German 3Rd Arts Course Descriptions 2021-22
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German Course Descriptions Final Year B.A. Students 2021-22 Year Coordinator: Professor Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa Room: AMB2007, Telephone: 492239, email: [email protected] . Consultation time: Tuesday 2.00-3.00 p.m. (during term time) and by appointment. Entry requirements: A pass in Second Arts German or its equivalent, for example in the case of visiting and exchange students. Students registered for the B.A. International must also have achieved a satisfactory academic performance during their year abroad. Compulsory Modules: Students are obliged to take all six modules on offer. All modules have the value of 5 ECTS. Essay Guidelines: All essays which form part of the assessment of any module within the BA German programme must adhere to the format and the referencing system laid out in the department’s essay guidelines, available on the departmental website (Section: Undergraduate Programmes). Please note: All announcements can be changed if deemed necessary. For further details, please check our Departmental website: www.nuigalway.ie/german Important Dates Academic Year 2021-2022 2021 Semester 1 teaching period Monday 6th September to Friday 26th November Study week Monday 29th November to Friday 3rd December Semester 1 exams Monday 6th December to Friday 17th December Christmas Holiday Saturday 18th December 2022 Semester 2 teaching period Monday 10th January to Friday 1st April Easter break Good Friday 15th April to Easter Monday 18th April Field Trips Monday 4th April to Friday 8th April Study Week Monday 11th April to Friday 15th April Semester 2 Exams Tuesday 19th April to Friday 6th May Autumn Repeat Exams Tuesday 2nd August to Friday 12th August (9 days of exams) Bank Holidays: Monday 25th October 2021 / Thursday 17th March 2022 / Monday 2nd May 2022 / Monday 6th June 2022 / Monday 1st August 2022 2 Semester 1 All modules are compulsory. Module Components GR341 German Language I GR337 German Cultural Studies I Extended Essay 60% Students have to do both components. Enlightenment 40% GR338 German Cultural Studies II Literatur und Kritik 50% Students have to do both components. Märchen 50% Semester 2 All modules are compulsory Module Components GR342 German Language II GR339 German Environmental disasters 50% Cultural Studies III Masterpieces of Students have to do both components Contemporary German Cinema 50% GR340 German German Theatre Production 100% Cultural Studies IV 3 Semester I GR341 German Language I (5 hrs. per week) GR341 German Language I (5 hrs. per week) Lecturers: Simone Klapper, Gabriele Behrens Course description: Intense language tuition developing oral, aural and writing skills to a high standard. One class per week is reserved for translation – English into German. Students will be enabled to understand the main ideas of complex oral and written communication on both concrete and abstract topics interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes interaction with native speakers possible without strain for either party produce clear, detailed written texts on a wide range of subjects express complex ideas and opinions about a broad range of topics translate appropriately from English to German and from German to English understand the grammatical structures of the German language train presentation skills in German Prerequisites: Successful completion of Second Arts German language or equivalent. Assessment and examination: Continuous Assessment 40%, written exam 30%, oral exam 15%, translation 15%. Please note: All assignments must be handed in on time and will not be accepted later unless medical certificates are provided. Core Texts: Szilvia Szita, Susanne Raven und Anne Buscha: Erkundungen Deutsch als Fremdsprache C1: Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch. Deutsch als Fremdsprache. 2. veränderte Auflage. Leipzig: Schubert-Verlag 2016. ISBN: 978-3-941323-25-4 Other course material and handouts will be provided via Blackboard. 4 GR337 German Cultural Studies I Extended Essay 60% Enlightenment 40% GR337 Enlightenment (1 hrs. per week) Lecturer: Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa Course description: The 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. It was shaped by philosophical ideas (René Descartes: “I think therefore I am”), the emergence of new forms of critical thinking, the scientific revolution, a new interest in the individual, the rise of modern psychology, new esthetical values and the earthquake of the French Revolution (“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”). In many respects, the enlightenment laid the foundations for modernity. The first part of the course will introduce students to the major ideas and tendencies of the epoch, with a focus on philosophy, anthropology, and literature. In the shorter second