German (GERMAN) 1

GERMAN 1E Accelerated Elementary German German (GERMAN) 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008 Courses Students review and continue to develop the basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written language while Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] being sensitized to the links between language and culture. This course GERMAN 1 Elementary German 1 5 Units covers the same material as 1 in a condensed way and at an accelerated Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week speed. Upon completion of this course, students will qualify for enrollment Session in 2. This introduction to the German language focuses on the development of Accelerated Elementary German: Read More [+] basic communicative competencies (spoken and written) while sensitizing Rules & Requirements students to the links between language and culture. Students will be able to understand and use high frequency vocabulary and basic grammatical Prerequisites: Prior exposure to German equivalent to one year of high structures and engage with a broad variety of texts from various genres, school German including poetry, news reports, songs, and the visual arts. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for 1E after taking 1. Elementary German 1: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format

Prerequisites: German 1 is intended for students who have not Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week previously taken courses in German Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Summer: 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week Instructor: Euba 8 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Formerly known as: 12

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate GERMAN 1G Elementary German for

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Graduate Students 0.0 Units Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 Instructor: Euba Elementary German for graduate students preparing for reading examinations. Elementary German 1: Read Less [-] Elementary German for Graduate Students: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: One year of prior college level German instruction required

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 7.5 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Final exam not required.

Elementary German for Graduate Students: Read Less [-] 2 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 2 Elementary German 2 5 Units GERMAN 3 Intermediate German I 5 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Session Embedded in the context of German-speaking regions, their history This German language course continues the development of basic and culture, this course focuses on the development of communicative communicative competencies (spoken and written) while sensitizing competencies (spoken and written), the expansion of vocabulary, and the students to the links between language and culture. Students will be able review and practice of grammatical structures. Students will be guided to understand and use high frequency vocabulary and basic grammatical towards more creative and analytical expression by engaging with texts structures and engage with a broad variety of texts from various genres, from a variety of genres such as poetry, drama, news features, and the including poetry, news reports, songs, and the visual arts. visual arts. Elementary German 2: Read More [+] Intermediate German I: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 1 semester of college-level German or equivalent Prerequisites: 2 semesters of college-level German or equivalent

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Summer: Summer: 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 9.5 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Euba Instructor: Euba

Elementary German 2: Read Less [-] Intermediate German I: Read Less [-] GERMAN 2G Elementary German for GERMAN 4 Intermediate German II 5 Units Graduate Students 0.0 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 Embedded in the context of German-speaking regions, their history Elementary German for graduates preparing for reading examinations. and culture, this course continues the development of communicative Elementary German for Graduate Students: Read More [+] competencies (spoken and written), the expansion of vocabulary, and Rules & Requirements the review and practice of grammatical structures. Students will further practice creative and analytical expression by engaging with texts from Prerequisites: 1G a variety of genres such as poetry, short stories, essays, and the visual arts. Hours & Format Intermediate German II: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 7.5 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: 3 semesters of college-level German or equivalent Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Final exam not required. Summer: 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week

Elementary German for Graduate Students: Read Less [-] Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

Instructor: Euba

Intermediate German II: Read Less [-] German (GERMAN) 3

GERMAN R5A Reading and Composition 4 GERMAN R5B Reading and Composition 4 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring This course offers a survey of modern German literary, cultural, and 2021 intellectual currents, as well as an introduction to argumentation and This course offers a survey of modern German literary, cultural, and analysis. Students will examine numerous issues and questions central to intellectual currents, as well as an introduction to argumentation and defining the complexity of modern German culture. R5A satisfies the first analysis. Students will examine numerous issues and questions central to half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5B satisfies the defining the complexity of modern German culture. R5A satisfies the first second half. half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5B satisfies the Reading and Composition: Read More [+] second half. Rules & Requirements Reading and Composition: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for GERMAN R5A or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade after passing GERMAN 5A. of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the Reading and Composition requirement International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English Hours & Format Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for GERMAN R5B Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week after passing GERMAN 5B.

Summer: Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Reading and Composition requirement 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Summer: Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required. 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Reading and Composition: Read Less [-] Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

Reading and Composition: Read Less [-] 4 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 21 German Literature in a European GERMAN C25 Revolutionary Thinking: Marx, Context 4 Units Nietzsche, Freud 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2014 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2015 An introductory level exploration of a group of authors, works, themes, or We will explore the ways in which Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud--three of literary movements from the history of German literature in a European the most important thinkers in modern Western thought--can be read as context. Based on close readings of texts students will discuss ways responding to the Enlightenment and its notions of reason and progress. in which literature has played (and continues to play) a crucial role in We will consider how each remakes a scientific understanding of truth, the relationship between different cultures, traditions, and languages. knowledge, and subjectivity, such that rationality, logic, and the powers of Readings and topics to vary from semester to semester. human cognition are shown to be distorted, limited, and subject to forces German Literature in a European Context: Read More [+] outside our individual control. All lectures and readings in English. Rules & Requirements Revolutionary Thinking: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: Read More [+] Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Hours & Format discussion per week

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Additional Details discussion per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Instructor: Feldman Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Also listed as: L & S C60U Instructor: Largier Revolutionary Thinking: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: Read Less [-] German Literature in a European Context: Read Less [-] GERMAN 39A Freshman Seminar 3 Units GERMAN 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2012, Fall 2008 Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 No knowledge of German required. The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty Rules & Requirements member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics may vary from department to Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen. Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Freshman Seminar: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

