Preparation, attendance and participation

Attendance Campus students attend all the classes. Students absent due to illness or other valid reasons should notify the Unit Convenor or the Department Administrator (jennifer.heward@mq.edu.au W6A 217, phone: +61 2 9850 7005). Repeated unexplained absences will result in the exclusion from the course. For external students "attendance" means regular presence and active regular participation in the iLearn forums of GMN315. For external students, too, absence from regular online participation due to illness or other valid reasons needs to be communi  cated to the Unit Convenor or notification should be sent to the Department Administrator (jennifer.heward@mq.edu.au W6A 217, phone: +61 2 9850 7005).

Preparation: Students are expected to prepare the course work to be covered in class in advance, as set out in programs or announced in class.

Punctuality: Please arrive on time for classes. Arriving late is very disruptive. All classes start five minutes past the hour. If you should arrive late, it is your responsibility to find out what you have missed.

• Day/campus students:  Attendance and active participation at these classes (seminars), as well as regular access to and interaction with the iLearn site for GMN 315 are compulsory components of the unit.
• External students: the study materials and recordings of campus seminars are available on the iLearn website for GMN 315. Participation in the weekly online forums is a compulsory component of the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Guidelines for researching and composing the assessment tasks as well as assessment criteria (rubics) are available on iLearn. The assessment tasks are to be submitted electronically in the "drop-boxes" set up in the iLearn website. With regard to the oral presentations  special arrangements will be made for the external students.

The Assessment Tasks are compulsory and must be submitted electronically at the time specified. By electronically submitting their assignments, students declare that they have read and understood the plagiarism statement in this study guide. They certify that their assignment is entirely their own work and that they have given fully documented references to the work of others, and that their assignments have not previously, in part or in whole, been submitted for assessment in any formal course of study. Late assignment policy: Assessment tasks / assignments are compulsory and must be submitted on time. Late submissions will be penalized by 2% for each day (including weekends) the assignment task is late. No assignments will be accepted after assignments have been corrected and feedback has been provided.

Extensions can only be granted in exceptional cases and may only be sought in consultation with the unit convenor and before the assignment is due.  As a general rule, extensions will not be granted without a valid and documented reason (e.g. medical certificate).

Assessment tasks handed in early will not be marked and returned before the due date.

For Disruption of Studies Policy see under Policies and Procedures.

NOTE - Examination Period:  Students enrolled in units that require them to sit for compulsory examina­tions (to be held during business hours) during the official examination period must not arrange to go away before the end of the exam period. Exams could be scheduled for Satur­days during that period. Do not expect that alternative examination arrangements can be made for you. The only exceptions to this are:

a)    members of the armed forces who must go away on duty; b)   students representing Australia or the University in a national or international sporting or cultural event; c)    students proceeding to a period of study in a foreign country, associated with their Macquarie program of study.

To satisfactorily complete the unit

students are required to attend all seminars and complete all assessment tasks by the due dates specified in the Unit Guide. Accordingly, external students are required to make weekly contributions in the online forums and also complete all assessment tasks by the due dates specified in the Unit Guide.

Delivery of GMN415 Advanced German IV

This unit has an online presence. Login is via: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/  Students are required to have regular access to a computer and the internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.

• For technical support go to http://mq.edu.au/about_us/offices_and_units/informatics/help
• For student quick guides on the use of iLearn go to http://mq.edu.au/iLearn/student_info/guides.htm

Day/campus students meet at the Seminar. For details, please check http://students.mq.edu.au/student_admin/timetables Attendance and active participation at these seminars (Day/campus students), as well as regular access to and interaction with the iLearn site for GMN415 (external and Day/campus students) are compulsory components of the unit. For the external students, materials and recordings of the campus seminars are available on the iLearn website for GMN415.

Required Texts

German Grammar exercises

• Hans Földeak, Sag's besser! Ein Arbeitsbuch für Fortgeschrittene - Teil 2 (deutsch üben 6). Ismaning: Hueber Verlag, 2. Auflage 2007. ISBN 978-3-19-007454-9

Literature

• Ulrich Treichel, Menschflug (Suhrkamp Verlag ISBN 978-3-518-41712-6)  (Roman)
• Birgit Vanderbeke, Das lässt sich ändern (Piper ISBN 978-3-492-27476-0) (Roman)

Recommended Texts

Grammar books - for reference

• Richard Schmitt und Hilke Dreyer, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik, Munich: Hueber, ISBN 978-3-19-307255-9
• Richard Schmitt and Hilke Dreyer, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik – aktuell Lösungsschlüssel zu allen Sprachfassungen, Munich: Hueber, ISBN 978-3-19-407255-8

• Wolfgang Rug and Andreas Tomaszewski, Grammatik mit Sinn und Verstand, Stuttgart: Klett, ISBN 978-3-12-675422-4
• Wolfgang Rug and Andreas Tomaszewski, Grammatik mit Sinn und Verstand – Lösungsheft, Stuttgart: Klett, ISBN 978-3-12-675423-1

Dictionaries - for all ongoing language work

In this course, you will also need to work with a German dictionary.  A dictionary which is sufficiently comprehensive to take you through your complete program of German studies is:

• Terrell, P. et al Collins German-English, English-German (Großwörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch, Englisch-Deutsch)

We suggest that you regularly work with a monolingual dictionary. In a monolingual dictionary, a German word or expression is explained in German. We recommend one such dictionary written for the intermediate and upper intermediate level learner of German. It is available in hardcopy or as ebook:

• Götz, D., Haensch, G. & H. Wellmann Langenscheidts Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache Berlin/München: Langenscheidt (latest edition)
• A good online dictionary is http://dict.leo.org/

The detailed unit schedule is made available on iLearn.

To further consolidate language skills at level C1, described as follows in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR): As a proficient user you can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognise implicit meaning; express yourself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions; can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes; produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices. Students performing with outstanding performance will attain language skills as described for Level C2 of the Common European Framework: can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read; can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation; can express themselves spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.