GERMAN AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

FRENCH

PLEASE NOTE:
Placement in all French language courses is determined either by Webcape (computerized exam to be taken online or during Orientation at the Language Lab) or by completion of a previous class at Hopkins. Contact Claude Guillemard (claude@jhu.edu) for any placement questions.

210.101

FRENCH ELEMENTS I (4.5) Wuensch Prereq: No previous knowledge of French and Webcap score of 0-250   May not be taken Satisfactory / UnsatisfactoryLimit 15 per section   Provides a multi-faceted approach to teaching language and culture to the novice French student. The emphasis of the course is an aural-oral proficiency without neglecting the other basic skills of grammar structure, phonetics, reading, and writing; must complete both semesters successfully in order to receive credit.

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210.103

LEARNER MANAGED SECTION OF FRENCH ELEMENTS I (4.5) Wuensch Limit 12   Year course; must complete both semesters successfully in order to receive credit   Prereq: No previous knowledge of French or Webcape score of 0-250.  This course is designed for students with scheduling conflicts. Special section for self-motivated students: On-line materials are designed for 1 and 1/2 more hours a week required for the course.  Recommended for those who have some knowledge of French and need a review of the language; must complete both semesters successfully in order to receive credit. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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MW 6-7:15pm

210.201 (H)

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I (3.5) Guillemard  Limit 15 per section  Prereq: 210.102 or 210.104 or Webcape between 270 and 370 Taught entirely in French, this course develops the four communication skills through multimedia material. Movies and readings from French-speakingdestinations and extensive study of Manon des Sources. WebCT-based.

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210.203 (H)

HIGH INTERMEDIATE FRENCH (3.5) Roos  Limit 15 per section Prereq: grade of A in 210.102 or 210.104, or Webcape between 370 and 450. Credit will not be given if previously enrolled in 210.201-202 or the equivalent. This course is for students who can express themselves more fluently in both their written and oral work and can analyze more difficult texts than in Intermediate French. Students will study authentic texts, including film “text”, and focus on their written and oral skills. Conducted exclusively in French.

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MWF 11-11:50

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210.301 (H)
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CONVERSATION ET COMPOSITION FRANÇAISE (3.5) Mobarek    Limit 12 per section Prereq: 210.202 or 210.204 or Webcape above 450 and supplementary test (Contact Prof. Guillemard at claude@jhu.edu).
This is a third-year language course intended to bridge the intermediate level and more advanced levels in French literature and cultural studies. Over two semesters, students will be given the opportunity to continue strengthening their linguistic skills.  This course will offer students an individualized review of grammar based on the students’ written work. Students will be presented with a diversity of texts from current newspaper articles covering key national and international issues to a diversity of literary texts. Conducted in French.

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210.303 (H)

BUSINESS FRENCH (3) Guillemard   Limit 12   Prereq: 210.301-302 or supplementary test (Contact Prof. Guillemard at claude@jhu.edu).
This course covers the fundamentals of the business world in the French language.  It is a two-semester course in which students study commercial and economic vocabulary, trade and business practices in the public and private sectors.  Students may take the exam for the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie  de Paris certificate at the end of the spring semester.  Only the second semester of 210.303-304 counts as credit for the major.

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MWF 11-11:50

210.501

FRENCH INDEPENDENT STUDY - LANGUAGE Guillemard   Perm. Req’d

211.340 (H)

TOPICS IN FRENCH CINEMA: MASCULIN/FÉMININ  (3) Roos   Limit 12  Prereq: 210.301-302 or supplementary test (Contact Prof. Guillemard at claude@jhu.edu).
This semester the course will focus on the construction of masculinity and femininity in French films. The emphasis of the course will be discussion and analyses of film sequences in class. Additional homework assignments will involve vocabulary and grammar study and an independent project.  Entirely conducted in French.

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TTh 3-4:15

211.401 (H)

LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE I (3) Staff    Limit 12 per section Prereq: 210.301-302 or supplementary test (Contact Prof. Guillemard at claude@jhu.edu).
The first semester of this year-long course offers a general survey of contemporary French society, politics and culture.  Engaging activities such as debates, individual or group presentations, class discussions on current topics in French news and films will contribute to promoting cultural awareness of the French as a nation. Entirely conducted in French.

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MWF 12-12:50

MWF 12-12:50

211.420 (H)

REAL FRENCH: FROM SLANG TO SOPHISTICATION (3) Cook-Gailloud   Limit 12 per section Prereq: 210.301-302 or supplementary test or by permission - Contact Prof. Guillemard at claude@jhu.edu This class will teach the realities of the French language as it is used in French speaking countries, ranging from slang to more sophisticated forms of expression. We will study excerpts of films, literary works, television programs, political speeches, etc. in order to examine which level of speech is at work.

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MW 1:30-2:45

212.201 (H)
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INTRODUCTION À LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE I (3) Wuensch/Neefs  Limit 20 per section Prerequisites: both semesters of 210.301-302 or at least one semester of 210.301-302 with a grade of A and written permission of the instructor.  Readings and discussion of texts of various genres from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The two semesters may be taken in either order. This sequence is a pre­requisite to all further literature courses. Students may co-register with an upper-level course during their second semester.

