This course introduces understanding, speaking, reading, and w riting skills and emphasizes basic German sentence structures.

Prerequisite: Functional fluency in English

If you complete this course and do well, you will be able to:

1. Speak, listen, read, and write through a variety of strategies.
2. Communicate about yourself and your immediate environment using sentences with basic grammatical structures.
3. Identify the geography, customs, and culture of German-speaking countries.

Other materials: Access code to MyGermanLab and a decent headset with microphones for speaking assignments and online (virtual) meetings.

Possible Assignments Include: (Subject to change each semester. The actual assignments are available in the Syllabus in the Blackboard course site on the first day of classes.)

Your final grade may be based on the following scale. Please note that you must also pass at least several exams in order to pass the course, regardless of your scores on the other assignments.

There are 4 exams in this course.