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2006-2007 / Course descriptions / AS201502 German  

AS201502 German

Course Code
AS201502

Course Name
German

Credits
18.00

Target Audience
Export Marketing

Prerequisites

German from Upper Secondary Education

Objectives

The students will learn the German language in order to communicate and trade with German speaking countries. The course will train students in German in social situations, negotiations, trade fairs and in telephone conversations and coorespodence.
The students will gain background knowledge in order to understand contemporary social and cultural issues in German speaking countries.
The course will also provide language skills for active marketing and sale of fish and other sea products in German speaking countries.

Topics

Grammer
"Landeskunde"
Fiction
Business correspondance
Vocabulary from the fish industry

Instruction

Oral and written exercises, project work and presentations, individually and in groups.
Lectures

Mandatory Assignments

6 written exercises to be handed in. 2 oral presentations of 10-15 minutes duration.

Evaluation

Written exercises count 30%, oral presentations count 20% in the final mark.
Oral, final examination (20-30 minutes) with external evaluator, based on curriculum as well as language skills, counts 50%.

Grades
ABCDEF

Revised date
2005.04.15