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MWF 12-12:50

TTh 10:30-11:45

212.302 (H)
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LOVE, DEATH, AND THE SUPERNATURAL (3) Nichols   Limit 15     L’amour, la mort, et l’irréel-three themes connected by the belief that love and death operate in a zone apart fromthe everyday world. Some of the most extraordinary and little-known works of the Middle Ages explore the links between love and death passing through the space of fantasy known in French as l’irréel. Beginning with the development of these themes in four medieval works, the course will then show the transformation of the same impulse in 19th- and 20th-century French novels. Among the works read will be Le Roman de Tristan, Mélusine, Le Coeur mangé, La Manekine, Victor Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris, Flaubert: Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, Jean Giono: Le Hussard sur le Toit, Montherlant: La Reine Morte, Céline: Guignol’s Band.

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T 2-4:30

212.320 (H)

ALEXANDRE DUMAS (3)  Anderson Limit 15  The genre of historical romance analyzed through the novels in the cycle of the Trois Mousquetaires and Le Comte de Monte Cristo. Attention will be paid to Dumas’ use of 17th-century historical accounts and memoirs, and to film adaptations of the novels.

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W 2-4:30

212.407 (H)

BANQUETS, MEALS, AND TABLE-TALK (3)  Jeanneret  Limit 15 People meeting for a meal or a drink engage in a particular ritual, which involves wine, friendship and hence a special freedom of speech. Meal scenes and food displays, heavy with symbolical meaning, are frequent in literature. The seminar will discuss a selection, starting in Antiquity (Plato, Petronius, the Gospels) and then turning to novels by Rabelais, Balzac and Zola. The seminar will be held in French.

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M 2-4:30

212.414 (H)

FRENCH MASCULINITIES: FOPS, DANDIES, AND REACTIONARIES (3)  Russo Limit 15  A selection of novels, essays and plays from the 17th to the 21st century illustrating the intersection of gender, taste and politics in the construction of a French masculine identity. From the courtly gentleman, to the effeminate male, to the Romantic dandy, to the visionary, post-human man, masculine sexuality is alternately portrayed as normative ideal, as satire, social critique, tragi-comedy or utopia. Texts by Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal, Chateaubriand, Baudelaire, Proust, Houellebecq. 
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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Th 2-4:30

212.501

FRENCH INDEPENDENT STUDY - LITERATURE
Sec. 01 – Nichols
Sec. 02 – Neefs
Sec. 03 – Russo
Sec. 04 – Jeanneret
Sec. 05 – Anderson

GERMAN

210.161

GERMAN ELEMENTS I (4.5) Mifflin   Limit 15 per section Four skills introduction to the German language and culture.  Develops proficiency in speaking, writing, reading and listening skills through the use of basic texts, multi-media and communicative language activities.
Webct / Language lab required. Both semesters must be completed with passing grades to receive credit. May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.  Choose section based on MWF schedule, T hour is flexible.

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210.163

ELEMENTARY YIDDISH I (3) Caplan, B.   Limit 12     Year-long course. Includes the four language skills--reading, writing, listening, and speaking--and introduces students to Yiddish culture through text, song, and film. Emphasis is placed both on the acquisition of Yiddish as a tool for the study of Yiddish literature and Ashkenazic history and culture, and on the active use of the language in oral and written communication. Both semesters must be taken with a passing grade to receive credit.

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MWF 12-12:50

210.261 (H)

INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I (3.5) Wheeler  Limit 15 per section   Prereq: 210.162 or placement by exam.  This course is first semester of a two-semester proficiency-oriented sequence designed to continue the four skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) approach to learning German. Readings and discussions are topically based and expanded upon through multi-media materials. Year long review of grammar is part of course.  WebCT/ Language lab required. Conducted in German

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210.361 (H)
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ADVANCED GERMAN I: CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS (3) Mifflin   Limit 15 per section   Prereq: 210.262 or placement by exam.  Topically, this course focuses on defining moments in German cultural history of the second half of the 20th century.  Films, texts and other media provide a basis for discussing events in post-war Germany through reunification and beyond.  A review and expansion of advanced grammatical concepts and vocabulary underlies the course.  Focus on improving expression in writing and speaking.   Taught in German

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MW 12-1:15

210.461 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY GENRE AND STYLISTICS (3) Wheeler/Mifflin   Limit 15 Prereq: 210.362 Introduction to major literary periods and genres in German literature.  Course will provide a background for further literary study.  Students will develop critical, interpretive reading skills through the analysis of genre-specific language, as well as improve written and spoken German.  Taught in German

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MWF 10-10:50

210.561

INDEPENDENT STUDY-LANGUAGE 
Sec. 01 – Mifflin
Sec. 02 – Wheeler

213.251 (H)

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (3) Pahl  Limit 20  Freshmen Only   Friedrich Nietzsche continues to be one of the most radical and influential philosophers of the West. Famous and infamous for announcing the death of God and the advent of the superhuman, his irreverence for philosophical tradition culminated in the call to “philosophize with a hammer.” He embarrassed the old philosophers exposing their, as he put it, clumsy lovemaking with truth. And he stunned generations of intellectuals after him with his idea of the eternal return of the same. But Nietzsche was also a witty writer, a light-footed thinker, a bold defender of the experiences of the body, a tender human being, and a sharp critic of German narrow-mindedness. This seminar offers an introduction to Nietzsche’s work and a first journey into the world of German thought, culture and literature. Readings and discussion will be in English.

