30 courses with the subject GRMN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GRMN 101German in Everyday Life - elementary level I1
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Recitation:1Beginning language skills. Practice in listening, speaking, reading, and writing; elementary grammar; and introduction to German culture.
GRMN 102German in Everyday Life - elementary level II1
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Recitation:1Continuation of language skills. Practice in listening, speaking, reading, and writing; grammar; reading in culture and literature. Prerequisite: GRMN 101 or equivalent.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Recitation:1A continuation and review of basic grammar, emphasizing all four language skills and culture. Prerequisite: GRMN 102 or equivalent.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Recitation:1Review of basic grammar, emphasizing all four language skills and culture. Prerequisite: GRMN 103 or equivalent.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:2; RepeatableConcentration on development of speaking skills. Conducted in German. Intended for students enrolled in GRMN 104 or above. Prerequisite: GRMN 103 or equivalent.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:2; RepeatableConcentration on development of speaking skills. Conducted in German. Intended for students enrolled in GRMN 104 or above. Prerequisite: GRMN 103 or equivalent.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Recitation:1This course introduces students to the multifaceted, interdisciplinary world of German Studies. Essay writing and conversation practice. Prerequisite: GRMN 104 or equivalent.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores German film between 1919 and 1933, examining it as a modern art form that exerted a profound influence on Hollywood and global cinema. So-called Weimar Cinema was particularly influential in shaping the horror, film noir and science fiction genres, and it continues to inspire filmmakers and artists to this day. Taught in English. Crosslisted as ENFS 231.
GRMN 241Germans and the World: Colonization, Emigration, Exile1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Focuses on recorded experiences of German-language writers, poets, playwrights and filmmakers outside geographical boundaries of German states from 18th-21st C. Introduces concepts of cross-cultural exchange, linguistic assimilation, artistic synthesis and critical analysis of the writer’s new cultural and linguistic context and the critical lens that is turned back on Germany. Crosslisted as HUMN 241.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Other:2This course is an introduction to German film studies. It provides a survey of German films from the beginning until today. Prerequisite: GRMN 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores German cinema and television from its beginnings to today and examines how feature films and television series and shows reflect the socio-cultural and political developments in Germany in the 20th and 21st century. Taught in German.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3An overview of German society from Romanticism to World War I from a cultural-historical perspective.
GRMN 271Princesses, Devils, Witches: Fairy tales in a German Context1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Analysis of the genre of fairy tales in German culture with an emphasis on the Brothers Grimm and their adaptations of an oral folklore tradition, beginning in the nineteenth century into the twenty-first. In German. Prerequisites: GRMN 204 or equivalent.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3An overview of cultural, social, economic, and political issues in the two Germanys. In German. Prerequisite: GRMN 204 or equivalent.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Exploration of the cultural world of Germany since unification including literature, art, film, music. In German. Prerequisite: GRMN 204 or equivalent.
Lecture hours:3Exploration of literary responses to the Holocaust, ranging from memoirs published immediately after the Holocaust to texts written in the twenty-first century. In English. No prerequisites. Open to first-years, sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Lecture hours:3Exploration of the periods of migration to Germany in a broader social, political and historical context, with an emphasis on migration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In German. Prerequisite: GRMN 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Exploration of German Jewish literature and culture from the early twentieth-century to contemporary Jewish life in Germany today. Taught in English or German. If in English, no prerequisites. If in German, prerequisite GRMN 204 or equivalent.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Exploration of the processes of memory and memorialization in German culture, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first century. In English or German. If English, no prerequisites. If German, prerequisites GRMN 204 or equivalent.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the role of sports in German culture in the twentieth and twenty-first century. In German. Prerequisites GRMN 204 or equivalent.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores antisemitism, yesterday and today, through a variety of texts and provides students with the opportunity to learn about the history of antisemitism in order to become more informed and critically aware of current instances of antisemitism. In English. Crosslisted as HUMN 279.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the influential film movement that took place in Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s. A new generation of filmmakers confronted the legacy of fascism and addressed taboo topics surrounding guilt and the trauma of violence in new visual language. The movement helped shape a new self-aware German identity through its films. Crosslisted as ENFS 232.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Exploration of experiences of exile and refugeeness, yesterday and today, through a wide variety of texts. Taught in English or German. If in English, no prerequisites. If in German, prerequisite GRMN 204 or equivalent.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudy of topics in German culture or literature at an intermediate level. Prerequisite: GRMN 204 or concurrent enrollment.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will expose students to a range of design principles and debates about urban planning as they have shaped communities and life in German-speaking areas outside the USA from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableSubject to be selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3A study of the history, economy, politics, and culture of the Weimar Republic. In German. Prerequisite: GRMN 270 or GRMN 272 or GRMN 273 or equivalent.
GRMN 393Advanced Seminar in Selected Cultural Topics1
Offered Alternate Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThe course will deal with selected topics in German culture on an advanced level. In German. Prerequisites: GRMN 270 or GRMN 272 or GRMN 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudy of topics in German culture or literature at an advanced intermediate level.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:VariesIndependent study with a faculty member to prepare an oral presentation for annual German Studies Mini-Conference. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.