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3.00 Credits
Continuation of German 100. Designed to develop novice-mid to novice-high profi ciency in reading, writing, listening, speaking. Prerequisite: Passing grade in German 100 or placement by the Foreign Language Department. (F3) Staff
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of German 105. Designed to develop intermediate-low profi ciency in reading, writing, listening, speaking. Prerequisite: Passing grade in German 105 or placement by the Foreign Language Department. (F3) Staff
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3.00 Credits
Designed to develop oral profi ciency at the intermediate level. Practice through discussion of contemporary issues in video and CD-ROM programs, Internet resources, texts, and newspapers. Grammar review as necessary. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Reading and response writing designed to develop profi ciency at the intermediate level. Aspects of culture, including history, the arts, and literature. Materials may include video and CD-ROM programs, Internet resources. Grammar review as necessary. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Special Topics
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3.00 Credits
Examines a wide variety of texts and other media to explore the idea and representation of the strange and "deviant" in German literature and culture fromearly modern Europe to the present. Focus on the concept of the witch, witch-hunts, the Faust legend, and gender issues. Supplemented by audio-visual materials from art history, fi lm, and popular culture. Taught in English. (M2) Staff
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3.00 Credits
Major trends in culture, economics, and politics from the end of World War II to the present. Topics include the Cold War, the German economic miracle, the '60s, the rise of the environmental movement, and the role of post-reunifi cation Germany in Europe. Prerequisite: German 155 or equivalent. Hildebrandt
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3.00 Credits
Grammar and style with attention to accurate and idiomatic expression in written German. Analysis of contemporary prose and style. Grammatical exercises and compositions. Practice in writing and rewriting. Prerequisite: German 155 or equivalent. Hildebrandt
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3.00 Credits
Analysis and discussion of selected texts from the past two centuries, designed to introduce students to representative authors, works, and genres, and to develop critical reading and writing skills. Readings of poetry, fairy tales, and works by authors such as Goethe, Tieck, Büchner, Droste-Hülshoff,Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Brecht, and Dürrenmatt. Prerequisites: German 155 or equivalent. Hildebrandt 341. Women in German Literature and Culture. ( Also Women's Studies 341) Study of texts by female authors from the 12th century onward, including Hildegard von Bingen, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Sophie La Roche, Louise Karsch, Bettina von Arnim, Rahel Varnhagen, Ebner-Eschenbach, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Anna Seghers, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Doris Dorrie, Erica Fischer, and Caroline Link. Film and Internet resources complement the readings. Prerequisites: German 230 and 241. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Examines works by Novalis, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Brentano, Chamisso, Kafka, Hesse, Schnitzler, and others, with attention to their relevance to our worldview today. Theoretical essays will complement discussions, focusing on the function of fantasy in fi ction and the meaning of terms such as the marvelous and the uncanny. Selected German fi lms relevant to the central theme will be shown and discussed. Prerequisites: German 230 and 241. Hildebrandt 350. 20th-Century German Theater. Trends in German theater from expressionism to the present, through the plays of Toller, Horvath, Brecht, Fleisser, Lasker-Schüler, Borchert, Handke, Fassbinder, Kroetz, Bernhard, Jelinek. Prerequisites: German 230 and 241. Two 70-minute periods. Hildebrandt
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