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GER 1001 - Beginning German

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 1001/Ger 4001
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Emphasis on working toward novice-intermediate low proficiency in all four language modalities (listening, reading, speaking, writing). Topics include everyday subjects (shopping, directions, family, food, housing, etc.).

GER 1002 - Beginning German

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 1002/Ger 4002
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Listening, reading, speaking, writing. Emphasizes proficiency. Topics include free-time activities, careers, and culture of German-speaking areas. prereq: 1001

GER 1022 - Beginning German Review

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Intended for students with previous experience in German, primarily those who have studied German in high school or at community colleges, or who are transfer students. Intensive review of all four language modalities (listening, reading, speaking, writing), with a proficiency emphasis to prepare for German 1003. prereq: Placement above 1001

GER 1003 - Intermediate German

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 1003/Ger 4003
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Listening, reading, speaking, writing. Contextualized grammar/vocabulary. Authentic readings. Essay assignments. prereq: 1002 or Entrance Proficiency Test

GER 1004 - Intermediate German

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Listening, reading, speaking, writing. Contextualized grammar/vocabulary. Authentic readings. Essay assignments. prereq: 1003 or completion of Entrance Proficiency Test at 1004 level

GER 3011W - Conversation and Composition (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Achieving proficiency in professional or academic German. Refinement of oral/written expression. Review of important communicative modes of language. Wide range of topics to develop advanced level of proficiency. prereq: 1004

GER 3104W - Reading and Analysis of German Literature (LITR, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to literary analysis. Readings from drama, prose, and lyric poetry, from 18th century to present. prereq: 3011

GER 3012W - Conversation and Composition (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Prepares students for upper-level language and content courses in German. Continues the same focus and approach as 3011 with the addition of a larger reading component. prereq: 3011W

GER 3014 - German Media

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to German language media. German language newspaper/magazine articles. The Internet. Radio/TV broadcasts. Structure/style of journalistic prose. prereq: 3011

GER 3021 - Business German

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

German economy, business culture. Practice of language used in business. Reading/discussion of German business documents. Preparation of formal letters and reports. prereq: 3011 or equiv

GER 3421 - 18th-Century German Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

German literature, 1720-1810, Enlightenment/Weimar classicism in historical/cultural context. Reading/discussion of literary/philosophical works, aesthetic criticism. prereq: 3011

GER 3441 - 20th-/21st-Century Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

German literature, from 1890 to present, in historical, political, social, and cultural context. prereq: 3011

GER 3501 - Contemporary Germany

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Social, political, and cultural developments in Germany, from 1945 to present.

GER 3510 - Topics in German Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

One topic in depth dealing with culture or civilization of German-speaking countries. prereq: 3011

GER 3520 - Topics in Austrian and Central European Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Culture, politics, and economy in Austria and Central Europe. Comparative analysis of cultural/political developments. Topics vary. prereq: 3011

GER 3601 - German Medieval Literature (LITR, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Literary investigation of the greatest works of medieval German poetry. Readings in English. Majors will be required to write a paper with use of secondary sources in English and German. prereq: No knowledge of German required

GER 3604W - Introduction to German Cinema (AH, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even, Spring Odd Year

An introduction to the study of German cinema, with a focus on the relation between German film and German history, literature, culture, and politics.

GER 3641 - German Folklore (LITR, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even, Spring Odd Year

Literary and cultural investigation of the main folklore genres: charms, legends, folktales, and ballads; their composition, origin, and role in society with a strong emphasis on their international character. Readings in English. Majors required to write a paper with use of secondary sources in English and German. prereq: No knowledge of German required; cr for major or minor by arrangement with instructor

GER 3655 - Cultures of Control and Surveillance in Germany and the US (HIS, CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Discourses and practices of social control and surveillance in comparative/historical perspective. Explores the central conceptual condition for modern ethics: the relationship between individual and society. Paintings, manuals, scholarly and philosophical essays, and literary texts including writings by Franz Kafka.

GER 3701 - History of the German Language

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Change in grammar and lexicon, 750 A.D. to present. prereq: 1004

GER 3702 - Beginning Middle High German

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Middle High German grammar. Selected literary texts. prereq: 1004

GER 3993 - Directed Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

GER 5011 - Advanced Conversation and Composition

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Achieving high proficiency in writing/speaking professional/academic German. prereq: 3012, [grad student or adv undergrad]

GER 5410 - Topics in German Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 3490/Ger 5410
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topic may focus on a specific author, group of authors, genre, period, or subject matter. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GER 5610 - German Literature in Translation

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study in depth of authors or topics from various periods in German literature. Requires no knowledge of German. prereq: No knowledge of German required; cr toward major or minor requires reading in German

GER 5711 - History of the German Language I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical development of German, from beginnings to 1450. prereq: 3011

GER 5721 - Introduction to Middle High German

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Introduction to Middle High German language and literature. Study of grammar through formal description of Middle High German phonology, morphology, and syntax. Normalized MHG texts read.

GER 5734 - Old Saxon

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Study of the poetry of Old Saxon. Detailed investigation of Old Saxon in comparison with the other Old Germanic languages.

