BA German and Theatre and Performance

Year 3

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year abroad students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- Engage in everyday conversation, write basic sentences and read simple texts in German;
- Being able to communicate effectively information, arguments and analysis in a variety of spoken and written forms;
- Having consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures and registers of German;
- Being able to demonstrate an ability to evaluate critically one or more aspects of the literatures, cultures, linguistic contexts, history, politics, geography, social and economic structures of the German-speaking world;
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of one or more cultures and societies, other than their own, that will normally have been significantly enhanced by a period of residence in a German-speaking country;
- Work autonomously within a structured environment.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- Oral, written and practical skills in German;
- The organisation of life and study in a German-speaking country;
- Inter-personal skills required to operate in German society
- The ability to appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;
- Skills necessary for the communication of information;
- Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility and decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed (on a Pass/Fail basis) by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes specified for the residence abroad and will include:

- Regular completion and end-of-year submission, and associated debriefing, of a (normally web-based) Year Abroad Log;
- Regular language exercises set by the University of Leeds Department of German;
- Demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline
- Work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- The ability to evaluate critical opinion;
- Demonstrating a knowledge base that is both broad and, sometimes, specialised.