Freshman Seminar: Read Less [-] German (GERMAN) 5

GERMAN 39H Freshman Seminar 3 Units GERMAN 39R Freshman Seminar-Ideas Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 of Education: From Goethe to Dear White No knowledge of German required. People 4 Units Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] Terms offered: Fall 2019 Rules & Requirements What is the purpose of education? Should the university prepare Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. students for the job market or emphasize the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake? Is knowledge a value in itself? This course explores these Hours & Format questions, among others, while concentrating on the German idea of Bildung. It introduces students to the classical idea of education and self- Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week formation by reading a wide range of texts from German philosophy, intellectual history, and literature. Furthermore, the course traces the Additional Details history of this idea by exploring how Bildung informs contemporary Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate literary works and film. Emphasis will be on issues of class, race, and gender. Readings, discussions, and coursework in English; no German Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. necessary. Freshman Seminar-Ideas of Education: From Goethe to Dear White Freshman Seminar: Read Less [-] People: Read More [+] GERMAN 39L Freshman Seminar 3 Units Objectives & Outcomes Terms offered: Spring 2012 Course Objectives: Introduces students to the German idea of Bildung No knowledge of German required. and examines it in contemporary literature and film. Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Instructor: Balint Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Freshman Seminar-Ideas of Education: From Goethe to Dear White Freshman Seminar: Read Less [-] People: Read Less [-] GERMAN 39P Law and Literature 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2016 For many people, law is the subject of law school, while literature belongs to the humanities. In this seminar, we will see that law and literature, professional school and the humanities are in fact closely related. We will read some great authors in world literature (including Sophocles, Shakespeare, Melville, Kleist, Kafka), watch a number of classic films, and discuss how they engage with the key issues of law - legitimacy and legality, justice and equity, rights and obligation, crime and punishment. At the same time, we will read legal texts and see how law operates by telling stories. No knowledge of German required. Law and Literature: Read More [+] Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Law and Literature: Read Less [-] 6 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 39S Freshman Seminar 4 Units GERMAN 41 Exploring German Culture 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Summer 2007 Second 6 Week Session Throughout history, the origins and development of language have Students will explore historical and contemporary aspects of German engaged the minds and imaginations of myth-makers and scholars culture through readings, discussions, guided excursions in Berlin alike. And yet many of the basic questions surrounding our ability to and Weimar, and individual research projects. The course will engage communicate in such rich ways remain largely unanswered, or are at students to develop a deeper understanding of the specific ways in which least controversial. In this seminar we will consider the long history of cultural issues are respected and reflected in the German language, thought on this topic in the Western tradition, starting from the Bible and which they study concurrently. Topics include multiculturalism and the Greeks, through modern thinkers such as Rousseau, Darwin, and minority experience; Berlin as divided city and capital; city planning Saussure, down to present-day scholars like Noam Chomsky and Steven and public discourse, past and present in German architecture; Berlin Pinker. Although this course is offered in the German Department, it in popular literature, film, and theatre; the art scene in Berlin; and the not a course in or about German. All readings will be in English, as will Weimar classical period. Taught in German and English. classroom discussion. Exploring German Culture: Read More [+] Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in 1, 2, 3, or 4 in Berlin Summer Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Program

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1 hour of session per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. the instructor when the class is offered. Instructor: Euba Instructor: Shannon Exploring German Culture: Read Less [-] Freshman Seminar: Read Less [-] GERMAN C60V Moral Provocations: Job, GERMAN 40 German Conversation 2 Units Abraham, Moses 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2009, Spring 2009 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Advanced German conversation course that includes discussions, How do we know what the “moral” of a story is? We will focus on three debates, individual presentations, and one or two in-class movies in biblical narratives that have frequently been interpreted as teaching German. Most materials will be provided by the instructor but students will moral lessons: the story of Job, the story of Abraham and the binding also be asked to use their own resources from printed or online media. of Isaac, and the story of Moses giving the law. These stories have Regular vocabulary quizzes will be part of the course grade. Taught in been interpreted variously in moral terms--e.g. as demonstrating the German. virtues of faith, obedience, mercy, and forgiveness, and as teaching us German Conversation: Read More [+] about guilt, punishment, reward, and human frailty. They have also been Rules & Requirements analyzed as existential parables, psychological dramas, and political allegories. The goal of this class is to examine how a range of different, Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent and often provocative, interpretations of these stories’ moral lessons rest Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. on particular ways of reading. Moral Provocations: Job, Abraham, Moses: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Formerly known as: 102A-102B-102C Instructor: Feldman German Conversation: Read Less [-] Also listed as: L & S C60V

Moral Provocations: Job, Abraham, Moses: Read Less [-] German (GERMAN) 7

GERMAN C75 What is Beauty? 4 Units GERMAN 99 Supervised Independent Study 1 Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2011 - 4 Units What or who decides whether something is beautiful or not? What Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 purpose do beauty and art serve? Where do originality, genius, and Independent study and research by arrangement with faculty. inspiration come from? What do art and beauty have to do with freedom Supervised Independent Study: Read More [+] and human progress? We will examine primarily western European Rules & Requirements and North American approaches to beauty as presented in works of philosophy, literary theory, and theories of art and aesthetics, exploring Prerequisites: Open only to freshmen and sophomores. Consent of key theoretical questions as they evolve among several intellectual instructor arenas over many centuries. What is Beauty?: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. exam not required. Instructor: Feldman Supervised Independent Study: Read Less [-] Also listed as: L & S C60T GERMAN 100 Introduction to Reading Culture What is Beauty?: Read Less [-] 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 GERMAN 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units The course is intended to acquaint students with selected works from Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 German cultural history and to familiarize them with various methods of Group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled interpretation and analysis. Required of all German majors. courses. Topics may be initiated by students under the sponsorship and Introduction to Reading Culture: Read More [+] direction of a member of the German Department's faculty. Rules & Requirements Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Hours & Format

Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Additional Details Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week Introduction to Reading Culture: Read Less [-]

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

Directed Group Study: Read Less [-] 8 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 101 Advanced German: GERMAN 102D Advanced Language Practice: Conversation, Composition and Style 3 Units Popular Culture in Germany 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018 Focusing on genres, this advanced level language course will help Focusing on popular culture in German speaking countries, this students to improve and expand on spoken and written language advanced level language course will help students to improve and functions utilizing a variety of works from literature, journalism, expand on spoken and written language functions utilizing a variety of broadcasting, fine arts and the cinema. The final goal is to enable works from different genres in journalism, broadcasting, literature, fine students to participate in the academic discourse - written and spoken - arts, music, and the cinema. Readings, screenings, discussion, and at a linguistic and stylistic level appropriate for an advanced student of writing assignments will advance students' language skills and further German in upper division courses. develop their communicative competencies in German at a linguistic and Advanced German: Conversation, Composition and Style: Read More [+] stylistic level appropriate for an advanced student. Rules & Requirements Advanced Language Practice: Popular Culture in Germany: Read More [+] Prerequisites: 4 semesters of college-level German or equivalent Hours & Format

Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details

Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Instructor: Euba

Instructor: Euba Advanced Language Practice: Popular Culture in Germany: Read Less [-] Advanced German: Conversation, Composition and Style: Read Less [-] GERMAN 103 Introduction to German GERMAN 102A Advanced Language Practice: Linguistics 4 Units German Performance 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the major Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 subfields of linguistics as they apply to the German language. It also The analysis, discussion, adaptation and public performance of authentic serves as the gateway course for the further study of German linguistics texts from German Kabarett (i.e., comedic skits, political and social at the undergraduate level. The first part of the course will focus on the satire, parody, humorous poetry, etc.) will advance students’ language synchronic description of contemporary German. The second part of and interpersonal skills, while providing unique access to a significant the course will concern itself with variation in German. There are no dimension of German popular culture. Additional emphasis is put on prerequisties for this class and no prior experience with linguistics is aspects and practice of creative writing and German pronunciation and presupposed. However, an advanced knowledge of German (at least enunciation. German 4 level) is expected. Advanced Language Practice: German Performance: Read More [+] Introduction to German Linguistics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: 4 semesters of college-level German or equivalent Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Instructor: Shannon Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Introduction to German Linguistics: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.).

