Evening Classes 2021/2022 - Registration open!

This year, we will be offering two types of courses:

1) Special Collaboration with the Goethe Institute Dublin

2) Departmental Evening Courses

1) Evening course in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute Dublin

Blended Learning Course A2.1

Blended Learning combines the benefits of live sessions with a teacher and other students and the flexibility of self-study on the learning platform. The course is divided equally between independent study and live-sessions, which leads to optimal learning results.

The UCC anchors for this cooperation are Dr. Werner Garstenauer and Sabine Manhartsberger. They will be engaging with the course in its first iteration, and shall be on hand to help with local enquiries.

HOW THE COURSE WORKS:

Online live sessions

You will attend online live teaching sessions with the teacher and the group.

The "face-to-face" classes take place once a week on Zoom. In these live sessions, you learn in a group of between 8 and 15 participants. You can exchange ideas with the other course participants in person or interactively via chat and forums. The teacher gives you individual feedback on your exercises and is available to answer questions.

Learning Platform

One part of the course is dedicated to self-study, where you have the chance to study at a time that suits you. You will be working through varied exercises on our modern learning platform.

Course times:

04.10.2021 – 05.12.2021 (no lessons on bank holiday Monday 25.10.2021)

8 weeks, 3 teaching units (45 minutes each) every Monday 6.30pm to 9.00pm, 3 units of self-study on the learning platform each week; 48 units per course

Fees:

425€ (full price)

385€ (cooperation discount for UCC staff members with valid ID)

345€ (student discount for UCC students with valid ID)

Registration: Please contact the Goethe-Institut directly via their Language Course Office german-dublin@goethe.de or by filling in the enrolment form on their website: Contact and enrolment - Goethe-Institut Irland 

2) Departmental Evening Courses

The departmental evening courses are slower-paced classes. Students take take 40 hours over two terms and a total of 20 weeks; this is divided on one teaching session per week consisting of 2x 50 minute-classes. The courses will be offered completely online (Microsoft Teams). The number of places is limited.

Term 1: 10 weeks from week of 4th October 2021 - 10th December 2021. 

Term 2: 10 weeks from 17th January 2022 - 21st March 2022.

Fees: 350€. For UCC Staff, Student, OAPs or Unemployed: 300€

Registration and payment for departmental evening courses is now open:https://uccshop.ie/shop/german-evening-classes-2021/ 

For B1 classes, please get in touch with the evening class coordinator directly via mail: dragan.miladinovic@ucc.ie 

You will receive an e-mail to notify you once the payment is open.

Placement: If you are looking to take the A2 or B1 evening class, please go to https://www.hueber.de/motive/einstufungstest  and take the placement test for the desired language level. Send your results to the co-ordinator of the evening classes, Dragan Miladinović (dragan.miladinovic@ucc.ie) who will contact you with regards to a recommendation.

Course books:

For A1: Motive A1 Kursbuch + Arbeitsbuch (course book and work book),

For A2: Motive A2 Kursbuch + Arbeitsbuch (course book and work book), 

For B1: Motive B1 Kursbuch + Arbeitsbuch (course book and work book).

These books are also available in digital format: https://shop.hueber.de/en/reihen-und-lehrwerke/motive-dreibandige-ausgabe.html

Alternatively, books can be bought in the UCC book shop and/or in various online shops. 

Please note: All courses are dependant on a minimum number of people, we are regrettably unable to offer any refund (in full or in part) once the course has started. However, fees (in full) will be returned in case a course does not go ahead due to too few participants. 

Age Policy: 

For pedagogical reasons our policy is to accept only people who are age 18 or above.

Further Information:

For queries regarding placement and course content, please contact Dragan Miladinović: dragan.miladinovic@ucc.ie.