MW 9:00-9:50 + one discussion section on R or F

This course shows students how to read folk and fairy tales in new ways and to see our own culture in a critical historical perspective. Readings and class lectures highlight key issues and anxieties of European culture from 1400 to 1900 as well as reveal how people used magic and fantasy to counteract and explain everyday life in Europe.  Students will learn how to read tales through multiple critical lenses. Taught in English.  Now with discussion groups!

Fulfills half of USP III. C. Humanities Requirement.

GER 361
Instructor: Jeff Rogers

German Cinema

TR 9:30-10:45

Fulfills half of USP III.C. Humanities Requirement.

GER 101, 102, 201 and 202

Elementary and Intermediate German

Please check the Schedule of Classes for the wide selection of times and days. Introductory language courses should be taken concurrently during the first two years of study if at all possible. Learn more and succeed: fulfill your language requirement in four semesters and then move on to take advanced courses in the language or study abroad.

TR 11:00-12:15

German 206 concentrates on the development of speaking and listening skills. Students learn to negotiate everyday communication situations by acquiring verbal strategies and idiomatic expression needed for meaningful interaction in a German-speaking environment.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: GER 201 or equivalent.

Intermed. German Comp. and Convers. II

MWF 12:00-12:50

Students continue to develop their skills in the German language by reviewing grammar, completing oral and written projects, including work with films and Internet sites. The class will concentrate on the history, sites, people, and cultural products of the various German states.

 Prerequisite: GER 307 or equivalent.

GER 310
Instructor: Hillary Herzog

German for International Business and Professions

TR 11:00-12:15

Through class readings, assignments and discussions, students will gain a broad understanding of the way business is practiced in German-speaking countries.  Themes of the course include: Germany’s recovery efforts and the state of the economy in the wake of the global recession, Germany’s role in the EU, the conditions of the German labor market, and Germany’s function as a player in the world economy.  Students will enhance their abilities in all aspects of the German language: reading, writing, speaking, and aural comprehension.

 Prerequisite: GER 307 or permission of instructor.

To be arranged

This course is designed for students who wish to do advanced work in German on any subject. May be repeated up to a maximum of six credit hours.  

Prerequisite: Major and a standing of 3.0 in the Division.

Studies in Genre: Film

TR 3:30-4:45

This course examines the development of film as a narrative form in Germany from its invention at the end of the 19th century to the present. Periods include Weimar, Third Reich, Postwar, East German, New German Cinema and Contemporary. Represent-ative films from each period will be discussed in their socio-historical context. Additional readings will trace the development of a critical discourse on film. Readings include Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and Adorno's "Culture Industry." Films include The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, The Last Laugh, La Habanera, Olympia, Baron Münchhausen, Förster vom Silberwald, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Männer and Gegen die Wand.

TR 2:00-3:15

This course explores the major developments of German literature and culture from the end of the 19^th century through 2000. Readings focus on poetry, prose, and plays by major 20^th-century authors. We will consider different strategies of readings elicited by various genres and texts from different historical periods. We will examine important literary movements, tracing the different contours of modernist prose and examining such developments as Expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Dada, the literary experi-ments of the Gruppe 47, the political engagement of the so-called ‘68ers, and the reemergence of a vital Jewish culture in German-speaking countries.

M/W 6:00-6:50

This course provides a forum for the theoretically informed discussion of practical issues surrounding the teaching of elementary college-level German using a communicative, four-skills approach. Areas of focus include: long and short-term lesson planning, structuring a productive class hour, making effective use of a textbook, developing different types of classroom activities and supplementary materials, testing and evaluation, and accommodating a variety of learner styles and goals. The course will expand students’ awareness and understanding of foreign language learning while assisting them to gain competence as teachers, developing their pedagogical styles and skills.

M/W 3:30-4:45

Peter Handke’s essayistic and literary interventions in the discourse on the Yugoslavian wars of the 1990s and their aftermath have generated a great deal of public controversy and continue to draw the attention of literary scholars and critics. In this seminar we will explore these interventions with reference to their multiple contexts ranging from Handke’s biography and family history to his writings prior to the 1990s to Austrian, German and Yugoslavian history of the past 100 years.