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MWF 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Students learn the skills with which to read German-language texts of any difficulty with some fluency. Study of syntax and grammar; practice in close reading and translation of fiction and expository prose in the humanities and sciences.
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M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L1 Meets during reading period A beginning course in spoken and written German that combines oral practice and cultural awareness with a solid foundation in grammar and vocabulary. Listening comprehension through online audio exercises and in-class video clips. Topics include family and school life, German-speaking countries, short literary readings by Hesse, Goethe, and Wondratschek, popular music, and the feature film
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M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L1 Meets during reading period A beginning course in spoken and written German that combines oral practice and cultural awareness with a solid foundation in grammar and vocabulary. Listening comprehension through online audio exercises and in-class video clips. Topics include family and school life, German-speaking countries, short literary readings by Hesse, Goethe, and Wondratschek, popular music, and the feature film
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M-F 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L1 Meets during reading period A beginning course in spoken and written German that combines oral practice and cultural awareness with a solid foundation in grammar and vocabulary. Listening comprehension through online audio exercises and in-class video clips. Topics include family and school life, German-speaking countries, short literary readings by Hesse, Goethe, and Wondratschek, popular music, and the feature film
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M-F 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L1 Meets during reading period A beginning course in spoken and written German that combines oral practice and cultural awareness with a solid foundation in grammar and vocabulary. Listening comprehension through online audio exercises and in-class video clips. Topics include family and school life, German-speaking countries, short literary readings by Hesse, Goethe, and Wondratschek, popular music, and the feature film
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M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L2 Meets during reading period Continuation of GMAN 110a or b. Topics include German history, the environment, multicultural Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, popular music, a soap opera, and the feature film
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M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills L1, L2 Meets during reading period Intensive training in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehending the language. Focus on the mastery of formal grammar.
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M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L3 Meets during reading period Builds on and expands knowledge acquired in GMAN 120a or b. A content-based class that helps students improve their oral and written linguistic skills and their cultural awareness through texts and audiovisual materials relating to German literature, culture, history, and politics. Topics include German universities, Berlin or Frankfurt, Germany before and after the Berlin Wall, and interpersonal relationships. Course materials include online listening comprehension exercises, poems and short stories by Kafka, Brecht, Kästner, Schneider, and Kaschnitz, popular and classical music, and feature films. Tutors are available for extra help or for advanced practice.
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M-F 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L3 Meets during reading period Builds on and expands knowledge acquired in GMAN 120a or b. A content-based class that helps students improve their oral and written linguistic skills and their cultural awareness through texts and audiovisual materials relating to German literature, culture, history, and politics. Topics include German universities, Berlin or Frankfurt, Germany before and after the Berlin Wall, and interpersonal relationships. Course materials include online listening comprehension exercises, poems and short stories by Kafka, Brecht, Kästner, Schneider, and Kaschnitz, popular and classical music, and feature films. Tutors are available for extra help or for advanced practice.
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M-F 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L3 Meets during reading period Builds on and expands knowledge acquired in GMAN 120a or b. A content-based class that helps students improve their oral and written linguistic skills and their cultural awareness through texts and audiovisual materials relating to German literature, culture, history, and politics. Topics include German universities, Berlin or Frankfurt, Germany before and after the Berlin Wall, and interpersonal relationships. Course materials include online listening comprehension exercises, poems and short stories by Kafka, Brecht, Kästner, Schneider, and Kaschnitz, popular and classical music, and feature films. Tutors are available for extra help or for advanced practice.
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M-F 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L4 Meets during reading period Continuation of GMAN 130a or b. Topics include multicultural Germany, globalization, pacifism, and music and politics. Readings include fiction and nonfiction texts by Celan, Kaminer, and Einstein and a full-length novel. Tutors are available for extra help or for advanced practice.
