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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 of German focuses on four primary linguistic skills: more personally, his own exile in the U.S. during the Nazi regime. Brecht comprehension, reading, writing and speaking. Development in each criticized the changing face of Europe and the world in his writing, and of these areas is achieved through the introduction, consideration, and his ideas about war and pacifism, capitalism, religion, fascism, inequality, analysis of longer German stories, increasingly complex discussions and exile feel remarkably relevant today. In this course, we'll think about of said texts, and the review, and hopefully ultimate mastery, of various those ideas as we learn about Brecht's radical transformation of the vocabularies and advanced-level grammar. Ample time will be devoted stage, manifested in the theory of Epic Theater and the "Alienation/ to speaking and developing oral proficiency in class as well. GER 106 Estrangement Effect:" two concepts that promoted critical distance or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is and political awareness in the theater instead of the traditional focus recommended. on identification and catharsis. Berlin was highly progressive and GER 202 | ADVANCED GERMAN II: READING THE FOREIGN/FOREIGN experimental in the "Golden Twenties," and we'll also discuss the artistic, READING | 4 quarter hours political, and social milieu there that informed Brecht's activist art: his (Undergraduate) work is characterized by collaborations with artists and musicians, The third year of German continues strengthening four primary linguistic and many of his plays feature musical pieces informed by jazz and the skills: comprehension, reading, writing and speaking. The main goal cabaret. We'll consider Brecht in exile, too, and think about the ways that is to achieve oral proficiency. Ample time will be devoted to speaking his experiences as a displaced person shaped his writing and relate to and developing oral proficiency in class as well. GER 106 or equivalent, current discussions about borders and belonging. Finally, we'll explore including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. the question of Brecht's continued relevance and why his ideas still GER 203 | ADVANCED GERMAN III: THE UNCANNY AND THE SELF | 4 resonate with contemporary audiences. To that end, this course will quarter hours include viewings and excursions, including visits to theaters and concert (Undergraduate) venues for live performances when possible. The third year of German continues strengthening four primary linguistic skills: comprehension, reading, writing and speaking. The main goal is oral proficiency. Ample time will be devoted to speaking and developing oral proficiency in class as well. GER 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. German (GER) 3

GER 275 | EXORCISM, MESMERISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE GERMAN GER 277E | COFFEEHOUSES AND CULTURE IN TURN OF THE CENTURY UNCONSCIOUS MIND | 4 quarter hours VIENNA | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) (Undergraduate) This course is taught in English. Using the wrong word while speaking or TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. Vienna around 1900 was the setting for major writing, jokes, free association, dreams, listening to regressed patients ? innovations in the arts, literature, sciences, and philosophy, and the on the couch,? all of which are deeply rooted in specific cultural times developments that emerged from this time and place shaped 20th and places?these are the traditional means for exposing and learning century thought and culture. Central to the rich intellectual life in turn about the workings of the unconscious mind, considered by Freudian of the century Vienna was the Viennese coffeehouse, a place that psychoanalysis to be the repository of instinctually driven thoughts, encouraged the exchange of ideas and served as a spatial extension fantasies, and inclinations that put individual people in conflict with of the private sphere. Using the coffeehouse as a kind of experiential societal expectations. This course examines closely those means and environment, this course will look at the ideas that emerged from the the conclusions drawn from them by Sigmund Freud and his followers. cafe interiors of Vienna 1900: Freud's theories of the unconscious, The course also gives consideration to the work of two important early dreams, and (female) hysteria; the artworks of Gustav Klimt and the but unwitting experimentations with the unconscious?demonic exorcism Viennese Secessionists; the "Young Vienna" literary circle; the new as practiced by German priest Johann Joseph Gassner and ?magnetic musical language of Arnold Schonberg; and the radicalism of modernist sleep? (now seen as a precursor to hypnosis) as practiced by Austrian architecture. Further, we'll discuss spatial and sociological theories physician Franz Anton Mesmer. This appraisal will allow us to debate of coffeehouse culture and consider the function