GERMAN

091.101

ELEMENTARY GERMAN (4.5) Mifflin   An introduction to the German language and a development of reading, speaking, writing, and listening skills through the use of basic texts. Lab Req’d; Both semesters must be completed with passing grades to received credit. Cannot be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory    Limit 18 per section.   Students should choose their section based on the MTW schedule. Conflicts arising from the Th/Fri hour will be resolved with instructor.

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MTW 10,
Th 10:30

MTW 11, F 12

MTW 12, F 1

091.103

ELEMENTARY YIDDISH I (3) Caplan  Limit: 17  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 witha a passing grade to receive credit - cannot be taken Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies Course added 7/05/06

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MTW 9 1

091.201 (H)

INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I (3.5) Wheeler Limit 16 per section   Prereq: 091.101-102 or placement exam This course is designed to continue the four skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) approach to learning German. Reading and discussions are topically based and expanded upon through audio-visual materials. Students will also review and deepen their understanding of the grammatical concepts of German. In the second semester, the capital city of Berlin is highlighted.  Lab Req'd. Taught in German 

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MTW 10

MTW 11

MTW 12

091.203 (H)

GERMAN FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (3) Niebisch Limit 15  Prereq: 091.101-102 or placement exam.  This intermediate level course is designed to provide students in engineering and sciences with “real life skills” and cultural background necessary for internship or research trips to Germany. Taught in German. Course canceled 08/17/06

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MTW 2

090.251 (H)

FRESHMEN SEMINAR ON NIETZSCHE (3) Pahl  Freshmen only Limit 20 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" (so as to demolish the constructions of Western methaphysics). 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 hilarious funny writer, a lightfooted and poetic 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 Nietzche's work and a first journey into a world of German thought, culture and literature. Readings and discussion in English.

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T 3-5pm, W 3, Th 1:30

091.301 (H)

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ADVANCED GERMAN CONVERSATION AND COMPOSITION (3), Mifflin   Limit 15 per section   Prereq: 091.201-202 or equivalent. Topically, this course focuses on the political and societal developments in Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Topics covered include reconstruction, (re)development of the party system, the student protests of the 1960s, and developments in West and East Germany. Students analyze literary and journalistic texts, films and print media. Emphasis on style and clarity in both written and oral expression. Review of advanced grammar. Taught in German

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MTW 11

MTW 12

091.303 (H)

BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL GERMAN (3) Wheeler   Limit 15   Prereq: 091.201-202 or equivalent. Two-semester intensive introduction into the language and culture of German business, commerce, and industry. Combines the study of foreign language with business skills, including Web publishing through the design and maintenance of a course web page. Students will learn basic economic and business vocabulary; investigate the current status of the German and European economy; and become familiar with economic and political structures as well as specific business practices, customs, and codes of behavior in the business world. Analysis and discussion of German economic and business texts and translation of economic and business materials. Taught in German.

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MTW  10

090.341 (H)

MARX, FREUD AND MODERN CRITICAL THEORY (3) Gold Limit 20   Examines the importance of Marxism and psychoanalysis for 20th century German social thought. Topics include the tension between the individual and authority; theories of mass culture, particularly film; the relationship between modern society and domination; and the liberating potential of art. In addition to works by Marx and Freud, we will read texts by T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and others. Conducted in English Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, Philosophy, and Political Science Course added 7/05/06

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MTh 3-4:30

090.346 (H)

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA (3) Kolarav Limit 20   Psychoanalysis and Cinema are two interchangeable sciences, or institutions, that address our practices of corpse disposal, on the one hand, and our libidinal investments on the other. We will examine some allegories of the development, disintegration, or sugical refashioning o fthe psyche offered by Goethe, Freud, Hitchcock,and Fritz Lang, among others. Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies Course added 7/05/06

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W 1-3

Th 7-9pm

091.352 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE AND CULTURE: 1900-1945 (3) Costache Limit 10   Prereq: 091.301-302 or placement exam.  This course is designed to introduce students to the analysis of literary and cultural topics. A variety of 20th century texts and visual media will form the basis for discussion of literature and cultural phenomena specific to the time period. Attention is given to improving student writing. Readings, discussion and written assignments in German.

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M 2-3:30, Th 1-2:30 MTh  1-2:30

090.354 (H)

YIDDISH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (3) Caplan  Limit 17 This course will provide an overview of the major figures and tendencies in modern Yiddish literature from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on prose narratives, we will examine this literature in its aesthetic, historical, and cultural dimensions. Topics for discussion will include the traditional functions assigned to Yiddish in East European Jewish culture; the attitude toward Yiddish expressed by rival early-modern social movements; the increasing politicization and secularization of most East European Jewry throughout the 19th century; the reaction of Yiddish culture to the upheavals caused by immigration, revolution, and world war; and inevitably the aftermath of Yiddish culture following the Holocaust. All readings will be in English and will include such central figures as Reb Nakhman Breslover, Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Y.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, I.B. Singer, and Avrom Sutzkever, among others. Prior knowledge of Jewish culture helpful, but not required; no knowledge of Yiddish required. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies Course added 7/05/06 

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Th 1-3

090.356 (H)

EXPERIMENTAL WRITING (3) Campe Prereq: 091.301-302   Limit 15  
In the early 20th century German authors who also were scientists or doctors engaged in experiments of narrative writing. It is their style and narrative technique which can be called experimental, but experiments are also subject matters in these stories. Readings will include Musil, Schnitzler, and Benn. Reading and Discussion in German

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Reading Hour

T 1-3

TBA

090.386 (H)

