Development of basic language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) with particular emphasis on the active use of present-day German. Cultural exploration of the German-speaking countries.

Continuation of GERM 101. Continues the development of basic language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) with particular emphasis on the active use of present-day German. Further exploration of the German-speaking countries.

In place of GERM 1010 and GERM 1020. Accelerated development of basic language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) with particular emphasis on the active use of present-day German. Cultural exploration of the German-speaking countries.

Freshman Writing Seminar on varying topics. Consult department for details.

Semester Abroad. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

An Introduction to the fundamentals of the German language.

Independent Study in German or German Studies.

Transfer Coursework at the 1000 level. Department approval may be required.

Continues to develop proficiency in the four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) at the intermediate level. Further introduces students to contemporary German culture.

German 204 is the fourth semester of intermediate language study, following 203, and is the first required course for German majors and minors. Advanced practice in all discourse skills. Conducted entirely in German. Class discussion of readings, grammar review, composition, theatrical exercises. Student-driven communicative approach.

Semester Abroad. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Transfer Coursework at the 2000 level. Department approval may be required.

Conducted in German. An introduction to representative works of prose, drama, and poetry of the German-speaking world.

Conducted in German. An introduction to representative works of prose, drama, and poetry of the German-speaking world (follows GERM 3030).

Course combines language acquisition with content-based instruction for varying topics. With respect to language learning, the course aims at reinforcing and expanding students' proficiency primarily in writing.

Conducted in German. Reading of representative works of German prose, drama, and poetry. Designed to introduce the student to fundamentals of literary analysis and to strategies for enhanced reading comprehension.

Conducted in German. Survey of German history from its beginning through the Age of Enlightenment, with emphasis on cultural and social aspects unique to Germany. Significant emphasis on the continued development of linguistic skills.

Conducted in German. Survey of German history from the end of the 18th century to the present including a discussion of institutions and problems of contemporary German life and civilization. Significant emphasis on the continued development of linguistic skills.

This course traces significant events and developments in Germany from its beginning as a nation to its reunification at the end of the Cold War. Through close examination and discussion of selected literary, documentary, and filmic texts.

Proficiency in German required. Course introduces students to both practical and theoretical problems posed by translation in general and by English-German translation in particular. This class will learn by practicing translation and by reading theoretical texts about translation. Texts will include literature, news reports, and film subtitles.

This course examines the Holocaust from various perspectives, disciplines, and media (including history, literature, and film) to investigate the conditions and limitations of representations of the Holocaust.

The emergence of art, music, and philosophy of the German-speaking peoples, primarily as reflected in their national literatures.

The course examines major turning points in German history. How have German writers represented political revolutions and social upheavals from the French Revolution, the weavers' revolt of 1844, to the peaceful revolution of 1989? Conversely, to what extent has literature, especially drama, had an impact on revolutionary events? Authors and theorists considered include such classics as Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner , Marx, Hannah Arendt, Brecht, Müller , and Weiss. Films by Riefenstahl, Fassbinder, and Becker.

Course introduces three philosophical revolutionaries who have exerted enormous influence on literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. With its intellectual-historical approach, the course will examine key terms and analytical models in these thinkers as well as the intersection points among them.

Subject varies and is announced each semester. Typically a study of literary movements, genres, individual authors, or themes, e.g., the treatment of the Faust theme in German literature. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

The Devil's Pact in Literature, Film, Music.

The focus of this course will be the representation of love, death and sexuality in German culture from the Middle Ages to the Thirty Years War. Selected works of literature, music and art will be examined.

This course will examine the Brothers Grimm and the classic fairy tales: their origins, development and later adaptations (and will include tales from other cultures and traditions as well).

This course explores the trajectory of German film from its Expressionist beginnings to the present. How do the narratives presented aid in understanding the specific historical, social, cultural, and political moments in which they were produced?

This course traces the development of the filmic production of Weimar Germany, as well as its influence on classic and contemporary Hollywood film noir. Analyzing significant films from the era, we trace the stylistic, generic, and thematic trends.

Nazi Cinema and Nazis in Cinema: Fascist Imaginary, Imagined Fascists.

Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Special topics course as designed by visiting or permanent German faculty. For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.

Transfer Coursework at the 3000 level. Department approval may be required.

Advanced Composition, Conversation, and Phonetics for advanced German students.

Advanced Undergraduate Seminar on varying topics. For course description, consult department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Study of Novellas by Goethe, Kleist, Arnim, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gotthelf, Droste-Hü lshoff, Keller, Storm, Hauptmann, Hofmannsthal, Zweig, and Th. Mann, illustrating the historical development of the German Novella as a literary form.

A study of the German dramatic tradition through close analysis of representative plays by such writers as Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Kleist, Hebbel, Grillparzer, and Bü chner.

Shorter forms of German prose, including essays and short stories from different time periods

Special Topics in German Literature. Consult course schedule for current topic. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Special Topics in German. For description, consult department.

Topics vary from year to year. Typically an intensive study of an individual writer, a limited genre, a literary movement or a thematic problem. The Experience of War; Germany's Roaring 1920s; German Culture after WW II; Youth and the German Nation; Post-1989 Literary and Visual Culture; Travels to Foreign Lands; Early Modern Maps and Images. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

This course will examine medieval and early modern travel accounts in the German-speaking world from ca. 1200-1800 CE. Using a blend of primary and secondary sources in literature (including journals, theater, poetry) and visual sources (maps, costume books, material objects) we will explore the concepts of “East” and “West” and the development of stereotypes in the representation of foreign peoples and places.

Special Topics in German Literature. Consult course schedule for current topic. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Special Topics in German literature. For description, consult department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

An independent research project in any advanced area of German language, literature or culture. Open to superior students with the approval of the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

An independent research project in any advanced area of German language, literature or culture. Open to superior students with the approval of the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Research and writing in conjunction with Honors Thesis (first semester).

For especially qualified seniors with approval of the faculty director and the Office of Academic Enrichment. Students must have a minimum of a 3.400 overall grade-point average and a 3.500 grade-point average in the major.

Semester Abroad. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Junior Year Abroad. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Junior Year Abroad. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Transfer coursework at the 5000 level. Departmental approval required.

Literary documents from the Middle Ages through the 17th century. Selected readings and study of early literary movements.

Readings and study of literary history from the Enlightenment to the present day.

Topic varies and is announced each semester. Study of a genre, a literary movement, or an author.

The literature of German classicism.

Advanced Undergraduate Seminar on varying topics. For course description, consult department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

See GERM 4800 for description. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Open to superior students with the approval of the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Transfer coursework at the 6000 level. Departmental approval required.

Limited to graduate level students in the School of Liberal Arts. The course is designed for graduate students who want to learn how to read German at an advanced level. The course will train students in a set of tools that allow them to read German journalistic and academic prose. No prior knowledge of German is required. The only prerequisite is complete competence in English grammar and syntax.

Graduate seminar on varying topics. For course description, consult department.

Graduate course on Old High German, with emphasis on the history of the German language.

Graduate seminar on the Reformation and on German Renaissance Literature.

Graduate-level research in German. For description, consult department.

Graduate-level research in German. For description, consult department.

Masters Research for M.A. candidates. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Dissertation Research for Ph.D. candidates. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.