Instructor: Euba

Formerly known as: 188

Advanced Language Practice: German Performance: Read Less [-] German (GERMAN) 9

GERMAN 104 Senior Colloquium 3 Units GERMAN C106 Literacy through Literature 3 Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2005, Fall 1999 Units This course is intended for students who wish to improve their skills in Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2002 reading, speaking, and writing German. We will work with texts that were Exploration of the role that literature can play in the acquisition of literacy particularly influential in Germany during the first decades of the 20th in a first and second language. Linguistic and psycholinguistic issues: century, regardless of when they were written. Segments of philosophical orality and literacy, discourse text, schema theory, and reading research. writings (Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, literary works (George, Literary issues: stylistics and critical reading, reader response, structure Rilke, Th. Mann) but also texts by scientists and journalists will be of narratives. Educational issues: the literary text in the social context of analyzed. Participants are expected to prepare several oral presentations its production and reception by intended and non-intended readers. and approximately one written assignment per week. No midterm or final Literacy through Literature: Read More [+] examination. Hours & Format Senior Colloquium: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Prerequisites: 102 or consent of instructor. Returnees from EAP Additional Details Goettingen welcome Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Instructor: Kramsch Additional Details Also listed as: EDUC C145 Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Literacy through Literature: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. GERMAN 107 German for Reading Instructor: Hillen Knowledge 3 Units Senior Colloquium: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Summer 2016 8 Week Session GERMAN 105 Middle High German for This course is designed to prepare graduate students for translation/ Undergraduates 4 Units reading exams in German. Students who do not need to pass such an exam, but who wish to improve their reading and translation skills in Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2016 academic German, are also welcome. Students will learn the fundamentals of Middle High German grammar German for Reading Knowledge: Read More [+] and will read selections from major narrative works of the High Middle Rules & Requirements Ages. Selections from major works from the 13th century. Middle High German for Undergraduates: Read More [+] Prerequisites: One year of college level German, or equivalent Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Knowledge of modern German required Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Credit Restrictions: Open to graduate students when 203 is not offered. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Additional Details exam not required.

Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate German for Reading Knowledge: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructors: Tennant, Largier

Middle High German for Undergraduates: Read Less [-] 10 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 108 Literary Translation 4 Units GERMAN 112 Early Modern Literature 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2003, Spring 2001 This course introduces students to the problems of literary translation Major texts from the 15th through the 17th century. from German to English. Early Modern Literature: Read More [+] Literary Translation: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required Prerequisites: Two upper division courses in German literature Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Kudszus Instructors: Tennant, Largier Literary Translation: Read Less [-] Early Modern Literature: Read Less [-] GERMAN 110 The Literature of the Middle Ages 3 Units GERMAN 113 Capstone Project 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2021 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 This capstone project is designed to allow students to “finish off” their Introduction in modern German or English translation to major literary German majors in such a way as to return to, develop, and synthesize monuments of the Hohenstaufen period. Intended for undergraduates what they have learned in the major. In close contact with the faculty with no knowledge of Middle High German. members of their choice, students will expand upon and revise a seminar The Literature of the Middle Ages: Read More [+] paper from one of their German classes. This is not an Honors Thesis, Rules & Requirements which requires students to develop an independent project and engage in Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. solo research in order to produce an original 30-page paper. Capstone Project: Read More [+] Hours & Format Objectives & Outcomes

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Course Objectives: The capstone encourages students to perfect a piece of their own academic writing, incorporate insights gathered in Additional Details other courses and in discussion with faculty and other students, and reflect upon the ways that the German major has benefited them in their Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate education. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Rules & Requirements Instructors: Tennant, Largier Prerequisites: Must be a declared German major and successfully The Literature of the Middle Ages: Read Less [-] completed German 100 and German 101 with a "C" grade or better

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of independent study per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Capstone Project: Read Less [-] German (GERMAN) 11

GERMAN C113 Western Mysticism: Religion, GERMAN 123 From 1800 to the Present 3 Art, and Literature 4 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2003 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2012 The course will focus on examples of mystical thought from the traditions The social, political, and historical background to German literature since of Christian and Jewish mysticism since the Middle Ages. In addition the French Revolution. to the introduction of the students to basic texts and concepts we will From 1800 to the Present: Read More [+] discuss the effects of mystical thought on art and literature from the Rules & Requirements Middle Ages up to today. Western Mysticism: Religion, Art, and Literature: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Seeba Instructor: Largier From 1800 to the Present: Read Less [-] Also listed as: RELIGST C118

Western Mysticism: Religion, Art, and Literature: Read Less [-] GERMAN 119 German Literary Theory 4 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This undergraduate seminar offers an introduction to literary theory, mainly but not exclusively in the German tradition. We will examine a variety of theoretical approaches including reception theory, psychoanalysis, memory studies, trauma theory, feminist theory, queer theory, New Historicism, translation, and deconstruction; and with respect to drama, poetry and the novel. Formal analysis will be emphasized. German Literary Theory: Read More [+] Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

