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In second year (SF), we increase your exposure to Business German. You continue to develop your general language skills, but also attend a specialist language course in Business German, along with programmes in writing Business German and in understanding the German business environment. You will be working on individual and group projects, case-studies and video presentations. Where possible a comparative approach is adopted and you are encouraged to compare and contrast business practice in German-speaking countries and in Ireland. There will be a strong focus on preparing you for your third year abroad: This includes a course on the university system in German-speaking countries.
Course Structure LANGUAGE FLUENCY
GR2000 SF German Language (3 hrs per week = 2 hrs class and 1 hr private study MT, HT, TT)
GR2001 SF Spoken German (1 hr per week MT, HT, TT)
GR2002 SF Grammar Tutorial (1 hr per week MT, HT, TT, attended by students who achieved less than 50% in the written language exams in JF)
GR2003 Business German 2 (2 hrs per week MT, HT, TT)
GR2010 Core Lecture: The Legacy of German Cultural History (1 hr per week, MT, HT, TT)
GR2010 THE LEGACY OF GERMAN CULTURAL HISTORY
The Lecture Course follows on from the JF Area Studies lecture and extends its approach further into the past. It introduces students to to key questions of the history and culture of the three German speaking countries and investigates how these have shaped today’s societies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Special emphasis is put o the relevance of the past since 1800 for understanding the present.
Topics include: The Enlightenment and notions of Bildung and Kultur, German nationalism, militarism and the authoritarian tradition, the industrial and scientific revolutions, the Holocaust and its remembering, modernism, and media.
The course will be taught through German with English summaries.
Bibliography and handout will be provided.
The course is examined by an essay of 1200 to 1500 words (Project 1, worth 15% of the language mark) at the end of HT and an aural during the June examination period (worth 10% of the language mark)
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GR2000 SF GERMAN LANGUAGE:
The first half of the course has Universität as its thematic focus: It provides an introduction to the German university system and its study practices, for example, note-taking, summarising, group work and oral presentations. In grammar the emphasis is on the structural and syntactic features of academic German.
The second half of the course has Fachsprache as its thematic focus: It provides an introduction to the specialist register of Business Studies through exposure to a cross-section of text types from oral and written discourse. Selected lexical and syntactical features of the Fachsprache are examined and particular emphasis is placed on developing presentation skills in the appropriate specialist register. Classroom activities include discussion of the criteria which can be used to classify a text as Fachsprache, comparison of specialist written and oral texts of the same genre in German and English to identify differences and similarities in the structure of discourse, and translation.
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GR2003 BUSINESS GERMAN 2:
The business German course concentrates on topical commercial issues such as industrial relations, organisational structures and management systems. Where possible a comparative approach is adopted and students are encouraged to compare and contrast business practice in German-speaking countries and in Ireland.
In addition, students attend a course in writing (1 hour per week) in MT and in Weeks 1-3 of HT. From Week 4 of HT until the end of TT, students take a course in commercial correspondence. It covers the techniques of letter writing and faxing, international commercial terms, legal and insurance regulations.
SCHOLARSHIP
Students take a 3 hour examination paper in language fluency based on JF and SF German Language inclusive. They take a 3 hour paper based on Business German 1 and 2. There is also an oral and aural component. The Business German paper consists of an essay type question, analysis of statistical material and a business letter.
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