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
Appropriate forms of greetings and address
Basic personal data: Names, addresses, telephone numbers, nationalities, occupations
Everyday activities and preferences
Weather; seasons; calendar terms
Cardinal numbers and basic colors
Telling time, frequency and location
Basic family relationships and descriptions
Basic sentence structure: verb placement; nominative and accusative cases
Relating events in the present and future
Negation using “nicht” and “kein”
Student Outcomes
- Exchange messages using highly predictable language.
- Apply informal and formal addresses of “you” in communication.
- Present basic biographical/identity information within personally relevant contexts.
- Employ simple present tense verb conjugations.
- Express words, phrases and formulaic language about familiar and everyday topics like time, the weather, and daily routines.
- Exchange messages in spontaneous contexts about basic topics like family relationships, holidays, and culinary preferences.
- Compare cultural contexts of Germanophone countries to ones own cultural contexts.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities
Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
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
Potential Methods
Oral participation
Group discussion
Listening comprehension exercises
Homework application exercises
Written paragraphs and short essays
Listening comprehension tests
Structural application tests
Reading comprehension tests
Composition tests
Vocabulary quizzes
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