NJ_AA20 Scholarly Skills in German

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Petr Pytlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Roland Anton Wagner, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Hana Peloušková, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
NJ_AA20/Kombi01: Fri 12. 3. 11:00–11:50 učebna 63, Fri 26. 3. 11:00–11:50 učebna 63, Fri 16. 4. 11:00–11:50 učebna 63, Fri 30. 4. 11:00–11:50 učebna 63, Fri 14. 5. 11:00–11:50 učebna 63, P. Pytlík, R. Wagner
NJ_AA20/Prez01: Tue 10:00–10:50 učebna 59, P. Pytlík
NJ_AA20/Prez02: Tue 18:00–18:50 respirium (5. nadzemní podlaží), R. Wagner
Prerequisites
The course is recommended for students in the 4th semester of the bachelor program. It can be absolved earlier if students meet (according to their own assessment) the following requirements:
- They have knowledge of German corresponding to level B2 of the Common European Framework of Languages.
- They have prior experience with reading longer texts in German.
- They have advanced productive language skills in German which allow them to argue a certain point of view, to refute objections to their arguments or to present and compare different points of view.
- They are prepared to work intensively on their written style and to improve their manuscripts.
- They are ready to spend a great amount of time in reading scientific texts and to revise their own texts.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to prepare the participants for writing class papers or a bachelor thesis in German. Students learn how to handle scientific texts, how to prepare comprehensive papers, how to organize their writings and how to coherently formulate hole passages in German. In addition, some basics of citing sources are introduced.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the students should be able to
- find their way through the formal demands laid on bachelor theses at the PdF MU,
- analyse, confront and excerpt basic literature on the topic,
- choose a proper topic of the BA thesis,
- give the thesis a coherent structure,
- make literature searches and compare the results,
- employ basic academic writing skills.
Syllabus
  • dealing with scholarly sources excerpting literature search aim of academic writing structuring of text paraphrasing, language skills describing pictures and tables quoting, plagiarism
Literature
  • BUCHNER, Patricia. Campus Deutsch : Deutsch als Fremdsprache : B2/C1. Edited by Oliver Bayerlein. 1. Aufl. München: Hueber, 2015, 95 s. ISBN 9783191010034. info
  • GRAEFEN, Gabriele and Melanie MOLL. Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch: lesen - verstehen - schreiben : ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Edited by Angelika Steets. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011, 181 s. ISBN 9783631609484. info
  • ROST, Friedrich. Lern- und Arbeitstechniken für das Studium. 6. Aufl. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010, 339 s. ISBN 9783531172934. info
Teaching methods
seminar, partly lecture: group assignments, literature search, presentations, training in writing skills, homework
Assessment methods
All writing assignments during the term have to be handed in (see detailed instructions on Moodle-Course). Text can be revized twice. The third version handed in has to be acceptable.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin v kombinované formě.
Teacher's information
Students can enrol in regular exercices covering the material of the course (NJ_AA21).
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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