DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES SSLC Meeting on Wednesday 20 November 2013 1.00 – 2.00 pm in Room H2.03 AGENDA 1) Apologies for absence 2) Minutes of the last meeting - attached 3) Chair’s Business i) Year 1 ii) Year 2 iii) Final Year iv) Postgraduates 4) Assessment strategy – document attached 5) Essay Writing lectures organized by Rochelle Sibley. Confusion about the assignment, what is required and how it should be submitted. 6) MLang - SA 7) First Year Student Volunteers to attend Focus Group Monday 2 December – paper attached 8) Postgraduate Open Day –Wednesday 27 November at 2.30 in TRC. 9) Any other business Subject: First Year Focus Group Dear all I would be very grateful if you could help recruit 5 first year students from your department to take part in a series of Sub-Faculty Focus Groups around University recruitment and admissions processes. The focus groups will be led by Simon Gilson. They will last 30mins each and will take place on Monday 2nd December in H3.02 as follows: Italian 12:00 - 12:30 Hispanics 12:30 - 1:00 French 1:00 - 1:30 German 1:30 - 2:00 If you have problems recruiting to the timeslot that your Department has been allocated, please do let me know as we may be able to offer an alternative date/time. Thanks in advance for your help with this. Teresa