German Literary Theory: Read Less [-] 12 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 130AC Cultures of Migration 4 GERMAN 131 Goethe 4 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013 Terms offered: Fall 2021 An introduction to Goethe's prose, drama, and poetry. In the light of recent calls to “decolonize the university,” this course will Goethe: Read More [+] stimulate Rules & Requirements students to question assumptions about collective identities by thinking Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required comparatively across space and time, considering the role that migration has played in Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. the cultural formation of societies. Enduring structures of racial hierarchy that Hours & Format underpin social organization and representation will be at the center of critical analysis. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Focusing both on Additional Details movement and entrapment, the materials and the pedagogical approaches employed Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate will activate students to examine political rhetoric and policies regulating human Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. mobility through the lens of creative interventions from literature, cinema, Goethe: Read Less [-] video, and music. GERMAN 140 Romanticism 4 Units Cultures of Migration: Read More [+] Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2009 Objectives & Outcomes Literature, philosophy, and aesthetics of the Romantic period. Course Objectives: This course will enable students to… Romanticism: Read More [+] … read and view digital and analog sources attentively, analytically, and Hours & Format critically, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week … conduct research, situate texts in context, read in constellations, and considering the bigger picture of social and cultural change over time, Additional Details … analyze the social implications of framing, perspective, performance and Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate audience engagement in fiction and non-fiction, … develop an argument in writing, based on evidence and reasoning, Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. … operate in a multimedia environment and prepare a presentation for Romanticism: Read Less [-] online, publication (video, slideshow, blog post, podcast), GERMAN 147 German Drama and Opera 4 … reflect on limits and possibilities of humanitarian empathy, participation, and Units intervention. Terms offered: Fall 2010 This course introduces students to the masterpieces of German drama Hours & Format and opera from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. German Drama and Opera: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements

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Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Instructor: Gokturk Additional Details Cultures of Migration: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Tang

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GERMAN 148 Topics in Narrative 4 Units GERMAN 155 Kafka 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2015 Analysis of German narrative forms. Topic varies. One of the most significant and thought-provoking 20th century writers, Topics in Narrative: Read More [+] Franz Kafka created works and fragments that continue to puzzle, Rules & Requirements inspire, deprogram, and transform their readers. We will explore Kafka’s writings in their literary qualities, their multifaceted cultural range, and Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. their religious dimensions. Kafka: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Topics in Narrative: Read Less [-] Kafka: Read Less [-] GERMAN 151 Eighteenth- to 21st-Century GERMAN 156 Literature in the Digital Age 4 German Poetry 3 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2008, Fall 2004 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018 Representative texts from 18th- to 21st-century German poetry will be This course examines the effects of the digital age on literature. studied closely. Methodological questions regarding the interpretation of Emphasis will be on themes, poetics, and media of digital writing; poetry in general will also be discussed. as well as on shifting notions of the literary itself. Topics include Eighteenth- to 21st-Century German Poetry: Read More [+] forms of microblogging such as Twitter and Instagram; aesthetic Rules & Requirements experimentation and/on social media; notions of digital authorship; Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required practices of reading and viewing; literary scholarship and digital media. Readings, discussions, and coursework in German. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Literature in the Digital Age: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Literature in the Digital Age: Read Less [-] Eighteenth- to 21st-Century German Poetry: Read Less [-] GERMAN 152 Modern Literature 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 Introduction to philosophical, ideological, and aesthetic trends at the turn of the century. Analyses of literary texts by Th. Mann, F. Kafka, S. George, R. M. Rilke, G. Benn, B. Brecht. Modern Literature: Read More [+] Hours & Format

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Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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GERMAN 157A German Intellectual History GERMAN 157C German Intellectual History in in a European Context: Historical Figures a European Context: Historical Figures and and Contemporary Reflections: Luther, Kant, Contemporary Reflections: Heidegger and Hegel 4 Units Arendt 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2017, Fall 2014 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 Introduction to the intellectual history of Germany from the age of the This course is an introduction to the work of Martin Heidegger and Reformation to the period of Idealism. We will focus on three major Hannah Arendt. We will begin with an investigation into Heidegger's thinkers--Martin Luther, Immanuel Kant, and G.W.F. Hegel--on key issues conceptualiztions of language, time, and human dwelling. We will then in their thought, and on the reception and discussion of some of these move to an examination of Arendt's political philosophy, including her issues in 20th century theory. Lectures and readings in English. focus on the public/private distinction. Taught in English. German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Luther, Kant, Hegel: Read More [+] Contemporary Reflections: Heidegger and Arendt: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Luther, Kant, Hegel: Read Less [-] German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Heidegger and Arendt: Read Less [-] GERMAN 157B German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and GERMAN 157D German Intellectual History Contemporary Reflections: Marx, Nietzsche, in a European Context: Historical Figures Freud 4 Units and Contemporary Reflections: Adorno, Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Fall 2007 Benjamin, Habermas 4 Units The aim of the course is to explore the central theoretical and Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2014 philosophical premises of three of the most influential thinkers in the This course examines the writings of the Frankfurt School of Critical German-speaking world and to examine in detail several works in which Theory, a major branch of western Marxism. Focusing on confrontations problems of history, ideology, values, and methodology are considered. with modernity, the lectures will deal with three seminal thinkers: Walter Lecture and readings in English. Benjamin, known for his genial insights into the culture of modernism; German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Theodor Adorno, the versatile philosopher and aesthetic theorist of Contemporary Reflections: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: Read More [+] the avant garde; and Jurgen Habermas, the most influential German Hours & Format intellectual after World War II. German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Contemporary Reflections: Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas: Read More [+] Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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GERMAN 160A Politics and Culture in 20th- GERMAN 160C Politics and Culture in 20th- Century Germany: A Century of Extremes 4 Century Germany: A Divided Nation. Politics Units and Culture in Germany 1945-1990 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2013 Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019 The story of Germany in the 20th century is a dramatic one, comprising This course offers an introduction to the history and culture of divided two world wars, genocide, Allied occupation, a division into two states Germany in the era of the Cold War. It will look at the different ways the on opposing sides of the Cold War, and recently an unexpected two states dealt with the country's pre-1945 history, the relations to the unification. This course offers an introduction to the history and Allied Powers, and the major cultural shifts which eventually created a culture of contemporary Germany. It aims at a systematic account of watershed in the history of German mentalities. We will look at various German history in the 20th century, and it intends to provide a better kinds of sources, including literature and film. Major national debates understanding of today's German culture and politics. In addition to will be touched upon, such as breaks and continuities within the national following a chronological approach, we will frequently stop to explore elites, re-armament and pacifism, the student movement, opposition and issues that are crucial to providing insights into current developments. conformity under Socialism, and the rise of environmentalism. We will Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: A Century of Extremes: also discuss the problems and opportunities of re-unification. Read More [+] Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: A Divided Nation. Politics Hours & Format and Culture in Germany 1945-1990: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Formerly known as: 150 Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: A Divided Nation. Politics Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: A Century of Extremes: and Culture in Germany 1945-1990: Read Less [-] Read Less [-] GERMAN C160G Ideas of Education 4 Units GERMAN 160B Politics and Culture in 20th- Terms offered: Spring 2021 Century Germany: Fascism and Propaganda What is the purpose of education? Should the university prepare 4 Units students for the job market or emphasize the pursuit of knowledge for Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018 its own sake? Is knowledge a value in itself? This course explores these This course will focus on the theory and practice of propaganda during questions, among others, while concentrating on the German idea of the 12 years of the Third Reich. It takes a close look at the ideology the Bildung. It introduces students to the classical idea of education and self- Nazis tried to transmit, the techniques, organization, and effectiveness of formation by reading a wide range of texts from German philosophy, their propaganda. Challenging the idea of the total power of propaganda, intellectual history, and literature. Furthermore, the course traces the it looks for the limits of persuasion and possible other reasons for which history of this idea by exploring how Bildung informs contemporary Germans might have decided to follow Hitler. Sources will include the literary works and film. Emphasis will be on issues of class, race, and press, radio, film, photography, political posters, and a few literary works gender. of the time. Ideas of Education: Read More [+] Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: Fascism and Propaganda: Hours & Format Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Hours & Format discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Balint Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: Fascism and Propaganda: Also listed as: L & S C120T Read Less [-] Ideas of Education: Read Less [-] 16 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 160D Politics and Culture in 20th- GERMAN 160F Holocaust and Memory 4 Century Germany: Multicultural Germany 4 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012 This seminar introduces self narratives of Holocaust survivors as This course will deal with the culture and politics of minorities in historical sources. The course will start with central events between 1933 contemporary Germany. We will discuss how ethnic identities are and 1945 and historical narratives of the Holocaust. We will interpret perceived, constructed, and marketed. We also engage critically with and discuss secondary and primary sources including diaries, letters, such concepts as migration, assimilation, citizenship, diaspora, hybridity, memoirs, autobiographies and images. The course will in particular take and authenticity, as well as rhetorical strategies of "speaking back." age and gender into account and will also focus on the intergenerational We will focus on exemplary texts and films from Germany, but include transmission of memory. Three field trips (two virtual field trips, one in- comparisons with minority experiences in other countries. person field trip in Berkeley) will introduce students to central archival Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: Multicultural Germany: resources. Read More [+] Holocaust and Memory: Read More [+] Hours & Format Objectives & Outcomes

