GRMN352-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Advanced German Language and Culture B

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This is the second of two advanced German language courses. It aims at improving the students' all-round knowledge of contemporary German including knowledge of stylistic and regional variation. In addition students' reading and writing skills will be enhanced through work on a fictional text.

Dieser Kurs richtet sich an Studierende, die GRMN351 bestanden oder anderweitig vergleichbare Kenntnisse des Deutschen erworben haben (B1.2-Niveau). Der Unterricht ist kommunikativ ausgelegt und die Unterrichtssprache des Kurses ist Deutsch. Ziel des Kurses ist, flüssiges und grammatikalisch korrektes Deutsch auf GER-Niveau B2 zu erlangen.

Der Kurs bereitet außerdem auf das Goethe B2 Zertifikat vor, das direkt an der UC am Ende des Semesters abgelegt werden kann. Das Goethe-Zertifikat ist weltweit als Sprachprüfung anerkannt. Die Prüfung wird im November stattfinden, das genaue Datum wird noch bestätigt.

Learning Outcomes

By learning a foreign language, students will develop more understanding of global conditions and will become competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts. This will help the language students to develop knowledge and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications. Learning a foreign language addresses the key attributes of the UC Graduate Profile

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.

Biculturally competent and confident

Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

Engaged with the community

Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

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

GRMN211, GRMN301, GRMN310, GRMN311, GRMN322, GRMN323

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00 E13
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 14:00 - 15:00 Rehua 429
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 E12
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Anne Blumenthal

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Hausarbeiten (5) 15% Due weeks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
In-class quiz (1) 5% Held week 4
Immersion Challenge 5%
Written tests (2) 40% Week 6, 11
Mündliche Prüfung (oral exam) (1) 10% Held week 12
Enzyklopädie-Artikel (2) 5% one per term
Essay (German) (1) 20% Due during the University exam period

Textbooks / Resources

Kontext B2.2 - Hybrid edition allango
German as a Foreign Language
Course and workbook with audio and videos including licence key allango (24 months)
ISBN 978-3-12-605412-6

OR

Kontext B2.2 - Digital Edition allango
Licence key (teachers/students, 24 months)
Course and workbook with audio and videos
NP10060534100
Available from Klett Sprachen International


Weitere empfohlene Literatur

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

online:
   dict.cc
   linguee.com

Kurswebseite
Die Kurswebseite basiert auf der Platform Learn. Dort finden Sie alle Prüfungsdetails, Kursmaterialien, Grammatikerklärungen und Links zu Onlineübungen.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,788.00

International fee $8,200.00

* 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 GRMN352 Occurrences

  • GRMN352-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025
  • GRMN352-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)