Deutsch als Fremdsprache: A2.1

You have taken your first steps in German. Expand your knowledge and linguistic possibilities with this course so that you can continue to get to know and understand your German-speaking Swiss environment better and better.

This course brushes up and deepens fundamentals of grammar and vocabulary and is the follow-up course to Deutsch als Fremdsprache: A1.2. It covers chapters 1–6 in Netzwerk neu A2.1. Participants will train for various linguistic situations from daily, academic, and professional life.

In the course, you will expand your vocabulary and grammar through texts, videos, and audio clips on topics like personal background, school, education, online communication and media, feelings, urban life, work, and career. You will learn how to express yourself simply and appropriately in various concrete daily and conversational situations and to write short and simple messages and texts.

Your grammar will be expanded to main and subordinate clauses, reflexive verbs, the past tense and subjunctive II of modal verbs, comparative adjectives, declensions of adjectives, and the genitive.

German, the target language, is the language of instruction; English may occasionally be used as an auxiliary language.

Course information

Course level
A2.1
Date
26.02.2025 - 28.05.2025
Wednesday, 16:00 - 18:00
32 Lessons
Lecturer
Ursula Riethmüller, lic. phil.
Credit points
2 ECTS
Registration deadline
Friday 21.02.2025
Course fee
Students and PhD candidates: CHF 343.00
Members of staff: CHF 643.00
Alumni: CHF 643.00
Alumni FHNW: CHF 643.00
Waiting list

There will be no class on 12 March and 23 April.

Course materials

Netzwerk neu A2.1, Kurs- und Übungsbuch; Klett Verlag 2020; ISBN: 978-3-12-607162-8

The following grammar text is recommended for self-study:

Grammatik aktiv - Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Übungsgrammatik (A1-B1); 2. aktualisierte Ausgabe, Cornelsen Verlag Berlin (ISBN: 978-3-06-122964-1).

Further details will be found in the course confirmation. Please do not acquire the course materials before then.

Attendance

Number of absences allowed: 2

Coursework

Participants are expected to:
  • participate actively in class;
  • complete learning assessments;
  • spend 3 hours per course session on preparing and reviewing the lesson and on autonomous learning.

Credit points

To earn the credit points, students must fulfill the attendance requirement, complete the coursework, and pass the required number of assessments. The course is graded on a pass-fail basis.

Important

The courses and services offered by the Language Center are open to the groups of people listed under Eligibility for Admission. Students must also be matriculated:
a) students at the University of Basel should enter their matriculation number on the registration form;
b) students from other Swiss universities or EUCOR universities should email a valid confirmation of their matriculation to info-sprachenzentrum@unibas.ch before registering for a course.
Registrations without proof of student status will not be considered.

Placement test

To register for this course, you are required to demonstrate that you are on the corresponding language level in one of the following ways:

a) on the registration form, note the title and semester of a successfully completed course at the University of Basel Language Center from the last two semesters; or
b) submit an officially recognized language certificate from the last two years to info-sprachenzentrum@unibas.ch; or
c) take a placement test and send a PDF of the results to info-sprachenzentrum@unibas.ch.

Replacement date

If the instructor has to cancel one or more course sessions, a make-up session will be held on: Saturday, 17 May 2025, between 10:00 and 16:00.

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