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TTh 1:30-2:45

213.343 (H)
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THE HOLOCAUST IN MODERN LITERATURE: THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION(3) Caplan, M. 
Limit 30   This course will be an advanced-undergraduate, writing-intensive examination of literary, memoiristic, philosophical, and cinematic representations of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry during World War II. In addition to the problems of defining this genocide against larger catastrophes of world war, totalitarianism, racism, and the technologies of mass destruction, we will consider this event as a moment of crisis in the historical, moral, and ideological understanding of European modernity that underscores the limits of language, subjectivity, and representation. Parallel to these discussions we will also consider the Holocaust in the context of Jewish responses to anti-Semitism, the role of the Holocaust in generating subsequent models for Jewish cultural representation, and the role of the Holocaust in underscoring the anomalous position of Jews within the history of modern Europe. Works to be considered will be taken from Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Yiddish sources, and will include writers and theorists such as Theodor Adorno, Aharon Appelfeld, Jurek Becker, Tadeuz Borowski, Jacques Derrida, Raul Hilberg, Primo Levi, Georges Perec, Philip Roth, I.B. Singer, Art Spiegelman, and Jirí Weil. All readings and discussions conducted in English
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, English, and Writing Seminars

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TTh 10:30-11:45

213.399 (H)

REALISM (3) Strowick   Limit 15 Prereq: 213 210.362  The course will examine German realism in two respects. First, we will analyze how narrative techniques create what Roland Barthes has called the “reality effect”. Secondly, we will explore how the poetics of realism and media technologies (e.g. photography, stereoscopy) are intertwined. Forms of temporal and spatial representation as developed in the German literature of the second half of the 19th century call into question the opposition between realism and modernism. Readings will include: Gottfried Keller, Adalbert Stifter, Wilhelm Raabe, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. The course will be conducted in German.

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T 1:30-4

213.450 (H)

DECADENCE (3) Tobias  Limit 20 Early twentieth-century literature has been identified variously as nihilist, fascist, revolutionary, and anti-bourgeois.  This course will explore the complex political dimensions of a movement that sought to fashion a purely aesthetic existence. We will trace the development of this movement from the turn-of-the-century in Vienna to the roaring twenties in Berlin. Authors to include Musil, George, Hofmannsthal, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Mann.  Readings in English and German, discussions in English and German.
Cross-listed with History

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MW 12-1:15

213.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY-LITERATURE 
Sec. 01 – Strowick
Sec. 02 – Tobias
Sec. 03 – Pahl
Sec. 04 – Caplan, M.

213.509

GERMAN HONORS PROGRAM  Pahl

ITALIAN

Final placement in all Italian language courses will be determined by an Italian Placement exam, or be the previous completion of an Italian class at Hopkins. See the Italian Language Coordinator to arrange for the taking of the exam.

210.151

ITALIAN ELEMENTS I (4) Zannirato  Limit 17 per section   Year course; must complete both semesters for credit. The aim of the course is to provide students with basic skills in listening to and reading, writing, and speaking the language through the use of elementary texts, videos, and electronic materials. All classes are conducted in Italian; oral participation is strongly encouraged from the beginning. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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210.251 (H)

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I (3.5) Zannirato   Limit 15 per section  Prereqs: 210.152 or placement exam.   Continues building on the four essential skills for communication presented in Italian Elements courses. Improvement of reading and composition skills through the use of contemporary texts, reinforcement of the student's knowledge of the language through oral and written presentations and class discussions on predetermined subjects. All classes are conducted in Italian. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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210.351 (H)

ADVANCED ITALIAN I  (3.5) Zannirato Limit 12 per section   Prereqs: 210.252 or placement exam. This third-year level course presents a systematic introduction to a variety of contemporary cultural topics, emphasizing role-playing, vocabulary building, and style and clarity in writing. Texts drawn from different media (newspapers, magazines, and literary work), and ample use of audio-visual and electronic materials will stress everyday spoken Italian. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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214.370 (H)
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MAGIC AND MARVEL IN THE RENAISSANCE (3) Stephens  Limit 20 Discover the Magic and Marvels-both literal and figurative-of Italian literature between 1350 and 1550. Poets, philosophers, political theorists, dramatists, and fiction writers ponder the nature of humanity, in itself and in its relations with the supra-human beings described byreligion and literature. Readings include Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, the epic romance that inspired works as varied as Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Cross-listed with English and History

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T 2-4:30

214.391 (H)

WESTERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, 1200-1500 (3) Celenza Limit 60 20   High and late medieval philosophy will be covered in its historical context. Thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, and Lorenzo Valla will be treated, as will the contexts for high and late medieval learning, such as universities, courts, and the new, "state" libraries of the fifteenth century in Italy.
Cross-listed with History and Classics
Gilman Course in the Humanities