part we will discuss the relevance of enlightenment and its tradition of critical thinking in the 20th and 21centuries. Teaching and learning methods: The module requires regular and active student participation. It will be lecture-based but also provide opportunities for discussions in small groups. Methods of assessment and examination: In-class-test Core texts: Texts and excerpts by Johann Gottlieb Krüger, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Nathan der Weise), Karl Philip Moritz, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Prometheus), Immanuel Kant (Was ist Aufklärung?), Theodor W. Adorno (Dialektik der Aufklärung). All texts will be made available on blackboard. GR337 Extended Essay Lecturers: Hans- Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (co-ordinator) Supervisors: D. Byrnes, M. Schrage-Früh, A.Ryan, H.-W Schmidt-Hannisa, A.Musolff, Tina Pusse. Course description: Writing the Extended Essay is an opportunity for students to thoroughly familiarise themselves with an aspect of German, Austrian or Swiss cultural life/ history and to present it well in both written and oral form. The topic must be related to an area covered in any of the modules students chose either in Galway or during the Erasmus year. The focus of the essay should be one work or a small number of works (literature, art, film, music etc.). Students must discuss their choice of topic with, and have it approved by one of the supervisors (listed above) at an early stage. Once the topic has been approved, a proposal (not less than 400 words) is to be submitted. It must contain a provisional bibliography including at least five sources which are not web pages. Three of them 5 should be written in German. Please submit the proposal (10% of total mark) by Friday, 1 October 2021 to Geraldine Smyth ([email protected]). Workshops: Workshops will be organized at the start of term to offer guidance and support to students. These will be announced in Lecture. Attendance at these workshops is obligatory. Important note: All essay must be in line with the rules and principles laid out in the Guidelines of the Extended Essay available on the German Discipline website. Deadline for submission of the essay: 6 December 2021. A Viva (15% of total mark) in which students must discuss selected topics of their essays, will be held in January 2022. GR338 German Cultural Studies II Literatur und Kritik 50% Märchen 50% GR338 Literatur und Kritik (1 hr. per week) Lecturer: Simone Klapper Course Description: German literature and film have a long tradition of “Gesellschaftskritik” (social criticism) in which authors criticise social issues, politics, ideologies and contemporary debates in their society. The aim of this course is to introduce students to a number of modern and contemporary texts which critically reflect on current political and societal issues. This will involve considering key topics such as: racism and remembering the victims of racist violence, the critique of neoliberal consumerism, the effects of the “Wende” on East Germany, environmental destruction and the state’s treatment of migrants. The texts deal with current debates in a critical manner and invite readers to question dominant media discourses, political debates and social structures that discriminate others. We will read modern and contemporary texts by Ingeborg Bachmann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Clemens Meyer, Özlem Dündar, Wladimir Kaminer and Dmitrij Kapitelman. Teaching and learning methods: The module requires regular and active student participation. Methods of assessment and examination: End of term essay, active participation Core texts: Ingeborg Bachmann (Reklame), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Fremder Garten), Clemens Meyer/Thomas Stuber (In den Gängen), Wladimir Kaminer (Sebastian und die Ausländerbehörde), Dmitrij Kapitelman (Das Lächeln meines unbekannten Vaters/Eine Formalie in Kiew), Özlem Dündar (türken, feuer); Handouts will be provided in class and via Blackboard. 6 GR 338 Märchen: The German Fairy Tale through the Ages (1 hr. per week) Lecturer: Jakob Summerer Course description: Evil witches, honorable knights, malicious stepmothers and cunning animals continue to populate the cultural landscape of the Western world. While the magical, black-and-white world of the fairy tale is nowadays most often encountered in the animated films produced by DreamWorks, Pixar and Disney, the roots of this genre and its conventions lie much deeper in time. In this seminar we will trace its evolution in the German literary tradition and students will be introduced to a selection of German fairy tales published between the 18th and the 21st centuries. Our focus will be on the “Volksmärchen” and “Kunstmärchen” of the Romanticists, the feminist fairy tales of the 19th century, the “Antimärchen” and socialist fairy tales of the German and Austrian