GERM 101-01 10391 |
Elementary German I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Emphasizing the active use of the language, this course focuses on vocabulary and structural acquisition as a way to develop elementary proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Students both develop facility with German in highly structured contexts through work with authentic texts and become familiar with a variety of contemporary German-speaking cultures. Students will work with an open educational resource for this course: an interactive, online, and free textbook designed to meet the learning needs of Macalester students. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 101-L1 10392 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 113
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Instructor: STAFF
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Emphasizing the active use of the language, this course focuses on vocabulary and structural acquisition as a way to develop elementary proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Students both develop facility with German in highly structured contexts through work with authentic texts and become familiar with a variety of contemporary German-speaking cultures. Students will work with an open educational resource for this course: an interactive, online, and free textbook designed to meet the learning needs of Macalester students. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 101-L2 10393 |
Elementary German I Lab |
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Instructor: STAFF
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Emphasizing the active use of the language, this course focuses on vocabulary and structural acquisition as a way to develop elementary proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Students both develop facility with German in highly structured contexts through work with authentic texts and become familiar with a variety of contemporary German-speaking cultures. Students will work with an open educational resource for this course: an interactive, online, and free textbook designed to meet the learning needs of Macalester students. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 110-01 10394 |
Accelerated Elementary German |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 409
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Instructor: Ross Shields
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A five-credit accelerated course which covers the content and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course, with a separate curriculum for easy independent work, is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or for students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus two conversation laboratory hours. During Spring semester there will be an optional reading and translation lab.
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GERM 110-L1 10395 |
Accel Elementary German Lab |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 112
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Instructor: STAFF
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A five-credit accelerated course which covers the content and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course, with a separate curriculum for easy independent work, is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or for students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus two conversation laboratory hours. During Spring semester there will be an optional reading and translation lab.
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GERM 110-L2 10396 |
Accel Elementary German Lab |
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Instructor: STAFF
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A five-credit accelerated course which covers the content and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course, with a separate curriculum for easy independent work, is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or for students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus two conversation laboratory hours. During Spring semester there will be an optional reading and translation lab.
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GERM 194-01 10397 |
Words are Hard: Literary Modernism and Limits of Language |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Ross Shields
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*Cross-listed with ENGL 194-01 (10398)*
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The first decades of the 20th century produced some of the most innovative works in literary history, permanently transforming how we see, hear, and otherwise perceive the world around us. More than any aesthetic movement before or since, modernists including Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust were keenly aware of both the limits of language and the inevitability of their transgression. They used words in ways that stretch sense to the point where it breaks, but with the aim of revealing a richer domain of finer-grained perception that is obscured by our everyday linguistic and intellectual habits. Over the course of the semester, we will read literary and theoretical accounts that both thematize and perform their own linguistic (in)capacities: to represent, to translate, to obscure, to estrange, to reveal. We will also examine some instances of modernist music, painting, and film. Our aim is to arrive at a nuanced understanding of how words work, contrasting linguistic phenomena with other forms of expressive media, and inquiring into the potential of language to articulate non-linguistic modes of experience. All readings in English. The course has no prerequisites and is open to first years.
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Writing WA
Internationalism
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GERM 194-F1 10399 |
Forever Young: The Vampire Comes of Age |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Brigetta Abel
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*First-Year Course Only; cross-listed with INTD 194-F1 (10400)*
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Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing.
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GERM 203-01 10401 |
Intermediate German I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 203-L1 10402 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 112
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Instructor: STAFF
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 203-L2 10403 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 204-01 10404 |
Intermediate German II |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 204-L1 10405 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 112
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Instructor: STAFF
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 204-L2 10406 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
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Instructor: STAFF
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 277-01 10407 |
Metaphysics in Secular Thought |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Kiarina Kordela
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*Cross-listed with POLI 277-01 (10408), RELI 277-01 (10409)*
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All readings and class taught in English; no pre-knowledge required. A widespread tendency in contemporary Western societies is to associate metaphysics with religion, if not with what is often dismissively called the "irrational." This course will dismantle this myth by reading closely European philosophy and political theory, mostly since the seventeenth century, in their relation to theology and their reception by twentieth-century critical theory. This will allow us to examine the ways in which secular thought emerges not as an alternative to metaphysics-something which thought cannot supersede anyway-but rather as a different way of dealing with the very same metaphysical questions and issues that concern religion, from the meaning of life to the imminence of death, and from (actual or imagined) guilt to the hope for redemption. We shall endeavor to identify the similarities and differences between the 'secular' and the 'religious' ways, including their respective relations to rationality and their functions in ideology. Readings may include: Aristotle, Talal Asad, George Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Kenneth Burke, Richard Dienst, Emile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Peter Harrison, Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, Marcel Mauss, Carl Schmitt, Baruch Spinoza, Alberto Toscano, Max Weber, Slavoj Zizek.