that coffeehouses the thesis of whether an engagement with the unconscious mind results serve today in Vienna and in Chicago, too. This course includes several in new or re-conceptualizations of the individual by societal institutions excursions (for example, to Ipsento and Metropolis coffeehouses for a such as the church and mainstream medicine, so that the formerly "Coffee 101" class, coffee tastings and roasterie tours, as well as to the chronically ill are by turns seen to be possessed, in need of redistribution Art Institute and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Lyric Opera). of ?magnetic fluid,? neurotic, hysteric, or simply understood to be children GER 278E | MAKING GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES | 4 quarter hours within adults. We conclude by reviewing the psychoanalytic tool and (Undergraduate) human faculty of Einfuhlung, or empathy, which, rather than just meaning TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. Fairy tales spark our imaginations and inspire feeling sorry for another person, is used clinically to perceive through great artists in a variety of mediums from around the world, whether feeling and sensation what another person feels without necessarily in commercial format like Disney or in illustrations that speak to having had even remotely similar experiences. Freud borrowed this idea sides of human nature that can make us uncomfortable. Of these from Romantic-era theories and methods for translating literature. tales, Grimms' Children's and Household Tales (known to us today as GER 276E | GREEN GERMANY: NATURE AND THE GERMAN MIND | 4 "Grimms' Fairy Tales") are some of the most powerful for how they use quarter hours predictable narrative outcomes to give space to conflicts of power, (Undergraduate) gender, generational difference, and class. This course takes on all TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. For decades, Germany has been considered these issues while reading in English translation all 156 tales in the an environmental trailblazer: it's a leader in developing sustainable original edition of the fairytale collection. People who think they know and renewable energies; politically, its Green Party is ascendant, with these stories are in for a wild ride (for starters, they were originally never real representation in the German parliament; and as of 2019, half of intended for children) as we peel back the layers of meaning in the Germany's energy came from renewable sources. In many ways, green tales and consider how and why the Grimm Brothers turned the stories technologies are affordable options for individual consumers around they collected into now-familiar fairy tales: a process which may have the world because of the investments made by Germany in the 1990s originated in dedication to German nature and nation, but has been seen and early 2000s. How has Germany managed to create an energy by some as a harbinger of Nazi fascism. policy that other countries, including the U.S., have failed to attain? GER 297 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN GERMAN | 4 quarter hours This course attempts to answer this question by first considering the (Undergraduate) German relationship to nature and how it changed over time: from the See schedule for current offerings. earliest Germanic tribes and their ancient nature worship; to the German Romantics and their conception of nature as something overpowering GER 298 | STUDY ABROAD | 1-8 quarter hours and sublime; to Nazi Germany, where nature became associated with (Undergraduate) ideas of race and belonging; and finally, to today's German brand of Variable credit. environmentalism, which perceives nature as an endangered thing GER 299 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 0.5-8 quarter hours to be conserved and protected. We'll look at these phases through (Undergraduate) the perspective of thinkers and scientists who influenced the place Variable credit. of science in the world, including Alexander von Humboldt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Albert Einstein. This will give us an idea of the cultural context from which Germany approaches nature and the environment today, so that we can understand why it has been compelled to move toward a more sustainable future. Finally, we'll connect these ideas to real-life experiences: we'll speak and meet with representatives from "green" German companies here in Chicago in order to better understand the science and technology behind "Green Germany" now. 4 German (GER)

