|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Staff Independent studies courses are designed to fulfill individual needs in language and literature not otherwise provided in this department. They are offered upon demand and require approval of the department.
-
3.00 Credits
A. Swensen Students screen a selection of representative German films and analyze them with an eye to the social and historical context in which they were made and to their innovation and influence in the development of cinema art and film language. The films are also discussed in terms of larger theoretical and methodological issues (film and literature, realism, representations of class or gender stereotypes, film and political propaganda, etc.). Prerequisite: an introductory course in either literature or fine arts. Taught in English. German major credit is given for participation in the FLAC component (see "Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum" in Chapter VI).
-
3.00 Credits
Staff Language is more than morphology and syntax; it is a living entity. This course is designed to connect language learning with real-life situations in which German is used - the next best thing to total immersion. It is a course for the German literature major as well as anyone who wants to brush up on German for private or business use. Today, Colgate is in touch with the rest of the world through the "Infobahn." Teleconferences with students, journalists, and artists abroad, collaborative web projects with German students, interviews with Germans in the United States and in Germany, critique of German television programs, discussion of German news as presented in German news broadcasts and newspapers are central to the course. The selection of teaching material is geared to the interests of the participants and therefore varies from semester to semester. Prerequisit e: GERM 2 02 or equivalent
-
3.00 Credits
Staff This course is especially geared to the needs of American students studying and living in a German environment. It addresses methods for coping in everyday situations as well as in the special setting of a German university. The first part is taught by the director while traveling; the second part is taught by the director or tutors in accordance with the very specific needs of each individual student.
-
3.00 Credits
Staff This course develops critical and analytical skills through a program of selected readings in German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries in their cultural and historical contexts. Prerequisite: GERM 202 or equivalent.
-
3.00 Credits
Courses of the study group participant's choice. They may be in any field. Restrictions depend only on the prerequisites of the specific courses.
-
3.00 Credits
Staff This course is designed to create a frame of reference for students by presenting them with a survey of German history and culture and connecting it to the present experience abroad. In addition to study trips in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the course incorporates current theater performances, concerts, and visits to museums and art galleries. As with GERM 341, the course has two components: the pre-term weeks (February and March) devoted to travel, and the term at Freiburg during which regular class sessions are scheduled.
-
3.00 Credits
C. Baldwin This seminar introduces Goethe's writing and thought through selected plays, narrative fiction, critical writings, and poems. Topics include Goethe's interest and influence in various cultural spheres, such as the visual arts, the scientific fields of his time, and politics in the age of revolutions. Students explore his comparative approach to world languages and literatures, his changing aesthetic positions during his lifetime, and his literary explorations of gender and love. The seminar interprets Goethe in the context of his time and also examines his dominant and debated position in the German cultural tradition. Prerequisite: two GERM 300-level courses or permission of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
C. Baldwin Theater was the object and source of conflicting passions in the 18th century. This course examines German drama and its innovations during this time. Topics include the efforts to establish a new national literary theater in Germany against popular improvisational traditions, the development of the bourgeois drama as an expression of Enlightenment political and social critiques, the German "discovery" of Shakespeare, and the emotional theater of the storm and stress and its revolutionary sentiment. Within these political and cultural contexts, students study central dramatic works and other materials such as theater reviews, portraits of actors, manifestos, letters, and visual representations of theater. Issues explored include the debates on the allures and supposed moral dangers of the theater and its potential positive or negative social effects, the body as expressive medium, theories on the tasks and talents of actors, the gender politics of theater, and the reception and production of 18th-century drama on the contemporary German stage. Prerequisite : GERM 351, 35 2 or permission of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
C. Baldwin This course offers an interdisciplinary look at neoclassicism and its cultural meanings in Germany. Drawing on literary, visual, and theoretical works (by Goethe, Schiller, Winckelmann, Mengs, Kauffmann, and others), the seminar investigates such topics as the aesthetic and political ideals of classicism, interpretations of gender, notions of aesthetic education, and responses to Greek antiquity. Other topics include the ways important cultural institutions - universities, schools, museums - influenced and were shaped by neoclassicism, the uses of neoclassicism in the construction of German national identity, and contemporary responses to neoclassicism's normative claims. Prerequisite: two GERM 300-level courses or permission of instructor
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|