GRMN151-21S1 (D) Semester One 2021 (Distance)

Elementary German Language A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2021
End Date: Sunday, 27 June 2021
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 14 May 2021

Description

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

This course is an introduction to German language.  It is designed for absolute beginners – people with no prior knowledge of German. At the end of the course the students will have German proficiency equivalent to level A1, Common European framework (CEFR).
It is an online course and it is important that you carefully read the course information below.
The coursematerial including lessonplans and exercises are accessible for you on LEARN. You will have a weekly online tutorial with your instructor on Zoom or Skype. Please arrange the day and time for this tutorial with me in the week of the semester.
Please contact me with any course related queries. I will be available for you online every day during the week.

Expectations
Goals of this course
The goal of this course is to provide you with a basic knowledge of German language. You will be working on vocabulary, grammar structures and terminology, which will enable you to also get a deeper understanding of your native language.

Learning Outcomes

As a student in this course you will acquire skills in all four areas of the language-learning curriculum (reading, writing, speaking and listening). By the end of the course the average student will be able to understand interactions in everyday settings; in addition he or she will be able to name common objects of daily life, to express a range of basic wishes, and to use the present and past tenses to narrate simple events. Reading is a component of the course, and by the end of the semester students will be able to read brief texts and understand the fundamentals of German textual structures. Students will also practice writing intensively and will be able to narrate events and communicate basic information about themselves and their environment.

By learning a foreign language students will develop more understanding of global conditions and will become competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts. This will help the language students to develop knowledge and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Restrictions

GRMN106, GRMN114

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Andi Dorrer

Tutor

Marie-Henriette Wenzel

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Homework Assignments (10) 15%
Learn vocabulary quizzes (6) 6%
Facebook postings (5) 5%
In-class quizzes (7) 21%
Written tests (2) 40%
Oral test 13%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Tschirner, Erwin P. , Nikolai, Brigitte., Terrell, Tracy D;; Kontakte : a communicative approach ; 8th edition; McGraw-Hill Higher Education (7th edition is also acceptable).

The required textbook for the course is Kontakte. A Communicative Approach in its current edition (currently 8th edition, 7th edition is also acceptable). The UC bookshop stocks this textbook. An e-book version is available through www.amzon.com.
The workbook – Arbeitsbuch – and audio CDs will also be used in this course but does not need to be purchased, photocopies of the workbook and audio files will be available on the intranet site to the students.

The intranet learning platform for this course is LEARN.

Other material, which may be helpful, can be found in the Library Subject Guides:

Course links

Library portal
LEARN The full Course Outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $785.00

International fee $3,500.00

* 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 Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All GRMN151 Occurrences

  • GRMN151-21S1 (C) Semester One 2021
  • GRMN151-21S1 (D) Semester One 2021 (Distance)