GRMN151-08S1 (C) Semester One 2008

Elementary German Language A

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 25 February 2008
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2008
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2008
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2008

Description

German language course for beginners, i.e. students with no knowledge of German, based on the communicative approach.

GRMN151 is an introduction to German that is especially designed for people with no prior knowledge of the language. The course is run in several different streams which meet 4 times each week. Our language courses are based on the theory that you learn best by doing. Thus the focus of these meetings is on active student-to-student communication in German as much as possible with supplemental explanations of grammar. Continuous learning is mirrored in the course’s continuous internal assessment: a large portion of the final grade is obtained through a series of small tests and regular homework assignments.
By the end of the course most students will find that they possess a good basic command of German, one that enables them to express quite a few things about themselves and that further allows them to engage other German speakers in a variety of everyday situations.

The textbook in GRMN151 is Kontakte in its current edition; although not cheap, it is essential to the course and is additionally used in GRMN152, the second half year course which follows on from GRMN151.

Restrictions

GRMN106, GRMN114

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Susanne Ledanff

Lecturer

Gudrun Frings

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Written test 1 26 Mar 2008 12%
Written test 2 20 May 2008 20%
Oral test 8%
Homework assignments, 10 worth 1% each, 10%
Blackboard vocabulary quizzes (14 pass/fail) 5%
In-class quizzes, 8 worth 2.5% each, 20%
Final mid-year exam 25%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Terrell, Tracy D. , Nikolai, Brigitte., Tschirner, Erwin P; Kontakte : a communicative approach ; 5th ed; McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $610.00

International fee $2,520.00

* 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 School of Languages and Cultures .

All GRMN151 Occurrences

  • GRMN151-08S1 (C) Semester One 2008