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Course Objectives: What are special features of self narratives as historical sources? How do we interpret and analyze texts and images Additional Details which are so profoundly shaped by experience, subjectivity, memory and trauma? How do we grapple with faked autobiographies and respond Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate to Holocaust denial? Today a minority of first generation survivors is still alive: how can their voices be preserved? What is the impact of the Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. intergenerational transmission of memory? What features representations Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: Multicultural Germany: of the second and third generation? Read Less [-] Student Learning Outcomes: This course will enable students to… GERMAN 160E Holocaust: Media, Memory, • read and view digital and analog sources attentively, analytically, and Representation 4 Units critically, Terms offered: Prior to 2007 • “Meditate that this came about: I command these words to you,” writes reflect on features, limits and possibilities of self narratives as historical the Holocaust survivor and author Primo Levi. Taking seriously Levi’s sources, dictum, this comparative course explores the ways in which the Holocaust • has been represented in different media, including literature, film, and operate in a multimedia environment (texts, graphic novels, photos, televisual narratives. To explore the political, aesthetic, and ethical videos and short films), dimensions of remembering the Nazi genocide, the course engages with • a wide range of both documentary and fictional genres, such as diaries, Identify different kinds of historical evidence and understand their role in memoirs, lyric poetry, novels, home videos and feature films. Emphasis the production of historical knowledge, will be both on formal features and medial possibilities of representing the • Shoah and their historical evolution since the end of World War II. conduct research, situate texts in context, read in constellations, and Holocaust: Media, Memory, Representation: Read More [+] considering the bigger picture of social and cultural change after 1945, Hours & Format • develop an argument in writing, based on evidence and reasoning, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Holocaust: Media, Memory, Representation: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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GERMAN 160K Politics and Culture in 20th- GERMAN 170 History of the German Century Germany: The Weimar Republic: Language 3 Units Politics and Culture in Germany 1918-1933 4 Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007 Units Designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the history of the language of the newly united Germanys, which transverses Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2016, Fall 2013 a rich linguistic legacy from the , through Luther and Grimm, to Grass The history of Germany's first parliamentary democracy is a dramatic and . Discussion, via linguistic principles, of language processes in the one, dominated by economic woes, political violence, and a general genetic development of the German language, as well as its interchange perception of crisis and decline. The ill-fated republic bore the burden over time with closely and remotely related languages such as English of a devastating war and suffered from an increasing lack of popular and Russian. support. Democratic procedures were constantly undermined by History of the German Language: Read More [+] radical and reactionary forces. Cultural pessimism was nurtured by the Hours & Format overwhelming experience of historical contingency, i.e., a fundamental lack of confidence in the predictability of modern life. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: The Weimar Republic: Politics and Culture in Germany 1918-1933: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate History of the German Language: Read Less [-]

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. GERMAN 172 German Dialects 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2014, Fall 2013 Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: The Weimar Republic: This course examines geographical and social variation within the Politics and Culture in Germany 1918-1933: Read Less [-] German language. Among other things we will consider the differences between language and dialect, the division of German dialects and the GERMAN 160L European Cultures 4 Units history of German dialect study, various linguistic features (phonological, Terms offered: Fall 2014 morphological, syntactic, and lexical) characteristic of the major German This course reflects on European cultures from a transnational dialect areas, and issues involving the use of dialect versus standard perspective. It will explore tensions between traditional identity concepts language in contemporary society. Besides regular readings and written based on the nation state model and other ways to define identity based assignments, grades will be based on active participation and a paper or on border crossings and intercultural connections. Special attention exam. will be paid to Europe's multilingualism and its colonial legacy in the German Dialects: Read More [+] form of migration, diaspora, hybridity, and other social phenomena that Hours & Format challenge traditional boarders between cultures, languages, and people. We will discuss exemplary texts and films from German-speaking areas Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week in Europe and beyond. The course syllabus will vary depending on the regional and thematic emphasis. All reading and discussion will be in Additional Details English. Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate European Cultures: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Shannon

