16 courses with the subject GERM H, 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.
Meets five hours a week with the individual class instructor, one hour with student drill instructors. Strong emphasis on communicative competence both in spoken and written German in a larger cultural context. This is a year-long course; both semesters (001 and 002) are required for credit.
Meets five hours a week with the individual class instructor, one hour with student drill instructors. Strong emphasis on communicative competence both in spoken and written German in a larger cultural context. This is a year-long course; both semesters (001 and 002) are required for credit.
Meets three hours a week with the individual class instructor, one hour with student drill instructor. Thorough review of grammar, exercises in composition and conversation. Enforcement of correct grammatical patterns and idiomatic use of language. Study of selected literary and cultural texts and films from German-speaking countries. Two semesters.
Meets three hours a week with the individual class instructor, one hour with student drill instructor. Thorough review of grammar, exercises in composition and conversation. Enforcement of correct grammatical patterns and idiomatic use of language. Study of selected literary and cultural texts and films from German-speaking countries. Two semesters.
This course is intended for students who wish to refine their speaking, writing, and reading skills beyond the Intermediate level. Designed as a comprehensive introduction to modern German culture, we will discuss a variety of literary, political, historical and philosophical texts, including feature films and video materials. Weekly grammar reviews will complement these activities.
This course is intended for students who wish to refine their speaking, writing, and reading skills beyond the Intermediate level. Designed as a comprehensive introduction to modern German culture, we will discuss a variety of literary, political, historical and philosophical texts, including feature films and video materials. Weekly grammar reviews will complement these activities.
This course will explore ideas of nation-building in regard to the transnational relations between Europe and Africa. We will discuss African and European experiences of nation-creation to distinguish between exclusionary and inclusionary visions of nation states, and focus in particular on literary texts from Great Britain, Germany, and France in comparison with literary texts from Nigeria, South Africa, and Algeria.
You must change your life. This line of poetry written by Rainer Maria Rilke has always had an enormous impact on readers. But can a poem actually change our lives or our thinking? What about other artforms like film or painting? These questions will be central to the journey undertaken in this course, which examines how philosophers, writers, and filmmakers have sought to give forms of meaning to the world through diverse kinds of expression. Crosslisted: COML. Lottery Preference: None
This course meets twice a week and will either be taught in English with an extra-session in German or in German if all registered students speak German. It is the aim of this course to contextualize the #MeToo Movement in a transnational U.S. - European context. We will read a variety of texts and watch selected European/U.S. films that impacted the historical relationship between and representation of women in film. While this course focuses primarily on female directors, our discussion will also include the works of some male directors. Crosslisted: German, Comparative Literature
This course investigates the clash between imperial artwork and the modern urban experiment that is a central dynamic of the Viennese experience. Drawing upon Viennese writers, artists, and intellectuals, course texts by Freud, Joseph Roth, Ingeborg Bachmann and others establish the discursive tradition of the city as artwork, while readings by Adolf Loos, Arthur Schnitzler, Veza Canetti bring into focus the modernist critique of aestheticization of the urban landscape. Crosslisted: COML.
Taught in German. This course takes a closer look at GDR literature and film – past and present - its aesthetic diversity and historical context. We will explore multiple aesthetic models, including documentary, feminist, meta- fictional, autobiographical, and immigrant literatures. Furthermore, we will critically engage with films to decipher how they create or attempt to challenge meta-images that defined the past and present political situations. Pre-requisite(s): Students will need to know German at a high level (200-level German class or instructor consent).
In 1784 Friedrich Schiller started a discussion about theater as a moral institution. With this in mind, this course will provide an overview of the historical development of drama within the German-speaking world and also explore foreign influences on German drama. We will read and watch a variety of different plays from Lessing to Jelinek, and engage with different theatrical genres: classical, epic, documentary, absurd, and feminist theater. In addition, we will discuss the function of the institutionalization of theater within the German national imaginary, with a particular focus on gender and race. This course is taught in German.
Taught in German. One of the most interesting and exciting aspects of contemporary German-speaking literature is its aesthetic diversity, which eludes any clear-cut literary-historical definition. Instead, we are confronted with the co- existence of multiple aesthetic models, including documentary, feminist, meta- fictional, autobiographical, and immigrant literatures--compelling evidence that the notion of a single German literature has become totally obsolete. The course is designed to reflect this aesthetic plurality that has shaped German-speaking culture over the past several decades. Focusing on exemplary texts, the seminar will closely examine the diverging literary concepts and writing practices, characteristic of the literary scene today. Furthermore, we will critically engage with films to decipher how they attempt to challenge meta-images that define our daily lives.
It’s no secret that media shape the world around us. Cell phones use GPS to help us navigate through traffic and platforms like Instagram connect us to millions of people. Have things always been this way? How did people react to new technologies like film or television in the past? How do modern media impact us now? For German credit there will be an extra 60-minute session in German. Crosslisted: GERM,COML,VIST.
All of our majors are required to write a senior thesis in German, or—if they are double majors—to produce a thesis in a related discipline that has significant overlap with their work in German. They typically take a 300-level seminar in fall and write a research term paper which often becomes the foundation for their senior project. In the spring semester they take the mandatory senior conference consisting of weekly meetings and discussions of thesis proposals and drafts with their advisor(s). In writing the senior thesis, the student should demonstrate a) the capacity to conceive a theoretically informed and well designed research project b) the language skills to research and evaluate primary and secondary materials and to effectively synthesize these, and c) the analytical and methodological skills to produce an innovative and critically astute thesis.
Margaret Strair Division: Humanities (Offered: Fall 2026)
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