GERM 101-01 |
Elementary German I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 214
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Instructor: Brigetta Abel
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 20
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Introduction to German language and culture. Emphasis on comprehension of oral and written contemporary German as well as developing elementary oral proficiency. The course emphasizes vocabulary recognition and acquisition within a variety of concrete contexts. Students develop facility with German within highly structured contexts. Contemporary culture in German-speaking countries provides the content of the course. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Students with any previous training in German must take the German placement exam. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 101-L1 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: M
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 217
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 1 / 8
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Introduction to German language and culture. Emphasis on comprehension of oral and written contemporary German as well as developing elementary oral proficiency. The course emphasizes vocabulary recognition and acquisition within a variety of concrete contexts. Students develop facility with German within highly structured contexts. Contemporary culture in German-speaking countries provides the content of the course. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Students with any previous training in German must take the German placement exam. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 101-L2 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am
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Room: HUM 217
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 8
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Introduction to German language and culture. Emphasis on comprehension of oral and written contemporary German as well as developing elementary oral proficiency. The course emphasizes vocabulary recognition and acquisition within a variety of concrete contexts. Students develop facility with German within highly structured contexts. Contemporary culture in German-speaking countries provides the content of the course. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Students with any previous training in German must take the German placement exam. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 101-L3 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: TBA
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Time: TBA
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Room:
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 8 / 8
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Introduction to German language and culture. Emphasis on comprehension of oral and written contemporary German as well as developing elementary oral proficiency. The course emphasizes vocabulary recognition and acquisition within a variety of concrete contexts. Students develop facility with German within highly structured contexts. Contemporary culture in German-speaking countries provides the content of the course. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Students with any previous training in German must take the German placement exam. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 110-01 |
Accelerated Elementary German |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: HUM 215
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Instructor: Kiarina Kordela
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Avail./Max.: 13 / 20
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An five-credit accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour.
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GERM 110-L1 |
Accelerated Elem German Lab |
Days: M W
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Time: TBA
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Room:
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: -1 / 5
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An five-credit accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour.
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GERM 110-L2 |
Accelerated Elem German Lab |
Days: T R
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Time: TBA
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Room:
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 4 / 5
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An five-credit accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour.
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GERM 203-01 |
Intermediate German I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Linda Schulte-Sasse
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Avail./Max.: 5 / 20
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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 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am
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Room: OLRI 170
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 0 / 5
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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 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: OLRI 170
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 0 / 5
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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-L3 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm
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Room: OLRI 270
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 1 / 5
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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-L4 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: TBA
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Time: TBA
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Room:
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 4 / 5
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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 |
Intermediate German II |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Rachael Huener
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Avail./Max.: 12 / 20
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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 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: HUM 217
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 1 / 5
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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 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm
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Room: OLRI 270
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 1 / 5
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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 255-01 |
German Cinema Studies |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: HUM 401
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Instructor: Linda Schulte-Sasse
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 16
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*First-Year Course only*
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One often hears horror movies referred to as trash. Does horror necessarily deserve this condemnation (or plug)? Why does an occasional horror film like Get Out or The Silence of the Lambs win respectability or even a best-picture Oscar? What are the criteria by which we decide whether any film or work of art is good, bad, or perhaps not art at all? The course will examine horror films from various eras and places, some of which were repudiated at their release only to be recuperated later as art-house classics. But all challenge cultural assumptions about art and horror as mutually exclusive categories, and all employ shock, horror, or the uncanny as compelling means of representing social anxieties and historical traumas. Our objective will be to reflect on questions of aesthetic value, and to explore the themes, narrative strategies, and audience effects of horror. We will draw on a variety of theoretical approaches like Freud’s description of the uncanny or Todorov’s concept of the fantastic. In some sense horror cinema was “born” in Weimar Germany, so we will begin with silent German films, but our investigations will extend to Universal Studio’s depression-era horror (which owed a debt to German expressionist cinema) and to modern horror (Argento, Romero, Cronenberg, Haneke, Peele). Course prerequisite: guts. First, films like Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) or Franju’s Les Yeux sans Visage (1960) will disabuse you of any notion that Quentin Tarantino invented grossness. Second, you may find that by seriously engaging film studies, introducing theoretical concepts, and “over”-reading, the course will “ruin the fun.” My hope is that the opposite will be the case (and that fun and work are no more mutually exclusive than art and horror). Student obligations: a series of short papers, oral presentations, and one longer research paper. Two exams and an informal log responding to class readings. Hopefully the Twin Cities will offer some cultural events relevant to our theme that we can visit as a class.