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TTh 10:30-11:50, F 12-1 Th 2-4:30

214.420 (H)

ITALIAN NEOREALISMO AND ITS IMPACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTATARY FILM TRADITION (3) Wegenstein  Limit 20 This course starts out by revealing the birth of the Italian New Realist movement in the early 1940s, when Roberto Rossellini and others made their first documentaries for the fascist istituto LUCE. We will then analyze the highlights of the Italian new realist film movement with the films and scripts by Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti, and others; the second half of the semester will be dedicated to the question of the Italian new realist cinema’s impact on other international documentary movements and traditions of the 20th century, from the French Nouvelle Vague to the US and Canadian Direct Cinema movement, from the Scandinavian Dogme films to such reality TV phenomena as FOX’s recent “The moment of truth.”  Screenings will be held in original language with English subtitles.  Readings to be announced.   Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies

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W 2-4:30

214.561

ITALIAN INDEPENDENT STUDY  
Sec. 01 – Stephens
Sec. 02 – Forni
Sec. 03 – Celenza

PORTUGUESE

Final placement in all Portuguese language courses will be determined by a Portuguese Placement exam to be taken during orientation week and in the Department office at other times, or be the previous completion of a Portuguese class at Hopkins. See the Portuguese Language Coordinator to arrange for the taking of the exam.

210.177

PORTUGUESE ELEMENTS (3.5) Bensabat-Ott   Limit 20  Perm. Req’d. This course introduces students to the basic skils in reading, writing and speaking the Portuguese language.  Basic texts, films, and folklore are used to acquaint students with Portugal and Brazil, as well as the cultural influences of Africa and Asia on Brazilian society.  Students are encouraged to speak from the very beginning of the course, and class participation is a must.  This is a year-long course and both semesters must be taken and passed in order to earn credit. All classes are conducted in Portuguese.  Language lab is required. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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MWF 11-11:50

210.277 (H)

INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED PORTUGUESE (3.5) Bensabat-Ott Limit 20     Prereqs: 210. 177-178 or placement exam   Perm. Req’d. More advanced training in the skills of the language through short stories, plays, poetry, and miscellaneous readings from Brazil, Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa that reflect the mix of cultures at work in the contemporary Lusophone world.  Throughout the course emphasis is placed on vocabulary building, ease and fluency in the language.  All classes are conducted in Portuguese.  Language lab is required.  May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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MWF 10-10:50

210.391 (H)
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PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE (3.5) Bensabat-Ott Limit 20   Prereqs: 210.277-278 or placement exam   Perm. Req’d. This third-year Portuguese course focuses on reading, writing, and oral expression.  Under supervision of the instructor, students will read one or two complete works by major Brazilian, Portuguese, and/or Afro-Portuguese writers each semester, followed by intensive writing and oral discussion on the topic covered.  Grammar will be reviewed as necessary.  Lab work required.  The course is conducted entirely in Portuguese. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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MWF 9-9:50

SPANISH

Final placement in all Spanish language courses will be determined by a Spanish Placement exam to be taken during orientation week and in the Department office at other times, or be the previous completion of a Spanish class at Hopkins. See the Spanish Language Coordinator to arrange for the taking of the exam.

210.111

SPANISH ELEMENTS I (4) Weingarten Limit 17 per section  Development of the four basic language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Extensive use of an online component delivered via WebCT, sustained class participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm and no final). In order to receive credit for Spanish 111, Spanish 112 must also be completed with a passing grade. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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210.112

SPANISH ELEMENTS II (4) Weingarten   Limit 17 per section Prerequisite:  Spanish Elements I or appropriate Placement Exam (S-Cape) score     Continuation of Spanish Elements I.  Further development of the four basic language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Extensive use of an online component delivered via  WebCT , sustained class participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm and no final).  May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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210.211 (H)

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I (4) Gonzalez   Limit 17 Prereqs: 210.112 or appropriate Placement Exam (S-Cape) score  Continues building on the four essential skills for communication presented in Spanish Elements courses. Extensive use of an online component delivered via WebCT, sustained class participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm and no final).  May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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MWF 11-11:50

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210.212 (H)

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II (4)
I. Gonzalez   Limit 17 Prereqs: 210.211 or appropriate S-Cape score     Continues building on the four essential skills for communication presented in Spanish Elements courses and in Intermediate Spanish I. Extensive use of an online component delivered via WebCT, sustained class participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm and no final). May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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MWF 12-12:50

210.311 (H)

ADVANCED SPANISH I (3) Garcia-Augustin   Limit 15   Prereqs: 210.212 or 210.213 or appropriate S-Cape score Advanced Spanish I is designed to improve the four skills: Reading, writing, listening and speaking, essential for communication. This third-year course aims to improve the students' reading and writing skills by focusing on various types of texts. Students will also engage in more formal levels of written communication. This course also focuses on refinement of grammar. Students are exposed to a deeper understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Extensive use of an online component delivered via WebCT, sustained class participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm and no final).  May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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210.312 (H)

