GERMAN

091.102

ELEMENTARY GERMAN II (4.5) Flannery/Mifflin/Holmes/Groves Prereq: 091.101 or equivalent Limit 18/section  An introduction to the German language and a development of reading, speaking, writing, and listening skills through the use of basic texts. Language lab is required. Both semesters must be completed with passing grades to receive credit. May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis

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02

03

04

MTW   9,
Th 9:30

MTW  10,
Th 10:30

MTWF 12

MTWF   1

091.202 (H)

INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II (3.5) Domenghino-Sec.01/Wiggins-Sec.02/Wheeler-Sec.03  Prereq: 091.201 or equivalent  Limit 16/section     This course is 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 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. Language lab is required. Conducted in German

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02

03

MTW 11

MTW 12

MTW   1

091.300 (H)

TEACHING A MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE (3) Mifflin   Limit 20 Principles, methods and materials of language learning and teaching.  Topics range from national standards to proficiency guidelines.  Includes lectures, activities and visit to professional conference.  Opportunity to focus reading in areas of interest.

Cross-listed with Romance Languages and Literatures and the Language Teaching Center

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TW 1-2:30

091.302 (H)

              (W)

ADVANCED GERMAN CONVERSATION & COMPOSITION II: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ISSUES (3) Wheeler/Hoecker Long Limit 15/section    Prereq: 091.301 or equivalent     Topically, this course focuses on contemporary issues such as national identity, multiculturalism, and the effects of globalization. Pertinent historical and cultural developments of the 19th and 20th centuries are highlighted to help students understand contemporary German society. Readings include literary and journalistic texts. Emphasis on style and clarity in both written and oral expression. Review of advanced grammar. Taught in German

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02

MTW 11

MTW 12

091.352 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE & CULTURE: 1900-1945 1918-1945 (3) Arndt Limit 15   Prereq: 091.301-302    Introduction to analysis of literary and cultural topics. Early 20th-century texts and visual media will form the basis for discussion of literature and cultural phenomena specific to the time period. This semester's focus will be on the topic of youth and adolescence in German literature of the period, underlining for example the noticeable gender differences. Readings, discussions, and written assignments in German

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

090.305 (H)

WIRELESS IMAGINATION: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA THEORY (3) Niebisch   Limit 15
This class focuses on key texts of media theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, and Paul Virilio. The history of radio technology will serve as a case study for understanding the transformations new media introduces in a society.  Readings and discussion in English. Course canceled 10/26/05

Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies

Sec. 01

M 3-5

090.330 (H)

AUSTRIAN LITERATURE SINCE 1960 (3) Strowick   Limit 12     Prereq: 091.301-302     The course focuses on both poetological aspects and topics of cultural and political relevance in Austrian literature since 1960. Close readings will be contextualized within theoretical approaches (e.g. deconstruction, discourse analysis, psychoanalysis). Readings include prose by Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Elfriede Jelinek, Gerhard Roth, and Werner Schwab.

Sec. 01

Th 1-3

090.350 (H)

IN SEARCH OF THE ABSOLUTE (3) Celenza Limit 15   During the Enlightenment, instrumental music was generally described as a “pleasant noise” below language.  In the 19th century, the romantic metaphysics of art declared it a communicative force above language.  Perceptions of Beethoven had much to do with this shift in aesthetic paradigm.  This course explores the changing image of Beethoven in the 19th and 20th centuries and in so doing traces the genesis of “absolute music” as presented in the works of writers and philosophers from Friedrich Schlegel and E.T.A. Hoffmann to Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus.  English with reading section in German.

Cross-listed with Music

Sec. 01

F 1-3

Plus discussion hour TBA

090.395 (H)

LITERATURE & PHOTOGRAPHY (3) Long Tobias   Limit 15     Investigation of the intersection of literature and photography in 20th-century fiction.  How does the frozen image of photography affect narrative representation?  The syllabus will include works conceived as collages (Sebald, Roth) as well as theoretical works (Sontag, Barthes, Benjamin) and literary texts indebted to the visual arts (Rilke, Baudelaire, Calvino, Bernhard).

Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Film & Media Studies, and Writing Seminars

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W 3-5
Plus discussion hour: Th 12, F 11

090.403 (H)

VISIONS OF CINEMA: EXPLORATIONS IN WEIMAR FILM 1913-1933 (3) Gold   Limit 15   Provides an overview of major developments in German cinema during the first third of the twentieth century.  We will submit films to a detailed analysis that combines close reading and historical contextualization.  Films include "Nosferatu," "M," "Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari," "Metropolis," and others. Films in German with English subtitles. Reading and discussion in English.

Cross-listed with the Humanities Center and Film & Media Studies

Sec. 01

M 1-3

Plus screening Th 7-9pm

090.420 (H)

THE HUMAN AND THE MACHINE IN GERMAN LITERAURE AND FILM (3) Pahl   Limit 15  
Prereq: 091.301-302     Human machines and mechanical humans haunt the imagination of writers, filmmakers and their audiences, particularly in Germany. Discussion of influential works like Hoffmann’s “Sandmann,” Kafka, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” and contemporary cyborgs. Readings and discussion in German.

Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies

Sec. 01

T 3-5

Plus discussion hour TBA

090.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

090.510

GERMAN HONORS PROGRAM   Tobias

091.602

SPECIAL INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN Clark   Limit 20  This course is designed for graduate students in other department who wish to gain a reading knowledge of the German language.  This 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

090.660

FRANZ KAFKA  Neumann   Limit 12 Course meets 3/13-4/24 Franz Kafka is the most important German-language author of the 20th century. His influence on world literature can hardly be underestimated. His modernity is based not primarily on bold linguistic experiments, but rather on the intricate cultural diagnosis of the century in which he lived, and also on his persistent meditation on the situation from which his writing arose.  The seminar will attempt to bring together literary and cultural perspectives, thus encompassing Kafka’s work in its entirety. Familiarity with Kafka’s complete works by preparatory reading and active participation in the seminar are the prerequisites for the success of this project.  Students interested in this course should refer to the complete description posted on the German Department’s website, and also outside of the administrative office.

Sec. 01

M 3-6pm

090.670

HERMENEUTICS – LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL (SCHLEIERMACHER, SZONDI, HEIDEGGER, GADAMER) Gold       Limit 15   Examines the competing claims and assumptions of two models of hermeneutics:  literary and philosophical.  Reading works by four thinkers -- Friedrich Schleiermacher, Peter Szondi, Martin Heidegger, and Hans Georg Gadamer -- we will ask how it is possible to place these two conceptions of interpretation in dialogue with one another. Readings in German or English; discussion in English.

Cross-listed with the Humanities Center and Philosophy

Sec. 01

Th 3-5

090.685

HEGEL, DIE PHÄNOMENOLOGIE DES GEISTES Pahl   Limit 15   A close reading of Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes. We will pay particular attention to the work of emotionality in the development of Spirit’s self-reflection.

Sec. 01

W 3-5

090.705

NIETZSCHE – MANN – ADORNO Tobias   Limit 15     This course will examine two novels by Thomas Mann (Doktor Faustus, Felix Krull), which draw heavily on Nietzsche (Geburt der Tragödie) and Adorno (Philosophie der neuen Musik).  Of concern will be the ‘power’ the texts attribute to art and the poltical dimensions of the aesthetic sphere.

Sec. 01

T 3-5

090.710

KLEIST’S PENTHESILEA – RHETORIC, TRAGEDY, CULTURE Campe  Limit 15  Kleist's Penthesilea can be read from different angles:  the rhetorical structure is as complex as are the references to gender, war and the political. Discussing the relation between 'close reading' and 'cultural analysis' the course will also explore the inherent notion of tragedy in comparison with Goethe's Iphigenie and Natürliche Tochter and Hegel's notion of tragedy.

Sec. 01

Th 5-7pm

212.707

TRUST AND TRUTH: ARTISTICAL VALUE AND AESTHETICAL PROPERTY Cohn Cross-listed with Romance Languages & Literatures Course canceled 01/23/06

Sec. 01

TF 3-5

090.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 – Campe
Sec. 02 – Tobias        
Sec. 03 – Pahl
Sec. 04 – Nägele

090.812

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Nägele

090.814

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Campe

090.816

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Pahl

090.820

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Tobias