Course: Contemporary German Language 4

ECTS credits: 3

Language: German

Duration: one semester

Status: obligatory

Course type: 2 hours of exercise, 2 hours of seminar

Enrolment requirements: course “Contemporary German Language 3”

Course description: The course builds on the previous courses “Contemporary German Language 3”. The focus is to improve students’ language skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing). The stress is on the morphological and syntactic accuracy within the standard German language. The course deals mainly with syntactic analysis (parts of speech).

Learning outcomes: Through various reading, writing, listening and speaking exercises, and through the individual study of grammar, students should be able to express themselves fluently and spontaneously (orally and in writing) with minimal grammatical errors. They will learn to use reference books, especially dictionaries and grammar handbooks.

Teaching methods: language classes, teaching through exercises and seminars, classroom discussion, presentations, individual work, E-learning (Omega)

Literature: Buscha, Raven, Szita: Erkundungen C2. Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch, Schubert-Verlag 2014; Duden Deutsches Universalwörterbuch or Wahrig, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag (neue Rechtschreibung); Kljaić, Deutsch-kroatisches Wörterbuch, Školska knjiga 2005; Hansen-Kokoruš, Matešić, Pečur-Medinger, Znika, Deutsch-kroatisches Universalwörterbuch, Nakladni zavod Globus 2005; Tatsachen über Deutschland. - Österreich: Tatsachen und Zahlen; Helbig/Buscha, Deutsche Grammatik, Langenscheidt 2001; Helbig/Buscha, Übungsgrammatik Deutsch, Langenscheidt 2000; Hall/Scheiner, Übungsgrammatik für Fortgeschrittene, Verlag für Deutsch 2000, Neubearbeitung; Schade, Einführung in die deutsche Sprache der Wissenschaften, Erich Schmidt Verlag 1993; Földeak, Sag`s besser! (Teil 1, Teil 2), Hueber Verlag 2003; Duden Richtiges und gutes Deutsch, Band 9; Wahrig Fehlerfreies und gutes Deutsch, Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut 2003.

Evaluation Methods and Grading: class attendance, two written essays, reading, summary and (oral) translation of the contemporary literature in the German language, written and oral exam