The department reserves the right to direct students to the course most appropriate to their level of competency. Not all these courses are given every year.
Students acquire familiarity with the new language at first by listening and reading easy texts.
To co-ordinate action and speech a large part of the instruction time is spent with model situations. From these model patterns comes the ability to think and speak idiomatic German, and to extend this mastery to other real-life situations. As the course proceeds the writing of texts is stressed more. After a quick review of basics, new grammatical structures are introduced. Comprehension and speaking as well as writing are practiced, using as aids, texts and slides on modern Germany.