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MWF 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L5 An advanced language course intended to improve students? proficiency in aural and reading comprehension, as well as in speaking and writing. Discussion of literary texts by major German authors. Emphasis on vocabulary expansion with specialized grammatical review and a focus on stylistic development in students? writing.
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MWF 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L5 An advanced language course intended to improve students? proficiency in aural and reading comprehension, as well as in speaking and writing. Discussion of literary texts by major German authors. Emphasis on vocabulary expansion with specialized grammatical review and a focus on stylistic development in students? writing.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills L5 Analysis and discussion of news stories and articles from online German periodicals. Composition and revision of essays on current events of interest to students, with a focus on improving both style and grammar.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills L5 Permission of instructor required Study of key authors and works of the German narrative tradition, with a focus on the development of advanced reading comprehension, writing, and speaking skills. Readings from short stories, novellas, and at least one novel. Writings by exemplary storytellers of the German tradition, such as Goethe, Kleist, Hebel, Hoffmann, Stifter, Keller, Kafka, Mann, Musil, Bachmann, and Bernhard. Group B courses are open to students who have successfully completed GMAN 150a or b or the equivalent. Conducted in German with readings in German, unless otherwise indicated.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation The relationship between art and subjectivity in German literary texts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readings from Kant's first and third Group C courses are conducted in English with both readings and discussion in English, and are open to all students in Yale College.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Interchanges between German and Jewish cultures from 1750 to 1933. Contextual background for understanding the Holocaust. Primary texts, read in translation, debate enlightenment, civil rights, integration, anti-semitism, Zionism, and diaspora. Comparison with other cultural, religious, and ethnic conflicts. Group C courses are conducted in English with both readings and discussion in English, and are open to all students in Yale College.
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Study of narrative texts from the era of classical probabilistic philosophies. The history of probabilistic thinking and contemporary debates on risk and risk taking; contingency as a basic element of narration. Works by Defoe, Wieland, Voltaire, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Poe, and others. Group C courses are conducted in English with both readings and discussion in English, and are open to all students in Yale College.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Theories of passion from Descartes and Hobbes to Baumgarten, Burke, and Kant. The relationship between passion and literary representation from Shakespeare and Racine to Richardson and Goethe. Theoretical questions concerning psychology, epistemology, aesthetics, and anthropology. Theatrical performance of passion in the seventeenth century; narrative representation in the eighteenth century. Group C courses are conducted in English with both readings and discussion in English, and are open to all students in Yale College.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Transformation of the classical Greek elegy form in modern times by Goethe, Hölderlin, and Rilke. Group C courses are conducted in English with both readings and discussion in English, and are open to all students in Yale College.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Franz Kafka's writings viewed as a site for the radical questioning and dislocation of Western systems, institutions, and mores of the early twentieth century. Attention to the shorter fiction, the novels, the letters, and their strategic interrelations; examination of the fields of knowledge, ideological presumptions, and aesthetic and cultural experiments that Kafka touched, and to some degree deranged, with his writing. Group C courses are conducted in English with both readings and discussion in English, and are open to all students in Yale College.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A survey of the major works of German vernacular literature from 1150 to 1250, including courtly love poetry, heroic epic, Arthurian romance, crusader songs, and religious narratives. Examination of the development of the German language, the development of vernacular literature, the broader context of Latin culture, and the problems of manuscript transmission. Readings in the original Middle High German. Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich is read in its entirety. Group B courses are open to students who have successfully completed GMAN 150a or 151b or the equivalent. Conducted in German with readings in German, unless otherwise indicated.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Close reading of Adorno's Group B courses are open to students who have successfully completed GMAN 150a or b or the equivalent. Conducted in German with readings in German, unless otherwise indicated.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Individual study under faculty supervision. Applicants must submit a prospectus and bibliography approved by the faculty adviser to the director of undergraduate studies. The student meets with the adviser at least one hour each week and takes a final examination or writes a term paper.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Preparation of an original essay under the direction of a faculty adviser.
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