GERMAN JEWISH THOUGHT SINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT (3) Tobias Limit 15   Survey trends in German-Jewish thought since Haskala (Enlightenment). Emphasis on debate regarding “Deutschtum” and “Judentum” in 18th and 19th centuries; rationlist interpretations of Judaism; rediscovery of mysticism in 20th century and anti-rationalist tendencies. Readings and discussion in English.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, History, and the Humanities Center

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Reading hour

W 3-5pm

TBA

300.335 (H)

PROUST AND PHILOSOPHY (3)  deVries  Limit 20  
Cross-listed with the Humanites Center and Philosophy

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T 2-4:30

300.343 (H)

BERGSON AND THE PROBLEM OF NOVELTY IN PHILOSOPHY (3)  Marrati    Limit 20  
Cross-listed with Anthropology, the Humanities Center, and Political Science

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T 2-4:30

090.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

091.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

090.509

GERMAN HONORS PROGRAM

091.601

READING AND TRANSLATING GERMAN FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES I  Clark
Graduate students only   Limit 15 
This course is designed for graduate students in other departments who wish to gain a reading knowledge of the German language. The first semester assumes no knowledge of German and covers the grammatical principles of the language. The second semester assumes a basic knowledge of German grammar and vocabulary and concentrates on reading practice. For certification or credit.

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MW 9

090.616

UNDERSTANDING IRONY Tobias  Limit 12     This course will examine some of the classic texts on irony (Schlegel, Novalis, Solger, Hegel) and important 20th century interpretations (Szondi, de Man, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy). A key concern will be whether there can be a conception of irony without transcendental philosophy.

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T 3-5pm

090.641

HEGEL: ON ETHICS AND THE THEORY OF TRAGEDY Menke Limit 12   Two month intensive course The course will deal with Hegel’s conceptions of art, politics and ethical life (Sittlichkeit), as they are elaborated in his Lectures on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Right. The goal of the course is to unfold these conceptions in their internal coherence and to ask for their contemporary significance. Special consideration will be given to the question of the systematic relation between Hegel’s theories of art, politics and ethical life. Hegel’s theory of tragedy, especially in the version of his Phenomenology of the Spirit, is a good case for addressing this question.

Cross-listed with the Humanities Center and Philosophy

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M 3-6pm

090.647

MODERNITY, AESTHETIC AND POLITICAL: HOFMANNSTHAL – BRECHT – C.SCHMITT – REIFENSTAHL Hebekus   Limit 12
In recent theories of the political (Claude Lefort, Ernesto Laclau) totalitarianism no longer appears to be a revolt against modernity but, on the contrary, an intrinsically modern project. The course will focus on configurations of the aesthetic and the political in the early 20th century. We will ask the question to what extent this configuration might have contributed to making (German) totalitarianism possible. Reading and Discussion in German.

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F 11-1

090.654

FOLKLORE AND MODERNISM Caplan Limit 12 This course will be a graduate seminar considering in structural and historical terms the impact of folklore on modern literary forms, particularly in minority and marginalized literary cultures. Among the topics we will consider are the role of folklore in the development of a national consciousness; the transformation of religious beliefs and related traditions in the context of modernization; the structural features of folk tales and how they influence (or undermine) belletristic narrative forms; the relationship between folklore and various modes of satire and parody; the place of folklore in creating fantasy or anti-realist narratives; and the preservation of oral narrative techniques in works of literature. Authors to be considered will include the Brothers Grimm, Reb Nakhman of Breslov, Nikolai Leskov, Charles Chesnutt, Sholem Aleichem, Lu Xun, Franz Kafka, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amos Tutuola. These writers will be considered comparatively in the light of theoretical discussions by, among others, Freud, Benjamin, Propp, Deleuze and Guattari, Frederic Jameson, and Aijaz Ahmad. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies Course added 7/05/06

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W 1-3

090.656

THEORIZING EMOTIONALITY Pahl  Limit 12   Accounts of affect, passion, feeling, mood by Spinoza, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, etc. and their relevance for contemporary thought. Reading and Discussion in English   Cross-listed with Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, the Humanities Center, and Philosophy

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W 3-5pm

090.661

ALLEGORY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND HISTORY: BENJAMIN'S ORIGINS OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA (3) Gold  Limit 12 A close reading of this text, with a focus on the relationship between Benjamin's aesthetic, historical, and political concerns. We will also discuss the place of this work in the context of Benjamin's writings and its relationship to such thinkers as Heidegger and Adorno. Readings in German and English Cross-listed with Philosophy and Political Science Course added 7/05/06 

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T 1-3

090.666

GOETHE: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES Campe   Limit 12   Ever since his engagement with the novella – Conversations of German Refugees – Goethe’s narrative work is marked by the question of what it means to continue the story or to contextualize the event. Starting from earlier examples, the course will focus on implications (symbol/allegory, institution).

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Th 3-5

212.761

BOOKS, READERS, AND WRITERS IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE
Celenza / Izbicki   Limit 15  Prereq: Basic reading knowledge of Latin or Perm. Req’d.
Cross-listed with Classics, History, Romance Languages, and the Humanities Center

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T 4-6pm

300.639

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ART HISTORY  Fried / Leys   Limit 20         

Cross-listed with the Humanites Center, History, and Philosophy

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T 1-4

300.678

DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION AND ITS SOURCES  Marrati  Limit 20 
Cross-listed with Philosophy, Political Science, Anthropology, and the Humanities Center

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M 2-5 W 10-12:30

090.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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TBA

090.813

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH  Pahl

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090.815

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH  Campe

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TBA

090.817

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH  Tobias

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