Course: German for PhD Students 2

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Course title German for PhD Students 2
Course code KFL/N2D
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 8
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bibko Daniel, Doc. Dr.
  • Čada Michal, Doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
To translate technical German text concerning the topic of student´s thesis. To read, understand and reproduce German technical text. To catch main idea of German text (in Czech). To talk about student´s thesis, discuss about their specialization.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Instruction based on dialogue, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Group discussion, Skills demonstration, Students' self-study, Self-study of literature, Textual studies, Lecture, Seminar
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 100 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 57 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15) - 25 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
No prerequisite courses.
learning outcomes
Students will acquire foreign-language skills lead to make: -resume in Czech of a 50-page perused technical text on the basis of German original text, not only of text, which has been translated to German (3 pages) -translation of 10-page hitherto not translated German technical text to Czech language -vocabulary of 150 lexical units with terminological aspect from translated text Students will also acquire communication skills: -students will fluently speak in German about their thesis and respond questions concerning chosen topic -students will read loudly and translate an original German text without using a dictionary Students will recognize grammatical phenomenon appearing in translated text.
teaching methods
Lecture
Seminar
Textual studies
Skills demonstration
Group discussion
Self-study of literature
Students' portfolio
One-to-One tutorial
Discussion
assessment methods
Combined exam
Recommended literature
  • Becker, Norbert; Braunert, Jörg. Dialog Beruf 3 : Arbeitsbuch. 1. Aufl. Ismaning : Max Hueber Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-19-011592-3.
  • Buscha, Joachim. Grammatik in Feldern : ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch für Fortgeschrittene. 1. Aufl. Ismaning : Verlag für Deutsch, 1998. ISBN 3-88532-681-7.
  • Gutterer, Gisela, Latour, Bernd. Grammatik in wissenschaftlichn Texten. Studienreihe DaF, Max Hueber Verlag, Ismaning, 1998.
  • Kühn, P. Bausteine. Fachdeutsch für Wissenschaftler. Julius Groos Verlag, Heidelberg, 1992.
  • Meyner, Ernst, A. Berichte und Protokolle schreiben. Düsseldorf, Wien, Econ Taschenbuchverlag GmbH, 1993.
  • Weinrich, Harald. Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache. Dudenverlag, Mannheim, 1993.


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Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Foreign Relations (18-1,2,3,4) Category: Social sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Foreign Relations (14-7) Category: Social sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Ethnology (11-6) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Modern History (17-6) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (12-6) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -