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West Virginia University at Parkersburg

Uniform Course Syllabus

GERMAN 101 and GERMAN 102 Credit Hours: 3 Scheduled hours per week Lecture: # Lab: # Other: # Catalog Course Description: In this one-semester conversational language course, you will learn how to speak, read, write, and understand standard German at the elementary level. There is also a cultural component to the course. Pre-requisites:

For GERMAN 101, nothing For GERMAN 102, you need to have taken GERMAN 101

Co-requisites: NA Course Learning Outcomes: By the end of the year, you will be able to... 1. pronounce German words correctly 2. say the alphabet in German and spell names, places, and objects. 3. count in German and use numbers in telling time, giving prices, giving one’s age, saying telephone numbers, and doing simple math problems in the language. 4. form questions in German and explain how the word and phrase order in German differs from English. 5. identify nouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter, singular or plural 6. decline German articles and adjectives correctly in the nominativ,e accusative, dative, and genitive cases 7. conjugate regular and irregular verbs in the present, past, and future tenses 8. understand and answer questions on short reading selections (Lesestücke) 9. give and understand commands in German via the Series Method (SM) and Total Physical Response (TPR) 10. form the comparative and superlative form of adjectives. 11. talk about the weather in the language 12. give greetings, farewells, and courtesy expressions 13.give physical and personal descriptions of people (e.g. hair color, eye color, kind of hair, clothing worn) 14 talk about your family and friends and their interests 15. express the location of people, places, and things 16. identify and say words according to categories, for instance, the parts of the body, rooms of the house, colors, buildings, useful signs, and school subjects 17. talk about nationalities, countries, religions, and languages. 18.answer questions about your hobbies and interests in German as well as your likes and dislikes 19. order food in a German restaurant

20. use some very common idioms and slang expressions in German 21. explain the customs and habits of the Germans, Austrians, Swiss, and American Amish and complete via e-mail and in-class a number of culture capsules and culture questionaires. 22. say the days of the week, months of the year, and the seasons in German 23. explain a number of German and Swiss holidays

Topics to be studied: 1. Methodology: You will learn Total Physical Response commands and requests, the Series Method, oral dialogues, responses to questions, inductive and deductive grammar demonstrations, sentence structure exercises, reading strategies, and stylistics throughout the course. Relationship of course to program outcomes: Communicates clearly and effectively in various contexts and with various constituents/audiences. Employs higher order thinking skills in situations that demand Quantitative Literacy. Possesses appropriate competencies in Scientific Inquiry. Illustrates knowledge and understanding of historical and diverse perspectives. Expresses, develops, promotes and values aesthetic awareness.

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Special projects or requirements of the course: 1. Sharing: If you have had an opportunity to travel or live in Germany or any other country where German is spoken, please feel free to share your experiences with the rest of the class. If you have any visuals, you will be given a chance to share those in class during our cultural discussions. 2. Notebooks: In order to learn German, it is best if you create for yourselves a wellorganized notebook with sections for recording vocabulary items, phrases, and sample sentences. You will need to write down whatever is put on the board in class and later transfer that information to your notebooks in a systematic way for continual study. Memorize all the vocabulary after each class session and review the words throughout the week. Putting vocabulary items on index cards will help facilitate memorization. .

3. Attendance: The study of a global language requires constant practice; if you miss one or two class sessions, you will miss valuable practice time and will fall behind the rest of the class and will not know what is going on in the next class session. Therefore, attendance at all sessions is mandatory. According to the university, students should miss no more than the number of hours a class meets in one week. . Any student who misses more than that will receive an F for every session missed. If you happen to miss a quiz, test, or exam, you must contact your professor on the day you return, and this will make you eligible to take a make-up exam on the last day of class before finals week .In some instances, you may make up the missed exam or quiz earlier if both the professor and student agree to do so. If you miss the make-up day, then you will not be allowed to take the make-up later. You are permitted to make up only one exam (or quiz or test). An attendance sheet will either be passed around at each class session or will be made available on the professor’s desk. . It is your responsibility to sign it. If, for some reason, you don’t sign it but claim later you did, the attendance sheet will be the final arbiter in the matter. . If your name is not on the attendance sheet, then that will trump any claim you make, so please don’t forget to sign the sheet. I usually put a reminder on the board to sign in when you come in.. Please be aware that a lack of attendance can result in your losing any financial aid you may have for that course. 4. Tardiness and Leaving Early: Being late for class is a serious offense since it disrupts learning and is also impolite. Please be respectful of the other students’ right to learn in a quiet environment. If you make a habit of coming to class late, you will be asked to arrange your schedule so that you can arrive on time. As is the custom in other countries, you will be asked to apologize to the class for your disruption. If you leave early, that time will add up cumulatively and can result in an eventual full absence in the gradebook. 5. Evaluation and Grades: You will be graded on the basis of quizzes. and tests as well as attendance. A quiz is worth the same as a test/exam (100 points), except that it is shorter in length. During some sessions, you may take a series of short quizzes. At other times, you will take one long test. Quizzes can be either written or oral. There may be ungraded practice quizzes as well to help you chart your progress. Regular quizzes and tests will be based on what has been gone over in class orally. Most quizzes and tests/exams will be announced ahead of time; however, pop quizzes are also possible, but even these will be based on material already gone over in class. You are given letter grades according to the following scale: A = 90-100% B = 80-89% C = 70-79% D = 60-69% F = 00-59%

Additional information:

(Anything else that may be useful.) Prepared by: Randy Oldaker Date: September 2013 Form revised 10/12/12