GER 5993 - Directed Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

GER 3631 - Jewish and German Writing at the Margins: Multilingualism, Race, Memory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3123/Ger 3631/JwSt 3631
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

How are minority stories, novels, and poems constructed at the margins of a majority culture?s language? This course addresses this question by exploring the complexity of Jewish culture in modernity, with a focus on 20th and 21st century German and American literature. We will first tackle the open-ended and endlessly productive question of what is meant by Jewish culture. What is a Jewish writer and is there such a thing as Jewish writing? What makes a text "Jewish"? How do Jewish authors challenge the assumptions of majority culture in their work? What role do multilingualism and translation play in the formation of Jewish cultures at the margins? We will trace the lines of affinity between the U.S. and Europe to explore the entangled histories of Germans and Jews, and between German Jews and Turkish Germans, as we look at works that challenge and expand the definition of Jewishness in the 20th century. Additional topics to be considered include how the legacies of American slavery and European colonialism shape our understandings of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, and whether Jewish writing should be understood under the rubric of "whiteness." Moving beyond the approach to German Jewish literary studies anchored in Weimar Germany, we will explore the circulation of Jewish memory between Europe and the U.S. in the aftermath of the Holocaust. We will read works by, among others, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Gershon Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Benjamin Stein, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Honigmann, H�l�ne Cixous, Raymond Federman, W.G. Sebald, Allen Ginsberg, Adeena Karasick, Alfred Kazin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Avram Sutzkever, Zafer ?enocak. prereq: No knowledge of German required; some work in German must be done in order to count this course toward a German minor or a German, Scandinavian, Dutch major.

CSCL 3123 - Jewish and German Writing at the Margins: Multilingualism, Race, Memory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3123/Ger 3631/JwSt 3631
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

How are minority stories, novels, and poems constructed at the margins of a majority culture's language? This course addresses this question by exploring the complexity of Jewish culture in modernity, with a focus on 20th and 21st century German and American literature. We will first tackle the open-ended and endlessly productive question of what is meant by Jewish culture. What is a Jewish writer and is there such a thing as Jewish writing? What makes a text ? How do Jewish authors challenge the assumptions of majority culture in their work? What role do multilingualism and translation play in the formation of Jewish cultures at the margins? We will trace the lines of affinity between the U.S. and Europe to explore the entangled histories of Germans and Jews, and between German Jews and Turkish Germans, as we look at works that challenge and expand the definition of Jewishness in the 20th century. Additional topics to be considered include how the legacies of American slavery and European colonialism shape our understandings of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, and whether Jewish writing should be understood under the rubric of whiteness? Moving beyond the approach to German Jewish literary studies anchored in Weimar Germany, we will explore the circulation of Jewish memory between Europe and the U.S. in the aftermath of the Holocaust. We will read works by, among others, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Gershon Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Benjamin Stein, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Honigmann, H�l�ne Cixous, Raymond Federman, W.G. Sebald, Allen Ginsberg, Adeena Karasick, Alfred Kazin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Avram Sutzkever, Zafer Senocak. prereq: No knowledge of German required; some work in German must be done in order to count this course toward a German minor or a German, Scandinavian, Dutch major.

JWST 3631 - Jewish and German Writing at the Margins: Multilingualism, Race, Memory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3123/Ger 3631/JwSt 3631
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

How are minority stories, novels, and poems constructed at the margins of a majority culture's language? This course addresses this question by exploring the complexity of Jewish culture in modernity, with a focus on 20th and 21st century German and American literature. We will first tackle the open-ended and endlessly productive question of what is meant by Jewish culture. What is a Jewish writer and is there such a thing as Jewish writing? What makes a text "Jewish"? How do Jewish authors challenge the assumptions of majority culture in their work? What role do multilingualism and translation play in the formation of Jewish cultures at the margins? We will trace the lines of affinity between the U.S. and Europe to explore the entangled histories of Germans and Jews, and between German Jews and Turkish Germans, as we look at works that challenge and expand the definition of Jewishness in the 20th century. Additional topics to be considered include how the legacies of American slavery and European colonialism shape our understandings of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, and whether Jewish writing should be understood under the rubric of "whiteness." Moving beyond the approach to German Jewish literary studies anchored in Weimar Germany, we will explore the circulation of Jewish memory between Europe and the U.S. in the aftermath of the Holocaust. We will read works by, among others, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Gershon Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Benjamin Stein, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Honigmann, H�l�ne Cixous, Raymond Federman, W.G. Sebald, Allen Ginsberg, Adeena Karasick, Alfred Kazin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Avram Sutzkever, Zafer Senocak. prereq: No knowledge of German required; some work in German must be done in order to count this course toward a German minor or a German, Scandinavian, Dutch major.

GER 3633 - The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 3633/JwSt 3633
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust.�We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation.�Additional�topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd�and 3rd�generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. No knowledge of German required.

JWST 3633 - The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 3633/JwSt 3633
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. No knowledge of German required.

GER 3651 - Thinking Environment: Green Culture, German Literature and Global Debates (LITR, ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 3651/Ger 5651
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

How environmental thinking became social-political force through German literature/culture, with comparisons to global or U.S. developments. Authors include Goethe, Christa Wolf, Enzensberger.

GER 5651 - Thinking Environment: Green Culture, German Literature and Global Debates (LITR, ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 3651/Ger 5651
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

How environmental thinking became social-political force through German literature/culture, with comparisons to global or U.S. developments. Authors include Goethe, Christa Wolf, Enzensberger.

GER 3993 - Directed Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

GER 5993 - Directed Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

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