All courses listed are 4-credit courses unless otherwise indicated. This course introduces speaking, understanding, reading, and writing German. Cultural and literary readings, video materials, and World Wide Web resources dealing with everyday situations and experiences in the German-speaking countries will be used on a regular basis.
Students use computer exercises to review grammar and to expand their vocabulary.
Conversation sections with native speakers supplement classwork. Frequent use of the Web to sensitize students to the German cultural context. This course provides a comprehensive grammar review and includes discussion of texts by contemporary authors. Special attention given to developing reading strategies as a means to learn and use vocabulary in appropriate contexts. Study of German culture through use of World Wide Web resources.