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Writing WA
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GERM 294-01 |
A Kafkaesque Century |
Days: M W F
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Kiarina Kordela
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Avail./Max.: 8 / 30
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*Cross-listed with ENGL 294-03*
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“Kafkaesque” is a word that has become part of everyday vocabulary in innumerous languages, used by millions of people who might or not have ever read Kafka. Evidently, the work of this German-speaking Jewish author from Prague captured something about modern life that no word could express except one deriving from his own name. This is probably why ‘everybody knows’ the word and ‘nobody can explain’ it. To understand therefore the “Kafkaesque” is to understand at once Kafka’s work and modern life, at least as we know it since the early twentieth century. To do so, in this course we are going to read closely some of Kafka’s stories and excerpts from his novels, as well as some influential commentaries on both his work and the conditions of modernity. We shall also have the chance to see and compare adaptations of his work (including his diaries) in the media of graphic novel and film. All readings will be in English. The course requires no pre-knowledge and is appropriate for all level students. This is a core course toward the Critical Theory Concentration.
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Internationalism
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GERM 305-01 |
Advanced German |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 215
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Instructor: Kiarina Kordela
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Avail./Max.: 12 / 20
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This is a language course in which participants expand their abilities in all four language modalities - particularly oral and written expression - through engagement with numerous aspects of the life, literature, and culture of German-speaking countries and their multicultural societies, as well as their relations to the world. Including an extensive review of important advanced language topics, this course offers students the opportunity to improve their German to university-level proficiency. Every semester. (4 credits) Prerequisite(s): GERM 204, placement test or permission of instructor
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GERM 305-L1 |
Advanced German Lab |
Days: TBA
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Time: TBA
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Room:
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 4 / 7
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This is a language course in which participants expand their abilities in all four language modalities - particularly oral and written expression - through engagement with numerous aspects of the life, literature, and culture of German-speaking countries and their multicultural societies, as well as their relations to the world. Including an extensive review of important advanced language topics, this course offers students the opportunity to improve their German to university-level proficiency. Every semester. (4 credits) Prerequisite(s): GERM 204, placement test or permission of instructor
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GERM 305-L2 |
Advanced German Lab |
Days: TBA
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Time: TBA
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Room:
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Instructor: Lisa Chi
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Avail./Max.: 3 / 7
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This is a language course in which participants expand their abilities in all four language modalities - particularly oral and written expression - through engagement with numerous aspects of the life, literature, and culture of German-speaking countries and their multicultural societies, as well as their relations to the world. Including an extensive review of important advanced language topics, this course offers students the opportunity to improve their German to university-level proficiency. Every semester. (4 credits) Prerequisite(s): GERM 204, placement test or permission of instructor
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GERM 308-01 |
German Cultural History I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Rachael Huener
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Avail./Max.: 13 / 20
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This course prepares students for upper-level courses in German Studies through the critical investigation of important political, social and aesthetic topics in the context of German cultural history from 1815-1945. Such topics include the tension between the German Kulturnation and the political nation, the economics and philosophical critique offered by socialism, imperialism as discourse and political tool, the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the debacle of fascism and the Holocaust. In addition to historical sources, students read literary and autobiographical texts, view films, and investigate examples of material culture from a variety of periods. Conducted in German. Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: GERM 305, placement test, or permission of instructor.
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Writing WA
Internationalism
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Humanities
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GERM 314-01 |
Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: HUM 214
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Instructor: David Martyn
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Avail./Max.: 3 / 20
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*Cross-listed with PHIL 214-01; sophomore standing required*
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What happens when God dies? And what if he’s always already been dead? Few authors have pursued the consequences of secular modernity as persistently as Nietzsche and Freud, both of whom were reacting to Darwin’s discovery of natural selection, which did away with nature as proof of God. Focusing on the related domains of ethics, subjectivity, aesthetics, and cultural value, we will explore how modern thought tries, and just as frequently fails, to overcome its religious past. Discussion topics include: the loss of “truth” as a meaningful term; ethics beyond good and evil; alienation, ideology, and false consciousness; art as ersatz-God; mourning, trauma, and transience. Readings include all or parts of: Nietzsche, Daybreak, The Gay Science and The Genealogy of Morals; Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Totem and Taboo. Requirements: Readings, three papers, weekly reading responses. Alternate years.
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GERM 364-01 |
Class Cultures |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 217
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Instructor: David Martyn
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Avail./Max.: 15 / 20
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This course explores depictions and concepts of "class" in literature, film, and political discourse since the French Revolution. Discussion topics include the invention of the bourgeois family; the Lumpenproletariat (prostitutes, rogues, vagabonds) in literature and art; revolutionary culture and politics in the inter-war period; depictions of class in contemporary mass culture. How does "class consciousness" emerge in German history? Is class an economic necessity or a consequence of culture and politics? Why is culture still fascinated by class? Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 308, GERM 309, or the equivalent.
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