Courses taught in German and by German faculty
FALL 2007
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 Simon
Tu/Th 1:15-2:30; KOHL 328
German 1B Drills
Senior Lecturer Elke Plaxton
M/W/F 9:30-10:20; 10:30-11:20; KOHL 114
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 9:30-10:20; KOHL 318
German 3B Drills
Senior Lecturer Elke Plaxton
Tu/Th 9:55-11:10; KOHL 318
German 5 Conversational German
Senior Lecturer Elke Plaxton
W 1:15-2:30; KOHL 318
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 Faber
Tu/Th 11:20-12:35; KOHL 114
German 054/Literatures 054G/Film Studies 81- 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.
1 credit.
Professor Simon
Class: W 1:15-4:00; KOHL 334
Screenings: Mon. 7:00-10:00 pm; Science Center 199
German 108 - Wien und Berlin (German Studies Seminar)
Between 1871 and 1933, Vienna and Berlin were two cultural magnets drawing such diverse figures as Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Leon Trotsky, Gerhard Hauptman, Käthe Kollwitz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Tucholsky, Else Lasker-Schüler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg, and Adolf Hitler. This course will examine the multiple tensions that characterized "fin-de-siècle" Vienna and Berlin, such as the connection between gender and the urban landscape, the pursuit of pleasure and the attempt to scientifically explore human sexuality, and the conflict between avant-garde experimentation and the disintegration of political liberalism.
2 credits.
Professor Simon
Class: M 1:15-4:00; KOHL 318
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