German (GERM)
Designed for students with no previous study of German, aimed at the acquisition of a basic speaking, reading and writing knowledge. Five class hours weekly, including two hours of practicum.
Students who have taken any higher level GERM course may not register for GERM 101. No previous knowledge of language.
GPA units: 1.25
Common Area: Language Studies
Typically Offered: Fall
Designed for students with no previous study of German, aimed at the acquisition of a basic speaking, reading and writing knowledge. Five class hours weekly, including two hours of practicum.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 101 or equivalent. Students who have taken any higher level GERM course may not register for GERM 102.
GPA units: 1.25
Common Area: Language Studies
Typically Offered: Spring
A review of the fundamentals of the German language, supplemented by readings in literary and cultural texts as well as practice in oral and written expression. Five class hours weekly and laboratory practice.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 102 or equivalent. Students who have taken any higher level GERM course may not register for GERM 201.
GPA units: 1.25
Common Area: Language Studies
Typically Offered: Fall
A review of the fundamentals of the German language, supplemented by readings in literary and cultural texts as well as practice in oral and written expression. Five class hours weekly and laboratory practice.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 201 or equivalent. Students who have taken any higher level GERM course may not register for GERM 202.
GPA units: 1.25
Common Area: Language Studies
Typically Offered: Spring
The city of Berlin represents a microcosm of change and growth in European society yet maintains a unique identity. Its development from a royal city to the capital of a united Germany will be examined through the lenses of literature, film, art, and architecture. In English.
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Historical Studies
Typically Offered: Every Third Year
Prerequisite: German majors or minors who have taken Germ 301.
GPA units: 0
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Thinking about nature often compels us to think in the past tense. Whether imagined as a paradisical realm before the arrival of Humans or the imposition of Culture, or as a network of ecological relations prior to exploitation and extraction, we have no shortage of narratives telling us what nature was, or perspectives that start from the end of nature. What would it mean to think nature differently? What if the idea of nature were to begin anew each time it is invoked, in literature, art,science, and critical thought?The course focuses on four foundational notions of nature that inform environmental politics in current European discourses: Nature as a network of interconnected parts; nature as an existence in physical, geographical, and political space; nature as a legal person; and finally, nature as an extractable resource. Taking this class provides you with specific contexts for the emergence of these frameworks as they appear in German-language writers, thinkers, and artists from the Enlightenment to the present-day. If you want to know how conceptions of nature have oscillated from the local to the global (and back again), if you want to know the role of the sustainability in the history of the German Green Party or what can be done about Germany's ongoing colonial legacy, if you wonder what it would mean to give animals, plants, and waters "human" rights, or how we got to our recent phenomenon of "green capitalism"--- all these questions, and others, are addressed in this class.Drawing from interdisciplinary, multi-medial encounters with nature in our present moment of ecological disaster, we will explore the disastrous signifier that is Nature, a category which offers no unified notion of beginnings and ends, but rather speaks in multiple tongues across the affordances of space and time.This course is open to all students and does not presuppose any specialized expertise in the fields named above. The readings and discussions for GERM 260 are in English. Depending on interest, a weekly German-language practicum may be offered.
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Cross-Cultural Studies
Typically Offered: Annually Fall
Designed for students wishing to acquire proficiency in spoken and written German. Discussions focus on current and historic events, address stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies in literary texts, and explore students' interests. Weekly oral and written assignments with grammar review as necessary. Required for German majors and recommended for first-year students with advanced placement. In German.
Prerequisite: GERM 202 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Typically Offered: Fall
An introduction to outstanding examples of German thought, art, and cultural developments in the 18th and 19th centuries. Important German cultural figures such as Frederick the Great, Goethe, Beethoven, Nietzsche and Marx are discussed. Readings, lectures, and discussions in German.
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Historical Studies, Literature
Typically Offered: Alternate Years
An introduction to political and cultural developments in Germany in the 20th century. Aspects of the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, East and West Germany, and the United Germany are studied. Readings, lectures, and discussions in German.
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Historical Studies, Literature
Typically Offered: Alternate Years
What does it mean to stage a Self? How do elements like dramaturgy, body, text, and performance condition the way a person appears before a public? And, conversely, how does something like a "public"-- understood as a kind of political and social body-- emerge from various representations of subjectivity? This course examines the co-constitutive formation of the individual and the collective by focusing on major works of German theater and drama from 1780 to the present. Topics of discussion include the rise of the bourgeois on the stage; the constitution and fragmentation of the psychic subject; bodies produced under the discourses of the institution; epic theater; and transformations of the private-public relation through emergent mass media such as film, radio, and social media.
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Literature
Analysis of representative works of Lessing, Goethe, Schiller and their contemporaries within the context of the German Enlightenment and German Idealism and their major philosophical, aesthetic and moral concerns. Readings and discussions in German.
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Literature
Typically Offered: Every Third Year
A study of German literature in the age of burgeoning industrialism and materialism, extending from the late romanticism through the era of realism. Works of representative authors such as Heine, Büchner, Grillparzer, Droste-Hülshoff, Stifter, Keller, Meyer and Fontane. Readings and discussions in German.
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Literature
Introduction to the most significant masters of German prose in the first half of the 20th century. Works of representative writers such as Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Brecht. Readings and discussions in German.
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Literature
Typically Offered: Every Third Year
A study of German texts created around the turn of the millennium in the newly unified Germany.
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
Common Area: Literature
Typically Offered: Every Third Year
Prerequisite: GERM 301 or equivalent
GPA units: 1
GPA units: 1
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Eligible third-year students may elect German 491, 492 with permission of department chair and instructor. Topics to be determined by instructor. Recent topics: Modern German Drama, East German Literature.
GPA units: 1
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring