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Through composition and conversation workshops, the course advances the reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills of students. Readings and screenings include works by Rainald Goetz, Christian Kracht, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoglu, Rene Pollesch, Thomas Meinecke, Christoph Schlingensief, and Sibylle Berg. This course explores the potential of "pop" to move beyond apolitical consumerism and to engage critically with issues such as intercultural and gender relations, cyber-reality, globalism,terrorism, xenophobia, and, last not least, the apocalypse.
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Advanced instruction in German through systematic study of the rules of grammar, their nuances, and their exceptions. Application of this knowledge through grammatical analyses and readings of short selections from sophisticated texts (e.g., Goethe, Kant, Kleist, Heine, Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka, Mann) prepares students for courses and academic work requiring advanced German reading comprehension. Further application through writing exercises.
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Major movements in German literature and thought from the mid-18th to early 19th century: Enlightenment, Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Romanticism. Readings include Mendelssohn, Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller, Holderlin, Kleist, Schlegel, Novalis.
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This course will study how literary and theoretical texts reflect upon the period around 1900. What is modern? How is modernity defined, constructed and invented in writings by Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sigmund Freud, Theodor W. Adorno, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Giorgio Agamben?
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Examines the literature of the German Baroque and the art of the European Baroque. Focuses on questions of systems, identity, and excess in poetry, drama, narrative, architecture, painting, and sculpture.
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While both Georg Buchner and Adalbert Stifter have been acknowledged as modernists avant la lettre, their work could hardly be more different. Through a comparison of Buchner's and Stifter's treatment of themes such as history, nature, violence, and the body as well as a comparison of their stylistic peculiarities (i.e., caesuras and repetition), this course examines two seemingly irreconcilable traditions in the formulation of modernity.
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An introduction to German language and culture designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Encompasses all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Class sessions emphasize the development of oral proficiency. Instruction is supplemented by literary and non-literary texts, videos, and Internet activities.
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A complete first-year course in one term for students with no knowledge of German. Provides an introduction to German language and culture encompassing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Class sessions emphasize the development of oral proficiency. Instruction is supplemented by literary and non-literary texts, videos, and Internet activities.
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A complete first-year course in one term for students with no knowledge of German. Provides an introduction to German language and culture encompassing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Class sessions emphasize the development of oral proficiency. Instruction is supplemented by literary and non-literary texts, videos, and Internet activities.
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An advanced language course focusing on current events in Germany and the European Union. Readings, discussions, and projects based on a variety of contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural topics. Materials from various sources, including the German-language press, the Internet, videos, and television news.
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Close study of Sebald's narrative and poetic works, as well as a selection of his scholarly essays, against the backdrop of recent literary theory.
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Tragedies aim to stimulate the spectator's passion and sympathy. How precisely do they achieve that goal? Through close readings, the course contextualizes the tragedies of such authors as Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, Buchner, Hebbel, Wedekind, and Hofmannsthal within major literary movements and the theoretical reflections of Nietzsche and Benjamin.
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An introduction to the teaching of German. Examines the history of German pedagogy, current methodological trends, research, textbooks, and technology. Emphasis on the practical aspects of teaching German from beginning to advanced levels.
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Close readings of Kafka's novels and stories. Kafka's development of his characteristic narrative modes, the relation of his works to the cultural context in which they originated, the function of humor and parody in his works, and the challenges his texts pose for readers.
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Focusing on such topics as the representation of femininity, the (im)possibility of feminine writing, and literature and the body, the course examines the gender theories of Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva, Butler, Felman, and others and applies them to 18th- and 19th-century German writers, including Fontane, Musil, Bachmann, and Jelinek.
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Through close readings of central texts from the Age of Goethe to the late 19th century, this course introduces students to key concepts of literary analysis. Readings include Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hoffmann, Buchner, Heine, Droste-Hulshoff, Keller, Fontane, Hauptmann, and Nietzsche.
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The course focuses on central texts in 20th-century German literature. Key authors are read in pairs: for example, Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Alfred Doblin and Franz Kafka, Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. The course provides an historical overview, sharpens German reading skills, and introduces basic concepts in literary analysis.
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Introduction to the relationship between `German' music, history, society and politics from 1800 to present. By analyzing texted (vocal) music, this course revisits important and often controversial moments in German musical history, and traces the lives and afterlives of composers' works in political and cultural history. Linguistic and musical analysis of various genres, including the Lied, folk song, the choral symphony, opera, cabaret, and modern popular music.
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A study of German novels since 1990, viewed within their social and cultural context and against the backdrop of contemporary literary theory. Authors include Beyer, Brussig, Drawert, Hein, Hilbig, Maron, Timm, and Wolf.
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Explores the interplay between innovation and tradition in German poetry from 1770 to the present. Topics treated include originality and authenticity, difficulty and hermeticism, and poetic responses to crisis. Authors include Goethe, Holderlin, Heine, Morike, Rilke, Trakl, Benn, Bobrowski, and Celan.
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Development of reading proficiency for students with little or no knowledge of German. Emphasizes translation of academic German prose into English.
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Development of reading proficiency for students with little or no knowledge of German. Emphasizes translation of academic German prose into English.
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Heinrich von Kleist, one of the most prominent authors around 1800, was a critical reader of his own time; his work marked a turning point in literary history. Through close readings we will analyze the innovative and unique poetic forms of his major works with regard to literary movements of his time, in particular Weimar Classicism and Romanticism.
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A complete second-year course in one term for students with a basic knowledge of German. Focuses on enhancing students' proficiency in all four skill areas with special emphasis on speaking/discussion. Extensive vocabulary-building exercises, a thorough grammar review, and an introduction to various cultural topics of the German-speaking countries through the use of literary and non-literary texts, Internet, multimedia resources, and film.
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Aims at enhancing students' proficiency in all four skills, with special emphasis on speaking/discussion. The course also offers a thorough grammar review. Course materials consist of literary and non-literary texts and films that address a broad range of cultural topics.
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