GERM& 121 German I (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly GERMN 101 - CCN
Course Description
The first quarter of a first year sequential course to give the student the ability to speak, read, write and understand the German language and culture.
Course Content
A. Appropriate forms of greetings and address
B. Basic personal data: Names, addresses, telephone numbers, nationalities, occupations
C. Everyday activities and preferences
D. Weather; seasons; calendar terms
E. Cardinal numbers and basic colors
F. Telling time, frequency and location
G. Basic family relationships and descriptions
H. Basic sentence structure: verb placement; nominative and accusative cases
I. Relating events in the present and future
J. Negation using “nicht” and “kein”
Student Outcomes
1. Comprehend speech samples and respond using course vocabulary and structures.
2. Comprehend written language samples and respond using course vocabulary and structures.
3. Construct correct basic sentences and paragraphs.
4. Employ Nominative and Accusative case articles and modifiers in phrases, sentences, expressions and idioms.
5. Request and provide information pertaining to course content orally.
6. Request and provide information pertaining to course content in writing.
7. Distinguish and demonstrate appropriate forms of address.
8. Comprehend and apply case, gender, verb tense, person and number appropriately within the scope of the content of this course as indicated in other outcomes.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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