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GERM 294-01 10410 |
Freedom and Its Discontents |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: David Martyn
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*Cross-listed with PHIL 294-03 (10411)*
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Taught in English. “Free choice is the only miracle the moderns recognize” (Karol Berger). Free will may seem self-evident, and everything we do is based on it – but we can’t prove it exists or even explain it. We will read texts from Aristotle to Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Melville, Arendt, Lorde and others that question the idea of individual freedom while offering radical alternatives. We’ll ask such questions as: what is free will and how do we know we have it? Can we be free all by ourselves, or do we need others to be free? Why might we be more free under the constraint of laws and rules than without them? Why are people on the Right constantly touting freedom? And why is the Left incapable of refuting them? Weekly reading responses; three mid-length papers with revisions. No prerequisites, but be prepared to work your way through some densely argued texts.
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Writing WA
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GERM 308-01 10412 |
German Cultural History I: Uniting and Dividing Germany |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Kiarina Kordela
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This course prepares students with intermediate German language skills for upper-level courses in German Studies through advanced language instruction combined with a critical investigation of important political, social, and aesthetic topics in German cultural history. These topics may include the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815), the 1848 European revolution, the impact of industrialization, the foundation of the German Reich (1870/1871), the economics and philosophical critique offered by socialism, the feminist movement, imperialism and WWI (1914-1918), the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the beginning of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). In the late part of the course, we shall also introduce ourselves to aspects of living on the East side of the wall dividing Berlin (1961-1989). In addition to historical sources, we shall read literary texts and view art and films relating to these topics. Taught in German. Three hours per week plus one hour of intensive language practice. Prerequisite(s): GERM 204 or permission of instructor.
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GERM 308-L1 10413 |
German Cultural History I Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 314
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Instructor: STAFF
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This course prepares students with intermediate German language skills for upper-level courses in German Studies through advanced language instruction combined with a critical investigation of important political, social, and aesthetic topics in German cultural history. These topics may include the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815), the 1848 European revolution, the impact of industrialization, the foundation of the German Reich (1870/1871), the economics and philosophical critique offered by socialism, the feminist movement, imperialism and WWI (1914-1918), the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the beginning of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). In the late part of the course, we shall also introduce ourselves to aspects of living on the East side of the wall dividing Berlin (1961-1989). In addition to historical sources, we shall read literary texts and view art and films relating to these topics. Taught in German. Three hours per week plus one hour of intensive language practice. Prerequisite(s): GERM 204 or permission of instructor.
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GERM 308-L2 10414 |
German Cultural History I Lab |
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This course prepares students with intermediate German language skills for upper-level courses in German Studies through advanced language instruction combined with a critical investigation of important political, social, and aesthetic topics in German cultural history. These topics may include the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815), the 1848 European revolution, the impact of industrialization, the foundation of the German Reich (1870/1871), the economics and philosophical critique offered by socialism, the feminist movement, imperialism and WWI (1914-1918), the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the beginning of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). In the late part of the course, we shall also introduce ourselves to aspects of living on the East side of the wall dividing Berlin (1961-1989). In addition to historical sources, we shall read literary texts and view art and films relating to these topics. Taught in German. Three hours per week plus one hour of intensive language practice. Prerequisite(s): GERM 204 or permission of instructor.
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GERM 363-01 10415 |
The Fairy Tale (Grimms to Disney) |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: David Martyn
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Deemed unsuitable for children (too gruesome!), the Grimm Brothers’ original fairy tales have been revised to suit popular sensibilities ever since their first appearance in 1812. What hasn’t changed is their ability to point up what is wrong with the “real” world and to gratify a simple but irrefutable sense of justice. The course traces the history and adaptions of the Grimms’ tales with an eye to understanding their cultural and psychological functions and the reasons for their perennial appeal. We will ask: what is folklore? What is German romanticism and why did its fairy tales come to define the genre? What do fairy tales tell us about the history of childhood and of gender? Readings include both well-known and obscure tales from the Grimms; screenings may include The Company of Wolves, Into the Woods, The Lion King, Mulan. Three papers and regular reading responses. Taught in German. Prerequisites: German 308 or 309, or study abroad, or permission of the instructor. Offered fall term of even-numbered years.
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