German (GERM) 302

Overview

This course is designed to further develop students’ reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through the use of authentic materials (newspaper articles, letters, interviews, biographies, songs, poems and short fiction). Students will achieve these broad objectives:

• Recognize the popular language of advertising and charts.
• Skim a text for contextual understanding.
• Read a passage for facts.
• State an opinion about a current event.
• Summarize an article orally and in writing.
• Increase listening comprehension of German spoken at native speed.
• Discuss leisure activities, social, political and economic issues.
• Learn vocabulary and etiquette of modern communication methods (letters, email, telephone).
• Speak and write about modern German families, short stories, poems, fairy tales, and music.

While accomplishing the above objectives, students will review these grammar concepts and learn to use them in grammatically correct sentences in both spoken and written German:

• Present tense
• Imperatives
• Modal auxiliaries
• Lassen
• Future tense
• Simple past tense
• Present perfect
• Past perfect
• Infinitives
• Verb position in statements, questions, clauses
• Word order: time, manner, place, nicht
• Independent and dependent clauses and conjunctions
• Nominative case
• Accusative case
• Dative case

Students will improve their accent and fluency in spoken German after completing the oral components of the course.

Evaluation

To receive credit for GERM 302, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the written examination. All assignments are required in order to pass the course. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

5 Written Exercises	4 Oral Exercises	Oral Exam	Written Exam	Total
30%	10%	20%	40%	100%

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

Course Materials

Textbook

Other materials

The course materials also include a set of audio CDs, and a DVD accompanying the Kaleidoskop materials as well as supplemental Kaleidoskop web exercises and the optional voice software program Horizon Wimba. All other course materials will be accessed online.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the GERM 302 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on each part of the examination.

Oral Conversation	Exam	Total
30%	70%	100%

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form