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Your course package should contain the items listed below. If any items are missing, please contact the Course Materials Production Department of Athabasca University as soon as possible. You may call Athabasca University, toll free, from anywhere in Canada or the United States at 1-800-788-9041, and ask to speak to someone in Course Materials Production (ext. 6366). Students in the Edmonton and Calgary dialing areas are asked to call the Learning Centres to connect with the automated attendant, and then dial the four-digit extension. You may also write in care of Course Materials Production, Tim Byrne Centre, 4001 Hwy 2 South, Athabasca AB T9S 1A4, or e-mail cmat@athabascau.ca.

Textbooks and electronic materials

Sevin, Dieter and Ingrid Sevin. Wie geht’s? An Introductory German Course. 7th ed. Boston: Thomson Heinle, 2003.

Wie geht’s? Student Listening CD to accompany the “Hören Sie zu!” sections. (This CD is in the textbook.)

Wie geht’s? Arbeitsbuch. Workbook/Lab Manual.

Wie geht’s? Lab Audio CDs.

Wie geht’s? DVD.

Wie geht’s? Audioscript and Answer Key.

Note: Wie geht’s? has its own site on the World Wide Web at http://wiegehts.heinle.com with supplementary exercises and cultural information. Study of this material is optional.

Student Manual: The Student Manual contains essential information about the course and the procedures you should follow to complete it successfully. Please read it through carefully before you begin your studies. It also contains the answers to the practice exercises in the textbook.

Tutor Marked Written Exercises: The assignments for submission are found here. Your tutor will give you the password. You may submit the assignments via e-mail or regular mail. If you do not have Internet access, contact your tutor. She will send you the assignments on paper, by mail.

Oral Exercises and Oral Final: The Tutor Marked Oral Exercises and a description of the oral final exam are found here. Your tutor will give you the password.

Forms: The forms you will need to inform Athabasca University of a change in your status as a student are included in your course package.

Additionally

You will need access to a Windows-compatible computer that has

  • 4× CD drive
  • a sound card
  • a DVD player or a VCR

Note: If you do not have a DVD player, you may borrow the video to accompany Wie geht’s? from the Athabasca University library.