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  • GRMN 517: Technology and Foreign Language Teaching

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Frei/McMahon. This course focuses on the evaluation, design, and development of multimedia in foreign language teaching and seeks to spotlight intersections of pedagogy and technology. Emphases are on the evaluation and production of effective multimedia-based materials and the pedagogical concerns raised by their implementation. In workshops, you will learn to use video-, image-, and sound-editing software applications. In weekly lectures, you will examine current trends and issues in pedagogically sound applications of technology. We will focus our discussions mainly on the efficacy of Web-based design and development. You will design and produce an instructional project including different media such as text, image/graphics, sound, and video and create an on-line teaching portfolio as your final project.
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  • GRMN 531: German Literature to 18th Century

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Historical overview of authors, their works, genres, and epochs. Special attention to social, historical, cultural and religious backgrounds. Reading of selected works or passages.
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  • GRMN 532: German Literature 18th Century to Present

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. A continuation of GRMN 531, this course examines literary developments from the Enlightenment to the present.
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  • GRMN 534: History of Literary Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Over the last three decades, the fields of literary and cultural studies have been reconfigured by a variety of theoretical and methodological developments. Bracing-and-often confrontational-dialogues between theoretical and political positions as varied as Deconstruction. New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Queer Theory, Minority Discourse Theory, Colonial and Post-colonial Studies and Cultural Studies have, in particular, altered disciplinary agendas and intellectual priorities for students embarking on the /professional / study of literature. In this course, we will study key texts, statements and debates that define these issues, and will work towards a broad knowledge of the complex rewriting of the project of literary studies in process today. The readiing list will keep in mind the Examination List in Comparative Literature-we will not work towards complete coverage but will ask how crucial contemporary theorists engage with the longer history and institutional practices of literary criticism. There will be no examinations. Students will make one class presentation, which will then be reworked into a paper (1200-1500 words) to be submitted one week after the presentation. A second paper will be an annotated bibliography on a theoretical issue or issues that a student wishes to explore further. The bibliography will be developed in consultation with the instructor; it will typically include three or four books and six to eight articles or their equivalent. The annotated bibliography will be prefaced by a five or six page introduction; the whole will add up to between 5000 and 6000 words of prose. Students will prepare "position notes" each week, which will either be posted on a weblog or circulated in class.
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  • GRMN 535: Goethe's Novels

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    MacLeod. Prerequisite(s): Upper-level course, assumes some familiarity with German literature and culture. With each of his major novels, Goethe intervened decisively and provocatively in the genre and wider culture. This seminar will analyze three of Goethe's novels spanning his career: the sensationial epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774, rev. 1787); the novel of adultery Elective Affinities (1809), and the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795/96). (We will also look ahead to his "archival" novel Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years [1829]). Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which these novels address questions of modernization - technology and secularization, to name only two -through the lens of individuals who understand themselves in relation to artistic media. We will also consider seminal scholarship on the novels (e.g. Benjamin, Lukacs) in addition to recent critical approaches.
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  • GRMN 536: Foreign Exchanges:German Travel Literature and the East

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Wiggin. Prerequisite(s): GRMN 216 or equivalent. This course is taught in German. For centuries the "Orient" has functioned as an important concept in formulating a European as well as a specifically German identity. In the context of today's debates about the expansion of Europe and the so-called war on terrorism, it is a concept which demands further historical investigation. On the basis of travel narratives and other texts, we will explore this key term, noting how it has been insistently (re)formulated since the beginnings of modernity. We will also investigate several theoretical models which can help us to think through the cultural encounters documented in the primary works. A series of fundamental questions will accompany us through the semester: Where is the East Is the East a homogenous place eliciting either fear or wonder Who lives in the East and how are the "customs and manners" of its inhabitants comprehended What happens to a German in the East And, vice versa, what happens to an "Oriental" in Germany Is the East only in the East Can one also find the East in Germany
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  • GRMN 540: Memory,Trauma,Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Weissberg. All readings and lectures in English. In recent years, studies of memory (both individual and cultural) have rivaled those of history, and have produced alternative narratives of events. At the same time, research has also focused on the rupture of narrative, the inability to find appropriate forms of telling, and the experience of a loss of words. The notion of trauma (Greek for "wound") may stand for such a rupture. Many kinds of narratives, most prominently the recollections of Holocaust survivors, are instances in which memories are invoked not only to come to terms with traumatic events, but also to inscribe trauma in various ways. In this seminar, we will read theoretical work on memory and trauma, discuss their implication for the study of literature, art, and culture, read select examples from Holocaust survivors' autobiographies (i.e. Primo Levi, EliWiesel), and discuss visual art (i.e. Boltanski, Kiefer) and film (i.e. Resnais, Lanzmann, Spielberg).
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  • GRMN 550: German Film History and Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Richter. From the early 20th century, German cinema has played a key role in the history of film. Seminar topics may include: Weimar cinema, film in the Nazi period, East German film, the New German cinema, and feminist film.
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  • GRMN 551: Kant's First Critique

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Guyer. A study of Kant's epistemology, criticism of metaphysics, and theory of science. A close reading of the Critique of Pure Reason and associated texts.
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  • GRMN 552: Kant II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Guyer. A study of Kant's moral philosophy, political philosophy, and aesthetics, focusing on his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, Metaphysics of Morals, and Critique of Judgement.
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