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2024/2025 BA-BBLTO1021U Area Studies 1 - German: State, identities and cultures
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| Area Studies 1 - German: State, identities and cultures |
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| Language | German |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Mandatory |
| Level | Bachelor |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Start time of the course | Autumn |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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Study Board for BSc and MSc in Business, Language and Culture,
BSc
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| Last updated on 28-06-2024 | |
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At the end of the course students should be able
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The exam in the subject consists of two parts:
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The first semester of Area Studies in German is built on two dimensions: Content and Language
The content dimension of German 1 provides a basic historical, geographical, political and cultural introduction to the German-speaking countries and regions (with a particular view to Germany), covering their identities, political cultures, economies and institutions as well as their international relations. The topics, concepts and perspectives raised during the course help develop the student's cultural sensitivity and understanding of viewpoints, narratives and institutions that are specific to the language area.
Topics dealt with in the course include: The characteristics and formation of the modern German, Austrian and Swiss states, their political and economic development after 1945 and after 1990, their identities (national, regional and local) and cultures (cultural standards), society and societies (demography, media, education and the family), economic relations (export, trade) and international co-operation.
The language dimension aims at improving the students’ basic language skills (grammar and vocabulary), pronunciation and fluency; as well as their reading and oral comprehension of the foreign language. Emphasis is also put on learning and using phrases needed to make presentations and to participate actively in discussions.
Integration The course lays the foundation of the second semester area studies course in German 2 - that focuses on markets, institutions and the interplay between globalization and local/specific contexts in the German speaking countries. It integrates with the course on Cultural Analysis for Business and it seeks to apply the concepts from this course to actual problems and cases from the German-speaking countries. Students are expected to apply the theories and methods from Cultural Analysis for Business to analyse and explain developments and behaviours in business-contexts in the German-speaking countries. They are trained in being aware of culturally based differences in behaviour and to reflect on the reasons for these differences and the consequences for intercultural communication and collaboration.
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In the course students acquire deep knowledge on markets and learn to interpret the workings of markets in the broad context of language, identity, history, and culture. They learn to deduce knowledge from different sources and to be critical about their own cultural understanding and possible biases when interpreting and discussing new knowledge with fellow students.
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| All teaching takes place in German and all reading is also in German. The course integrates content and language learning so that the foreign language is used to acquire content combined with language instruction. A combination of lectures, class discussions and student presentations develops the students’ knowledge and ability to analyse and understand current political, cultural and social processes in the chosen region. The course takes a blended approach to learning, integrating online and face-to-face activities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Feedback is given continuously through written
and oral assignments, both as Teacher supervised peer-to-peer
feedback, quizzes and tests (online and offline) and as
individual/group discussions (online and offline). Students are
encouraged to participate in feedback activities and to make use of
the weekly office hours for individual feedback (office hours can
also be online by arrangement).
The students are offered individual feed-back in 2 voluntary assignments of 3 pages each. These exercises help the students to work independently with the topics and to train linguistic phenomena needed for the oral discussions. |
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Please note that this course will be discontinued and run for the last time in Autumn 2024. The last exam will be offered in winter 2025. |
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To be announced on Canvas |
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