GER 301 | ORIGINS OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE TO 1600 | 4 quarter GER 307 | FROM SOUND TO STRUCTURE: GERMAN POETRY | 4 quarter hours hours (Undergraduate) (Undergraduate) The modern understanding of the German nation has its origins in Instead of treating poems as potentially boring puzzles that can only be a number of tribes that emerged from southern Scandinavia and solved with some piece of arcane knowledge not available to average northern Germany before the Common Era. This course will trace the people, this course approaches the history of poems written in German development of "Germany" ( a term that was not commonly used until by focusing on the various tools available to poets. What if sound (the the 1500s) in the Medieval period and into the 16th century, when sound of individual words but also the cumulative sound, including tone, Martin Luther and his 95 Theses initiated the movement that would which words make when put in a certain order) were more important later be known as the Protestant Reformation. In the exploration of this than meaning or expression? What if lines, rather than sentences, made history, and of the evolution of the German language, students will read for a more reliable unit of composition? What if metaphor and simile representative works of literature which will question the category of actually created relationships between different things rather that those literature altogether. GER 106 or equivalent, including placement test or relationships existing prior to the poem? Students will be expected to permission of instructor, is recommended. experiment with these techniques themselves, and we will use our focus GER 302 | PLAY, PERSONALITY, AND POLITICS IN SCHILLER'S LETTERS on those techniques as a constant that takes us through the periods ON ART | 4 quarter hours comprising literary history in German-speaking countries. The variety of (Undergraduate) these periods, taken together, should serve to keep the subject matter Dramatist, playwright, and critic Friedrich Schiller used publicly published lively. Even if the materials sacrifice depth for breadth, the course will letters to experiment with and articulate his understanding of the value reserve time for such luminaries as the Minnesingers, Holderlin, Goethe and function of art in the ordinary lives of human beings. His minute & Schiller, Trakl, Rilke, Brecht, Bachmann, and others, while touching on examination led him to grand claims that range widely beyond art in the occasional oddballs like Heinz Herbeck and contemporaries such as narrow sense. This course traces three of them while reading the entirety Monika Rinck and Nora Gomringer. The aims of this course are to be of the letters and considering the impact of the medium he used in his better able to experience poems rather than decode them, and to situate thinking--letters ostensibly written to one person but made available to a them in their literary classification. wider public. In so doing we'll investigate the claim that play, personality, GER 308 | GOETHE AND HIS ERA | 4 quarter hours and politics result in and extend from a type of coherence that has its (Undergraduate) origin in early life. Schiller writes that human beings only play when This course explores one of the great, canonical works of German being human "in the fullest sense of the word," a statement which points literature, Goethe's peculiar and provocative interpretation of the us toward the role of art as a process of amplification, or something legendary figure of Dr. Faustus. By spending an entire quarter with this that "makes full." GER 106 or equivalent, including placement test or one text, students have time to gain a thorough appreciation for its permission of instructor, is recommended. depth, complexity, and poetic excellence. Classroom discussions will GER 303 | INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LITERATURE III: FROM 1850 TO focus in part on a close reading of the text in its various dimensions: PRESENT | 4 quarter hours characterization, motivation, plot-structure and plot-development, (Undergraduate) poetic form (meter and rhyme), and poetic imagery (metaphors, similes, Literature from 1850 to the present. GER 106 or equivalent, including etc.). Students will also examine the philosophical questions raised by placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. Faust and Mephisto's rich and probing dialogues and also consider the larger cultural and historical significance of Goethe's Faust. GER 106 GER 304 | WORD-SCRIPT-STAGE-WORLD: DAS THEATER | 4 quarter or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is hours recommended. (Undergraduate) This course is designed to familiarize students with some of the GER 309 | GERMAN CIVILIZATION I | 4 quarter hours outstanding dramas written in German speaking countries during the (Undergraduate) last half century. Students will explore dramas that ignited hot public The rise and fall of the "Holy Roman Empire": Social, intellectual and debates on account of their weighty topics, science and ethics, or science artistic background of Germany from its origins to 1871. GER 106 or as power, more precisely, political power: "What do scientific discoverers equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is do when they feel responsibility towards the world?" Towards the end of recommended. the 20th century, and with the rise of critical feminist thought, the fierce GER 311 | BREAKING NEWS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD | 4 satirical drama of the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright Elfriede quarter hours Jelinek