735 German in Administrative Practice
Content
- Demographic development in Slovenia
- Family life (single-parent families)
- Meaning of democracy (separation of powers)
- Youth, politics and voting rights
- Political system in Slovenia (constitution, parliament, …)
- Political system in Germany and Austria
- Rights of minorities and multilingualism (Slovene minority in Austria)
- Local self-government in Slovenia
- Local self-government in Germany (tasks of municipalities)
- Quality of life in cities (security and Oktoberfest)
- Structure of the EU and its policies
- Administrative offices and bureaucracy
Grammar structures: Relative clauses, Present Participle used as an Adjective, Prepositional phrases (Verb – Preposition Idioms), Past Participle, Adjectival Nouns, modal verbs in the preterit and perfect tense, subordinate clauses (indem, dadurch dass), Forms of the Passive Voice, Inflection of comparative and superlative form of Adjectives, subordinate clauses (wenn, damit, um + zu), Past Perfect Tense, subordinate clauses (III), Conjunctive I (forms), Inflection of Adjectives (II), “zu” with Infinitive, Past Conditionals, Indirect questions.
Objectives and competences
Objectives
- to help students to develop skills for reading and understanding of specific vocabulary referring to Local, State and European administration (at intermediate level);
- to help students to develop skills to compare the main characteristics of the political system in Slovenia, Germany and/or Austria and make conversation on common issues from public life and administration (at intermediate level);
- to help students to develop skills for writing a summary or expressing an opinion based on reading and listening materials (at intermediate level).
Competences
Students are able to:
- use more complex vocabulary of general and administration-related professional language (at intermediate level);
- understand reading/listening materials on various contents referring to public life and administration (at upper-intermediate level);
- talk about current events and issues from the administrative practice (at intermediate level);
- express opinion on certain problems and analyse (dis)advantages of possibilities (at intermediate level);
- write a summary/an opinion about a certain
- current professional topic (at intermediate level).