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GERM 4
Intermediate German (First Quarter)


Course Description

This course develops students' reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills at the first intermediate level. Reading and discussion of texts dealing with the literature, arts, history, geography and culture of the German-speaking world are included in the course, as well as a review and expansion of the linguistic functions and grammar structures of first-year German.

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate an increasingly consistent command of essential vocabulary and language structures necessary to request and provide, orally and in writing, an expanding range of somewhat sophisticated information.
  • Derive meaning from longer texts of increasing complexity - relying less on contextual clues - to extract main ideas and supporting details, and to interpret some subtleties of the text.
  • Compose comprehensible, paragraph-level discourse about familiar topics to reflect an increasingly consistent command of vocabulary and language structures.
  • Demonstrate an increasingly accurate grasp of the subtleties of German-speaking cultures and progressively develop cultural sensitivity, by analyzing and comparing these cultures to one's own cultures.

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Course Details

Units
5 Units
Hours
  • Weekly Lecture Hours: 5
  • Weekly Lab Hours: 0
Gen Ed
General Education Class
Program Status
Program Applicable
Credit
Credit - Degree Applicable
Transferability
Transferable to both UC and CSU
Grading Method
Letter Grading

Requisite and Advisory

Prerequisite(s)
GERM 3 equivalent to three years of high school German or equivalent
Advisory(ies)
ESL 272 and ESL 273, or ESL 472 and ESL 473, or eligibility for EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
Corequisite(s)

Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills

Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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