Second-Year Course

4 credits · Undergraduate credit

Students will review and extend their grammatical knowledge by means of an online grammar consisting of summaries, explanations, lots of examples, practice exercises and "diagnostic exercises"; designed to make learning grammar fun and interesting. The feature films, DVD and video clips, readings and other course materials will cover a variety of fields and themes ranging from popular culture, contemporary social issues and history to classical music, art, and literature. By the end of the course, students should be able to survive without using English in a German-speaking country, have enough conversational skills to meet people and enjoy themselves, be comfortable surfing the web in German, be able to read and write independently about short texts covering a wide range of topics, and be quite familiar with all the basics of German grammar in order to pursue their own specific interests in GERMAN 232 and beyond.