German (GERMAN)
GERMAN 1 Elementary German 1 5 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of lecture per week for 5 weeks.
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.
Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 1E Accelerated Elementary German 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Prior exposure to German equivalent to one year of high school German.
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.
Students will receive no credit for 1E after taking 1. Formerly known as 12. Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 1G Elementary German for Graduate Students 0.0 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 7.5 weeks.
Prerequisites: One year of prior college level German instruction required.
Elementary German for graduate students preparing for reading examinations.
GERMAN 2 Elementary German 2 5 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of lecture per week for 5 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent.
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.
Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 2G Elementary German for Graduate Students 0.0 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 7.5 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1G.
Elementary German for graduates preparing for reading examinations.
GERMAN 3 Intermediate German I 5 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 9.5 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks. 15 hours of lecture per week for 5 weeks.
Prerequisites: 2 or equivalent.
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).
Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 4 Intermediate German II 5 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of lecture per week. 12 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 3 or equivalent.
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.
Instructor: Euba
GERMAN R5A Reading and Composition 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam for 5A. Any A-level course for 5B.
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.
Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Formerly known as 5A.
GERMAN R5B Reading and Composition 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam for 5A. Any A-level course for 5B.
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.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Formerly known as 5B.
GERMAN 10B Elementary German Intensive Workshop in Berlin 8 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 20 hours of class meetings and excursions per week for 6 weeks. 20 hours of class meetings and excursions per week for 6 weeks.
This workshop combines the exhilaration of total immersion in a foreign language with a living experience in Germany's capital of Berlin, offering unique opportunities for students to learn about and absorb German language, history, culture, and a world perspective. Carrying 8 units, this intensive course is designed to give students the opportunity to complete the first year while being sensitized to the relationship between language and culture. Guided excursions and housing arrangements with families in Berlin will complement formal language instruction.
Students will receive no credit for 10B after taking 1, 2, or 12. Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
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.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN C25/L & S C60U Revolutionary Thinking: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 4 Units
Department: German; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
We will explore the ways in which Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud--three of the most important thinkers in modern Western thought--can be read as responding to the Enlightenment and its notions of reason and progress. We will consider how each remakes a scientific understanding of truth, knowledge, and subjectivity, such that rationality, logic, and the powers of human cognition are shown to be distorted, limited, and subject to forces outside our individual control. All lectures and readings in English.
Instructor: Feldman
GERMAN 39A Freshman Seminar 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
No knowledge of German required.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 39H Freshman Seminar 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
No knowledge of German required.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 39L Freshman Seminar 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
No knowledge of German required.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 40 German Conversation 2 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent.
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.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 102A-102B-102C.
GERMAN 41 Exploring German Culture 1 Unit
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Session per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in 1, 2, 3, or 4 in Berlin Summer Program.
Students will explore historical and contemporary aspects of German culture through readings, discussions, guided excursions in Berlin and Weimar, and individual research projects. The course will engage students to develop a deeper understanding of the specific ways in which cultural issues are respected and reflected in the German language, which they study concurrently. Topics include multiculturalism and minority experience; Berlin as divided city and capital; city planning and public discourse, past and present in German architecture; Berlin in popular literature, film, and theatre; the art scene in Berlin; and the Weimar classical period. Taught in German and English.
Instructor: Euba
GERMAN C75/L & S C60T What is Beauty? 4 Units
Department: German; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
What or who decides whether something is beautiful or not? What purpose do beauty and art serve? Where do originality, genius, and inspiration come from? What do art and beauty have to do with freedom and human progress? We will examine primarily western European and North American approaches to beauty as presented in works of philosophy, literary theory, and theories of art and aesthetics, exploring key theoretical questions as they evolve among several intellectual arenas over many centuries.
Instructor: Feldman
GERMAN C76/L & S C76 Beauty and the Beholder: Approaching Art at the Berkeley Art Museum 4 Units
Department: German; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
This seminar-style course will take up a range of questions related to art works, aesthetic theory, the politics of art, and the relationship between artistic form and meaningful content by way of examinations of specific works at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). Students will see how experts from several different disciplines approach works of art: What questions do scholars bring to an art work? What is a formal analysis vs. a critical interpretation of an art work? How do curators approach art? Are we supposed to ‘learn from’ an art work or ‘experience’ it or have some particular ‘relationship’ to it? Is art a matter of conveying feeling, a message, or an encounter with beauty?
Instructor: Feldman
GERMAN 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics may be initiated by students under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the German Department's faculty.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
GERMAN 99 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Open only to freshmen and sophomores. Consent of instructor.
Independent study and research by arrangement with faculty.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 100 Introduction to Reading Culture 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required.
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.
GERMAN 101 Advanced German: Conversation, Composition and Style 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent.
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.
Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 102A Advanced Language Practice: German Performance 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
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.
Formerly known as 188. Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 102B Advanced Language Practice: German for Business 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent. Not open to native speakers.
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.
Formerly known as 103. Instructor: Toth
GERMAN 102D Advanced Language Practice: Popular Culture in Germany 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Focusing on popular culture in German speaking countries, 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, music, and the cinema. Readings, screenings, discussion, and writing assignments will advance students' language skills and further develop their communicative competencies in German at a linguistic and stylistic level appropriate for an advanced student.