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Instructor: Dewulf

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GERMAN 173 The Phonetics and Phonology GERMAN 175B Undergraduate Seminars: of Modern German 4 Units 20th-Century Poetry 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2013, Spring 2011 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2008 A course designed for undergraduates and graduates on the structure Analysis of various poetry from the beginning of the century to today, of modern German covering the fundamentals of German phonetics and including works by Trakl, Benn, Bachmann, Sachs, Celan, and phonology, with comparison to English. Some discussion of German Brinkmann. A 20-page research paper will be part of the requirements for dialect phonology. this course. The Phonetics and Phonology of Modern German: Read More [+] Undergraduate Seminars: 20th-Century Poetry: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for 173 after taking Prerequisites: 100 103 before Spring 2002. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Kudszus Instructor: Shannon Undergraduate Seminars: 20th-Century Poetry: Read Less [-] The Phonetics and Phonology of Modern German: Read Less [-] GERMAN 176 German Cultural History in a GERMAN 174 The Morphology and Syntax of European Context 4 Units Modern German 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2007, Fall 2001 Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2012 This course will be taught as a topics course; the content will change A course designed for undergraduates and graduates on the grammatical from semester to semester. It will examine major topics, concepts, and structure of modern German covering the fundamentals of German theories pertaining to the cultural identity of western Europe, selected morphology, syntax and semantics, with comparison to English. around a specific theme. Special attention will be paid to the cultural The Morphology and Syntax of Modern German: Read More [+] history of Germany and its influence on other countries. Possible themes Hours & Format range from the concepts of the self, God, history, and art, to the history of emotions and sexuality, the people and the masses, social utopia and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week revolution, etc. German Cultural History in a European Context: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Hours & Format Instructor: Shannon Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week The Morphology and Syntax of Modern German: Read Less [-] Additional Details

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GERMAN 177 The Cultural History of GERMAN 179 Special Topics in German 3 Switzerland in Literature and Film 4 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2008 Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 On the basis of literary texts (in translation) and films, we will examine Topics will vary from semester to semester. See departmental major topics pertaining to the cultural identity of Switzerland. Special announcement for offerings. Additional screening time may be required attention will be paid to the cultural history of Switerzland in a European for film topics. context. Themes in discussion will be Swiss multiculturalism and Special Topics in German: Read More [+] multilingualism, the importance of the Alps for national self-identification, Rules & Requirements the origin and development of the Swiss model of direct democracy, and the Swiss policy of neutrality. Prerequisites: Knowledge of German may be required depending on The Cultural History of Switzerland in Literature and Film: Read More [+] topic Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate The Cultural History of Switzerland in Literature and Film: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

GERMAN 178 Semiotics 3 Units Special Topics in German: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012 This course introduces principal figures from the basic disciplines of GERMAN 182 German Cinema in Exile 4 Units philosophy, biology, and linguistics who are particularly influential in Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Fall 2000 current trends in semiotic method. It undertakes to lay the foundation of The course will deal with the topic from various angles; a representative a semiotic method distinct from monolithic traditional structuralism, so, selection of American films noirs from the United States and some films e.g, it concentrates on anti-Saussurean thought. In presenting semiotic (as forerunners) from the Weimar Republic will be shown and discussed universals, the course pursues the formulation and the application of a in terms of their visuals and narratives. There will also be literary texts theoretical construct valid for any and all semiotic modalities ranging from and cultural documents (articles on crime in the United States; on the the literary text, to the language act as text, and to the human being as working conditions in Hollywood) pertaining to the topic. Films have text. English subtitles. Semiotics: Read More [+] German Cinema in Exile: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Instructor: Kaes Instructor: Rauch German Cinema in Exile: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: 296

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GERMAN 186 Transnational Cinemas 4 Units GERMAN H196A Honors Studies in German 2 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Fall 2017 Units This course will explore how experiences of migration, dislocation, or Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 exile are visualized in cinema, and how processes of internationalization Two-semester supervised independent study and research course in in film production and distribution intersect with the projection of a which honor students research their theses topic the first semester transnational global imagery. Some examples of transnational cinematic (H196A) and write their theses the second semester (H196B) for connections will be analyzed in historical perspective as well as completion of the requirements for the honors program. contemporary examples of "migrant cinema." We will investigate how Honors Studies in German: Read More [+] these films engage with debates about multiculturalism and assimilation/ Rules & Requirements segregation of minorities, as scenarios of itinerancy and mobility are often intertwined with representations of ethnicity and gender. Prerequisites: Consent of faculty adviser; H196A is prerequisite to Transnational Cinemas: Read More [+] H196B Hours & Format Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for H196A-H196B Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of after taking H196. laboratory per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of independent study per week Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Transnational Cinemas: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate GERMAN H196 Honors Studies in German 2 - Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long 4 Units series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series. Supervised independent study and research course for honor students Final exam not required. who are writing their theses for completion of the requirements for the Honors Program. Honors Studies in German: Read Less [-] Honors Studies in German: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements GERMAN H196B Honors Studies in German 2 Units Prerequisites: One of the 195 courses Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 Hours & Format Two-semester supervised independent study and research course in which honor students research their theses topic the first semester Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week (H196A) and write their theses the second semester (H196B) for completion of the requirements for the honors program. Summer: 8 weeks - 3.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week Honors Studies in German: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: Consent of instructor; H196A is a prerequisite of H196B Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for H196A-H196B Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. after taking H196. Honors Studies in German: Read Less [-] Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of independent study per week

Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week

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Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Final exam required.

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GERMAN 198 Directed Group Study 2 - 4 GERMAN 201B Major Periods in German Units Literature: 16th and 17th Century 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2011, Spring 2010 Group study of selected topics which will vary from year to year. Recommended for M.A. candidates. Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Major Periods in German Literature: 16th and 17th Century: Read More Rules & Requirements [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of directed group study per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Grading: Letter grade. exam not required. Instructors: Tenant, Largier Directed Group Study: Read Less [-] Major Periods in German Literature: 16th and 17th Century: Read Less [-] GERMAN 199 Supervised Independent Study GERMAN 202A Early German Literature: and Research 1 or 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Early German Literature, from the Middle Supervised independent study and research. Ages to the Baroque 4 Units Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+] Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019 Rules & Requirements This course provides an overview of major canonical works of Medieval and Early Modern German literature. Prerequisites: Open to students who have completed at least 15 units of Early German Literature: Early German Literature, from the Middle Ages upper division German with an average no less than B to the Baroque: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 5-10 hours of independent study per week Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate 8 weeks - 3.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week 10 weeks - 3-6 hours of independent study per week Grading: Letter grade.

