Advanced German Skills. Intensive advanced training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Special emphasis is also placed on vocabulary expansion and on verb valences. The conduct of the class is varied.
Students do presentations on special topics.
Students are expected to have access to audio and video recorders in order to complete assignments for class. All class work and assignments are done exclusively in German. They can initiate, sustain, and close a general conversation with a number of strategies appropriate to a range of circumstances and topics. They can generally be understood even by interlocutors not accustomed to dealing with speaking at this level. With their listening skills, students will be able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of topics beyond the immediacy of the situation, including some topics where comprehension is complicated due to an unexpected sequence of events.