CULP: Academic Reading in German for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Researchers (Intermediate 1)

Prerequisites

This weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading German documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts:

The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc.

The second part will be devoted to the translation of original German texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a German passage. Students will be encouraged to bring along German texts from their own research to translate.

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• Graduate students from the School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
• Further details regarding Language Centre eligibility criteria are available

• The Intermediate 1 course requires some previous exposure to the German language. Preferably Level A1/A2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

• Research students based within the School of Arts & Humanities or School of Humanities & Social Sciences only.

Number of sessions: 15

Develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical, stylistic commentary, and translation.

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