Additional Details Early German Literature: Early German Literature, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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GERMAN 202B Classical German Literature 4 GERMAN 204 Compact Seminar 2 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2020 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 A compact seminar designed to feature distinguished short-term visitors Broadly defined as the period from 1750 to 1900 – through the lens from German-speaking countries who have expertise in German literature of current theoretical concerns and the latest criticism. Departing and culture to teach topics that complement regular departmental from traditional schemes of periodization (Enlightenment, Classicism, offerings. One short paper is required. Taught in German. Romanticism, Realism etc.) as well as from conventional analytical Compact Seminar: Read More [+] categories, we will revisit some of the most seminal texts in German Rules & Requirements literature as test cases for alternative historical narratives and new critical Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. idioms. Canonical texts prove to be open to entirely new readings in light of contemporary theory. Conversely, they also help us elaborate, revise, Hours & Format and perhaps move beyond current theoretical paradigms. Critical texts are meant to showcase the state of the art and to inspire future research Fall and/or spring: 4 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week projects. Classical German Literature: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Grading: Letter grade.

Additional Details Compact Seminar: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate GERMAN 205 Studies in Medieval Literature 4 Grading: Letter grade. Units Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017 Classical German Literature: Read Less [-] So-called ‘mystical’ forms of thought and experience have played a major GERMAN 202C Modern German Literature 4 role in the history of modern philosophy and literature from Hegel to Georg Lukàcs, Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, and Jacques Derrida, Units and from Novalis to Robert Musil, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 Pierre Klossowski, and John Cage (to name just a few). In this seminar The seminar will focus on concentrated readings of selected passages we will read and discuss key texts written by Eckhart of Hochheim from modernist German literature, ranging from Heinrich von Kleist, (Meister Eckhart), Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Hadewijch of Antwerp, Robert Walser, Rainer Maria Rilke, Carl Einstein and Franz Kafka some of the most significant medieval figures in this tradition. During to Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Thomas a second phase of the seminar we will turn our attention to baroque Bernhard. Although the emphasis will be on fictional prose, we will also mysticism, especially Angelus Silesius and Jacob Böhme. discuss theories of reading and modernist poetics. Our goals are to study Studies in Medieval Literature: Read More [+] the literary styles of modern German writers and to practice reading Rules & Requirements skills that draw equally on aesthetics, rhetoric, literary theory, and media history. The teaching will be explorative, interactive, non-hierarchical, and Prerequisites: 106 or 203 collaborative. Modern German Literature: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week

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Modern German Literature: Read Less [-] Instructors: Tenant, Largier

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GERMAN 206 Studies in the Early Modern 4 GERMAN 212A Studies in the 19th Century: Units Topics in Romanticism 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2009, Fall 2002 Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2008, Spring 2003 Survey of texts from the 15th and 16th centuries. A good reading Major authors and texts of the romantic period will be discussed. knowledge of Middle High German is recommended. Studies in the 19th Century: Topics in Romanticism: Read More [+] Studies in the Early Modern: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar and 1 hour of tutorial Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week per week

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Instructors: Tennant, Largier Studies in the 19th Century: Topics in Romanticism: Read Less [-] Studies in the Early Modern: Read Less [-] GERMAN 214 Studies in the 20th Century 4 GERMAN 207 Methods 4 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2020 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Studies in the 20th Century: Read More [+] Drawing on a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, this seminar Rules & Requirements will present and explore different ways of reading. Topics will include literary hermeneutics and textual deconstruction. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Methods: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week

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Methods: Read Less [-] Studies in the 20th Century: Read Less [-] GERMAN 210A Studies in the 18th Century: GERMAN 255 Interpretation and Criticism of Age of Enlightenment 4 Units Poetry 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2003 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2016, Fall 2010 . Literary texts will be studied as historical documents illuminating Interpretation and Criticism of Poetry: Read More [+] changes in literary theory and in religious and philosophical thought Rules & Requirements during the Enlightenment. Texts by Lessing, Herder, and Lenz, and some Storm and Stress plays. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Studies in the 18th Century: Age of Enlightenment: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Kudszus Studies in the 18th Century: Age of Enlightenment: Read Less [-] Interpretation and Criticism of Poetry: Read Less [-] 24 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 256 Problems of Literary Theory 4 GERMAN 263C Poetry and Thought 4 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2013 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This seminar examines the interrelationship of poetic and philosophical Topics vary from year to year. For current topic see the department's discourses, with an emphasis on roles and functions of language. "Course Descriptions" booklet. Questions of style and writing will interrelate different genres of poetry Problems of Literary Theory: Read More [+] and thought. The seminar will explore a tradition in which poetic thought Rules & Requirements and highly reflective poetry approach and at times merge with each other. Poetry and Thought: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements

Hours & Format Prerequisites: Previous work with German poetry and philosophy

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format

Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Additional Details

Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate

Problems of Literary Theory: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. GERMAN 260 Aesthetic Theory 4 Units Instructor: Kudszus Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Poetry and Thought: Read Less [-] Aesthetics is crucial to most of the humanities disciplines. This seminar studies the historical development as well as the key concerns of GERMAN 265 Film Theory: Historical and aesthetic theory from its eighteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The focus is on the classical age of aesthetics from Baumgarten Systematic Perspectives 4 Units to Nietzsche. We’ll first read the foundational texts by Kant, Schiller, the Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2017 Romantics, and Hegel, among others. We then turn to the ramifications This seminar will examine traditional and recent critical approaches to of, and challenges to, the theoretical positions developed in the classical the study of film. Knowledge of German and background in literary theory age, exploring the scientific, sociological, and media-theoretical discourse required. of aesthetics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as the Film Theory: Historical and Systematic Perspectives: Read More [+] interventions of major philosophers such as Heidegger and Adorno. Rules & Requirements Aesthetic Theory: Read More [+] Prerequisites: 200 or equivalent Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of tutorial Additional Details per week Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Aesthetic Theory: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.

