Modern Languages German - Georgia Southern University

Modern Languages German from Georgia Southern University is a Campus Bachelor Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. OUTCOMES 1. Modern Language/German majors will understand, speak, read, and write German so as to communicate with native speakers of German with minimal pauses and repetitions and without major structural errors on a wide range of personal, general, and professional topics. 2. Modern Language/German majors will demonstrate awareness and understanding of German artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual contributions of the target cultures. 3. Modern Language/German majors will recognize and acknowledge the contributions and global impact of the target culture historically, geographically, politically, and economically. 4. Modern Language/German majors will demonstrate culturally appropriate behaviors and aspects of Germany's culture's daily lifestyle. 5. Modern Language/German majors will demonstrate the ability to access the target language and culture through printed materials, electronic information systems, and other current technologies and utilize these to enhance learning of the target language and culture. 6. Modern Language/German majors will know how to gain access to opportunities abroad, obtain authentic materials from German culture, make linkages with community resources in the target language and culture, and advocate the importance of foreign language skills and cultural awareness in an interdependent world with a global economy. EXPECTED PROFICIENCY RESULTS GLOBAL Modern Language/German majors will have a basic knowledge of the country or countries to which German is native, and 60% of the time, will be able to understand and be understood by a native speaker who is unaccustomed to communicating with non-native speakers, readers, and writers of German. SPEAKING Modern Language/German majors are able to initiate, continue, and close informal conversations. Modern Language/German majors are able to speak on a variety of topics. Modern Language/German majors are able to solve a simple problem presented by a situation. Modern Language/German majors are able to ask for information to resolve a situation with a minor complication. Modern Language/German majors are able to talk in discourse about activities in the present, past, and future. Modern Language/German majors are able to describe in detail with comparison and contrasts. Modern Language/German majors are able to state and support an opinion. LISTENING/UNDERSTANDING Modern Language/German majors will understand and respond fully to conversations directed at daily life and activities. Modern Language/German majors will understand and respond in a limited manner to abstract topics or topics immediately removed from daily life and activities. Modern Language/German majors will understand the topic of reports, news items, lectures, etc. Modern Language/German majors will understand and recognize the present, past, or future orientation of discourse. READING Modern Language/German majors will be able to read authentic documents, understanding the major ideas and being able to identify the central ideas. Modern Language/German majors will be able to identify the major structural features of German . WRITING/COMPOSITION Modern Language/German majors will be able to write short, cohesive paragraphs on routine topics. Modern Language/German majors will be able to control frequently used syntactic structures. Modern Language/German majors will be able to write simple sentences and sentences with coordination and subordination with few errors. Modern Language/German majors will be able to maintain an organizational pattern understandable to native speakers. CULTURE Modern Language/German majors will demonstrate general awareness and understanding of the geography, history, political system(s), literature , and contemporary culture of the country or countries in which German is spoken natively. Modern Language/German majors will be able to apply language skills of speaking, understanding/listening, reading, and writing/composition to the geography, history, political system(s), literature, and contemporary culture of the country or countries in which the language studied in spoken natively. View more details on Georgia Southern University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.