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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Review of current debates and historical perspectives in the German cultural field, structured through contributing disciplines: social and economic history, political theory and history, literature, fine arts, music, philosophy, and religion. Team-taught, involving a wide range of faculty in the German Studies Program. Taught in English. Instructor: Donahue, Rolleston, and staff
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3.00 Credits
A study of trends in scholarly criticism within the context of German culture and politics beginning in the 1810s with the origins of Germanistik as a university discipline. Topics may include: the invention of philology and the romantic enterprise; positivism and Geistesgeschichte; the politics of Germanistik, 1933-45; Germanistik in Europe and the United States after 1945. Instructor: Borchardt or Rasmussen
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3.00 Credits
German studies at the intersection of various discourses (such as feminism, psychoanalysis, new historicism), questioning traditional concepts such as national identity, history, and language. Interdisciplinary issues may include: the relationship of literature, the unconscious and technology; the cinematic representation of Nazi history; architecture, monuments, and ''German'' space. Texts might include works by Kafka, Freud, Marx, Spengler, and Schinkel as well as texts by individuals whose work has been excluded from more traditional ''Germanistik'' courses. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Relations between an established German literature and its competing cultural centers; classical and popular cultures, literary conventions, and nonliterary discourses (religious, national, scientific), the construction of Austrian and Swiss traditions. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
The construction of German literature through generic frameworks: Minnesang, epic, baroque lyric and drama, classical ballad, folksong, Bildungsroman, expressionist film, others. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Overview of current research in the fields of second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, and its implications for the teaching of the German language, literature, and culture at all levels. Readings and discussions on competing theories of language acquisition and learning, issues of cultural identity and difference, learner styles, and the teaching of language as culture; training in contemporary teaching techniques and approaches. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
The course will probe the complexities of advanced research from several perspectives: the opening up or extension of a specific scholarly field; the articulation of results in a broad professional context, including publication; the translation of personal explorations into pedagogical assets. GS students will present dissertation chapters; GS faculty will give guest talks surveying their own work, its interdisciplinary implications & the goal of synthesizing research & teaching. Instructor: Rolleston
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3.00 Credits
Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Topics may vary each semester offered and are described in the First-Year Seminars booklet. Instructor: Staff
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0.50 Credits
Develop speaking skills for everyday language interactions, including expressing opinions and formulating arguments. Grade based on participation, vocabulary quizzes, role plays. Prerequisite: German 1 and 2 (or equivalent). Enrollment in German 65 or 66 encouraged but not necessary. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement, or requirements for German major/minor. Instructor: Staff
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