A guided oral skills development course designed to polish and enhance students' confidence, accuracy and ability to produce and interact using spoken German in a variety of contexts from informal to formal. In this course, through discrete listening and production practice activities, guided and free conversation, role-playing, debating, presenting and personal reflection, students will enhance their pronunciation, vocabulary production and comprehension and structural variety, thus preparing them to interact more spontaneously, appropriately and effectively in German. MGRMN 4160 meets with MGRMN 3160, with differentiated assignment lengths and expectations by level.
Prerequisite(s): MGRMN 2020 German Stage 4: Global Connections or permission of the department.
MGRMN 4160 German Oral Communication (4 hours)
A guided oral skills development course designed to polish and enhance students' confidence, accuracy and ability to produce and interact using spoken German in a variety of contexts from informal to formal. In this course, through discrete listening and production practice activities, guided and free conversation, role-playing, debating, presenting and personal reflection, students will enhance their pronunciation, vocabulary production and comprehension and structural variety, thus preparing them to interact more spontaneously, appropriately and effectively in German. MGRMN 4160 meets with MGRMN 3160, with differentiated assignment lengths and expectations by level.
Prerequisite(s): MGRMN 2020 German Stage 4: Global Connections or permission of the department.
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Essential Connections: Speaking Instructive
MGRMN 3160 German Oral Communication (4 hours)
See MGRMN 4160 German Oral Communication.
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Essential Connections: Speaking Instructive
MGRMN 2020 German Stage 4: Global Connections (4 hours)
Stage 4: Global Connections invites students to enhance their intercultural and linguistic competence by exploring cultural, geographical, historical, and social perspectives of German-speaking countries as they develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence, thereby allowing them to engage and interact more effectively with native speakers of German.
Prerequisite(s): MGRMN 2010 German Stage 3: Cultural Perspectives or equivalent.
(Normally offered in Wesleyan Honors Academy.)
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Integrative Core: Going Global Thread