HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: german, russian & east european studies

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: German

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr.Kristina Reiss

Coordinator Email: dafnama@mscc.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday 11-12

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Kristina Reiss

Course/Module description:
systematic summary of language courses

Course/Module aims:
refreshing and enlarging previously acquired knowledge, improving performance

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
be familiar with German grammar as compared with other languages,
be able to assess regular and deviant usages of modern German

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Presentation of each topic in class
How does this work in German?
Homework: application (analytic and/or experimental)

Course/Module Content:
nouns: morphology
composition; derivation;
gender; plural forms;
cases (N, A, D + G), basic & after prepositions
verbs: infinitives (I & II), with auxiliaries and modal verbs
gerund & other passive equivalents
participles: I & II (morphology)
used as part of predicate or as attributes,
verbal tenses (simple and compound)
distinction of past tenses
subjunctives: Konjunktiv II (Irrealis)
Konjunktiv I (indirect speech)

Required Reading:
learning materials provided via Moodle

Additional Reading Material:
L. Nieder, Lernergrammatik für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, München 1987
H. Weinrich, Tempus – besprochene und erzählte Welt, 2. Aufl. Stuttgart 1971

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 40 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 30 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
prerequisite: three semesters of German as a foreign language (B 1/2)