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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GER 3001 - Advanced German

2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Advanced German is an advanced course, which aims to expand the oral and written communication skills acquired in earlier classes and to broaden students’ understanding of the cultures of the German-speaking world, including the German communities in the United States. German III includes a complete review of basic and intermediate level grammar, expansion of pronominal constructions, discourse connectors, and a range of conversational strategies. With emphasis on various writing tasks students expand their range and sophistication of grammar usage and vocabulary. Students build comprehension and produce texts of greater extension and complexity. This course prepares students for German-taught cultural courses through literary texts and other media (film, news, short essays, cartoons, etc.). This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Embrace Diversity or Exhibit Curiosity. (prereq: GER 2001  or university-level equivalent and/or more than four years of high school German and/or a score of 480-580 on the SATII and/or a score 4 on the AP language exam or IB HL Score 5 and/or instructor’s consent)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Speak German, correctly pronounced, in an extended and sophisticated manner and with cohesion in the present, past and future in both formal and informal contexts–the linguistic flexibility to speak about and around certain subjects in a way that native speakers of German will understand without difficulty
  • Moderate a formal discussion around these or other similar topics
  • Write structurally cohesive compositions with a variety of discourse markers
  • Present information in a coherent manner (introduction, development of the argument, conclusion)
  • Write formal and informal texts using different tones, for different audiences (register), and for different purposes (to inform, to convince, to defend or oppose an idea)
  • Develop cultural and technological competency, as well as critical thinking skills, by way of digital
  • Presentations and the discussion of controversial and relevant topics.
  • Establish connections between a student’s own culture and the rest of the world
  • Read and understand texts related to German culture and the world from varied genres originally written for a native reading public
  • Use the German language to participate in German communities at home and around the world
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Coordinator
John Kellogg


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