Level V course. Prose and poetry of major realist authors (Auerbach, Ebner-Eschenbach, Fontane, Keller, C.F. Meyer, Raabe, Stifter, Storm), read in combination with programmatic texts on realism and representation (Fontane, Freytag, Gutzkow, J. Schmidt, Spielhagen). Special emphasis on cross-currents between socio-historical changes and literary form.
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The theme of human conflict and existence is studied in major works of the following 20th-century authors: Brecht, Kaiser, Borchert, Frisch, and Dürrenmatt.
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This course is designed to familiarize students with the work of Franz Kafka, the cultural milieu of early twentieth-century Prague in which he wrote, and some of the literary and philosophical issues at work in his short stories, aphorisms and novels. The primary focus will be on such rhetorical elements as denotative vs. connotative use of language, rhetorical figures (especially the metaphor), and on the narrative, semiotic, and semantic way by which contradictions and shifts in perspective are addressed in the texts. Progressing more or less chronologically and including different genres of Kafkaâs writings, we will address a broad range of philosophical and theological issues of guilt, knowledge, and justice, as well as historical issues pertinent to the life of Franz Kafka as artist, Jew and professional in the fading Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Credits: 3
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Level V course. The course investigates the particular contribution of the German literary tradition to the exploration of the self. In contrast to other European traditions, German literature can be viewed as focusing more pointedly on the experience of the individual rather than on depicting society at large. It is this perspective embedded in Germany's cultural tradition that will guide the readings in this course, which are drawn exclusively from canonical works of modern German literature.
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Comprehensive investigation of a theme, issue, or era, combining various strands of the undergraduate academic program in order to permit deeper insights into the German-speaking world. This course, with an emphasis on literature, is taught by members of the faculty.
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Credits: 3
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Comprehensive investigation of a theme, issue, or era, combining various strands of the undergraduate academic program in order to permit deeper insights into the German-speaking world. This course, with an emphasis on linguistics, literature, or culture is taught by members of the faculty.
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Theoretical approaches covered in the course include hermeneutics and Reader Response Theories; Psychoanalysis; Feminist and Queer Theories; Structuralism; Post-Structuralism; Post-Colonial Studies. The course also explores the application of these approaches to specific literary texts.
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The German literature of the 18th century is a remarkable mixture of the specific political, economical and social conditions in shattered German and European contexts. German writers of the 18th century often focused on European themes and historical incidents such as the rise of the science of nature, enlightenment, the origin of nationalism, metropolization, new religious trends like Pietism and Physico-Theology, cultural criticism (especially Jean-Jacques Rousseau), and last but not least the French revolution, this epoch's âGeschichtszeichenâ (Immanuel Kant). The course introduces literary texts as documents of fascinating historical topics and discourses. Our reading and discussion of poems, dramas and novels will be a means to understand both of German literature of that time and the outline of cultural history of the 18th century on the whole.
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Credits: 3
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This course is an overview of major works of the 20th century.
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The course aims to introduce students to the major theoretical texts that discuss European identity formation from a cultural perspective. We will examine the historical emergence of national identity in the context of modern mass-produced print and visual culture; trace the construction of a Western, democratic identity in contradistinction to the fascist past through a consideration of museums and memorials; analyze the gendering of national identity and international relations in postwar cinema; and, finally, explore the promise and pitfalls of race, hybridity, and multiculturalism through theater and performance. The course will introduce you to the main paradigms for the analysis of culture, and apply them to specific cultural texts and artifacts. It is designed to make you more astute interpreters of cultural objects, and encourage you to integrate cultural analysis into your individual areas of concentration. Most readings are available on Electronic Reserve.
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The course investigates knowledge construction in different disciplinary areas and across languages and cultures. It examines the issue through the major epistemological assumptions of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities and specifically addresses current reconsideration of these assumptions and their consequences in light of changing socio-political, intellectual, and discursive practices and interests. A focal area will be the contribution of language to human being, knowing, and learning.
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Credits: 3
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This course will examine how German writers - many of whom were couples in real life - perceived the relationship between the sexes, how they conceived of ideal love, partnership, and real or imagined impediments to emotional fulfillment. Poems, short stories, novels, and plays by such authors as Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Clemens Brentano, Friedrich Schlegel and Heinrich von Kleist will be read against equivalent texts by Sophie von LaRoche, Bettina von Arnim, Karoline von Günderode, Sophie Mereau, and Caroline Auguste Fischer. This implicit dialogue between Romantic and not-so-romantic couples will not only acquaint us with important works of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, but with very personal responses to the sexual politics of the period.
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This course offers an introduction to basic notions of how languages are studied from various vantage points and for various purposes and interests. Participants are introduced to major theories of language investigation and learn to understand and apply relevant methodological principles, both by demonstrations through lectures and by research assignments leading to student presentations as well as several short research papers. Class discussion focuses on discussion of materials assigned for each class session.
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The goal of this seminar is an understanding of the sociolinguistics of language and society which treats such issues as multilingualism/diglossia, language attitudes, language choice, language maintenance and shift, planning and standardization, and education, by examining profiles of language in various European regions, nations, languages and in specific communities of use. Since these issues characterize increasingly multilingual nations and supranational configurations, students will gain insights about the relationship between sociolinguistic phenomena and aspects of contemporary societies and public policies.
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This three-hour graduate course enables graduate students to develop requisite foundational knowledge and critical awareness of practical approaches to German language instruction in the American educational context, particularly at the college level. Students become informed about (1) cognitive, socio-cultural, linguistic, and affective factors influencing the principles and processes of learning, particularly instructed second language learning; (2) the historical, educational, institutional, and curricular context within which instruction takes place; (3) pedagogical approaches to developing adult learnersâ second language ability; and (4) the roles they could, should, perhaps even must take on as teachers in order to enhance student learning.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to the functional analysis of language, using Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics as the theoretical frame of reference and English as the exemplar language. The course introduces students to general concepts of this socioculturally oriented model of grammar with its explicit focus on meaning in oral and written texts and familiarizes them with different conceptual and analytical tools that are available for such analyses. Because systemic-functional linguistics provides considerable resources for literacy-oriented and interpretive approaches to language learning and use, it is particularly well suited for principled approaches to the pedagogy of advanced L2 learning, including advanced reading and writing, L2 learning by heritage learner, and L2 instruction for academic and professional purposes. No prerequisites. Professor Heidi Byrnes, German.
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The course maps the most prominent theoretical approaches to the investigation of grammar that are united under the umbrella-term âFunctionalismâ and seeks to translate them into pedagogical practices suitable for communicatively-oriented FL classroom instruction; its topics include Cognitive Linguistics, studies of Grammaticalization, Emergentism, Systemic-Functional linguistics, socio-cultural approaches to teaching grammar, etc. Papers presenting theoretical assumptions of each approach are illustrated and elaborated by empirical investigations of learning trajectories and pedagogical treatments of grammatical constructions from a meaning-based perspective (various languages are represented). While course readings deal with a wide range of grammatical structures and systems introduced at all levels of FL instruction, its particular focus lies in the exploration of notion of advanced language use from a grammar-acquisition perspective. The courseâs explicit focus on pedagogical applications of various theoretical constructs will provide students with several opportunities to design mini-teaching units and pedagogical materials, to implement them throughout the semester, and reflect on the results.
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The literature of human foolishness in the Reformation, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods, with special emphasis on the interrelationship of literature and religion. Interpretation of selected works of Brant's Narrenschiff, selected works of Luther, Erasmus' In Praise of Folly, Grimmelshausen's Simplizissimus, and Lessing's Nathan der Weise.
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