Courses taught in German and by German faculty
FALL 2006
German 1B - Intensive Elementary German
Students who start in the 001B-002B sequence must complete 002B to receive credit for 001B.
For students who begin German in college. Designed to impart an active command of the language. Combines the study of grammar with intensive oral practice, writing, and readings in expository and literary prose. See the explanatory note on language courses above. Normally followed by 3B, 004, 013, or 014. 1.5 credits.
Professor Werlen
Tu/Th 9:55-11:10
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German 1B Drills
Senior Lecturer Elke Plaxton
M/W/F
10:30-11:20 am
German 3B - Intensive Intermediate German
Designed to impart an active command of the language. Combines the study of grammar with intensive oral practice, writing, and readings in expository and literary prose. See the explanatory note on language courses above. Normally followed by 004, 013, or 014. 1.5 credits.
Professor Faber
M/W/F 10:30-11:20
German 3B Drills
Senior Lecturer Elke Plaxton
German 013 - Introduction to German Literature
Survey of German literature from the 18th century to the present, focusing on themes of mystery, deception, and searching, especially in relation to crime. Poetic works and one or two films will be discussed, but our attention will fall mainly on narrative prose and drama. Authors include Kleist, Hoffmann, Büchner, Droste-Hülshoff, Kafka, Brecht, Dürenmatt, and Wolf. Students will develop speaking and writing skills through short assignments intended to familiarize them with the vocabulary of literary analysis in German.
1 credit.
Professor Werlen
Tu/Th 1:5-2:30 pm
Literatures 015 - Between Appetite and Aesthetics: A Cultural History of Food (NEW!)
This course examines literary and other texts, works of visual art, and films that focus on food and taste in their gustatory and metaphorical-symbolic representations. Topics discussed are: food and knowledge, the physiology/metaphor of taste, food and memory, eroticism and food ("eye candy", oral pleasures), food/religion, antropophagy/communion, production/consumption, and hospitality/ sacrifice. The reading list includes, among others, Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nobokov, Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Stanley Ellin, F.T. Marinetti, Roland Barthes, Elias Canetti, Emile Zola, and Tanja Blixen. No prerequisites.
1 credit.
Professor Werlen.
Tu/Th 2:40-3:55 pm
German 054/Literatures 054G - German Cinema (NEW!)
This course is an introduction to German cinema from its inception in the 1890s until the present. It will include an examination of early exhibition forms, expressionist and avantgarde films from the classic German cinema of the Weimar era, fascist cinema, postwar rubble films, DEFA films from East Germany, New German Cinema from the 1970s, and post-1989 heritage films. This course will analyze a cross-match of popular and avantgarde films while discussing mass culture, education, propaganda, and entertainment as identity- and nation-building practises. Taught in English.
FMST 001 as prerequisite strongly suggested.
1 credit.
Professor Simon
Class: Tu/Th 1:15-2:30 pm
Screenings: Mon. 7:00-10:00 pm
German 111 - Seminar: Der deutsche Roman
This seminar is devoted to exploring the various genres of German literature and cultural production. In Fall 2006 the seminar will focus on the German novel, beginning with examples from the 18th and 19th centuries and concentrating primarily on realist, modernist, and post-modernist examples of the genre. Authors will include Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Christa Wolf. The final syllabus will take student interest into consideration.
2 credits.
Professor Faber
Tuesdays 1:15-4:00 pm
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