Second-year German II Syllabus for 2011-2012
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Course

GERM-2312-001 Second-year German II

Prerequisites

GERM 2311 or appropriate score on language placement test

Course Description

Continuation of GERM 2311.

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Hours

(3 sem hrs; 3 lec, 1 lab)

Class Type

On Campus Course

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Textbooks

Teichert and Teichert, Allerlei zum Lesen: Themen zum
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\ Moeller and Liedloff, Concise German Review Grammar 2nd ed., Houghton-Mifflin, 1998)

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Student Performance

After studying the material presented in this course of study, the student will be able to do the following as evaluated by the faculty in the Department of Modern Languages:
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\ The student will be comprehensible to native speakers not used to dealing with foreigners and will demonstrate an adeptness in handling routine social demands. He will be able to do the following things with relative ease, confidence, and a fair degree of accuracy:

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1. Participate actively in extended casual conversations.
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2. Give instructions and reports.
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3. Make comparisons and contrasts of three to five sentences in length.
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4. Deal in a limited fashion with complications arising in typical foreign culture experiences.
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5. Narrate and describe events in present, past, and future time, though probably complete mastery of these tenses will not yet be apparent.
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LISTENING COMPREHENSION
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1. Understand the majority of face to face speech and standard German at a more or less normal rate with some repetition.
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2. Discern the main ideas and most supporting details of factual material relating to everday topics.
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3. Understand descriptions and narration of factual material and non-technical prose.
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4. The content areas for listening skills include the following: narratives, more complicated face to face conversations, radio and television broadcasts, anouncements, and directions, reports, more complicated instructions, and academic lectures.
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WRITING
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\ The student will be able to:

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1. Write more complex paragraphs and compositions using the most common indicative and subjunctive tenses in such a manner that a native speaker will understand most of what is written.
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2. Keep a journal in the language using a dictionary as necessary.
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3. Perform limited paraphrasing, in either written or oral format of the main idea of short passages of authentic written or spoken material.
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READING
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1. Understand the main ideas and some supporting details of passages dealing with abstract topics in familiar context.
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2. Understand descriptions and narrations of factual material and non-technical prose.
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Satisfactory progress on all of the above is indicated by a score of 70 or more on appropriate tests. Since students vary markedly in each skill area (reading, writing, speaking, listening), it is possible that a given student may not score satisfactorily in one of the areas but will still be able to pass the course because of his strengths in other areas. It is possible, therefore, that a student who passes the course may not actually be able to perform adequately every one of the tasks detailed above.

The purposes of this course are:

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1. To refine basic grammatical points previously studied at the first-year level and explore additional grammatical points which lead to greater mastery of the language in both written and spoken format;
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2. To read authentic literary works by representative authors;
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3. To improve listening comprehension skills through exposure to a broad range of a variety of resources, i.e., video, cassettes, native speakers, radio, and television;
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4. To continue learning basic cultural information which will enable the student to communicate efectively with native speakers.
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Expected Student Behavior

Food and beverages are not permitted in the Modern Languages Computer Lab. At appropriate times, beverages or food may be allowed in the classroom.
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\ Except in the case of emergency personnel, pagers and cell-phones must be turned off or set to vibrate during class.

Grading Criteria

The standard ten-point spread is used to determine the letter grade received (90-100=A; 80-89=B; 70-79=C; 60-69=D; below 60F)
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\ The following criteria will be used to determine your grade.

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