Norm und Variation

3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1020996BER for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Possible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Students must have taken 'Deutsche Morphosyntax', before they can enroll this course. Enrolling for this course, means that you simultaneously take 'Language variation and change' or have successfully passed it. If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions.

Taught in

German

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Katja Lochtman (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
50 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The overall theme is "Norm and Variation in Contemporary German".

First the history of German is briefly discussed. Then questions are discussed such as:

What is the standard and is there one standard German language? What is an error? What is variation?

The theme is explored in more depth using case studies about new developments in contemporary German.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : De tekst, de powerpointpresentaties van het hoorcollege en een reader, Canvas en/of via e-mail ter beschikking gesteld

Additional info

All course materials (texts, reader and powerpoint präsentations) will be made available on Canvas. Students are also expected to take notes during the course.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

- Students gain insight into variational linguistics for modern German
- Students acquire oral presentation skills in German
- Students improve their oral competence in German

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
LEC Presentation determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: ‘Exam questions will be distributed during the last lecture. Students can ask questions if there are uncertainties’

Within the LEC Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Report with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: Het referaat (de geschreven basistekst, de inhoud, de manier van presentatie, de originaliteit) bepaalt de helft van het cijfer.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The presentation (content, way of presenting, originality) determines half of the final mark. The other half is acquired at the oral exam. The exam questions will be made available in the last session. Students must participate in all parts of the evaluation process in order to pass the course. Students who fail to participate in all the parts of the evaluation procedure will be automatically marked as ‘absent’. Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark (min. 10/20). If the student did not obtain a pass mark or was absent for the presentation in the first exam session, the presentation has to be held as part of the oral exam in the second exam session. At the oral exam, students are granted written preparation time.

Generative AI may not be used to generate output related to the evaluation task.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context