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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
GERM 3 | Title:
INTERMED GERMAN-1 |
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| Full Title:
Intermediate German-Part 1 |
| Last Reviewed:11/25/2019 |
| 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 | 17.5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 1.00 | | Contact DHR | 17.50 |
| | Contact Total | 5.00 | | Contact Total | 87.50 |
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| | 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
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Catalog Description:
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Speaking, reading and writing in German with discussions and essays to develop linguistic skill and cultural knowledge. Review of first-year linguistic and cultural content.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Three years of high school German OR GERM 2
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Speaking, reading and writing in German with discussions and essays to develop linguistic skill and cultural knowledge. Review of first-year linguistic and cultural content.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Three years of high school German OR GERM 2
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
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | C2 | Humanities | Fall 1981 | |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 3B | Humanities | Fall 1981 | |
| | 6A | Language Other Than English | | |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Major Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Speak near-native sounding German at moderate speed
2. Comprehend German spoken by native speakers on most common topics
3. Narrate, describe and persuade both orally and in writing using the past,
present, and future tense
4. Ask and answer informational questions in German on a broad variety of topics
5. Read, comprehend and explain German news items and literary pieces with
use of a dictionary
Objectives:
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Compose German essays of approximately 500 words on topics of general interest
covering a broad range of personal and societal issues
2. Converse extemporaneously on a wide range of personal topics with few
grammatical errors
3. Comprehend German spoken naturally on a wide range of everyday and
cultural topics
4. Comprehend the general meaning of most German short fiction and non-fiction
with some use of a dictionary
5. Discuss, interpret and answer questions of fiction and non-fiction selections
orally and in writing
6. Produce and employ with relative fluency most regular and irregular verb conjugations,
subject and object pronouns, present, past, future and subjunctive verb forms
7. Produce and employ with relative fluency most everyday German vocabulary
and common idioms
8. Demonstrate correct pronunciation of familiar German words as well as most
unfamiliar ones
Topics and Scope
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I. Vocabulary, Idioms, Sentence Structure, and other Linguistic Elements of German relating
to Various Topics, including:
A. Vacation and travel, animal life
B. Physical and medical conditions, health and well-being, German health care system
C. Family life, marriage and partnership
D. Monetary affairs and banking, Germany's multicultural society, art and literature
II. Specific Elements of Grammar include:
A. Prepositions to talk about places
B. Review of formal and informal imperative
C. Prepositions for giving directions
D. The subjunctive form of modal verbs
E. The passive voice
F. Accusative and Dative reflexive pronouns
G. Word order of accusative and dative objects
H. Indirect questions
I. Word order in dependent and independent clauses
J. The genitive case
K. Genitive prepositions
L. Expressing possibilities: "würde", "hätte" and "wäre"
M. Causality and purpose: "weil", "damit", "um" and "zu"
N. Review of nominative, genitive, dative and accusative cases
O. Review of nominative, dative and accusative pronouns and their usage
All topics are covered in the lecture and lab portions of the course.
Assignments:
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Lecture-Related Assignments:
1. Read and study one or two lessons from the textbook (averaging 15 pages per week)
2. Memorize vocabulary and verb conjugations (averaging 75 words per week)
3. Complete exercises in textbook and/or workbook (averaging 10 exercises per week)
4. Complete language lab/online activities (averaging 2 hours per week)
5. Review for in-class participatory assignments and/or quizzes and tests
(averaging 1 hour per week)
6. Short essays of 150 - 400 words (30 minutes per week)
7. Chapter tests (1-3), quizzes (5-8), and final exam that cover reading, writing and speaking in
German
Lab-Related Assignments:
1. Spoken and written answers to questions on readings (15 minutes per week)
2. Oral participation, listening comprehension exercises, and group activities
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
20 - 30% |
| Written homework, workbook exercises, essays | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
20 - 30% |
| Communicative activities (oral participation, listening comprehension, group activities, and spoken answers to questions) | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
30 - 40% |
| Quizzes, tests, and final exam: multiple choice, true/false, matching items, completion, dictation and translation | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
10 - 20% |
| Completion of language lab hours/online assignments | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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KONTAKTE: A Communicative Approach (textbook and workbook combo). 8th ed. Tschirner, Erwin and Nikolai, Brigitte and Terrell, Tracy. McGraw-Hill, 2017
STATIONEN: Ein Kursbuch für die Mittelstufe. 3rd ed. Augustyn, Prisca and Euba, Nikolaus. Cengage. 2015
Instructor prepared materials
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