GER3002 German 3B (FOART)

Units 2.0 (Northern European Languages) Band 1

Synopsis

United Germany is a major economic, political and cultural force in the world, in particular in the European Union. German is widely used in central Europe as a means of communication, especially in business and trade, between partners who have no other language in common. German has contributed key terminology to fields such as music, science and engineering. German is also a major Australian community language with special historical significance to south-eastern Queensland. This course will extend students' competence in German by involving them with spoken and written texts and tasks of various types from contemporary media, some German literary texts of the 18th and 19th and 20th centuries, and their (other) area of major study. Use will be made of internet resources and students will be encouraged to publish some of their own materials on the web.