on science, and the power games of gender garners attention. Her (Undergraduate) work and those of other artists will be explored. GER 106 or equivalent, This course examines the many facets of contemporary Germany and including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. Austria via five focused two week units: Politics; Business and the GER 305 | COMPOSING REALITY: WRITING IN GERMAN | 4 quarter hours Environment; Film and Culture; Literature; and Communication/Social (Undergraduate) Media. We'll engage with several German-language media (internet, Topics include: prose from 1600 to Goethe; from the Romantic to the television, film, print) to understand the happenings of the German- Realistic periods; prose of the 20th century. GER 106 or equivalent, speaking world in the present day. Moreover, the course includes several including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. outings and/or events that will expose us to German-related happenings in Chicago. These will generate further, comparative discussions GER 306 | THE NOVELLE | 4 quarter hours about representations of contemporary Germany and Austria in the (Undergraduate) U.S. GER 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission of From Goethe to Grass. GER 106 or equivalent, including placement test or instructor, is recommended. permission of instructor, is recommended. German (GER) 5

GER 312 | GERMAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY | 4 quarter hours GER 319 | MULTICULTURAL GERMANY: LITERATURE, FILM AND ART | 4 (Undergraduate) quarter hours This course is designed to introduce the student to some of the (Undergraduate) most powerful and influential German thinkers in Western civilization This course asks students to consider various literary/artistic media as of the 19th and 20th century, whose names are synonymous with ways of communicating and interpreting experiences relevant to migrants revolutionary thinking, and whose philosophies have deeply shaped the in Germany. The groups we'll explore include the Turkish and Italian Weltanschauung of 20th century man. GER 106 or equivalent, including guest workers ("Gastarbeiter") of the the 1950s and '60s that made West placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. German (re-)construction possible; Afro-Germans, a long-understudied GER 313 | TURN OF THE CENTURY VIENNA | 4 quarter hours population that emerged largely from two main sources: descendants (Undergraduate) of Africans who migrated to Germany in relation to its African colonies, A world center of modern art and thought: Freud, Wittgenstein, Klimt, and to a much larger extent, the offspring born to German mothers Kokoschka, Kafka, Shoenberg. GER 106 or equivalent, including and U.S. military fathers in centers of American occupation; and the placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. most recent wave of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. By engaging with writings, artwork, films, and music created by members of GER 314 | BERLIN AND THE GOLDEN TWENTIES | 4 quarter hours these populations, students will be encouraged to think critically about (Undergraduate) representations of refugees and immigrants in media and discourse --to Berlin in the 1920s was an exhilarating, modern city marked by contrasts: consider, for example, how even the labeling of refugees in Europe as a ? the trauma of returning soldiers and the decadence of the modern crisis? generates a certain kind of response. The course will end with a metropolis; an ever-growing tension between liberalism and what would look toward the future of multiculturalism in Germany and consider the become an increasingly radical political right; and the emergence of possibility of a pan-European multicultural literature and film. the progressive Weimar Republic, which was characterized by periodic political turmoil and economic instability. These "Golden Twenties" also GER 320 | ADVANCED COMMERCIAL GERMAN | 4 quarter hours gave rise to cultural innovations in the arts, film, theater, literature, music, (Undergraduate) philosophy, architecture, social sciences, and technology: Berlin was This course will approach the concept of Geschaftsdeutsch on two levels: at the center of it all. In this course, we'll explore some of the major first with an examination of Germany, Austria, the European Union, and filmmakers, writers, artists, and musicians in this great metropolis of the German industry and economy, and second, with an exploration of the early twentieth century as we consider the political conflicts that the German professional world (i.e. the processes involved in searching, plagued Germany's young democracy. We'll also discuss how Weimar- applying, and interviewing for an internship or employment in a German era Berlin has been depicted in film and television, with the miniseries speaking country). Students will practice in class through role playing, "Babylon Berlin" (2017) functioning as a kind of foundational thread that skits, writing example letters, resumes, and CVs, etc. A number of we'll return to throughout the quarter. Finally, we'll