GER 103 • Spring 2011
SCHEDULE & ASSIGNMENTS		 last modified:
3/31/12

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PSU Academic Calendar & PSU Final Exam Schedule

The course this quarter will cover Kontexte 17-24, at a rate of one Kontext per week, with some time taken along the way for tutorials and tests.

Dates are in the standard international sequence: dd/mm (example: 10.02 = February 10, NOT October 2). Text altered with strikeout indicates material to ignore.
Scoring Guide & A-F Grade Chart Deadline Policy
1 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
28.03 29.03 30.03 31.03 01.04
Kontext 16: "In einer Konditorei" top of page

review of final exams from previous quarter; selective review of both previous quarters

Do Assignment #1 (email instructor, etc.)

Participants who are ABSOLUTELY to the course: 1) Do also Assignment #2, which helps you explore the course materials and asks how they fit your image of language learning. 2) Look at the "Big Picture" view of course, which was presented in class during the first quarter of the course. Your instructor may also want you to provide a German writing sample, perhaps using part of the previous quarter's final exam and Assignment #3, which helps you to rate your proficiency (current, earlier, and future).

Returning students: your instructor may give you an equivalent assignment, such as revising your written final from the previous quarter.

This week or next: resources for April Fool's Day; Easter (Ostern) in the culture of the German-speaking countries; relation of Church and State
2 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
04.04 05.04 06.04 07.04 08.04
Kontext 17: "An der Kartenkasse" top of page

Project #1: Wir und unsere Musik / Ourselves and Our Music - BEGIN THIS ONLY WHEN YOUR INSTRUCTOR TELLS YOU TO
Sound clips: German classical music

Culture presentation (this week or previous week): Cultural institutions in the German-speaking countries: social position and financing
3 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
11.04 12.04 13.04 14.04 15.04
Kontext 18: "In der Altstadt" top of page

Culture presentation: Taxation in Germany
4 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
18.04 19.04 20.04 21.04 22.04
Kontext 19: Am Frühstücksbuffet top of page

Writing Test #1 and its Scoring Guide. Instructors activate the test on their own schedules.

Culture presentation: around 20 April (birthday of Adolf Hitler): presentations about the Holocaust, Jewish culture, Yiddish
5 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
25.04 26.04 27.04 28.04 29.04
Kontext 19 (cont'd.) top of page

Oral Test #1 to be conducted in class (description and scoring guide): you'll be reading a dialog out loud with the examiner, talking in detail about someone you know, and discussing entertainment. Instructors schedule their own sections, and can give this oral test whenever their sections have finished Kontext 17 (with prior announcement, of course).

Culture presentation: May Day & Maypoles; other folk customs, and folk costumes; Labor Day: May or September?
6 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
02.05 03.05 04.05 05.05 06.05
Kontext 20 "Was empfehlen Sie?" top of page

Oral Test #1 continues, if necessary

Culture presentation: Changes in diet
7 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
09.05 10.05 11.05 12.05 13.05
Kontext 21 "Am Dom, im Dom" top of page

Projekt 2: Deutsch, Mein Studium, Mein Beruf - German and My Studies and Occupation; due two weeks from official announcement by instructor; will be used on final exam.

Cultural presentation: The educational systems
8 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
16.05 17.05 18.05 19.05 20.05
Kontext 22: "Geschenke" top of page

Cultural presentation: Cultural monuments
9 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
23.05 24.05 25.05 26.05 27.05
Kontext 23: "Zoo" top of page

Presentation (and assignment): What after first-year German?

Cultural presentation: Fachgeschäft, Fachkenntnisse
10 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
30.05 31.05 01.06 02.06 03.06
Kontext 24: "Abendfahrt auf dem Rhein" top of page

Assignment: Rate own proficiency

Cultural presentation: The German fascination with Nature (and with America and the Wild West)
Final Examinations (link to PSU Final Exam Schedule)
Mo Di Mi Do
06.06 07.06 08.06 09.06

1930-2120: final for MW evening section

0800-0950: final for MWF 900-1005 section
1015-1205: final for TR 1000-1150 section

1015-1205: final for MWF 1015-1120 section

0800-0950: final for TR 800-950 section
1230-1420: final for MWF 1130-1235 section

You may take your final with any section, but if you are not taking yours with your own section, please inform both instructors involved.

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