliefs of the people
• narrate the history of the Yorùbá people
• classify the language family of the people, and
• differentiate between the linguistic theory, migration theory and Yorùbá oral history

Course contents

The people, their Language and culture. Thoughts and beliefs of the Yorùbá people. Theories of their origin and continued survival. Theories of Yoruba migration and linguistic evolution. The role of oral history and the evolution of culture. Yoruba and other peoples in Nigeria and Africa. The language of the people.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study YOU 101.

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• YOU 105 · Introduction to Linguistics I
• YOU 106 · Introduction to Linguistics II
• YOU 107 · Introduction to Yorùbá Oral Literature
• YOU 201 · Survey of the Yorùbá Literature
• YOU 202 · Phonology of Yorùbá Language I
• YOU 203 · Morphology of Yorùbá Language
• YOU 204 · Syntax of Yorùbá Language I
• YOU 301 · Phonology of Yorùbá Language II
• YOU 302 · Varieties of Yorùbá Poetry