Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

GER 101 students will start to develop competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing (including handwriting) in the standard target language while gaining an awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use rehearsed material to develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at a basic level.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Ask predictable questions and respond to them.
• Recognize and produce comprehensible words and phrases in simple conversation.
• Communicate on topics relating to basic personal information, family, school, and locations.
• Shows awareness of most obvious cultural differences, as well as awareness of basic information of the countries that use the target language.
• Interpretive Skills
• Demonstrate emerging evidence of the ability to make inferences on background and prior knowledge.
• Comprehend texts with key words, cognates, and predictable words that are highly contextualized.
• Rely primarily on vocabulary to derive meaning from texts.
• Use skills, such as skimming, scanning, recognizing cognates, predicting meaning based on context, and/or recognizing linguistic roots to comprehend texts.
• Presentational Skills
• Present simple, basic information on very familiar topics orally and in writing using practiced or familiar words, simple sentences, and phrases.
• Create oral and written messages in contexts relating to basic biographical information.
• Produce understandable words and phrases both orally and in writing in frequently practiced questions and statements.
• Intercultural Communication
• Show awareness of the most obvious cultural differences of the countries that speak the target language.
• Identify products and practices to help students understand perspectives in native and other cultures.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

GER 102 students will continue to develop competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the standard target language while gaining an awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: GER 101, or two years of successful completion of high school German, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use course material to develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at a basic level.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Show evidence of the ability to engage in simple conversation, ask discrete questions that initiate conversation, and use high-frequency words in interpersonal communications.
• Communicate in some spontaneous spoken, written or signed conversations on familiar topics.
• Use some or all of the following strategies to maintain communication: initiate modeled words, use facial expressions, repeat words, ask for repetition, and/or indicate lack of understanding.
• Interpretive Skills
• Comprehend main ideas and identify supporting evidence.
• Comprehend information in a variety of familiar contexts from authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.
• Begin to derive meaning through using structural patterns used in both familiar and new contexts.
• Presentational Skills
• Present relevant/prepared written and oral evidence of the ability to express own thoughts and preferences.
• Demonstrate ability to create comprehensible oral and written messages in practiced or familiar contexts.
• Develop increasing ability to create comprehensible oral and written production of questions and statements using grammar according to the course level.
• Intercultural Communication
• Interact at a survival level in everyday contexts with people in and from other cultures using the target language and appropriate rehearsed behaviors.
• Develop geographic, historic, and cultural understanding of the culture(s) associated with a target language.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

GER 201 students will become skilled listeners, speakers, readers, and writers in the target language while developing an understanding and awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: GER 102, or three years of successful completion of high school German, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use any outside sources and course material to develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at an intermediate level.
• Critical Thinking
• Apply basic critical thinking skills to begin to solve problems and make sense of complex issues.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Control language sufficiently to be easily understood by those interacting with language learners.
• Ask for clarification, self-correct or restate when not understood, and circumlocute to maintain conversation.
• Sustain spontaneous spoken, written or signed conversations and discussions on familiar concrete topics and begin to sustain on unfamiliar concrete topics.
• Discuss and explain information, incorporating various time frames, series of connected sentences, paragraphs and probing questions.
• Interpretive Skills
• Demonstrate oral and written evidence of the ability to make inferences by identifying key details from texts and other forms of media.
• Demonstrate basic understanding of cultural and linguistic differences when writing, listening to, and talking about current events, social issues, popular culture, music and the arts.
• Comprehend main ideas and identify supporting details.
• Derive meaning of words and phrases by comparing and recognizing parallels between target language and native language structures.
• Rely on knowledge of target culture to interpret texts and other forms of media.
• Presentational Skills
• Present relevant evidence of the ability to tell or retell a story and provide additional description.
• Demonstrate ability to create messages in context relevant to oneself and on general interest and work-related topics.
• Produce a series of cohesive and understandable oral and written sentences.
• Intercultural Communication
• Make comparisons between products and practices to help understand perspectives in native and other cultures using the target language.
• Interact at a functional level in some familiar contexts with people in and from other cultures using the target language and appropriate learned behaviors.
• Identify different cultures within target language regions.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

