GERM& 123: German III

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Class Program

German

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091104

Meets Degree Requirements For

Humanities

Description

Continuation of German II. Increased use of German as the language of instruction. Background in grammatical terminology is recommended. Courses should be taken in sequence.

Grading Basis

Graded

Prerequisites

GERM& 122

Course Learning Outcomes

Read, write, listen, and speak in compound and complex German sentences using verb-second and verb-final word order, the perfect, past perfect, and simple past tenses.

Communicate in situations involving college life, travel, city life, the environment, and modern German society.

Correctly use the genitive case and attributive adjectives and correctly order adverbial modifiers of time, manner, and place.

Extract contextual information from both readings and video presentations and respond in German to German situational questions within the grammatical limits of the material.

Core Topics

The simple past. Als, wenn, and wann.
The past perfect. History and politics.
Adjectival nouns. Adjectives of indefinite number. Reflexive verbs.
The personal. Proper nouns.
Techniques for class reports. Comparison. Relative clauses.
The uses of lassen. Mal and was für. Parts of the body. Irgend. Review. Switzerland. Verbs with prepositional complements. Pronouns as objects of prepositions. The future tense.
Past participles as adjectives. Clichés and idioms.
Austria. The present subjunctive.
The past subjunctive. The passive voice.
Present participles. Verbs of thinking. Hin and her. Guest workers. Germans in non-German-speaking countries.
Women in the German-speaking world. Impersonal passives. Subjective uses of modal verbs.
Indirect quotations. The sequence of tenses. Extended modifiers.
Various readings. Review.