25 courses with the subject GERM, 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.
GERM 100Introductory German I4
Beginning study of German language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, speaking. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3)
Beginning study of German language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, speaking. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3)
GERM 105 MILE Requirement: GLO Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Cultural and Linguistic Competencies
GERM 155Reading & Culture4
Reading and response writing designed to develop proficiency at the intermediate level. Aspects of culture, including history, the arts, and literature. Materials may include video and CD-ROM programs, Internet resources. Grammar review as necessary.
Examines a wide variety of texts and other media to explore the idea and representation of the strange and “deviant” in German literature and culture from early modern Europe to the present. Focus on the concept of the witch, witch-hunts, the Faust legend, and gender issues. Supplemented by audio-visual materials from art history, film, and popular culture. Taught in English. (M2)
GERM 210 & GERM 215 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 210German Culture: Art & Culture4
This course is designed to improve German language skills in the areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking at the intermediate level to prepare the transition to more advanced coursework. We will discuss topics of history and the diversity of culture in German-speaking countries by using resources such as videos, Internet links and music. Grammar concepts will be reviewed as well.
This course is designed to improve German language skills at the intermediate level with an emphasis on short literary texts and films to prepare the transition to more advanced coursework. We will discuss topics of literature and history and the diversity of culture in German-speaking countries by using Internet resources, videos and music. Grammar concepts will be reviewed as well.
Major trends in culture, economics, and politics from the end of World War II to the present. Topics include the Cold War, the German economic miracle, the ‘60s, the rise of the environmental movement, and the role of post-reunification Germany in Europe.
This course will discuss major forms and periods of literary texts and films in and about Berlin from the early 20th century to the present within their social, political, and cultural context. We study diverse voices of male and female authors, including immigrant writers and filmmakers, on themes important to their and our times such as social oppression, ethics, gender, nation, and identity.
GERM 210 and GERM 215 . Prohibited: Not open to students who have completed GERM 325 . Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 230Grammar & Composition4
Grammar and style with attention to accurate and idiomatic expression in written German. Analysis of contemporary prose and style. Grammatical exercises and compositions. Practice in writing and rewriting.
Analysis and discussion of selected texts from the past two centuries, designed to introduce students to representative authors, works, and genres, and to develop critical reading and writing skills. Readings of poetry, fairy tales, and works by authors such as Goethe, Tieck, Buchner, Droste-Hulshoff, Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Brecht, and Durrenmatt.
GERM 201 & GERM 215 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 244Young German Writers4
This course will cover one of the most exciting periods in German history through the perspective of young writers and filmmakers from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present. The difference between East and West Germany still influences literature, music, art, and politics and furthermore deals with discourses on national identity and economic inequalities.
GERM 210 & GERM 215 Prohibited: GERM 244 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 25020th C Germ Theater4
Trends in German theater from expressionism to the present, through the plays of Toller, Horvath, Brecht, Fleisser, Lasker-Schuler, Borchert, Handke, Fassbinder, Kroetz, Bernhard, Jelinek.
GERM 210 & GERM 215 Prohibited: GERM 350 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 260German Film in English4
This course covers the periods from the beginning of filmmaking in Germany, exploitation of the media during the Nazi time and reflect on different political and moral implications in East and West Germany after the end of World War II, namely how films dealt with the Holocaust, and how life under socialism and capitalism are reflected in films. German unification and its results as well as the situation of minorities in contemporary Germany will provide a broad overview and its moral implications in films. Course taught in English. (U2) . For students majoring in German or German Studies these students will have to write the papers in German. (PTK - Global Connections)
This course will discuss major forms and periods of literary texts and films in and about Berlin from the early 20th century to the present within their social, political, and cultural context. We study diverse voices of male and female authors, including immigrant writers and filmmakers, on themes important to their and our times such as social oppression, ethics, gender, nation, and identity.
One course in German above GERM 215 . Prohibited: Not open to students who have completed GERM 225 . Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 341Women Germ Lit/Culture4
Study of texts by female authors from the 12th century onward, including Hildegard von Bingen, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Sophie La Roche, Louise Karsch, Bettina von Arnim, Rahel Varnhagen, Ebner-Eschenbach, Lou Andreas-Salome, Anna Seghers, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Doris Dorrie, Erica Fischer, and Caroline Link. Film and Internet resources complement the readings.
GERM 230 & GERM 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 344Young German Writers4
This course will cover one of the most exciting periods in German history through the perspective of young writers and filmmakers from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present. The difference between East and West Germany still influences literature, music, art, and politics and furthermore deals with discourses on national identity and economic inequalities.
ONE COURSE HIGHER THAN GERM 215 Prohibited: GERM 244 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 35020th Cent German Theater4
Trends in German theater from expressionism to the present, through the plays of Toller, Horvath, Brecht, Fleisser, Lasker-Schuler, Borchert, Handke, Fassbinder, Kroetz, Bernhard, Jelinek.
GERM 230 & GERM 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
GERM 360German Lit 1949-Present4
Writings from the divided Germany until the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Major plays, prose, and poetry by such writers as Boll, Lenz, Grass, Heym, Muller, Hein, Wolf, Kunert, and Fried. Excerpts from writings of Frisch, Durrenmatt, Handke, and Bernhard. Some material on film.
