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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Designed for students who have completed GM 110-GM 111 or whose placement scores are in the range for this course level.This two-semester sequence prepares students to continue the study of language on a more advanced level, and includes review of essential points of grammar, vocabulary building, and regular practice in speaking and writing.The language cultures are explored through a wide variety of materials (literary texts, press articles, films, etc.) Students attend three classes per week and do mandatory online work determined by the instructor.Four credits per semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes improved proficiency in the written language.Students build vocabulary and improve grammar through readings and exercises designed to prepare them for weekly compositions.These readings and exercises expose students to a variety of genres.Following peer review and instructor's comments, students rewrite compositions, incorporating them into a final portfolio project.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course develops and improves student conversational abilities.The course provides students with opportunities to sound their knowledge and opinions, and to share their ideas as they learn from their peers in non-threatening, small-group discussions on contemporary topics.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
In the first semester, this course examines the main currents of German culture and civilization through lectures, films, the Internet, and literary and cultural readings.Students complete frequent oral and written reports.During the second semester, the course examines German immigration, especially to the United States, considering in-depth the German-American experience through lectures, films, the Internet, and literary and cultural readings.The first semester is conducted in German; the second semester is conducted in English.Both semesters require frequent oral and written reports.Three credits per semester.
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3.00 Credits
This two-semester sequence offers an overview of German works and literary movements from the Middle Ages to 1945, providing students with the fundamentals of literary analysis in the genres of poetry, drama, novellas, novels, short stories, and film.The course requires frequent oral and written reports.Three credits per semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the development of German literature from the Sturm und Drang movement through the classic period of Goethe and Schiller, including Henrich von Kleist and an analysis of the Romantic literary theory (Eichendorff, Novalis, Hoffmann).Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on fairy tales.We explore the tales by the Brothers Grimm, but also meet such suspenseful writers as E.T.A.Hoffmann, Hauff, and others.Numerous stories have been written and filmed that enable us to connect 19th-century tales with life today.We immerse ourselves in these stories by listening, telling, reading, writing about, and watching them.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to a variety of German literature and genres (novel, short story, and poem) written in the 20th century.All works are heavily influenced by the two world wars.The literary canon includes a text by Kafka, portraying hope and despair, and Anna Seghers' novel written in exile, poems and short stories portraying the various social and political changes in West Germany, and the essays by the East German writer Christa Wolf that deals with loyalty and dissidence.The course also addresses narrative strategies and the challenges faced by the translator.Furthermore, we talk about the different roles literature can play, including the influence and value in furthering the understanding of material to contextualize the readings.Particular interest is the portrayal of social and political issues.This course is also offered as EN 282.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The internship program gives students first-hand experience in the fields of translation, interpretation, cataloging, public relations, advertising, teaching, etc., in the language of their specialization.Department members, who agree to guide the endeavor, supervise student work.When required by a faculty supervisor, an evaluation of student interns may be required from the institution where students work.The student's work should demand no less than one full day per week, or its equivalent.Three credits per semester.
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3.00 Credits
Students undertake readings and studies in a specialized area of German under the direction of a staff member.Designed to fill the special needs of specific students, this course is offered at the discretion of the department chair.Hours by arrangement.Three credits per semester.
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