ADVANCED SPANISH II (3) Garcia-Augustin   Limit 15 Prereq: 210.311 (Advanced Spanish) or appropriate S-Cape score This third-year course aims at improving the students' oral skills by focusing on the use of standard, spoken Spanish with an emphasis on colloquial and idiomatic expressions. Students will also engage in more formal levels of communication by discussing assigned literary and non-literary topics. They will increase their listening skills through movies and other listening comprehension exercises. The course will also focus on vocabulary acquisition. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
Sec. 01 canceled 4/29/08

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210.313 (H)

MEDICAL SPANISH (3) Sanchez Limit 15  Prereq: 210.311 (Advanced Spanish I) or appropriate S-Cape score Students will increase their vocabulary and practice grammar structures closely related to the medical and health administration professions.  All language skills are equally emphasized. Highly recommended to students in any of the health-related majors. There will be an intensive on-line component. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

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02

TTh 10:30-11:45

TTh 12-1:15

210.314 (H)

BUSINESS SPANISH (3) Sanchez Limit 15 Prereqs: 210.311 (Advanced Spanish I) or appropriate S-Cape score Students will increase their vocabulary and practice grammar structures closely related to trade and business practices in the public and private sectors.  All language skills are equally emphasized.  Highly recommended to students majoring in Business and International Relations. There will be an intensive on-line component. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15

210.316 (H)

CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH (3) Sanchez   Limit 15   Prereq: 210.311 or appropriate WEB-CAPE score.
This course is designed for students who have attained an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish 210.311 and wish to improve their oral skills by focusing on the use of standard, spoken Spanish with an emphasis on colloquial and idiomatic expressions.  Students are exposed to a deeper understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world through movies and other listening comprehension exercises.  The course will mainly focus on conversation and vocabulary acquisition. This course is highly recommended for students going to JHU study abroad programs.

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15 TTh 10:30-11:45

210.411 (H) (W)

SPANISH TRANSLATION FOR THE PROFESSIONES (3) Sanchez/Gonzalez Limit 12  Prereqs: 210.313, 210.314, or 210.315   Students will leans the basics of translation theory and be presented with the tools needed (specialized dictionaries, web resources, etc) for the translation of literature, business, medical, legal, technological, political, and journalistic texts from Spanish to English and English to Spanish.  No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

Sec. 01

MW 1:30-2:40 TTh 12-1:15

210.412
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SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERNSHIP (3) Sanchez   Limit 12   Prereq: 210.411    Internship involves a specially designed project related to student’s minor concentration. Provides an opportunity to use Spanish language in real world contexts. May be related to current employment context or developed in agencies or organizations that complement student’s research and experimental background while contributing to the improvement of language proficiency. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

Sec. 01

T 12-1:15

211.290 (H)

MODERN SPANISH CULTURE (3) Sanchez  Limit 20  Prereq: Intermediate Spanish 210.212 or 210.213 or appropriate S-Cape score     This course will explore the fundamental traits of Spanish culture as it has developed from the 18th to the 21st.centuries (although the first three weeks will serve as a general overview of the historical development of Spain). Class time will focus on discussion of different texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings, considering their relation to the specific historical, political, and social contexts.  The active participation of students in debates and discussions is fundamental. In addition, students will be expected to make oral presentations on assigned topics. The pace of the course will be determined mainly by the group's progress. This course will be of particular interest for students planning in spending a semester abroad in Spain—specially for those students going to the JHU Fall Semester in Madrid, at Carlos III University. May not be taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

215.342 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICA: THE FORMATIVE YEARS (3) Castro-Klaren    Limit 25   The course will explore the cultural continuities and fractures in the unfolding of life in the Andes from the appearance of the first urban center on the coastal valleys--2000BC-- to the aftermath of the Spanish conquest at about 1600. Readings will be taken from archeology and anthropology. Andean and Christian myths of origin and theories of state formation will be examined along with the chronicles written by Spanish conquistadores, Indian and Mestizo intellectuals.   Cross-listed with Program in Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

M 2-4:30

215.451 (H)

EL CINE DE PEDRO ALMODOVAR (3) González, E.   Limit 40   From Pepi to Volver, the films will be studied in form, content, and socio-political terms.
Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies and Studies of Women Gender and Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 2-4:30

215.459 (H)

20TH AND 21ST CENTURY SPAIN THROUGH GALICIAN EYES (3) Castro-Vasquez   Limit 25  Twenty and twenty first century issues of Galicia, located in the north west of Spain, and the World as seen from a Galician perspective in the writings of Manuel Rivas, one of the most important voices of contemporary Spanish literature. Through his texts and film adaptations we will delve into key issues like globalization, migration, ecology, the Spanish Civil War and war in general. Texts will include "Galicia contada a un extraterrestre", (2001 journalism), "En salvaje compañía" (1993 short novel), "La lengua de las mariposas" (1995 short story and film adaptation), "Carmiña" (1995 short story) "Un saxo en la niebla" (1995 short story) "El pueblo de la noche" (1996 poetry), "El lápiz del carpintero" (1998 short novel and film adaptation), "El héroe" (2005 theater) and chapters of "Los libros arden mal" (2006 novel).

