4/19/2024 1:13:54 PM	GERM 2 Course Outline as of Fall 2009	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  GERM 2	Title:  ELEMENTARY GERMAN-2
Full Title:  Elementary German-Part 2
Last Reviewed:10/14/2019

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	4.00	Lecture Scheduled	4.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	70.00
Minimum	4.00	Lab Scheduled	0		17 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	1.00			Contact DHR	17.50
		Contact Total	5.00			Contact Total	87.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  140.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 227.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Continuation of German 1.  Elementary listening, speaking, reading and writing in German.  Introduction to the culture of German-speaking countries.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Two years of high school German or GERM 1 or equivalent.

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Introduction to German grammar and development of all language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Two years of high school German or GERM 1 or equivalent.
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1990
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Fall 1992
	6A	Language Other Than English
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1.  Use and demonstrate comprehension of German vocabulary related to

   common personal, commercial, cultural and political topics;

2.  Formulate in German questions and declarative sentences and

   improvise brief paragraph length statements on commonplace topics;

3.  Read and discuss simplified passages on a range of cultural topics

   and read for general meaning authentic German texts;

4.  Write with minimal errors of spelling what he/she is able to say in

   German;

5.  Pronounce familiar German words with great accuracy and correctly

   sound out unfamiliar ones;

6.  Control with relative ease the following: present, perfect, imperfect

   and future tenses (werden), prepositions, nominative, dative and

   subjunctive cases, question pronouns, word order of complex sentences,

   comparative and superlative, relative clauses, adjectives;

7.  Produce compound and complex sentences using the most common

   conjunctions;

8.  Identify the main idea when listening to German spoken at a natural

   speed.

9.  Respond to frequently occurring situations in culturally appropriate

   way.

10. Complete "real world" tasks such as comprehend or produce texts in

   ads, announcements, instructions, phone conversations, interviews,

   etc.

Topics and Scope

1.  German vocabulary related to nearly all the most common personal and

   social topics

2.  German conversational formulas and the most common idioms

3.  Improvising paragraph-length personal statements

4.  Reading and analyzing shorter German texts

5.  Grammatical terminology

6.  Creating terminology

7.  Listening to German spoken at a natural speed

8.  Continuation of introduction to German culture.

Assignments:

Assignments may include:

1.  Studying lessons from the textbook

2.  Memorizing vocabulary and verb conjugations

3.  Completing exercises in textbook, workbook and worksheets

4.  Working in language lab and writing reports

5.  Reviewing for quizzes and tests

6.  Quizzes and tests

7.  Writing compositions

8.  Oral reports

9.  Group activities and projects

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 10 - 20%
Written homework, Reading reports, Lab reports
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 10 - 20%
Group activities and projects
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 20 - 30%
Class performances, Performance exams
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 40 - 50%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion, Essay exams
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 5 - 10%
Completion of semester's language lab hours

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

KONTAKTE (text, workbook, and lab manual), Terrell, Tschirner and

  Nikolai, 5th ed., McGraw Hill, 2003.

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