PCC/ CCOG / GER

Course Content and Outcome Guide for GER 213C

Date:
30-MAY-2007
Posted by:
Curriculum Office
Course Number:
GER 213C
Course Title:
Inter German Conversation
Credit Hours:
1
Lecture hours:
10
Lecture/Lab hours:
0
Lab hours:
0
Special Fee:
 

Course Description

Stresses conversational skills at the second year level. Continues the work of GER 212C. Recommended: Completion of or simultaneous enrollment in GER 203 or instructor permission.

Addendum to Course Description

GER 213C is a second-year level course designed for students who wish to improve their ability to converse in German. Students will have the opportunity to practice the structures and vocabulary they have worked with in their first- and second-year German courses. This is a three-credit transferable course, and it counts as an elective toward associate degrees.  

Intended Outcomes for the course


The student:
  • communicates using advanced interactions in predictable and non-predictable settings and uses more advanced vocabulary, the case systems, present tense, future tense and past tense forms
  • applies language-learning skills to various real-life situations
  • recognizes and continues to appreciate linguistic and cultural diversity within the German-speaking world

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Students may be assessed by any combination of the following:
1. Active participation in class in the target language
2. Short individual oral presentations
3. Short frequent contextual written tasks
4. In-class, interactive student role plays with a partner or in small groups
5. Oral interviews with instructor

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Include all or some of the following:
1. Multicultural Society
2. Young and Old and Protecting the Environment
3. German Stereotypes
Competencies and skills:In a conversational setting the student will talk about him- or herself and the outside world using a variety of grammatical structures, which may include, but are not limited to, the following. The student will:     
1. Use adjectives to describe themselves and others
2. Use Subjunctive II in present and past to talk about hypothetical situations
3. Use reflexive pronouns and verbs to describe personal situations
4. Use the passive voice: indirect discourse and indirect commands
5. Use passive in all cases for descriptive conversation
6. Use Subjunctive I in past, present, and future time
7. Use “selbst / selber” to intensify conversation