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GRMN3009: German Language and Society
2024 unit information
This unit enhances your language skills while enabling you to study contemporary German society. Using materials drawn from contemporary print and (audio-)visual media, you will expand your capacity for written and spoken expression by engaging with key social and cultural issues in the contemporary German-speaking world.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Germanic Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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GRMN3008 or GRMN2616 or GRMN1322 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. express yourself on a range of topics, expressing a point of view and give the advantages and disadvantages of various possibilities
- LO2. acquire a broader knowledge of the German language as a tool of communication, thereby achieving a higher degree of competence in your progress towards the command of the German language
- LO3. revise, practise and extend your grammatical and vocabulary knowledge
- LO4. comprehend progressively more sophisticated and complex German texts
- LO5. have an awareness of the problems associated with the learning of a foreign language and applied a problem-solving approach to deal with these difficulties
- LO6. organise and communicate in German your own creative, imaginative and critical thinking
- LO7. function productively in a team-group environment and independently within specific guidelines
- LO8. gain a more solid basis for further study of the German language and its culture.
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