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4.00 Credits
In this course, intensive review of grammar will accompany a focus on a particular topic, such as intellectual history ("Geistesgeschichte"), poetry, songs from classical and popular music, television and new media. Readings and writing assignments will be appropriate for students at the intermediate level, although students who have taken higher level German courses may also take this course. May be repeated for credit, although only eight credits at the 200 level may count for the major or minor in German studies.
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3.00 Credits
The word "Geistesgeschichte" may look like it means "ghost stories," but actually it refers to the "history of the mind," the "history of the spirit," or "intellectual history." In this class, we will focus on short passages from authors such as Luther, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Einstein, and Habermas, learning to use the German of the philosophical tradition. Students will develop their abilities to communicate orally and verbally in German. Prer equisite: 205 or consent of ins
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 In this course, we will study one of the most appealing and enigmatic literary forms in human history: the fairy tale. Although focused on the German tradition and the tales of the Brothers Grimm, we will strive for a sense of the international and intercultural context of the tales. We will approach the tales from a variety of perspectives - structuralist, historical, sociological, and feminist, among others. In addition to the more traditional folk tales, we will also study some of the art tales written by authors such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. All discussion in English. May be elected for credit in German or world literature. Students taking the course for German credit will be expected to read the tales of the Brothers Grimm in German and write written assignments in German; students taking the course for credit in world literature will read and write in English.
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2.00 Credits
In this course, we will review the masterpieces of German-language cinema, beginning with such expressionist works of art as Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Murnau' s Nosferatu , Lang ? Metropoli s, and Sagan 's M dchen in Unifo rm. We will also study Nazi film, particularly Leni Riefenstahl's work. Among the postwar directors that we study will be Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders. Queer German filmmakers such as Praunheim and Treut will receive special attention. The course will conclude with recent critical and popular successes suc h as Run Lola Run and The Lives of Oth ers. As a critical lens, we will rely heavily on psychoanalytic and Frankfurt School criticism, focusing on writings by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Theodor Adorno. In addition to class meetings, a weekly video screening of approximately two hours is required. All discussion in English. Students taking the course for German credit will be expected to watch the films without subtitles and complete written assignments in German; students taking the course for credit in world literature or rhetoric and film studies will generally watch films with subtitles and write in English. May be elected as World Literature or Rhetoric and Film Studies 3
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4.00 Credits
Emphasizes speaking and writing. Short oral reports, written compositions and review of grammar as necessary. Three periods per week. Prerequisite: German 206. Students who have not taken German at Whitman previously are required to take a departmental placement examination for entrance.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this course, we will analyze discourses of love in the German-language tradition. Moving from the medieval era ( minnesang) through Storm and Stress ( Sturm und Drang), Romanticism, the turn of the century into the postwar and contemporary periods, we will attempt to cover literary, religious, philosophical, scientific, psychoanalytic, and pop culture approaches to the question of love. Luther, Goethe, Hoffmann, Freud, Sacher-Masoch, Schnitzler, and Jelinek are among the authors we will read.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to permit close study of one or more authors, a movement, or a genre in German literature. Conducted in German or English, at the discretion of the instructor. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. The current offerings follow.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Staff Directed reading and preparation of a critical paper or papers on a topic suggested by the student. The project must be approved by the staff. The number of students accepted for the course will depend on the availability of the staff. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Staff In-depth research concluding in the preparation of an undergraduate senior thesis on a specific topic in German literature or German studies. Required of German studies and German literature majors.
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4.00 Credits
Staff Designed to further independent research or project leading to the preparation of an undergraduate thesis or a project report. Required of and limited to senior honors candidates in German. Prerequisite: admission to honors candidacy.
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