think about what led guest speakers from the German business community in Chicago are to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the resemblances this period possible. GER 106 or equivalent, including placement test or permission may bear to our current political era. GER 106 or equivalent, including of instructor, is recommended. placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. GER 321 | TRANSLATION | 4 quarter hours GER 315 | LITERATURE AFTER 1945 (EAST AND WEST) | 4 quarter hours (Undergraduate) (Undergraduate) The primary objective of this course is to immerse the student in Reconstruction of German literature and coming to terms with the past: the process of translation from German into English (and to a lesser "Gruppe 47"', Grass, Boell, Enzensberger. GER 106 or equivalent, including extent from English into German) to successfully complete a variety placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. of translation projects for professional, academic, artistic, or personal purposes, thus equipping the students with proficiency in translating at GER 317 | WOMEN WRITERS OF GERMAN EXPRESSION | 4 quarter hours an advanced level. Through various translation assignments, students (Undergraduate) will be able to review German grammar, work within different registers Studies in literature and social issues from all periods of German, and learn appropriate vocabulary, expand their reading and writing in Austrian and Swiss history. GER 106 or equivalent, including placement German while developing a sense of responsibility for the text translated. test or permission of instructor, is recommended. This course will present a survey of translation theory, particularly as it GER 318 | THE CONTEMPORARY GERMAN FILM | 4 quarter hours relates to Germany, and probe the usefulness of technology. GER 106 (Undergraduate) or equivalent, including placement test or permission of instructor, is In this course, we?ll take a look at ten German-language films released recommended. since 2010, which are diverse in both genre and theme: German comedies; indie and art house films; popular movies; period films; and dramatic films that speak to Germany?s multicultural identity and the current European refugee crisis. We?ll also discuss some of the most influential filmmakers working in German-language cinema today, which run the gamut from relative newcomers to established auteurs: Margarethe von Trotta, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christian Petzold, Fatih Akin, Markus Schleinzer, and Maren Ade, among others. Above all else, we?ll consider the ways these works speak to German and Austrian identities, and how they reflect contemporary discussions and debates in the German-speaking world. Completion of GER 106 or equivalent is recommended. 6 German (GER)

GER 325 | KAFKA AND THE KAFKAESQUE | 4 quarter hours GER 395 | FOREIGN LANGUAGES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM | 2 quarter (Undergraduate) hours In this course, we?ll start by considering Franz Kafka?s identity as an (Undergraduate) outsider many times over??from a Jewish, German-speaking family in The two credit FLAC course allows students to enrich their experience turn of the century Prague??and how Kafka?s fundamental ?otherness? in the co-required course through added reading, writing, listening and intruded upon his life and writing alike. We?ll take a look at Kafka? speaking activities in German. Students must have the equivalent of 106 s influences both small and large: the domestic world of the family or higher ability in German to take this two credit component. Please home and the oversized role that his father occupied in it, and the larger contact the Department of Modern Languages if you have questions sociocultural milieu of Prague and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where about this course or about language placement. Kafka lived, wrote, and carried on several long-term relationships. We?ll GER 397 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN GERMAN | 4 quarter hours also consider what?s meant by the word ?kafkaesque,? a concept that (Undergraduate) describes both the hopelessness of existence in the modern world of See schedule for current offerings. bureaucracy, but also calls to mind the absurd, the dreamlike, and the hilariously funny. Our readings will include a number of stories by Kafka, GER 398 | STUDY ABROAD | 1-8 quarter hours some written correspondence between Kafka and his friends, family, (Undergraduate) and romantic partners, and finally, his unfinished novel ?Amerika? (also Variable credit. known as ?The Man who Disappeared? or ?The Missing Person?). But this GER 399 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 0.5-8 quarter hours course will not only focus on writings by Kafka??we?ll also look at how (Undergraduate) his alien condition influenced writers and filmmakers from all parts of the Variable credit. world, such as the German-language writers Jan Peter Bremer and Daniel GER 401 | INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LITERATURE I: FROM ORIGINS