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Intermediate German 1 - GERS2400
Quadrangle

 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: School of Languages and Linguistic Course Outlines
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: GERS1000 or GERS1022 or GERS1401
 
 
Excluded: GERS2021, GERS3410
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Designed for students with HSC German or two semesters of elementary German at tertiary level. Develops and extends skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing German and provides an introduction to German Studies.


Learning Outcomes

  • Understand main points of everyday conversations in standard German
  • Comprehend and extract main information from media reports and a variety of other sources
  • Recognise socio-cultural differences and/or similarities between own culture and target language
  • Participate actively in most conversational situations
  • Deliver short, coherent speeches, express opinions
  • Write short, coherent text passages, personal letters, etc.

Assessment

  • Participation - 10%
  • Written assignment - 40%
  • Tutorial presentation - 10%
  • Class tests - 40%

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