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, advertisements, essays, poems, cartoons and short fiction). We hope you 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 your opinion about a current event.
• Summarize an article orally and in writing.
• Increase your listening comprehension of German spoken at native speed.
• Learn about the world of work in Germany.
• Discuss multiculturalism and stereotypes from several perspectives.
• Speak and write about relations between the generations in Germany.
• Speak and write about environmental issues such as recycling and pollution.

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

• Two-way prepositions
• Time expressions with the dative case
• Da- and wo-compounds
• Genitive case
• Preceded and unpreceded adjectives
• Adjectives used as nouns
• Participles as adjectives
• Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
• Subjunctive II
• Würde-construction
• Conditional sentences
• Als ob and als wenn constructions
• Reflexive pronouns and verbs
• Relative pronouns and clauses
• Objective and subjective use of modals
• Passive voice
• Alternatives to passive voice
• Indirect discourse
• Subjunctive I

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

Evaluation

To receive credit for GERM 303, 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 303 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