GERM 5900 - Advanced German Conversation and Composition

Goals: To enable students to speak and write more proficiently and more idiomatically leading toward mastery of fine points of German structure and style. Students learn to express convincingly their own ideas in German.

Content: Equal weight is given to conversation and composition. Written and oral exercises focus on discursive patterns and the most frequent sources of lexical and syntactical errors. Conversations and essays are based on all genres and films as well as on current German cultural issues.

Taught: Annually.

Recommended prerequisites: GERM 3220 and 3230, or equivalents.

Credits: 4 credits