GRMN351-23S1 (C) Semester One 2023

Advanced German Language and Culture A

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2023
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 May 2023

Description

This is the first of two advanced German language courses. The course aims at improving the students' all-round knowledge of contemporary German including knowledge of stylistic and regional variation.

The course is a combination of a language component (three hours) and cultural component (one hour). In the language component, students will work on all four language skill areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students will complete regular grammar and writing assignments, and they will have ample opportunity to speak and listen in the classroom setting. Throughout, we will emphasise building vocabulary and communication skills, which will be used to discuss German cultural and political topics. In the cultural component, students will learn about important aspects of German history and culture. The component consists of alternating lectures given by the lecturer and seminars, in which the content of the previous week’s lecture will be discussed and deepened.

This course is designed for students who have passed GERMAN 201/252 or have otherwise acquired comparable knowledge of German. The lessons are designed to be communicative and the language of instruction of the course is German. The aim of the course is fluent and grammatically correct German at CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) level B2.1.

Learning Outcomes

  • As a student in this course, you will acquire advanced skills in all four areas of the language learning curriculum (reading, writing, speaking and listening). By the end of the course the average student will:

  • be able to understand complex interactions,
  • engage in conversations on specified topics with moderate fluency,
  • write using a fairly complex sentence structure and read standard German literature.

  • A student in this course will also acquire knowledge about cultural and socio-economic aspects during a particular period in German history. This will accompany the language learning and complete the skills and knowledge a university German program is expected to provide.

  • By learning a foreign language and engaging in its history and culture, students will develop more understanding of global conditions and will become competent in engaging with global and multicultural contexts. This will help the language students to develop knowledge and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

      Globally aware

      Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

GRMN210, GRMN211, GRMN301, GRMN310, GRMN311, GRMN321, GRMN323

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Anne Blumenthal

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Hausaufgaben (5) 15% weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
Quizzes (2) 10% weeks 3 & 9
Written tests (2) 40% weeks 6 and 12
Kurzpräsentationen (2) 10% 1 per term
Encyclopaedia articles (2) 5% 1 per term
Essay 20% end of semester

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Perlmann-Balme, Michaela et al; Sicher! Niveau B2.1, Kursbuch und Arbeitsbuch, Lektion 1-6 ; Hueber Verlag, 2013.

Students who intend to take Grmn352 in S2 can purchase
Perlmann-Balme, Michaela et al. (2013): Sicher! Niveau B2, Kursbuch und Arbeitsbuch, Lektion 1-
12, Ismaning, Deutschland: Hueber Verlag.

Weitere empfohlene Literatur and Websites
Grammatiken
Hilke Dreyer; Richard Schmitt: A Practice Grammar of German, Ismaning: Hueber Verlag 2008.
Martin Durell; A.E. Hammer: Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage, fifth edition, London: Routledge 2013.
www.canoo.net (Grammatik auf Dt. und Engl.)
www.grammatiktraining.de (Grammatik und Übungen auf Dt.)

Wörterbücher
Harper Collins German Dictionary German/English, English/German (Collins, 2000)
Oxford German Dictionary: Ger./Eng., Engl./Ger. (Oxford University Press, 2008)

zweisprachig
www.langenscheidt.de
dict.tu-chemnitz.de
de.pons.com

einsprachig
wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de
www.dwds.de

Die Kurswebseite basiert auf der Learning Management Website Learn. Dort finden Sie alle Prüfungsdetails, Kursmaterialien, Grammatikerklärungen und Onlineübungen.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,641.00

International fee $7,500.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All GRMN351 Occurrences

  • GRMN351-23S1 (C) Semester One 2023
  • GRMN351-23S1 (D) Semester One 2023 (Distance)
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