GERM 103
Intermediate German I Fall 2024
Division I

In this course students will further develop their German language skills by engaging with a variety of cultural topics and and everyday experiences in the German-speaking world. Through extensive work on expanding vocabulary, reviewing major grammatical structures, and conversation and composition exercises students will strengthen their language skills and develop cultural competency. The course focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts and aims to develop and consolidate students’ speaking, listening, reading and writing abilities at the intermediate level. In addition to a textbook, the course will deploy a variety of media, such as texts, video and audio to aid in the practice of and improvement of spoken and written German skills through in-class activities and homework assignments. Easy readers in the target language will help to enhance reading comprehension, and mandatory weekly conversation sessions with the German-speaking teaching associates will greatly contribute to enhancing the learners’ speaking and listening comprehension. The course is taught exclusively in German.