Kehlmann, English-language writers like Philip Roth, and the filmmakers TO 1600 | 4 quarter hours David Lynch and Woody Allen, among others. GER 106 or equivalent, (Graduate) including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. The modern understanding of the German nation has its origins in GER 328 | GERMAN FILM SINCE 2010 | 4 quarter hours a number of tribes that emerged from southern Scandinavia and (Undergraduate) northern Germany before the Common Era. It was not until the reign of In this course, we?ll take a look at ten German-language films released Charlemagne in the eighth and early ninth centuries that the process since 2010, which are diverse in both genre and theme: German of uniting most of the Germanic provinces was completed under the comedies; indie and art house films; popular movies; period films; and Carolingian Empire, which was later to be absorbed into the Holy Roman dramatic films that speak to Germany?s multicultural identity and the Empire. The course will trace these developments, as well as that of current European refugee crisis. We?ll also discuss some of the most "Germany" (indeed a term that was not commonly used until the 1500s) influential filmmakers working in German-language cinema today, in the Medieval period and into the 16th century, when Martin Luther which run the gamut from relative newcomers to established auteurs: and his 95 Theses initiated the movement that would later be known as Margarethe von Trotta, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christian the Protestant Reformation. Students will read representative works of Petzold, Fatih Akin, Markus Schleinzer, and Maren Ade, among others. literature that explore the traditions, attitudes, and mindsets of Germanic Above all else, we?ll consider the ways these works speak to German and peoples in their respective eras. Austrian identities, and how they reflect contemporary discussions and GER 402 | PLAY, PERSONALITY, AND POLITICS IN SCHILLER'S LETTERS debates in the German-speaking world. Each class meeting will include a ON ART | 4 quarter hours weekly film screening and associated discussion. GER 106 or equivalent, (Graduate) including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. Dramatist, playwright, and critic Friedrich Schiller used publicly published GER 329 | MEISTERWERKE OF GERMAN CINEMA | 4 quarter hours letters to experiment with and articulate his understanding of the value (Undergraduate) and function of art in the ordinary lives of human beings. His minute The "German National Cinema" has changed nearly as much as the face examination led him to grand claims that range widely beyond art in the of the German nation itself over the course of the twentieth century. narrow sense. This course traces three of them while reading the entirety Films made in the various "Germanies" in the past hundred years are a of the letters and considering the impact of the medium he used in his reflection of, and reaction to, the political, social, and artistic climates thinking--letters ostensibly written to one person but made available to a confronting German-speaking filmmakers. Students will investigate the wider public. In so doing we'll investigate the claim that play, personality, motivations surrounding the production of certain historically significant and politics result in and extend from a type of coherence that has its films, as well as the messages that were conveyed to the contemporary origin in early life. Schiller writes that human beings only play when being audience through the cinema of the period. GER 106 or equivalent, human "in the fullest sense of the word," a statement which points us including placement test or permission of instructor, is recommended. toward the role of art as a process of amplification, or something that GER 351 | GERMAN PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS | 4 quarter hours "makes full. (Undergraduate) GER 403 | INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LITERATURE III: FROM 1850 TO An in-depth study of the language's sound system and intensive PRESENT | 4 quarter hours pronunciation practice. GER 106 or equivalent, including placement test (Graduate) or permission of instructor, is recommended. Literature from 1850 to the present. German (GER) 7

GER 404 | WORD-SCRIPT-STAGE-WORLD: DAS THEATER | 4 quarter GER 412 | GERMAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY | 4 quarter hours hours (Graduate) (Graduate) This course is designed to introduce the student to some of the This course is designed to familiarize students with some of the most powerful and influential German thinkers in Western civilization outstanding dramas written in German speaking countries during the of the 19th and 20th century, whose names are synonymous with last half century. Students will explore dramas that ignited hot public revolutionary thinking, and whose philosophies have deeply shaped the debates on account of their weighty topics, science and ethics, or science Weltanschauung of 20th century man. as power, more precisely, political power: "What do scientific