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

215.491 (H)

MUSLIM SPAIN (3) Altschul   Limit 20  From 711 to 1609 the Iberian Peninsula was a multilingual society administrated by members of the three monotheistic faiths. This course will discuss the Hispano-Muslim, Hispano-Jewish and Hispano-Christian literatures of Iberia during these times. Texts and authors include Ibn Hazm, Shmuel HaNaguid, Petrus Alfonsus, the Kalilah wa Dimnah and the Sendebar. Hebrew and Arabic texts will be read in translation. Taught in Spanish.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

F 2-4:30

215.525

SPANISH INDEPENDENT STUDY - LITERATURE
Sec. 01 – E. Gonzalez
Sec. 02 – Castro-Klaren
Sec. 03 – Sieber
Sec. 04 – Egginton

UNDERGRADUATE CROSS-LISTINGS

360.133 (H)
(W)
             

GREAT BOOKS: WESTERN TRADITION OR THE HUMANITIES: A TRADITION OF CLASSICS (3) Egginton/Patton/Giarusso Limit 10 11 15 per section Freshmen only Others wishing to enroll should contact Prof. Elizabeth Patton (epatton1@jhu.edu) to obtain a waiver. See Interdepartmental for full description
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Philosophy, Classics, and Interdepartmental

Sec. 01

02

03

04

TTh 10:30-11:45

TTh 10:30-11:45

TTh 10:30-11:45

TTh 10:30-11:45

300.223 (H)

THE GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENT (3)  Schott   Limit 20    Cross-listed with History and the Humanities Center Course canceled 4/18/08

Sec. 01

MW 1:30-2:45

GRADUATE COURSES

210.610

METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Sanchez Limit 20 Required for all in-coming teaching assistants in the Department of German and Romance Languages, this course involves a series of workshops which will focus on an overview of the tenets of second language acquisition (SLA) and the research which informs current teaching practice. Students will both study the current state of the L2L profession and look at different methods and techniques for effective second language teaching and learning. The focus of the course will be on the practical applications of the theoretical foundation.
Course added 4/25/08

F 1:30-3

212.692

RESEARCH METHODS Waterman  Limit 15  Seminar and lab in the methods, resources, and systems of research for graduate students of literature.

Sec. 01

Th 9-10:15

FRENCH

212.610

THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR: THE MANUSCRIPT CODEX 1200-1500  Nichols/Noel    Limit 15 This course discusses manuscript production and consumption in the high middle ages, including relations of text and image.  It concentrates particularly on manuscript evidence for reading practices, in monastic, private and courtly contexts. After the initial meeting (September 11) classes will be held in the Walters Art Museum, where students will be able to examine original manuscript material, and will be introduced to the many different ways in which manuscripts can be displayed and studied to provide insights into medieval art and culture.

Sec. 01

M 3-5pm

212.613

MARIVAUX AND FRENCH TASTE Russo   Limit 15   Pourquoi Marivaux était-il à la fois un auteur de succès et l’écrivain le plus déconsidéré de la part des philosophes? La lecture de ses oeuvres théâtrales, narratives et journalistiques les plus significatives nous permettra d’explorer les controverses qui travaillent l’écriture des Lumières, la querelle des anciens et des modernes, le rapport entre goût et politique, et de mieux comprendre l’esthétique dite rococo.

Sec. 01

Th 11-1

212.718

CONTEXTUALIZING THE FRENCH ENLIGHTMENT NOVEL Anderson   Limit 15   The French Enlightenment novel studied in the intellectual and historical context of its time. Texts from Montesquieu, the Encyclopédie, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, Voltaire, Buffon, Rétif de la Bretonne. Please see provisional syllabus at http://www.wilda.org

Sec. 01

W 5-7pm

212.627 735

LITERATURE, MYTHES, RELIGIONS AU 19EME SIECLE Neefs   Limit 15 Le dix-neuvième siècle est le temps d’une interrogation profonde, nouvelle, sur les mythes et les religions. Des formes nouvelles d’études mythographiques et d’histoires des religions apparaissent. La littérature occupe une place privilégiée dans cette interrogation. Le séminaire s’attachera essentiellement aux œuvres littéraires et aux écritures de la “modernité”: Chateaubriand, La Vie de Rancé, Balzac, Le Curé de Village, Nerval, Les Filles du feu, Les Chimères, Flaubert, La Tentation de saint Antoine, Victor Hugo, La fin de Satan, Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal, tout en considérant le contexte idéologique nouveau (Renan, Michelet, Quinet principalement).

Sec. 01

W 1-3

212.747

MONTAIGNE, DESCARTES, PASCAL: TROIS STYLES PHILOSOPHIQUES  Jeanneret   Limit 15  Within less than a century, three major thinkers appear, who could not be more different from each other. Each embodies a worldview, a method and a style that illustrate a typical trend in the intellectual history of Early Modern France. We will study passages from Montaigne’s Essais and from Pascal’s Pensées, as well as Descartes’  Discours de la méthode. The emphasis will be on the interaction between thought and style. The seminar will be held in French.

