100-level

GRMN151
Elementary German Language A
Description
German language course for beginners, i.e. students with no knowledge of German, based on the communicative approach.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
GRMN106, GRMN114

GRMN152
Elementary German Language B
Description
A German language course that follows on from GRMN 151, based on the communicative approach.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
GRMN151, 20 Level 2 NCEA credits, or placement test.
Restrictions
GRMN115, GRMN106

200-level

EURA234
European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Description
This course focuses on how the EU, and its member states, are adapting to an international role in the 21st century. The course will critically examine the institutions of EU foreign and security policy, the creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and the increasing number of civilian and military crisis management operations. The course assesses the EU's emergent strategy and strategic culture and strands of its foreign policy in action. Particular attention is given to EU development policy, the EU's engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals, EU trade policy, as well as how the EU engages with other world powers such as the US, Russia and China.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100-level from EURA or POLS, OR any 60 points at 100-level from Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions

POLS234
European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Description
This course focuses on how the EU, and its member states, are adapting to an international role in the 21st century. The course will critically examine the institutions of EU foreign and security policy, the creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and the increasing number of civilian and military crisis management operations. The course assesses the EU's emergent strategy and strategic culture and strands of its foreign policy in action. Particular attention is given to EU development policy, the EU's engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals, EU trade policy, as well as how the EU engages with other world powers such as the US, Russia and China.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100-level from EURA or POLS, OR any 60 points at 100-level from Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions

GRMN251
Intermediate German Language and Culture A
Description
This is the first of two intermediate German language courses. This course aims at extending vocabulary and grammatical structures which will be used to discuss and write about simple topics in contemporary German and German-speaking culture and society.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
GRMN152, or 20 credits at NCEA Level 3 German, or a placement test. Note: Students with Level 2 NCEA should apply to take an online placement test.
Restrictions
GRMN108, GRMN117

GRMN252
Intermediate German Language and Culture B
Description
This is the second of two intermediate German language courses. This course extends the reading, writing and discussion skills acquired in GRMN251 and places greater emphasis on writing and reading skills, including the reading of short stories.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
GRMN251, or placement test. Note: The course assumes a relatively high level of proficiency in German language. Even well prepared high school students should therefore enrol in GRMN251.
Restrictions
GRMN108, GRMN118

300-level

GRMN351
Advanced German Language and Culture A
Description
This is the first of two advanced German language courses. The course aims at improving the students' all-round knowledge of contemporary German including knowledge of stylistic and regional variation.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Restrictions
GRMN210, GRMN211, GRMN301, GRMN310, GRMN311, GRMN321, GRMN323

GRMN352
Advanced German Language and Culture B
Description
This is the second of two advanced German language courses. It aims at improving the students' all-round knowledge of contemporary German including knowledge of stylistic and regional variation. In addition students' reading and writing skills will be enhanced through work on a fictional text.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Restrictions
GRMN211, GRMN301, GRMN310, GRMN311, GRMN322, GRMN323

GRMN375
German Language
Description
Advanced German Language course aimed at developing language skills consistent with C1 of the European Framework of Reference for Language.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
GRMN352 or placement test
Restrictions

Not Offered Courses in 2024

200-level

GRMN213
Highlights of German Culture
Description
A survey of the main periods of German history and of the most important writers, artists and philosophers of German cultural history and their contributions to the history of ideas in Europe and beyond.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2011 , 2012 , 2013
For further information see GRMN213 course details
Points
15 points

GRMN236
Literary Responses to German Unification
Description
The collapse of the GDR and German unification in 1990 was followed by a mass of writing: essays, diaries, autobiographies, novels, short stories, journalistic debate. This course offers an overview of the main topics and trends of the so-called "unification literature" and of the intellectual and public debate in the years following unification.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see GRMN236 course details
Points
15 points

300-level

GRMN336
Literary Responses to German Unification
Description
The collapse of the GDR and German unification in 1990 was followed by a mass of writing: essays, diaries, autobiographies, novels, short stories, journalistic debate. This course offers an overview of the main topics and trends of the so-called "unification literature" and of the intellectual and public debate in the years following unification.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see GRMN336 course details
Points
30 points