discoverers GER 413 | TURN OF THE CENTURY VIENNA | 4 quarter hours do when they feel responsibility towards the world?" Towards the end of (Graduate) the 20th century, and with the rise of critical feminist thought, the fierce A world center of modern art and thought: Freud, Wittgenstein, Klimt, satirical drama of the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Kokoschka, Kafka, Shoenberg. Jelinek on science, and the power games of gender garners attention. Her works and those of other artists will be explored. GER 414 | BERLIN AND THE GOLDEN TWENTIES | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) GER 405 | COMPOSING REALITY: WRITING IN GERMAN | 4 quarter hours Berlin in the 1920s was a place characterized by a number of (Graduate) contradictions: the legion suffering of returning soldiers after the Topics include: prose from 1600 to Goethe; from the Romantic to the First World War contrasted with the speed and frivolity of the modern Realistic periods; prose of the 20th century. metropolis; the final moments of the German monarchy and a GER 406 | THE NOVELLE | 4 quarter hours burgeoning, albeit tenuous, republican government; and an ever- (Graduate) growing tension between liberalism, both political and personal, and an From Goethe to Grass. increasingly radical political Right. In many ways, the Berlin of these GER 407 | FROM SOUND TO STRUCTURE: GERMAN POETRY | 4 quarter "Golden Twenties" is inseparable from the Weimar Republic. As the hours geographical and intellectual center for this new government, Berlin bore (Graduate) firsthand witness to the numerous political crises that marked this short, Topics include: from the Baroque to Holderlin; from Romanticism to the and ultimately doomed, political experiment between 1918 and 1933. present. Further, Weimar culture was defined by its staggering creative production in all fields -- art, theater, literature, philosophy, architecture, science, and GER 408 | GOETHE AND HIS ERA | 4 quarter hours technology -- and in turn, Berlin functioned as the setting for a multitude (Graduate) of intellectual meetings and intersections. This course will contextualize This course explores one of the great, canonical works of German the Weimar Republic in postwar Europe, discuss the political crises that literature, Goethe's peculiar and provocative interpretation of the plagued Germany's young democracy, and explore some of the major legendary figure of Dr. Faustus. By spending an entire quarter with this cultural players in this great metropolis of the early twentieth century. one text, students have time to gain a thorough appreciation for its depth, complexity, and poetic excellence. Classroom discussions will GER 415 | LITERATURE AFTER 1945 (EAST AND WEST) | 4 quarter hours focus in part on a close reading of the text in its various dimensions: (Graduate) characterization, motivation, plot-structure and plot-development, poetic Reconstruction of German literature and coming to terms with the past: form (meter and rhyme), and poetic imagery (metaphors, similes, etc.). "Gruppe 47"', Grass, Boell, Enzensberger. Students will also examine the philosophical questions raised by Faust GER 416 | LITERATURE OF THE WEIMAR YEARS | 4 quarter hours and Mephisto's rich and probing dialogues and also consider the larger (Graduate) cultural and historical significance of Goethe's Faust. Mann, Hesse, Kafka, Brecht. GER 409 | GERMAN CIVILZATION I | 4 quarter hours GER 417 | WOMEN WRITERS OF GERMAN EXPRESSION | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) (Graduate) The rise and fall of the "Holy Roman Empire'": Social, intellectual and Studies in literature and social issues from all periods of German, artistic background of Germany from its origins to 1871. Austrian and Swiss history. GER 410 | GERMAN CIVILZATION II | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) Social, intellectual and artistic developments in Germany from unification in 1871 to reunification in 1990. GER 411 | BREAKING NEWS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) This course examines the many facets of contemporary Germany and Austria via five focused two week units: Politics; Business and the Environment; Film and Culture; Literature; and Communication/Social Media. We'll engage with several German-language media (internet, television, film, print) to understand the happenings of the German- speaking world in the present day. Moreover, the course includes several outings and/or events that will expose us to German-related happenings in Chicago. These will generate further, comparative discussions about representations of contemporary Germany and Austria in the U.S. 8 German (GER)

