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All four foreign language skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) are addressed to help students acquire communicative competence in the German language while being sensitized to the links between language and culture. This course is for students with no prior knowledge of German.
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Students review and continue to develop the basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written language while being sensitized to the links between language and culture. This course covers the same material as 1 in a condensed way and at an accelerated speed. Upon completion of this course, students will qualify for enrollment in 2.
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Elementary German for graduate students preparing for reading examinations.
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In this course, students will continue to develop communicative competence in the German language and expand their sensitivity towards the relationship between language and culture. While all language skills will be addressed, additional emphasis will be on the various styles of written and spoken German.
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Elementary German for graduates preparing for reading examinations.
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While continuing to expand students' communicative competence in German, this content-driven course will provide insights into postwar German history and cultural trends. Primary focus will be on the development of literacy skills (critical reading and writing), vocabulary expansion, and a thorough review of structural concepts. You will be guided towards expressing yourself on more abstract topics, such as language and power in society, multiculturalism, rebellion and protest, and social justice, and towards drawing connections between texts and contexts, using a variety of text genres (journalistic, historical, short story, poetry, drama, advertising, film).
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In this fourth-semester German language course you will work on strengthening your interpretative abilities as well as your written and oral forms of expression. While continuing the development of communicative competence and literacy skills, students will discuss a variety of texts and filsm and try to find innovative ways in which to engage with familiar presuppositions about who we are, about what determines our values and actions, and about the function and power of language.
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This course offers a survey of modern German literary, cultural, and intellectual currents, as well as an introduction to argumentation and analysis. Students will examine numerous issues and questions central to defining the complexity of modern German culture. R5A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5B satisfies the second half.
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This course offers a survey of modern German literary, cultural, and intellectual currents, as well as an introduction to argumentation and analysis. Students will examine numerous issues and questions central to defining the complexity of modern German culture. R5A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5B satisfies the second half.
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This accelerated elementary course is conducted entirely in German. All four foreign language skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) will be addressed to help students acquire a reasonable level of proficiency in the German language while sensitizing them to the links between language and culture. The workshop includes a weekly film and a conversation table. This workshop combines German 1 and 2 for which students may enroll separately.
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Students review and continue to develop the basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written language while being sensitized to the links between language and culture. This course covers the same material as 1 in a condensed way and at an accelerated speed. Upon completion of this course, students will qualify for enrollment in 2.
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While further developing students' foreign language skills and broadening their understanding of the links between language and culture, this accelerated intermediate course is embedded in the context of German post-war cultural history. A weekly German film and the opportunity to participate in a conversation table complement the workshop. This workshop combines German 3 and 4 for which students may enroll separately.
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The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics may vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.
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No knowledge of German required.
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Advanced German conversation course that includes discussions, debates, individual presentations, and one or two in-class movies in German. Most materials will be provided by the instructor but students will also be asked to use their own resources from printed or online media. Regular vocabulary quizzes will be part of the course grade. Taught in German.
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The course is intended to acquaint students with selected works from German cultural history and to familiarize them with various methods of interpretation and analysis. Required of all German majors.
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Focusing on five central themes, this advanced-level language course will help students to improve and expand on spoken and written language functions utilizing a variety of works from different genres in journalism, broadcasting, literature, fine arts, and the cinema. The final goal is to enable students to participate in the academic discourse--written and spoken--at a linguistic and stylistic level appropriate for an advanced student of German in upper division courses.
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Analysis, discussion, adaptation, and public performance of authentic texts from German Kabarett, such as comedic skits, political and social satire, parody, humorous poetry. Text selection will vary each semester.
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This advanced language/culture course focuses on the structure and practices of German business as well as current economic, political, and cultural issues relevant to conducting business in the German-speaking world. German-language news media, video, and Internet resources keep us abreast of contemporary developments in the business scenes of the German-speaking countries and the rest of Europe. Language skills practiced include business writing, presentations, and negotiation.
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The course is designed to help those in the sciences to become acquainted with the linguistic registers and structures that inform German scientific texts. It will also serve as an introduction for the students of German to the world of science, which German-speaking scientists have helped create and expand. We will move through a number of the major specific disciplines, developing the tools for vocabulary acquisition. Each student will be better able to concentrate within their speciality in order to read, write, and speak within that discipline with a high degree of accuracy and clarity.
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