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GERM 202 Course website

German (GERM) 202
Introductory German I (Revision 2)

Delivery mode: Individualized study. Computer access required. Audio/video/CD-ROM component*.
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.

Credits: 3 - Humanities

Prerequisite: None.

Precluded course: GERM 202 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit to GERM 200 or GERM 201.

Centre: Centre for Language and Literature

GERM 202 has a Challenge for Credit option.

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Overview

This course is designed for students with little or no knowledge of German. Students learn German speaking, listening, writing, reading, and comprehension skills within the cultural context of Europe today. The course, along with German 203, will enable students to speak and write simple German in a range of everyday situations.

Outline

Pre-units: Unit 1 to 5: First Steps

Chapter 1: Family, Countries, Language

  • the present tense of regular verbs
  • the nominative case
  • sentence structure: position of subject, linking verbs, and predicate adjectives
  • compound nouns

Chapter 2: Food and Shopping

  • the present tense of sein and haben
  • the accusative case
  • n-nouns
  • verb complements
  • coordinating conjunctions

Chapter 3: Eating In and Out

  • verbs with vowel changes
  • the dative case

Chapter 4: Holidays and Vacations

  • the present perfect with haben
  • the present perfect with sein
  • the structure of subordinate clauses

Chapter 5: City Life

  • personal pronouns
  • modal auxiliary verbs
  • sondern versus aber

Chapter 6: Housing and Furniture

  • two-way prepositions
  • imperatives
  • wissen versus kennen

Chapter 7: Banking and Hotel Accommodations

  • der- and ein- words
  • separable pre-fix verbs
  • flavouring particles (or intensifiers)

General Course Objectives

German 202: Introductory German I presents students with the necessary skills to acquire a basic knowledge of the language and to communicate in German. The textbook, Wie geht's, along with the CD program, workbook / lab manual, and video component, are designed to achieve the following course objectives:

  • Writing: Students will learn how to express themselves in German in simple sentences.
  • Reading: After studying the Wie geht's? texts and learning the necessary vocabulary, students will understand texts at a similar level of difficulty.
  • Speaking: Students will communicate in German with German speakers using simple sentences modelled on dialogues and lab exercises.
  • Aural Comprehension: Students will understand the German of everyday situations spoken at moderate speed. The lab program and pronunciation sections of the lab manual will enhance students' listening skills.
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Evaluation

The final grade in GERM 202 will be based on the grades students achieve on the assignments and the oral and written exams. To receive credit for the course you must achieve an overall course grade of “D” (50 percent) or better and must achieve a minimum grade of 50 percent on the written examination.

The following indicates the assignments for credit and their weighting toward the final grade.

8 Written
Assignments		 4 Oral
Assignments		 One Oral
Exam		 One Written
Exam		 Total
20% 10% 20% 50% 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks and Electronic Materials

Wie geht's? Web site.

German 202 Introductory German — Student Manual, Athabasca University, 2005.

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.

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