Sec. 01

T 11-1

212.777 5

LES RESSEMBLANCES DE FAMILLE. PHILOSOPHIE, LITTÉRATURE, SCIENCE Noudelmann Limit 15 Les ressemblances de famille, malgré leur évidence, procèdent de constructions intellectuelles et affectives. La relation qu'elles établissent entre deux éléments ne se limite pas à l'analogie, elle importe une représentation de la parenté. La ressemblance de famille est un mode d'apparentement qui, sous le couvert du naturel, procède de discours et d'imaginaires structurants : qui ressemble à qui ou à quoi? La réponse à cette question ordinaire implique non seulement une philosophie mais aussi une politique distributive du commun et du dissemblable. Le séminaire étudiera la construction de ces ressemblances et leur implications idéologiques notamment dans les sciences de la vie et les discours sur l'hérédité. Il analysera le fonctionnement logique -‹ métaphore ou paradigme ‹ de la ressemblance. Il portera sur la physionomie, corps et visages, dans les imaginaires littéraires et artistiques, selon leurs enjeux sexuels et sociaux. Bibliographie : Goethe, Les Affinités électives; Darwin, L'Origine des espèces; Zola, Le Docteur Pascal; Wittgenstein, Recherches logiques 65-67; Genet, Les Bonnes. Course added 3/25/08

Sec. 01

TTh 3-5

212.801

FRENCH INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 – Nichols
Sec. 02 – Neefs
Sec. 03 – Russo
Sec. 04 – Jeanneret
Sec. 05 – Anderson

212.802

FRENCH DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Sec. 01 – Nichols
Sec. 02 – Neefs
Sec. 03 – Russo
Sec. 04 – Jeanneret
Sec. 05 – Anderson

212.803

FRENCH PROPOSAL PREPARATION
Sec. 01 – Nichols
Sec. 02 – Neefs
Sec. 03 – Russo
Sec. 04 – Jeanneret
Sec. 05 – Anderson

GERMAN

210.661

READING AND TRANSLATING GERMAN FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES I  Mifflin Limit 15  Graduate students only.  This is the first semester of a year-long course designed for graduate students in other departments who wish to gain a reading knowledge of the German language. 

Sec. 01

MW 9-9:50

213.614

PROTO-MODERNIST FICTION, 1890-1914 Caplan, M.   Limit 15  This course will be a graduate seminar tracing the tentative beginnings of global modernism in late-19th and early-20th century fiction taken from American, Brazilian, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Norwegian, Russian, and Yiddish sources. Among the topics we will consider are the radical loss of faith in scientific, political, and philosophical narratives of progress and self-improvement at the end of the 19th century; the breakdown of imperial orders and their impact on social relations as well as definitions of the self; the reconfiguration of narrative conventions in response to technological and intellectual innovations such as photography, film, electricity, and the advent of the social sciences; the intensifying predominance of urban life in the formulation of modern culture; and the interrelations among aesthetic trends such as realism, naturalism, symbolism, impressionism, and expressionism in a variety of artistic media of the era. To what extent does the crisis of faith in political, aesthetic, and philosophical certitudes of a previous age result in the liberation of narrative conventions? To what extent do fin-de-siècle writers throughout the Western world participate in a common literary aesthetic? Authors to be considered will include Dovid Bergelson, Yosef Haim Brenner, Anton Chekhov, Éduard Dujardin, Knut Hamsun, Franz Kafka, Machado de Assis, Italo Svevo, and Gertrude Stein. All readings and discussions conducted in EnglishCross-listed with English and Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

Th 1-3

213.652

ETERNAL RETURN Pahl   Limit 15 The eternal return of the same was Nietzsche’s most difficult thought. We will discuss its role within his philosophy and explore how thinkers after Nietzsche were haunted by, affirmed, and transformed this idea.
Cross-listed with Political Science

Sec. 01

T 5-7pm

213.680

SUSPICION: SIGNS OF MODERNITY Strowick  Limit 15  Modernity gives rise to various forms of suspicion, including modern forms of resentment and practices of self-discipline (a suspicion of oneself), as well as to an epistemology of suspicion as it is developed in the modern human sciences. The course starts out with an analysis of the detective genre and of the specific transformations it undergoes in modern German literature. In a next step, we will examine literary representations of suspicion within a broader cultural-historical frame: Nietzsche's analysis of resentment serves as one point of reference; another is what Carlo Ginzburg has called the "paradigm of clues." The modern human sciences, since the last third of the 19th century, have relied on a method that produces knowledge by way of interpreting clues. While suspicion in the human sciences is related to the production of truth, literature uses suspicion as a way to produce aesthetic and logical undecidabilities. We will analyze literary representations of suspicion with respect to the narrative structure (unreliable narration) and the mediality of suspicion. Finally, the course emphazises the methodological relevance of suspicion: As a practice of deciphering, interpreting and reading traces, suspicion calls for being reformulated literary-theoretically. Readings will include: Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Nietzsche, Theodor Fontane, Freud, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Heimito von Doderer, Peter Handke, Uwe Johnson. Readings and discussion in German

Sec. 01

M 3-5

213.746

ANTI-MIMESIS: MODERN POETRY AND AESTHETIC THEORY Tobias   Limit 15 In “Das Zeitalter des Weltbildes,” Heidegger argues that the modern period is one in which the subject establishes a relation with the world by producing an image of it.  We will draw on this definition of the post-Cartesian world to analyze the rejection of images and more broadly mimesis in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, Celan’s poetry, Kafka’s fiction, and Benjamin’s writings.

