German 6

This subject is not offered in 2013.

4 contact hours/week, 4 additional hours/week. Total of 8 hours per week.

German 5 or German Language and Culture 1A or equivalent

Subject Code(s): GERM10006 or GERM20007 or GERM30005 or 126-130

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GERM10007 / GERM20008 German 6

Students who have completed GERM10007 German Language and Culture 126-131 German Language and Culture 1B; 126-131 German 1B; 126-133 German 1D are also not eligible to enrol in this subject.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

Students will further consolidate their ability to communicate in German in oral and written discourse and develop cultural literacy in German by engaging with key themes in modern German-speaking societies such as: e.g. relationships and varieties of German language. Students will develop more advanced language skills through reading short newspaper and magazine articles and watching film and television clips. They will produce shorter texts of different types (eg. news reports, argumentative essays, reviews) and learn how to debate contemporary issues. Students will also gain an understanding of the principles of organizing language as well as developing proficiency in the use of the appropriate linguistic tools for the formation of situation-appropriate vocabulary, sentence and text structures. The Special Studies seminars give students the opportunity to develop topics of interest within the general areas of German literature, linguistics and culture. Students will be introduced to a variety of specialized terminology and should develop analytical skills relevant to the topic area.

At the end of this subject students will be able to:

• use a greater range of vocabulary relating to contemporary German societies including specialised terminology in relation to literary, linguistic or cultural topics of their choice;
• deploy more complex linguistic structures to speak and write about cultures and societies both past and present and to express opinions, desires and intentions;
• interpret and analyse texts and genres of a moderate level of complexity in films, on television and in newspapers;
• comprehend more formal spoken discourse of moderate complexity on a range of topics to do with contemporary life in German-speaking societies, including on a specialist topic of their choice;
• develop a proficiency in writing forms of a moderate complexity and using analytical language on cultural and literary topics;
• express themselves accurately and appropriately in formal and informal settings.

For the cultural studies component:
Written work (totalling 1000 words) during semester; OR A 1 hour examination [25%]

For the language component:
1 essay totalling 500 words [10% + 5% film review]
1 mid-semester test (in class) [10%]
1 oral presentation (in class) [10% + 5% vocabulary work]
1 listening comprehension test (in-class) [hurdle requirement]
assessed homework [10%]
1 final exam during exam period [25%]

• Barthel 1 Mittelstufe Kursbuch (Klaus Lodewick) Fabuda Verlag

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

At the end of this subject students will:

• be able to use research skills to find information from various sources, including dictionary, library, the internet and interviewing people
• have acquired a foundation in intercultural communication practices;
• have acquired written communication skills through essay writing and seminar discussion; on a more analytical level
• be able to show attention to detail through essay preparation and writing;
• have acquired time management and planning skills through managing and organising workloads for recommended reading, essay and assignment completion;
• have acquired public speaking skills through tutorial and seminar discussion and class presentations.
• have acquired and applied analytical writing skills to the genre of the film review