Undergraduate Course: German Language Paper 1 (ELCG10016)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	The Language Paper 1 course will focus on German précis writing, German to English translation and German grammar at C1/C2 level on the CEFR.
Course description	This course develops students' skills in translation and writing in German. In translation, the course works with texts from contemporary German media covering a variety of subjects, and introduces students to the techniques and practice of translation as cultural mediation, and to questions of genre and text function, style and register. The other half of the course is concerned with précis writing: students produce summaries of English texts in German, reading for the informational content of the text and practising writing German that conveys complex information clearly, succinctly and in an appropriate style.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: German 2 (ELCG08006)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Entry to Honours in German

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2022/23, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 0
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 73 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	100% coursework Of which: 50% precis: 200 words (the precis mark is the average of the 3 precis coursework assignments submitted over the year) 50% translation: 350 words (the translation mark is the average of the 3 translation coursework assignments submitted over the year)
Feedback	Students will receive individual feedback on their assignments and group feedback will be available in the Learn folders provided for the week the feedback is due to be issued. Please be aware that grades located within Learn are provisional until these have been confirmed by the exam board at which point, they will be available via EUCLID.
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Demonstrate a broad palette of German vocabulary with a high degree of grammatical accuracy in writing, even on abstract, complex and unfamiliar topics, supported by a sophisticated understanding of the culture of the German-speaking countries. Engage successfully with complex written texts on concrete and abstract topics and in a variety of styles. Demonstrate an ability to extract information from a text and summarise it efficiently in German for a new audience. Engage with the practice of translation from German into English, showing an excellent command of English in an appropriate style and a sensitivity to cultural difference.