Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Pflicht- und Wahlpflichtkurse
English translation:
required/compulsary courses and elective courses
Added to glossary by
Jonathan MacKerron
Mar 3, 2009 17:05
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German term
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Pflicht- und Wahlpflichtkurse
German to English
Social Sciences
Education / Pedagogy
in the context of new Master/Bachelor requirements in Germany -
compulsory and optional courses??
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compulsory and optional courses??
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Selected
required courses and elective courses
elective courses does not mean that they are not required; it just means that they are selected among a few possible options.
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Required Courses and Electives
Usually for a program at least in the US some courses are mainly required from your program (no choice) but you can take some electives
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KARIN ISBELL
: compulsory courses and electives
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LP Schumacher
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mandatory [modules] and mandatory elective [modules]
so gesehen auf der Website der FH München
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Michele Johnson
: Something like this, to distinguish them from pure Wahlfächer
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Nicole Schnell
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hazmatgerman (X)
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Sonja Marks-Terrey
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The right word, the right style.
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Compulsory and optional courses (or modules)
This is in British English where courses are usually referred to as optional, not elective. Course vs. module depends on the organisation of the degree course. This is my experience anyway...
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Michele Johnson
: Optional sounds too far away from "Wahl*" to me, like you don't have to take them at all, but that may be an American thing.
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I think you`re right about the American thing. My degree course consisted of compulsory and optional components (that's the word, not cpurses!!) and you had to select three of the options from a list. Same result I'm sure, just a BE/AE difference.
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Lancashireman
: If this is the same project that JM was working on last month when he admitted to working on an EU text (i.e. UK readership), he will want to avoid the US term ‘elective’ and choose your ‘optional’ designation.
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compuslory courses and elective requirements
I think elective requirements covers WahlPFLICHTkurse better. Or else you could use "compulsory electives." After all, there are Wahlfächer and Wahlpflichtfächer.
See this:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/education_pedago...
See this:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/education_pedago...
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Michele Johnson
: Definitely on the right track. I think it's important to distinguish between Pflicht, Wahlpflicht and Wahl.
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Thanks, Michele!
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