GER 202 students will continue to become skilled and proficient listeners, speakers, readers, and writers in the target language while continuing to develop an understanding and awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: GER 201, or four years of successful completion of high school German, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use any outside sources and course material to develop, convey, expand, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at an intermediate level.
• Critical Thinking
• Apply critical thinking skills to solve problems and make sense of complex issues and assess outside research.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Control language sufficiently to interact comprehensibly with those who are unfamiliar with language learners.
• Maintain communication by using a range of strategies such as requesting clarification, repeating, restating, rephrasing and circumlocuting.
• Demonstrate emerging ability to participate in discussions about issues beyond the concrete and is able to provide opinions on these issues.
• Apply paragraph-level discourse that is organized, detailed and cohesive, and produce sentence-level discourse comprehensible to sympathetic listeners.
• Interpretive Skills
• Comprehend main ideas and supporting details of narrative, descriptive and persuasive texts on various topics, and summarize them in writing.
• Comprehend texts pertaining to real-world topics of general interest.
• Derive meaning from texts by interpreting sequencing, time frames and chronology, and by classifying words or concepts according to word order or grammatical use.
• Demonstrate knowledge of an increasing number of cultural and linguistic differences when writing, listening to, and talking about current events, social issues, popular culture, music and the arts.
• Presentational Skills
• Present prepared or spontaneous information on familiar and some unfamiliar topics through written, spoken or signed language in all major time frames such as present, past, and future.
• Effectively create oral and written messages in both personal and general contexts.
• Develop full paragraphs, for oral and written delivery, that are understandable, organized and detailed.
• Intercultural Communication
• Discover familiarities and differences between products and practices to help understand perspectives in native and other cultures using the target language.
• Interact at a functional level in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts with people in and from other cultures using the target language and appropriate learned behaviors.
• Recognize, compare, and contrast different cultures within target language regions.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2025-01-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

This course continues to develop language proficiency in the three modes of communication: interpretive, presentational and interpersonal in both formal and informal settings and with more complex sentence structures. The goal of the course is to learn and practice idiomatic expressions and formal and informal styles of communication, negotiate meaning with native speakers and increase oral proficiency.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: GER 202 or assessment by instructor.

Course Objectives

• Linguistic Proficiency
• Strengthen their command of the language, focusing on improving speaking and listening skills.
• Demonstrate comprehension of authentic materials, including literary and non-fiction texts and films.
• Cultural Awareness
• Continue to develop and demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the cultural diversity of target language-speaking countries.
• Explore customs, traditions, history, and contemporary issues from various target language-speaking communities.
• Critical Thinking
• Apply critical thinking skills to solve problems and make sense of complex issues.
• Analyze topics and offer information and/or solutions.
• Professional Readiness
• Gain confidence in their communicative skills and speak effectively in both formal and informal settings.
• Improve their ability to use appropriate language in academic, professional, and social contexts
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at an intermediate level.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpretive Communication
• Interpretive Communication
• Interpersonal Communication
• Interculturality

Effective: 2025-01-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

This course continues to develop language proficiency in the three modes of communication: interpretive, presentational and interpersonal in both formal and informal settings and with more complex sentence structures. The goal of the course is to practice idiomatic expressions and formal and informal styles of communication, negotiate meaning with native speakers and increase oral proficiency.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisites: GER 211 or assessment by instructor.

Course Objectives

• Linguistic Proficiency
• Continue to strengthen their command of the target language, focusing on improving speaking and listening skills.
• Demonstrate comprehension of authentic materials, including literary and non-fiction texts and films.
• Cultural Awareness
• Continue to develop and demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the cultural diversity of countries where the target language is spoken.
• Explore customs, traditions, history, and contemporary issues from various communities where the target language is spoken.
• Identify and make connections with the cultures of the target language and their own
• Critical Thinking
• Apply critical thinking skills to solve problems and make sense of complex issues.
• Analyze topics and offer information and/or solutions.
• Professional Readiness
• Demonstrate confidence in their communicative skills and speak effectively in both formal and informal settings.
• Differentiate appropriate language and registers in academic, professional, and social contexts.
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at an intermediate level.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpretive Communication
• Presentational Communication
• Interpersonal Communication
• Interculturality