2024-2025 / LANG1938-1

German 5

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in economics : general, research focus3 crédits  
 Master in economics : general, teaching focus3 crédits  
 Master in management, teaching focus3 crédits  
 Master in management, professional focus in Banking and Asset Management3 crédits  
 Master in management engineering, professional focus in digital business3 crédits  
 Master in economics, general, professional focus in economic, analysis and policy3 crédits  
 Master in business engineering, professional focus in Financial Engineering3 crédits  
 Master in management, professional focus in Financial Analysis and Audit3 crédits  
 Master in management, professional focus in global supply chain management3 crédits  
 Master in management, professional focus in Intrapreneurship and Management of Innovation Projects3 crédits  
 Master in business engineering, professional focus in Intrapreneurship and Management of Innovation Projects3 crédits  
 Master in management, professional focus in international strategic marketing3 crédits  
 Master in economics, general, professional focus in macroeconomics and finance3 crédits  
 Master in management, professional focus in social and sustainable enterprise management3 crédits  
 Master en sciences de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en management des organisations et dynamiques sociales3 crédits  
 Master in management, professional focus in strategy and human resource management3 crédits  
 Master in management engineering, professional focus in sustainable performance management3 crédits  
 Master in business engineering, professional focus in Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics3 crédits  
 Master en sciences de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en management des entreprises sociales et Transition3 crédits  
 Master in business engineering, professional focus in science and technology3 crédits  
 Master in human resource management, professional focus in management (Gestion)4 crédits  
 Master in human resource management, professional focus in HR policy and management4 crédits  
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of social sciences)4 crédits  

Lecturer

Marie Mawhin

Language(s) of instruction

German language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

In this course, the student will:
1. expand and deepen his knowledge of business German, for the four skills:


  • listening
  • reading
  • speaking
  • writing
2. discover several aspects of business life in Germany.
Main topics:




  • sich bewerben (Bewerbungsschreiben, Bewerbungsgespräch)
  • Arbeitszeugnisse und Bewertungen
  • interkulturelle Unterschiede zwischen Deutschland und Belgien
  • Aktuelles aus Deutschland

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course will


  • help students to demonstrate scientific precision and a critical mind.
  • help students to communicate efficiently, internally and externally, about a company, organization or project.
  • allow students to improve their proficiency in German as a foreign language
  • allow students to raise their awareness of the multicultural and international features of their environment.
  • encourage students to be curious and to show a scientific precision of academic level.

 
At the end of Master: B1+, even better if European level B2
 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The student should already know German (European level B1).

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

In the class room:




  • brushing up the grammar rules
  • discovering several chapters of the book (vocabulary, grammar)
  • listening comprehension
  • oral exercises


Home work:




  • grammar and vocabulary exercises (for example on Lol@: online exercises)
  • reading comprehension exercises
  • written exercises


We'll regularly use multimedia engineering.
 

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

24 hours in the class room + exercises at home and on Lol@.

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Book and lecture notes:
"DaF im Unternehmen"  B1- Kurs- und Übungsbuch (Klett 2016) (as for "Allemand 4")
"Grundwortschatz", S. Deroose (online).
Exercises and documents on line on Lol@.
Other documents
Press articles, listening activities.
Recommended books
A translating dictionary, for example Harrap's or Langenscheidt.
A grammar book, for example: H. DREYER and R. SCHMITT: Grammaire allemande avec exercices. Hueber, or : H. BOUILLON: "Grammaire pratique de l'allemand", De Boeck, 3e édition, 2008.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions ) AND oral exam

Written work / report


Additional information:

 Individual evaluation.
Written exam (January): 40%: - listening comprehension - grammar and vocabulary - writing an e-mail
Part of the written assessment will be organised as an online evaluation by an external agency - more information about this during the semester.
Oral exam and written home work: 60%
The student who doesn't take all the parts of the exam will become 0/20 as final mark.




 
 
 

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Marie Mawhin, N1, office 218; marie.mawhin@uliege.be ; phone: + 32 (0)4 232 72 75.

 

 

Association of one or more MOOCs

Items online

Cours sur Lol@
Cours en ligne.