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German (GER) 1 GER 103 | BASIC GERMAN III | 4 quarter hours GERMAN (GER) (Undergraduate) GER 103 is the third quarter of the first-year college German sequence. It GER 101 | BASIC GERMAN I | 4 quarter hours continues to introduce the students to the study of language and culture (Undergraduate) of German speaking countries. The course focuses on the development GER 101 is the first quarter of the first-year college German sequence. It of all four critical language skills--listening, reading, writing and speaking-- introduces the students to the study of language and culture of German while also introducing aspects of German-speaking societies that speaking countries. The course focuses on the development of all differ from American society. In-class work will be devoted primarily four critical language skills--listening, reading, writing and speaking-- to communication activities, so that students will be able to utilize the while also introducing aspects of German-speaking societies that structures and vocabulary to express themselves meaningfully and to differ from American society. In-class work will be devoted primarily function in a German-speaking setting. To maximize each student's to communication activities, so that students will be able to utilize the engagement with the language, students will be talking and listening to structures and vocabulary you learn to express themself meaningfully each other as much as to the instructor. At the end of the three-course and to function in a German-speaking setting. To maximize each sequence, students will be in command of the basic elements of German student's engagement with the language, students will be talking and language and culture, and should be able to function with relative ease listening to each other as much as to the instructor. At the end of in German-speaking countries. Students will be able to comprehend and the three-course sequence, students will be in command of the basic engage in basic conversations, write clearly and effectively in German, elements of German language and culture, and should be able to function and read simple but genuine texts. with relative ease in German-speaking countries. Students will be able GER 103S | BASIC GERMAN II FOR SUMMER | 6 quarter hours to comprehend and engage in basic conversations, write clearly and (Undergraduate) effectively in German, and read simple but genuine texts. (Covers the equivalent of the second half of GER 102 and all of GER 103.) GER 101S | BASIC GERMAN I FOR SUMMER | 6 quarter hours The second half of beginning German. Further work on the basic (Undergraduate) elements of the German language, spoken as well as written, with due (Covers the equivalent of the GER 101 and the first half of GER 102.) regard to the cultural context of German expression. The first half of beginning German. The basic elements of the German GER 104 | INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I | 4 quarter hours language, spoken as well as written, with due regard to the cultural (Undergraduate) context of German expression. This course is the first quarter of second-year college German, and GER 102 | BASIC GERMAN II | 4 quarter hours emphasizes language as communication in real-life situations and (Undergraduate) as a means to immerse ourselves in the cultures of German-speaking GER 102 is the second quarter of the first-year college German sequence. countries. Though students will review and perfect their knowledge of It continues to introduce the students to the study of language and German grammar throughout the year, they will focus on the perfection of culture of German speaking countries. The course focuses on the the four language skills reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students development of all four critical language skills--listening, reading, will have ample opportunities to express themselves in German, acquire writing and speaking--while also introducing aspects of German- basic discussion strategies, and gain insight into many aspects of the speaking societies that differ from American society. In-class work will contemporary cultures and societies of German-speaking countries. be devoted primarily to communication activities, so that students will GER 103 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of be able to utilize the structures and vocabulary to express themselves instructor, is recommended. meaningfully and to function in a German-speaking setting. To maximize GER 105 | INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II | 4 quarter hours each student's engagement with the language, students will be talking (Undergraduate) and listening to each other as much as to the instructor. At the end of This course is the second quarter of second-year college German, and the three-course sequence, students will be in command of the basic emphasizes language as communication in real-life situations and elements of German language and culture, and should be able to function as a means to immerse ourselves in the cultures of German-speaking with relative ease in German-speaking countries. Students will be able countries. Though students will review and perfect their knowledge of to comprehend and engage in basic conversations, write clearly and German grammar throughout the year, they will focus on the perfection of effectively in German, and read simple but genuine texts. the four language skills reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students will have ample opportunities to express themselves in German, acquire basic discussion strategies, and gain insight into many aspects of the contemporary cultures and societies of German-speaking countries. GER 104 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. 2 German (GER) GER 106 | INTERMEDIATE GERMAN III | 4 quarter hours GER 272E | WORKING THROUGH THE PAST: MEMORY AND MEMORIAL IN (Undergraduate) GERMANY AND THE U.S. | 4 quarter hours This video-based course is designed to develop and expand skills in (Undergraduate) German and explore ideas, cultural topics and themes from the German- TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. How does a shattered nation come to terms with speaking world. Course activities will include: learning from authentic its past? Recent events in the U.S. have revealed the depth of our societal video clips and films; visiting (in textbook and video) various cities and divides, especially in the debate over memory and memorials. But these regions in the German-speaking world, exploring the variety and the are not uniquely American questions: other places have navigated a similarities; practicing skills in German by discussing cultural issues reckoning with their own traumatic pasts. Philosopher Susan Neiman, and authentic readings; interpreting graphics and charts on topics of author of "Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil," German culture; structured listening and writing practice; reading literary calls Germany's relationship to its history "grown up." The German project and nonliterary texts of increasing difficulty; summarizing verbally and in of "coming to terms with the past"?that is, the decades-long process writing what is read, heard, and learned; writing compositions and short of confronting its record of Nazism and working through the trauma of texts of various types; researching a topic; preparing and presenting the Holocaust?reflects this "grown up" relationship to history, one that results to the class (oral and written). GER 105 or equivalent, including integrates the question of guilt and responsibility into the national story. placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. This process, while always unfinished, has helped Germany reshape GER 130 | MOLILSAP STUDY ABROAD | 2 quarter hours its identity to become what it is today: a harbor for refugees, a global (Undergraduate) leader in green energy, and a model social welfare and educational This course is specially designed to complement the Modern Language system. In this course, we'll learn about Germany's process of coming to Introductory Languages Study Abroad programs, linked to the third terms with the past?what it consists of, how it was initiated, and how it quarter of the first year language program. The course will be taught informs Germans' self-understanding today?and ask, how can a country abroad. acknowledge its guilt while also building its future? How do individual Germans incorporate the idea of collective guilt into their understanding GER 197 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN GERMAN | 4 quarter hours of themselves? What kinds of people and events has Germany chosen to (Undergraduate) remember in monuments and memorials? And what kind of work remains See schedule for current offerings. to be done in Germany in relation to its history? In short: what can we GER 198 | STUDY ABROAD | 1-8 quarter hours learn from the Germans about coming to terms with the American past? (Undergraduate) Note to German students: this course is taught in English and does not Variable credit. replicate the content of GER 201. GER 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 0.5-4 quarter hours GER 274E | REVOLUTION ON THE STAGE: BERLIN, EPIC THEATER, AND (Undergraduate) THE 20TH CENTURY | 4 quarter hours Variable credit. (Undergraduate) TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. One of the most influential thinkers of the GER 201 | ADVANCED GERMAN I: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST | 4 twentieth century, the revolutionary Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht quarter hours was witness to the crises that defined his age: the First and Second (Undergraduate) World Wars, the postwar division of Germany into East and West, and The third year