GER 419 | MULTICULTURAL GERMANY: LITERATURE, FILM AND ART | 4 GER 425 | KAFKA AND THE KAFKAESQUE | 4 quarter hours quarter hours (Graduate) (Graduate) In this course, we?ll start by considering Franz Kafka's identity as an This course asks students to consider various literary/artistic media as outsider many times over?from a Jewish, German-speaking background ways of communicating and interpreting experiences relevant to migrants in turn of the century Prague?and how Kafka?s fundamental ?otherness? in Germany. The groups we'll explore include the Turkish and Italian intruded upon his life and writing alike. We?ll also take a look at Kafka? guest workers ("Gastarbeiter") of the the 1950s and '60s that made West s influences both small and large: the domestic world of the family German (re-)construction possible; Afro-Germans, a long-understudied home and the oversized role that his father occupied in it, and the larger population that emerged largely from two main sources: descendants sociocultural milieu of Prague and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where of Africans who migrated to Germany in relation to its African colonies, Kafka lived, wrote, and carried on several long-term relationships with and to a much larger extent, the offspring born to German mothers women, none of whom he could ever bring himself to marry. We?ll and U.S. military fathers in centers of American occupation; and the also consider what?s meant by the word ?kafkaesque,? a concept that most recent wave of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. By describes both the hopelessness of existence in the modern world of engaging with writings, artwork, films, and music created by members of bureaucracy, but also calls to mind the absurd, the dreamlike, and the these populations, students will be encouraged to think critically about hilariously funny. We won?t just focus on writings by Kafka, either - we? representations of refugees and immigrants in media and discourse --to ll also look at how his alien condition influenced writers and filmmakers consider, for example, how even the labeling of refugees in Europe as a from all parts of the world, such as the German-language writer Daniel "crisis" generates a certain kind of response. The course will end with a Kehlmann, English-language writers like Philip Roth, and the filmmakers look toward the future of multiculturalism in Germany and consider the David Lynch and Woody Allen, among others. This course is taught in possibility of a pan-European multicultural literature and film. German. GER 420 | ADVANCED COMMERCIAL GERMAN | 4 quarter hours GER 429 | MEISTERWERKE OF GERMAN CINEMA | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) (Graduate) This course will approach the concept of Geschaftsdeutsch on two levels: The "German National Cinema" has changed nearly as much as the face first with an examination of Germany, Austria, the European Union, and of the German nation itself over the course of the twentieth century. the German industry and economy, and second, with an exploration of Films made in the various "Germanies" in the past hundred years are a the German professional world (i.e. the processes involved in searching, reflection of, and reaction to, the political, social, and artistic climates applying, and interviewing for an internship or employment in a German confronting German-speaking filmmakers. Students will investigate the speaking country). Students will practice through role playing, skits, motivations surrounding the production of certain historically significant writing example letters, resumes, and CVs, etc. A number of guest films, as well as the messages that were conveyed to the contemporary speakers from the German business community in Chicago are possible. audience through the cinema of the period. GER 421 | TRANSLATION | 4 quarter hours GER 451 | GERMAN PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) (Graduate) The primary objective of this course is to immerse the student in An in-depth study of the language's sound system and intensive the process of translation from German into English (and to a lesser pronunciation practice. Cross listed with GER 351. extent from English into German) to successfully complete a variety GER 496 | PRACTICUM IN GERMAN INSTRUCTION | 4 quarter hours of translation projects for professional, academic, artistic, or personal (Graduate) purposes, thus equipping the students with proficiency in translating at Supervised practice in language instruction, paired with a mentor an advanced level. Through various translation assignments, students instructor in a beginning or intermediate language course. Students will be able to review German grammar, work within different registers observe a class, teach a lesson or lessons, assist in assessment and and learn appropriate vocabulary, expand their reading and writing in lesson planning, and complete individualized assignments to develop German while developing a sense of responsibility for the text translated. their skills as classroom language instructors. Repeatable. This course will present a survey of translation theory, particularly as it relates to Germany, and probe the usefulness of technology. GER 497 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN GERMAN | 4 quarter hours (Graduate) See schedule for current offerings. GER 498 | STUDY ABROAD | 1-8 quarter hours (Graduate) Variable credit. GER 499 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 1-8 quarter hours (Graduate) Variable credit.