Learning Goals:

1. To review the German grammar and achieve higher levels of and greater consistency in grammatical accuracy.
   
2. To expand vocabulary knowledge so that you will be able
   • to talk and write about and comprehend a greater variety of topics.
   • to talk and write about  and comprehend already familiar topics with greater precision, i.e. so that you know more and more differentiated words to describe similar concepts or actions.

   You will also learn to learn and retain vocabulary most efficiently and according to your personal preferences.

3. To learn how to write appropriate to certain genres, i.e., to select the appropriate style (e.g. relying heavily on nouns or verbs or adjectives; selecting the correct tense) and to organize a writing assignment according to certain rules (e.g. re the progression of paragraphs etc.).
   
4. To develop successful reading strategies, according to different definitions of comprehension (e.g. getting the gist, being able to recount the content; analyze and  interpret the content etc.) and to practice reading at the example of a variety of text types and text topics.
   
5. To improve listening abilities and strategies, through interaction in class and also through exposure to absolutely authentic and unedited native German speech, mainly in videos.
   
6. To learn more about the cultures of the German speaking countries at the example of contemporary issues such as the environment, politics, historic developments etc., and at the example of literary works.
   
7. To develop your speaking and listening abilities so that you will be able to converse with untrained (i.e., not used to English speakers; no professional German teachers etc.) native speakers of German on a variety of topics of general issues.

These learning goals are reflected in the evaluation criteria.