Course content
General Focus:
Interacting in a (professional) academic context:
- Interpret and produce complex texts
- Deal with different types of texts in a critical manner
- Implement approaches and strategies for interpreting input based on the premise, the question, and the objective
- Employ a range of techniques for planning and writing structured texts and speeches that take into consideration different target audiences and contexts
- Deepen knowledge of complex grammatical structures, systematically expand vocabulary and understanding of abstract terms
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, students will fulfill the basic proficiency requirements of level C1 CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) in German.
Students will have the following
linguistic skills:
- The ability to prepare, portray, and adequately present information using sources (including those that may contradict one another)
- The ability to quickly and reliably identify specific problems in large, heterogeneous texts
- The ability to effectively and constructively present information, explanations, and points of view in a variety of ways using different linguistically redundant techniques
strategic skills:
- The ability to effectively and constructively communicate information, explanations, and points of view
intercultural skills:
- The ability to effectively and constructively communicate information, explanations, and points of view
Course Topics:
Science and academia – experiments – reading – perception and memory – family structures – music – zoos – traveling – inclusive language – moral dilemmas – linguistics – siblings