Objectives and competences
The aim is to extend and deepen the students' knowledge of the German speaking area. They will get acquainted with the geographical, historical, social, cultural and individual characteristics of the German speaking countries and regions. In doing so, the students develop their ability to reflect upon and to be able to do cross-cultural analysis of social, cultural and everyday aspects of life and to compare the findings with the reality in Slovenia and in the rest of the world.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- Geographic characteristics of the German speaking countries and reagions;
- socio-political order and economic ranking of German speaking countries and regions in the European space;
- education and lives of young people in the German-speaking area,
- Social and cultural diversity and forms of intercultural and multicultural reality of the societies;
- specific ideas and thinking of the people in the German speaking area - view from the inside and the outside.
Learning and teaching methods
- conversation,
- debate,
- reporting,
- resentation,
- individual work,pair work or group work,
- homework,
- learning by doing,
- problem solving,
- e-learning.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
The students
• know the geographical, socio-political and cultural situation in the German-speaking countries and regions;
• identify and understand the cross-cultural and multicultural aspects of different societies;
• analyze the situation, compare it and form their own picture of these countries and the attitudes and ideas of the people who belong to these cultural groups.
Readings
Vsi viri so dostopni preko spleta:
• Auswartiges Amt (2018): Tatsachen über Deutschland Societäta-Verlag.
• Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern (2018). Deutsches historisches Insitut Washington.
• Statistik Austria (2018): Österreich. Zahlen. Daten. Fakten. Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich, Wien.
• ch.ch. (2018): Die offizielle Schweiz im Internet. Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei.
• Regierung des Fürstentums Liechtensteins (2018): Liechtenstein. Daten und Fakten.
• Luxemburg.lu (2018): das offizielle Internetportal des Großherzogtums Luxemburg.
• Landesinstitut für Statistik ASTAT(2018): Südtirol in Zahlen.
Prerequisits
Prerequisits for acceding the course:
None.
Conditions for prerequisits:
Completed oral presentation and homeworks are a prerequisite for accession to the written examination.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Oral presentation 40 %
Active colaboration and homeworks 10%
Written exam 50 %