Sec. 01

W 3-5pm

213.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 – Strowick
Sec. 02 – Tobias
Sec. 03 – Pahl
Sec. 04 – Caplan, M.

213.812

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH 
Sec. 01 – Strowick
Sec. 02 – Tobias
Sec. 03 – Pahl
Sec. 04 – Caplan, M.

213.813

QUALIFYING PAPER PREPARATION
Sec. 01 – Strowick
Sec. 02 – Tobias
Sec. 03 – Pahl
Sec. 04 – Caplan, M.

ITALIAN

214.650

THE COSMETIC GAZE: BODY MODIFICATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEAUTY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Wegenstein  Limit 15  This course is situated in the fields of techno-science studies, the history of medical technologies, and new media studies. Throughout the course’s readings and screenings we will trace the "cosmetic gaze" — a gaze through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies of bodily modification — to both its cultural-historical as well as technological roots from 18th century physiognomy treatises (e.g., Johann Kaspar Lavater) to the 19th and 20th-century politicized discourses of beauty (with their racist counterparts) from the works of Francis Galton and Cesare Lombroso to the Nazis; this material will be compared to current day reality television makeover shows and the beauty ideals they refer to.  Readings to be announced.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

M 1-3

214.678

ARIOSTO Stephens Limit 15  A study of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso in the context of humanistic culture and of his own literary production in shorter genres.  The relation of Orlando furioso to the traditions of epic and romance, especially Boiardo and Tasso, will be a major focus.
Cross-listed with English and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

M 5-7pm

214.700

LORENZO VALLA Celenza   Limit 15 The life and work of this fifteenth-century philosopher will be treated.  
Cross-listed with History and Classics

Sec. 01

T 3-5

214.861

ITALIAN INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 – Stephens
Sec. 02 – Forni
Sec. 03 – Celenza

214.862

ITALIAN DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Sec. 01 – Stephens
Sec. 02 – Forni
Sec. 03 – Celenza

214.863

ITALIAN PROPOSAL PREPARATION
Sec. 01 – Stephens
Sec. 02 – Forni
Sec. 03 – Celenza

SPANISH

215.648

WRITING MEXICO: CONQUEST AND CULTURE 1200-1600 Castro-Klaren   Limit 15     Deploying post-colonial theory, the course will examine the discursive modes in which “Mexico” appears as both
an object of knowledge and of memory in selected readings of Sahagun’s work.

Sec.01

T 1-3

215.687

THEATER AND IDEOLOGY IN THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE Egginton  Limit 15    An examination of the first mass entertainment industry of urban modernity: the Spanish Golden Age theater. In addition to many canonical works from the period, by authors such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca, we will analyze the political circumstances of their production and a variety of theoretical frameworks for understanding their impact, including works by Adorno, Bourdieu, Maravall, Laclau, and Zizek.

Sec.01

Th 1-3

215.726

SPANISH AND ITALIAN POETRY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE BAROQUE Küpper   Limit 15  
In this course we will discuss poems by Dante, Petrarch, Herrera and Garcilaso de la Vega. Classes will focus on a close reading of the texts. In addition we will consider critical problems related to the literary evolution within a ‘national’ culture on the one hand and in transnational terms on the other. Compact course starting on September 11 and ending on October 3.

Sec.01

Th 5-7pm,
F 1-3

215.749

LA NOVELA ACTUAL EN PERSPECTIVA TRANSATLÁNTICA González, E.   Limit 15 Javier Marías, Corazón tan blanco, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Beltenebros, Luis Leante, Mira si yo te querré, (España); Tomás Eloy Martínez, El vuelo de la reina, (Argentina); Roberto Bolaño, Los detectives salvajes, (Chile); Santiago Roncagliolo, Pudor, Mario Vargas Llosa, Travesuras de la niña mala, (Perú); Laura Restrepo, Delirio, (Colombia); Xavier Velazco, Diablo guardián (México).

Sec.01

T 9-11

215.826

SPANISH INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 – E. Gonzalez
Sec. 02 – Castro-Klaren
Sec. 03 – Sieber
Sec. 04 – Egginton
Sec. 05 - Altschul

Sec. 05 added 5/05/08

215.827

SPANISH DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Sec. 01 – E. Gonzalez
Sec. 02 – Castro-Klaren
Sec. 03 – Sieber
Sec. 04 – Egginton

215.828

SPANISH PROPOSAL PREPARATION
Sec. 01 – E. Gonzalez
Sec. 02 – Castro-Klaren
Sec. 03 – Sieber
Sec. 04 – Egginton

GRADUATE CROSS-LISTINGS

070.651

ANTHROPOLOGY OF “THE EVERYDAY” Khan  Limit 15   
Cross-listed with Political Science, Anthropology, the Humanities Center, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

F 10-12