Instructor: Kaes

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GERMAN 266 Interdisciplinary Summer GERMAN 270 History of the German Seminar in German Studies 4 Units Language 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 1996 10 Week Session, Summer 1995 10 Week Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018 Session, Summer 1994 10 Week Session Designed for students interested in the history of the language and Consisting of reguar meetings and discussions as well as weekly lectues culture of united Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, which by distinguished speakers from various disciplines, the seminar will transverses a rich legacy from the , through Luther and Grimm, to Grass explore instuitutional, political, social, and cultural aspects of the former and . Discussion, via linguistic principles, of language processes in the two Germanies grappling with an ambiguous heritage. Within this genetic development of the German language, as well as its interchange framework participants will pursue individual directions in research. Topic over time with closely and remotely related languages. varies from year to year. History of the German Language: Read More [+] Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in German Studies: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of seminar per week Prerequisites: Good proficiency in German Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Summer: 6 weeks - 9.5 hours of seminar per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details History of the German Language: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate GERMAN 271 Comparative Germanic 4 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2009, Spring 2004 Advanced topics in Germanic phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in German Studies: Read Less [-] pragmatics. The principal Germanic dialects viewed within laryngeal GERMAN 268 Aspects of Literary and theory and reconstruction. Comparative Germanic: Read More [+] Cultural History 4 Units Hours & Format Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2011 A comparison of literary and cultural developments in Germany and the Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week United States. Emphasis is placed on individual research designed to develop teaching materials. Additional Details Aspects of Literary and Cultural History: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Instructor: Rauch Additional Details Comparative Germanic: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate

Grading: Letter grade. GERMAN 273 Gothic 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2015, Fall 2012 Aspects of Literary and Cultural History: Read Less [-] Study of the linguistic structures of the earliest Germanic dialect with a sizable corpus. Indo-European origins, Germanic relationships, and Gothic as a synchronic construct are considered. Gothic: Read More [+] Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate

Grading: Letter grade.

Instructor: Rauch

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GERMAN 276 Old High German 4 Units GERMAN 285 Approaches and Issues in the Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2014 Study of Modern German 4 Units Reading of poetic and prose texts in Old High German. The synchronic Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2014, Fall 2011 and diachronic study of the dialects of the High German language A survey of relevant contemporary issues and topics in linguistic research from the eighth to the eleventh century within the framework of current on the structure of German. linguistic method. Approaches and Issues in the Study of Modern German: Read More [+] Old High German: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: 103 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar and 1 hour of tutorial Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate per week

Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details

Instructor: Rauch Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate

Old High German: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.

GERMAN 280 North Sea Germanic 4 Units Instructor: Shannon Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2013, Fall 2010 Readings and discussion of poetic and prose texts in the Ingwaeonic Approaches and Issues in the Study of Modern German: Read Less [-] languages (broadly construed) not covered elsewhere: Old Low Franconian, Middle Dutch, Old Frisian, Middle Low German. GERMAN 290 Seminar in German Linguistics North Sea Germanic: Read More [+] 4 Units Hours & Format Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 Variable topic. For specific topic contact departmental office. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Seminar in German Linguistics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Additional Details Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Instructor: Shannon Additional Details North Sea Germanic: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate GERMAN 282 Old Saxon 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2016, Spring 2013 Grading: Letter grade. Study of the most provocative of the major Germanic languages in terms of structural identification. The literary and ethnographic setting of the and Seminar in German Linguistics: Read Less [-] its shared isogrammar. Old Saxon: Read More [+] Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate

Grading: Letter grade.

Instructor: Rauch

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GERMAN 291 Methods and Issues in German GERMAN 294 Contrastive Grammars 4 Units Morphology 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2008, Spring 2005 Theory and methods of contrastive linguistic analyses. Study of pairs of The seminar will deal with the methods and results of morphological contrastive language sets in two time perspectives: Modern German with analysis as applied to the German language. It will introduce basic Modern English and Early New High German with Early New English. concepts and means of morphological analyses, as well as study and Contrastive Grammars: Read More [+] apply various theories of word structure to German. The primary concern Hours & Format will be the synchronic analyses of modern German word formation, but Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week questions of a diachronic nature as well as ones about inflection will also be discussed. Additional Details Methods and Issues in German Morphology: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Grading: Letter grade.

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Grading: Letter grade. GERMAN 296 Semiotics 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Instructor: Shannon Discussion of the principal figures from the basic disciplines of Methods and Issues in German Morphology: Read Less [-] philosophy, biology, and linguistics influential in current trends in semiotics. Application of Peircean semiotics to a wide range of semiotic GERMAN 292 German Syntax 4 Units modalities. Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2012, Fall 2006 Semiotics: Read More [+] Discussion of current syntactic theories as applied to a number of issues Hours & Format in modern German syntax with an eye toward their description and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week explanatory potential. Typological comparison, especially with English. German Syntax: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Instructor: Rauch Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Semiotics: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. GERMAN 298 Directed Group Study 2 - 8 German Syntax: Read Less [-] Units GERMAN 293 German Semantics 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2012, Spring 2009 Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Concentration on the essential categories of semantics via data from Rules & Requirements German and Germanic. Extensive discussion of semantic change, the Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. semantics of prevarication, and the semantics of pathological language. German Semantics: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Summer: 8 weeks - 3.5-99 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. German Semantics: Read Less [-] Directed Group Study: Read Less [-] 28 German (GERMAN)

GERMAN 299 Dissertation Research and GERMAN 375B Seminar in Foreign Language Writing 1 - 12 Units Pedagogy: Teaching College German II 4 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Units Dissertation research and writing during candidacy. Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Dissertation Research and Writing: Read More [+] This course expands upon the basis of methodology and theory of Rules & Requirements language teaching covered in 350 and prepares students for teaching at the intermediate level. The theoretical and practical exploration of recent Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. developments in second language teaching concentrates on instructional Hours & Format technology, teaching writing, teaching literary texts, and curriculum design. Students reflect on their development as teachers through a Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of independent study per week journal, video, and observation of their teaching, and the final portfolio. Seminar in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching College German II: Summer: 10 weeks - 2-18 hours of independent study per week Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements

Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate Prerequisites: Graduate standing

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Hours & Format

Dissertation Research and Writing: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week GERMAN 375A Seminar in Foreign Language Additional Details Pedagogy: Teaching College German I 4 Subject/Course Level: German/Professional course for teachers or Units prospective teachers Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. The course focuses on the theory and practice of foreign language pedagogy. It introduces students to second language acquisition Formerly known as: German 351 research and its relationship to pedagogy, providing a basis for staying theoretically informed and for participating in professional discourse of Seminar in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching College German II: the field throughout one's teaching career. It also emphasizes critical Read Less [-] reflection on pedagogical practices. Includes a practical component dealing directly with the day-to-day challenges of teaching elementary GERMAN 602 Individual Study for Doctoral German. Students 1 - 8 Units Seminar in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching College German I: Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Read More [+] Session Rules & Requirements Independent study in consultation with graduate adviser to provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to prepare for the qualifying examination. Prerequisites: Graduate standing Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: M.A. in German Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: German/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Additional Details

Formerly known as: German 350 Subject/Course Level: German/Graduate examination preparation

Seminar in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching College German I: Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Read Less [-] Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read Less [-]