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202 Course Content:

Required text: Der Weg zum Lesen

The following topics are presented in 202:

• Short stories by prominent 20 th-century German authors
• Vocabulary from the stories
• Class discussions of stories
• Study of grammatical structures used in the stories

202 Course Objectives:

• Carry on a conversation (3-10 minutes) about familiar topics from German 101-202
• Understand brief conversations (5-10 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from German 101-202
• Read literary selections (5-15 pages) about unfamiliar topics, with some guidance and the help of a dictionary
• Write brief compositions (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from German 101-202, with the help of a dictionary
• Think and write analytically in German about texts
• Be able to give a short presentation in German

202 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Be able to read with good comprehension the short stories
• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary from stories
• Write (and re-write) several essays (Aufsätze)
• Give a brief presentation in German