MODERN LANGUAGES LAB (GERMAN LANGUAGE)

The course "Modern languages lab - German language" is framed in the Master Degree Programmes "Italian Philology, Linguistics and Literature" and "Classics", and in the Bachelor Degree Programmes "Lettere" and "Storia".

The course is open for interested students attending other Degree Programmmes.

Expected learning outcomes, with reference to the Dublin descriptors:

1. Knowledge and understanding of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis; the ability to understand simple critical texts; awareness of linguistic registers;
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the ability to understand simple and short academic texts. The metalinguistic awareness acquired in the module should facilitate language learning in an academic context.
3. Learning skills: understanding academic texts and the ability to translate them into Italian.

Good knowledge of Italian.

COURSE TITLE: German Language for Humanities

Expected learning outcomes:
1. Knowledge of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis; the ability to understand simple critical texts;
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the ability to understand simple short academic texts. The metalinguistic awareness acquired in the module should facilitate language learning in an academic context.
3. Learning skills: understanding simple academic texts and the ability to translate them into Italian.

A. Dictionaries:
- L. Giacoma / S. Kolb, Il nuovo dizionario di tedesco. Dizionario tedesco-italiano / italiano tedesco, Zanichelli, Bologna 2009 (o edizioni successive, disponibile anche con CD-ROM)
ISBN 978-3-88-0817768-1
- Langenscheidt online (bilingual): https://it.langenscheidt.com/tedesco-italiano
- DUDEN-online (monolingual): https://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline

B. Teaching materials on the course Moodle (https://moodle.unive.it/course/view.php?id=5210 );

C. Grammar books:
- Hilke Dreyer / Richard Schmitt, Grammatica tedesca con esercizi. Nuova edizione, Hueber, Ismaning 2013, ISBN 978-3-19-047255-0
- Friederike Jin / Ute Voß, Grammatik Aktiv. Übungsgrammatik A1-B1 mit Audios online. Üben, Hören, Sprechen, Cornelsen, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-06-024477-5
[anche in pacchetto con Grammatik Aktiv B+ Training für Fortgeschrittene zur Wiederholung der Grundgrammatik. Übungsbuch, Cornelsen, Berlin 2020]

D. Reading book:
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Der Fall Collini. Roman (2011), btb, München 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-71866-5

Oral exam (about 45 minutes) aiming to verify the abilities acquired by students, to check their knowledge of the whole programme and their ability to reflect critically on its topics (please see the course Moodle).

Front lectures that will introduce the students to the topics and the texts in the programme. Practicals.
Regular class sessions. Teaching materials will be provided in pdf format on the course Moodle.

Italian

Students are kindly requested to check frequently the notices on the lecturer's CF- home page.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development