B.A. (German) Admission 2025, Eligibility, Practice Papers, Entrance Exams

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Subjects of Study

Papers

Topics - Modern German Language (Optional German)

I

Unit 1: Articles & Plural formation, conjugation of separable & inseparable verbs
Unit 2: eins-keins u.a.; ja, nein, doch; question formations
Unit 3: Personal-, possessiv- und Reflexivpronomen ( alle Faelle ), Praepositionen
Unit 4: Modalverben; Adjektivendungen; Was fuer ein- und Welch-
Unit 5: Praesens, Praeteritum und Perfekt der Verben
Unit 6: Gliedsaetze (wenn, weil, ob, dass, bevor, waehrend etc.)
Unit 7: Numbers and time, buying, selling and renting
Unit 8: Adverbs; K-II; Passiv
Unit 9: Comprehension ; Landeskunde
Unit 10: Tranlation [ Deutsch-Englisch/ Gujarati-Deutsch

I

Topics - Use of modern German language (Minor German) 

Unit 1: Passiv – all forms
Unit 2: Relativsaetze – all forms
Unit 3: Adjektivendungen ; Praepositionen
Unit 4: All forms of subclauses in German ; K-II
Unit 5: K-I und inderekte Rede
Unit 6: Infinitivsaetze; Attributsaetze; Modalverben
Unit 7: Forms of science and technical German
Unit 8: Forms of Business German
Unit 9: Technical Translation (Deutsch-English/ Gujarati-Deutsch)
Unit 10: Business Writing

II

Topics - Landeskunde and Literature 

Unit 1: Short Stories
Unit 2: Short Stories
Unit 3: Poetry
Unit 4: Skits
Unit 5: Fairy Tales and comics
Unit 6: Historical information on German speaking countries
Unit 7: Political information on German speaking countries
Unit 8: Social information on German speaking countries
Unit 9: Legal information on German speaking countries
Unit 10: Cultural information on German speaking countries

I

Topics - Use of modern German language (Major German)

Unit 1: Passiv – all forms
Unit 2: Relativsaetze – all forms
Unit 3: Adjektivendungen ; Praepositionen
Unit 4: All forms of subclauses in German ; K-II
Unit 5: K-I und inderekte Rede
Unit 6: Infinitivsaetze; Attributsaetze; Modalverben
Unit 7: Forms of science and technical German
Unit 8: Forms of Business German
Unit 9: Technical Translation (Deutsch-English/Gujarati-Deutsch)
Unit 10: Business Writing

II

Landeskunde – Information on German speaking countries and use of language 

Unit 1: Austria
Unit 2: Germany
Unit 3: Switzerland
Unit 4: Other German speaking countries
Unit 5: India in German speaking countries
Unit 6: Use of language in print media
Unit 7: Business texts
Unit 8: Scientific and technical texts
Unit 9: Language of films and advertising
Unit 10: Poetic texts

III

Literature – Introduction to German literature and thought 

Unit 1: Short prose (6)
Unit 2: Skits and Radio plays (6)
Unit 3: Poems and songs (6)
Unit 4: Caricatures and comics (12)
Unit 5: Introduction to interpretation, Literature terminology, Style and text analysis

IV

Language and Linguistics (German) 

Unit 1: Geschichte der Linguistik ; Semantik 
Unit 2: Semiotik ; Syntax
Unit 3: Phonetik ; Phonologie, Wortbildung
Unit 4: Interferenzlinguistik ; Konstrastive Linguistik
Unit 5: Textlinguistik ; Pragmalinguistik
Unit 6: Soziolinguistik, Standardsprache ; Umgangsprache ; Fachsprache
Unit 7: Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik

V

Landeskunde – History of German speaking countries from 1900 till today 

Unit 1: Vor dem 1. Weltkrieg
Unit 2: Der I. Weltkrieg
Unit 3: Zwischen den Weltkriegen
Unit 4: Der 2. Weltkrieg
Unit 5: Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg
Unit 6: BRD, DDR, Oesterreich, Liechtenstein, die Schweiz
Unit 7: Unified Germany and European Union

VI

Introduction to Translation and Interpretation 

Unit 1: Theories of translation
Unit 2: Literary translation
Unit 3: Scientific translation
Unit 4: Technics of Interpretation
Unit 5: Translation of texts ( Deutsch-English/Gujarati-Deutsch )

VII

Literature - Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, & Classic 

Unit 1: Aufklaerung –Theorie; Nathan der Weise
Unit 2: Politische und soziale Situationen, Probleme der Schriftsteller
Unit 3: Drama,Lyrik und Prosa in der Zeit der Aufklaerung
Unit 4: Fabel ,Novelle und Bildungsroman
Unit 5: Gottsched, Lessing und Lenz-Leben und Werk
Unit 6: Sturm und Drang –Theorie ; Die Leiden des jungen Werthers und Prometheus von Goethe
Unit 7: Classic – Theory and Works 

VIII

Literatur -Romanticism, Vormaerz & Realismus

Unit 1: French Revolution and its impact on Greman speaking countries.
Unit 2: Realism – Theory and Works, Bürgerlicher Realismus
Unit 3: Goethes Faust Teil I
Unit 4: Romantik – Theorie , E. T. A. Hoffman ,Tieck ,Grillparzer-Leben und Werk
Unit 5: Heine -Leben und Werk
Unit 6: Buechner – Leben und Werk
Unit 7: Vormaerz -Die Epoche und ihre Vertreter

IX

Kultur und Tourismus

Unit 1: Kulturperiode und Stilmerkmale I
Unit 2: Kulturperiode und Stilmerkmale II
Unit 3: Architektur und Bildende Kunst
Unit 4: Musik, Film, Theater, Massenveranstaltung
Unit 5: Touristische Interessen
Unit 6: Indien als Standort
Unit 7: Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Reprasentation