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FL20178: German stage 5 semester 2 (3 credits)

Click here for further information Academic Year: 2011/2
Click here for further informationOwning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Click here for further information Credits: 3
Click here for further information Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Click here for further information Period: Semester 2
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 100%
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Reassessment not allowed
Click here for further information Requisites:
Click here for further information Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should apply via the Foreign Languages Centre website from August onwards.
Aims:
The course aims to further broaden students' skills to enable them to undertake spontaneous selection and adaptation of the language.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course students will be able to:
* Express themselves fluently and spontaneously without obvious searching for expressions.
* Use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes.
* Formulate ideas and opinions with a high degree of precision.
* Understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured.
* Understand factual, discursive and literary texts, and some specialised texts aimed at the general reader, appreciating some distinctions of style.
* Express themselves in clear, well structured text, expressing points of view at some length.
* Write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report, underlining what they consider to be the salient issues.

Skills:
Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Research and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.

Content:
This course will enable students to consolidate and develop previously acquired language structures and skills, using all four core competences of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Idiomatic use of the language is encouraged. The course will extend students' knowledge of social, cultural and political issues by introducing topics not encountered in Semester 1, with the help of up-to-date authentic reading and audio-visual material.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:
NB. Postgraduate programme information will be updated when the postgraduate catalogues are published in August 2011

FL20178 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

  • UXXX-AFN97 : Catalogue of Foreign Languages Centre Units - No specified year
  • UXXX-AFN99 : Generally available catalogue - No specified year

FL20178 is Optional on the following programmes:


Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • UEME-AFM06 : MEng (hons) Aerospace Engineering with German (Full-time) - Year 2
  • UEME-AKM06 : MEng (hons) Aerospace Engineering with German (Thick Sandwich) - Year 2
  • UEME-AFM03 : MEng (hons) Automotive Engineering with German (Full-time) - Year 2
  • UEME-AKM03 : MEng (hons) Automotive Engineering with German (Thick Sandwich) - Year 2
  • UEME-AFM43 : MEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering with Advanced Design, Innovation and German (Full-time) - Year 2
  • UEME-AKM43 : MEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering with Advanced Design, Innovation and German (Thick Sandwich) - Year 2
  • UEME-AFM18 : MEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering with German (Full-time) - Year 2
  • UEME-AKM18 : MEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering with German (Thick Sandwich) - Year 2
  • UEME-AFM40 : MEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing, Management and German (Full-time) - Year 2
  • UEME-AKM40 : MEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing, Management and German (Thick Sandwich) - Year 2

Notes:
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.