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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Ludmila Jermakoviča
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Political Science
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Linguistics

Objective

Ensure that having completed the course, students are able to use German for communication in daily life in accordance with the description of skills corresponding to levels A1/A2 of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment”.

Prerequisites

Not required.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Students will be able to use standard vocabulary in German in spoken and written communication, able to recognise and distinguish between statements and questions; able to find the necessary information in the text; able to use the most necessary phrases to start a conversation and to maintain it; able to recognise the most common German language structures; able to recognise and determine whether the relevant statement or text is related to present, past or future activities Students are aware of the aspects of intercultural relations in the use of language.

Skills

Students will be able to comprehend simple texts on definite everyday issues, letters, invitations, advertisements in the press and other authentic materials; will gain the skils to use acquired language structures in everyday communication, to retell and paraphrase the text expressing own opinion, including the consideration of intercultural communication aspects, .

Competence

The competence to deliver brief personal information, information about your relatives, living conditions and studies, the competence to write an invitation and private letters, short messages, write down simple information, the competence to make a monologue on varios topics related to social life and jour studies, while demonstrating of the intercultural aspects of communication.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
International Relations - European Studies, SE3Bachelor’sLimited choiceLudmila Jermakoviča
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
International Relations - European Studies, SE4Bachelor’sLimited choiceLudmila Jermakoviča