GER 103 • Spring 2007
SCHEDULE & ASSIGNMENTS		 last modified:
5/22/07

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PSU Academic Calendar & Final Exam Schedule

The course will cover Kontexte 16-23, 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. Text altered with strikeout indicates material to ignore.

Activities, assignments, projects and tests (during the quarter) are listed in the week they are likely to occur or start. Because the sections meet on various days, have class periods of various length, and sometimes get out of phase with each other (due to holidays, etc.), each section's instructor will announce the start date for that section. Unless otherwise announced, assignments and writing tests done outside class are due ONE WEEK from that day (for a score of 4: sufficient on the "on-time" factor). Projects are due TWO WEEKS from the start date (for 4: sufficient on the "on-time" factor). Revisions of assignments, tests or projects are due ONE WEEK from the day the instructor returns (or tries to return) them to you.
1 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
02.04 03.04 04.04 05.04 06.04
Kontext 16: "In einer Konditorei" & Tutorials top of page

Review of Kontext 15; 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, do also Assignment #2, which helps you explore the course materials and asks how they fit your image of language learning. 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: Easter (Ostern) in the culture of the German-speaking countries; relation of Church and State
2 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
09.04 10.04 11.04 12.04 13.04
Kontext 16 u.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

Culture presentation: Taxation in Germany
3 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
16.04 17.04 18.04 19.04 20.04
Kontext 17: "An der Kartenkasse" top of page

around 20 April (birthday of Adolf Hitler): presentations about the Holocaust and Jews and America (link to follow)
4 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
23.04 24.04 25.04 26.04 27.04
Kontext 18: "In der Altstadt" top of page

Writing Test #1 and its Scoring Guide. Instructors activate the test on their own schedules.
5 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
30.04 01.05 02.05 03.05 04.05
Kontext 19: Am Frühstücksbuffet top of page

Oral Test #1 to be conducted in class (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.

Culture presentation: May Day & Maypoles
6 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
07.05 08.05 09.05 10.05 11.05
Kontext 19 (cont'd,) top of page

Oral Test #1 continues, if necessary
7 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
14.05 15.05 16.05 17.05 18.05
Kontext 20 "Was empfehlen Sie?" 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.
8 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
21.05 22.05 23.05 24.05 25.05
Kontext 21 "Am Dom, im Dom" top of page

9 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
28.05 29.05 30.05 31.05 01.06
Kontext 22: "Geschenke" top of page
10 Mo Di Mi Do Fr
04.06 05.06 06.06 07.06 08.06
Kontext 23: "Zoo"

Kontext 25/26: "Post/Im Abteil"

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Final Examinations
Mo Di Mi Do
11.06 12.06 13.06 14.06

1930-2120 final for MW evening section

0800-0950 final for MWF 900-1005 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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