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Part I of Level I. The two-course sequence of Level I introduces students to various aspects of the German-speaking world as a way of enabling them to begin building communicative abilities in German in all four language modalities: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Instruction proceeds from guided to more creative and independent work. The courses incorporate a variety of activities that are based on a range of topics, text types, and different socio-cultural situations. Through diverse collaborative and individual tasks, students begin to find personal forms of expression that are based on these materials. Students learn basic strategies for reading, listening, and writing, and for participating in every-day conversations. In the process they become familiar with and learn to use with some confidence the major sentence patterns and grammatical features of German as well as high-frequency vocabulary of everyday life. Integration of current technology (e.g., the Internet, e-mail, video) familiarizes students with the German-speaking world while at the same time enhancing language learning.
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Credits: 3
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In the intensive track, the two-course sequence of Level I is taught in one semester. The course introduces students to various aspects of the German-speaking world as a way of enabling them to begin building communicative abilities in German in all four language modalities: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Instruction proceeds from guided to more creative and independent work. The course incorporate a variety of activities that are based on a range of topics, text types, and different socio-cultural situations. Through diverse collaborative and individual tasks, students begin to find personal forms of expression that are based on these materials. Students learn basic strategies for reading, listening, and writing, and for participating in every-day conversations. In the process they become familiar with and learn to use with some confidence the major sentence patterns and grammatical features of German as well as high-frequency vocabulary of everyday life. Integration of current technology (e.g., the Internet, e-mail, video) familiarizes students with the German-speaking world while at the same time enhancing language learning.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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This course is aimed at the cultural transformation of the hero/protagonist over the course of time. The interactions and poetic syntheses of the Germanic and the Christian imagination of the human person will be examined from their origins to the nineteenth century in reading the following works: the Heliand, (the Dark Ages); Parzival (the time of the Crusades); In Praise of Folly (the Humanist Renaissance); Faust I (the Classical Period); and Mother Courage (the Twentieth Century). This course does not count toward the major, but it does satisfy the humanities requirement.
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This course will examine Old English, Old High German, and Middle High German representative poetic texts such as Beowulf, the Hildebrandslied, and the Nibelungenlied (in translation) featuring the performance of heroic deeds and the development of individual virtues within a framework of values which the Germanic warrior strives to achieve on his way to becoming a true Christian knight. The interpretation of texts in a seminar-style classroom setting will familiarize students with numerous aspects of a bygone world which holds an abundance of features still relevant, interesting and even fascinating for modern man. This course satisfies the literature and writing requirement. Does not count toward the major.
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Credits: 6
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The course investigates what is clearly one of the most disturbing and inexplicable occurrences in human history. Unlike the Holocaust, to which the witch hunts are frequently compared, the persecution of witches cannot be viewed as a relatively brief and unusually violent historical anomaly, since it continued over several hundred years; they cannot be explained in the context of national specificity since they spanned almost the entire European continent and migrated to early America; nor can these events be blamed on any single "madman" (Hitler). As a historical phenomenon, the witch persecution defies simplistic explanations and thus lends itself particularly well to the kinds of investigation this course intends.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 6
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Credits: 4
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Credits: 3
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Level IV course. This course tells the many âfacesâ of Berlin in the modern era. Covering six thematic units ( Berlin 1918, Stadt der Konflikte; Goldene 20er Jahre - Stadt der Künstler; âReichshauptstadtâ; Wiederaufbau der Stadt; Geteilte Stadt 1961-1989; Neue Hauptstadt - europäische Metropole) the course utilizes literary, journalistic, audio and visual texts to highlight the political, social and cultural changes in this city from 1918 to the New Millennium. (More detailed information can be found in the course syllabus, Spring 2005)
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This course examines stories of crime, murder, and madness in 20th-century German literature, drama, and film as expressions of the search for historical truth and social justice, but also of political renewal. Most of the texts we will discuss are connected by the theme of a quest for historical truth. Many of them will take us right to the ugliest mysteries of the German past, and raise the problem of vengeance and redress. While many German artists have used the medium of crime fiction/drama/film to assert shared moral values by showing that which is evil, mad, or criminal, some reject the idea of a moral consensus. We will discuss how, when, and why various authors depict the quest for truth and justice. The reading material includes texts from various genres (novels, plays, film/tv, essays) and literary styles (expressionism, existentialism, realism, postmodernism). In sum, we will get to know some terrifically suspenseful, eerie, and unusual texts by some of Germanyâs best-known authors of the 20th century, acquaint ourselves with some of the centuryâs persistent philosophical questions, and learn about its most important literary periods and styles.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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This course is divided into three units in order to explore the construction and representation of the witch in the context of the historical and social realities of the women (and men) labeled as witches: The first unit examines historical and trial records with a particular focus on the "Burning Times" in early modern Europe and 17th-century New England and the Salem witch trials. The second unit analyzes the representation of witches in literature and film with a particular focus on the depiction of the witch in fairy tales from the Grimms to Disney and in "serious" literature, particularly literature that purports to rely on historical sources. The third unit offers a critique of existing scholarship on witches and the witch hunts. No prerequisites, does not count toward the major. Fulfills the literature and writing requirement.
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Level V course. The course will examine the interactions between Germany and Europe in the twentieth century, recognizing the fact that current issues are deeply rooted in historical and cultural traditions. Broadly speaking, we will focus on the disintegration of the "old" Europe in the first part of the century and the move towards integration, especially after the end of the Cold War. Combines literature, film, and non-fiction to approach topics such as political integration, historical narrative, issues of migration etc.
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This Level V course explores how images of the United States in Germany have changed and developed over the past 150 years with particular attention directed at contemporary viewpoints of the U.S. To provide a framework for exploring these images and viewpoints, the course will examine how they have been realized in different genres at different points in Germany history. Specifically, the course will focus on the following genres and their evolving instantiations over time: the poem, travelogue, polemical speech, and fictional narrative. An instructional unit will be devoted to each genre and, following an extensive examination of several examples of each genre from different time periods, students will draw on those textual models to produce their own version of the genre for the purposes of exploring their own experiences with other cultures and belief systems. In addition to becoming familiar with the textual properties of each genre and how they function to realize a certain portrayal of the United States, significant time will be spent on investigating what each portrayal reveals about the social, cultural, political, and economic conditions in Germany at that time of the textâs publication.
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Within the context of current developments in Europe, this course will focus on historical, multi-cultural/literary, economic, and sociopolitical aspects of Switzerland. Students will select an individual research project based on extensive readings, lectures, class discussions, and films.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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