GER 51Scientific German
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1968–69
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1967–68 to 1968–69 (before that, 1964–65 used the number for Micro Structure of Materials); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
A review of the fundamentals of grammar is followed by a more advanced study of language structure and idiom. Readings and translation from contemporary scientific writing in the Physical Sciences with the aim of helping the student to acquire a greater vocabulary and to master the stylistic difficulties peculiar to technical writing. The reading material will be selected in accordance with the field of study of the individual student. One term. 3 lectures.
As printed in the 1967–68 to 1968–69 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prerequisite: German 1-52 or equivalent. Permission of instructor.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1964–65 to 1968–69, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1967–68 to 1968–69 2 calendars
A review of the fundamentals of grammar is followed by a more advanced study of language structure and idiom. Readings and translation from contemporary scientific writing in the Physical Sciences with the aim of helping the student to acquire a greater vocabulary and to master the stylistic difficulties peculiar to technical writing. The reading material will be selected in accordance with the field of study of the individual student.
One term. 3 lectures.
Prerequisite: German 1-52 or equivalent. Permission of instructor.
Not in the 1965–66 to 1966–67 calendars.
1964–65 1 calendar
Another title: Micro Structure of Materials, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Crystal structure and lattice, X-ray and electron diffraction analysis, chemical binding, Bloch waves and band model, quantum statisticis, imperfections and their interactions, diffusion.