Language Study Abroad

(3-6 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Taught as I3405 - German Language Practicum (3rd YR II) at a host institution. This six-week intensive language course (20 hours of instruction per week plus participation in the cultural program) emphasizes applications of correct grammar and strengthens everyday and academic communication skills, including writing styles, vocabulary building, and phonetics. Themes and topics emphasize living in Berlin and functioning in the academic environment. Satisfactory completion is required as a condition of enrollment in courses at the Freie Universität Berlin. German Discourse and Culture: The two goals of the language course are to progress our German language skills through the review of regional studies, practical literary matters, current events, and history and to prepare us for our studies at a German university through speaking, listening, writing, and grammar exercises at the B2.1 level. BG - Berlin, Germany :Taught as I3405 - German Language Practicum (3rd YR II) at a host institution. This six-week intensive language course (20 hours of instruction per week plus participation in the cultural program) emphasizes applications of correct grammar and strengthens everyday and academic communication skills, including writing styles, vocabulary building, and phonetics. Themes and topics emphasize living in Berlin and functioning in the academic environment. Satisfactory completion is required as a condition of enrollment in courses at the Freie Universität Berlin. The language course has two goals. The first is your overall language progression. To promote this as effectively as possible, we will discuss cultural topics, practical matters, and literature, current events, and history. We will read texts, listen to audio recordings, or occasionally watch a film clip and discuss it, and review important chapters of grammar and/or learn new ones and practice them. and review and/or learn and practice important aspects of grammar. The second goal, specific to our course, is to prepare you for studying at a German university through listening comprehension exercises, through reading about current events as well as academic or science related texts, and through discussions of texts you have heard and read.