The major objective is to provide the environment for students to develop, or develop further, their communicative competence in German, which includes grammatical, discourse, sociolinguistic and strategic competence. Equal emphasis is placed on the four primary language learning skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing, and students are set progressive targets for linguistic competence. Students beginning German at Monash have the opportunity to access the more advanced courses of the post-VCE stream at third-year level. The competence aimed at for students majoring in German is a good level of achievement in the internationally recognised Mittelstufenprüfung. This requires an ability to speak German with sufficient fluency and accuracy to participate in conversation of both social and abstract types, to understand the main elements of all standard speech, to express oneself effectively in writing and to read with adequate understanding a range of German text types.
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