Undergraduate Course: Foundation German Language 1 (ELCG07009)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	A course for beginners with no previous knowledge of German, designed to give absolute beginners a basic, working knowledge of spoken and written German. 1. Auditing (Class Only) is not allowed. All students must take all elements of assessment, including the examination. 2. Students will be allocated into a group. Each group has two classes, which run twice a week. You must be able to attend both. 3. Students with previous knowledge of the language are not permitted and may be asked to withdraw from the course. This course runs both in semester 1 and semester 2. On successful completion of the course students will be eligible to take Foundation German Language 2 (ELCG07008) (20 credits), which follows on from Foundation German Language 1.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	This is a course for complete beginners. Students with any prior knowledge of German will have to take the placement test in either the first class meeting or complete the online test by following the link: http://www.hueber.de/einstufungstests/schritte_international1/ . If the test does not open, please try a different web browser. Please send the test result to the course organiser who will recommend the right course level. Students who are not complete beginners will not have their place on the course confirmed until their level has been tested and confirmed by the course organiser.
Additional Costs	A course book A bilingual dictionary

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	This is a course for complete beginners. Students with any prior knowledge of German will have to take the placement test in either the first class meeting or complete the online test by following the link: http://www.hueber.de/einstufungstests/schritte_international1/ . If the test does not open, please try a different web browser. Please send the test result to the course organiser who will recommend the right course level. Students who are not complete beginners will not have their place on the course confirmed until their level has been tested and confirmed by the course organiser.
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 0
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 20, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 152 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Coursework 50% (in-class tests and written exercises) Degree exam 50% (A two-hour written paper) All students take all elements of assessment, including the examination.
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Foundation German Language 1		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Foundation German Language 1		2:00

Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 40
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 156 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Coursework 50% (in-class tests and written exercises) Degree exam 50% (A two-hour written paper) All students take all elements of assessment, including the examination.
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)	Foundation German Language 1		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Foundation German Language 1		2:00

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Knowledge and understanding: Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of concrete needs; can understand simple personal questions when people speak slowly and clearly. Practice: Applied knowledge and understanding: achieve German language competence comparable to the CEFR Level A1/1+; Can introduce him/ herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/ she lives, people he/ she knows and things he/ she has. Reading comprehension of short simple texts regarding personal information; Can write about him/ herself, using short, simple phrases. Generic cognitive skills: Produce and read texts on basic everyday themes; engage in listening, spoken and written language activities at A1/1+ level. Communication and ICT: Develop critical skills to ensure the use of reliable language resources both printed and/or digital (e.g. bilingual dictionaries, grammar books, translation tools). Autonomy, accountability and working with others: Take responsibility for independent vocabulary acquisition and grammatical study; for monitoring one�s engagement in German language activities outside of the classroom (eg. online resources, extra learning materials available from LEARN, main library, DVD library).

Reading List
None

Additional Information
Course URL	http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/open-languages
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Special Arrangements	This course is open to all students as a credit bearing course, or over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. Auditing this course is not allowed. You must be enrolled as CE (Class and Assessment including centrally arranged exam). DELC students may only take this course if it over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. Visiting students may only take the course for credits.
Additional Class Delivery Information	IMPORTANT: Students must attend pairs of classes. See Web Timetable. The First Class Meeting takes place in Week 1. The teaching classes will start in Week 2.
Keywords	OLFGERM1SEM1&2