Instructor: Euba
GERMAN 103 Introduction to German Linguistics 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the major subfields of linguistics as they apply to the German language. It also serves as the gateway course for the further study of German linguistics at the undergraduate level. The first part of the course will focus on the synchronic description of contemporary German. The second part of the course will concern itself with variation in German. There are no prerequisties for this class and no prior experience with linguistics is presupposed. However, an advanced knowledge of German (at least GERMAN 4 level) is expected.
Instructor: Shannon
GERMAN 104 Senior Colloquium 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 102 or consent of instructor. Returnees from EAP Goettingen welcome.
This course is intended for students who wish to improve their skills in reading, speaking, and writing German. We will work with texts that were particularly influential in Germany during the first decades of the 20th century, regardless of when they were written. Segments of philosophical writings (Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, literary works (George, Rilke, Th. Mann) but also texts by scientists and journalists will be analyzed. Participants are expected to prepare several oral presentations and approximately one written assignment per week. No midterm or final examination.
Instructor: Hillen
GERMAN 105 Middle High German for Undergraduates 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/translation/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of modern German required.
Students will learn the fundamentals of Middle High German grammar and will read selections from major narrative works of the High Middle Ages. Selections from major works from the 13th century.
Open to graduate students when 203 is not offered. Instructors: Tennant, Largier
GERMAN C106/EDUC C145 Literacy through Literature 3 Units
Department: German; Education
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Exploration of the role that literature can play in the acquisition of literacy in a first and second language. Linguistic and psycholinguistic issues: orality and literacy, discourse text, schema theory, and reading research. Literary issues: stylistics and critical reading, reader response, structure of narratives. Educational issues: the literary text in the social context of its production and reception by intended and non-intended readers.
Instructor: Kramsch
GERMAN 107 German for Reading Knowledge 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 6 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: One year of college level German, or equivalent.
This course is designed to prepare graduate students for translation/reading exams in German. Students who do not need to pass such an exam, but who wish to improve their reading and translation skills in academic German, are also welcome.
GERMAN 108 Literary Translation 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/disucssion per week.
Prerequisites: Two upper division courses in German literature.
This course introduces students to the problems of literary translation from German to English.
Instructor: Kudszus
GERMAN C109/L & S C180T Language and Power 4 Units
Department: German; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Multidisciplinary explorations into the origins, nature, and exercise of language as social symbolic power, drawing on readings taken from anthropology, social and cultural theory, and critical discourse analysis. Topics include language and myth, the meaning of meaning, the economy of verbal exchanges, perspective and ideology in language, institutional discourse, gender and discourse, and linguistic imperialism.
Formerly known as 109. Instructor: Kramsch
GERMAN 110 The Literature of the Middle Ages 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Introduction in modern German or English translation to major literary monuments of the Hohenstaufen period. Intended for undergraduates with no knowledge of Middle High German.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Tennant, Largier
GERMAN 112 Early Modern Literature 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required.
Major texts from the 15th through the 17th century.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Tennant, Largier
GERMAN C113/RELIGST C118 Western Mysticism: Religion, Art, and Literature 4 Units
Department: German; Religious Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
The course will focus on examples of mystical thought from the traditions of Christian and Jewish mysticism since the Middle Ages. In addition to the introduction of the students to basic texts and concepts we will discuss the effects of mystical thought on art and literature from the Middle Ages up to today.
Instructor: Largier
GERMAN 123 From 1800 to the Present 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of German required.
The social, political, and historical background to German literature since the French Revolution.
Instructor: Seeba
GERMAN 140 Romanticism 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Literature, philosophy, and aesthetics of the Romantic period.
GERMAN 147 German Drama and Opera 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course introduces students to the masterpieces of German drama and opera from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Tang
GERMAN 148 Topics in Narrative 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Analysis of German narrative forms. Topic varies.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 152 Modern Literature 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Introduction to philosophical, ideological, and aesthetic trends at the turn of the century. Analyses of literary texts by Th. Mann, F. Kafka, S. George, R. M. Rilke, G. Benn, B. Brecht.
GERMAN 157A German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Luther, Kant, Hegel 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Introduction to the intellectual history of Germany from the age of the Reformation to the period of Idealism. We will focus on three major thinkers--Martin Luther, Immanuel Kant, and G.W.F. Hegel--on key issues in their thought, and on the reception and discussion of some of these issues in 20th century theory. Lectures and readings in English.
GERMAN 157B German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
The aim of the course is to explore the central theoretical and philosophical premises of three of the most influential thinkers in the German-speaking world and to examine in detail several works in which problems of history, ideology, values, and methodology are considered. Lecture and readings in English.
Formerly known as 157.
GERMAN 157C German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Heidegger and Arendt 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course is an introduction to the work of Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. We will begin with an investigation into Heidegger's conceptualiztions of language, time, and human dwelling. We will then move to an examination of Arendt's political philosophy, including her focus on the public/private distinction. Taught in English.
GERMAN 157D German Intellectual History in a European Context: Historical Figures and Contemporary Reflections: Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course examines the writings of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, a major branch of western Marxism. Focusing on confrontations with modernity, the lectures will deal with three seminal thinkers: Walter Benjamin, known for his genial insights into the culture of modernism; Theodor Adorno, the versatile philosopher and aesthetic theorist of the avant garde; and Jurgen Habermas, the most influential German intellectual after World War II.
GERMAN 160A Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: A Century of Extremes 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week; plus additional film screenings.
The story of Germany in the 20th century is a dramatic one, comprising two world wars, genocide, Allied occupation, a division into two states on opposing sides of the Cold War, and recently an unexpected unification. This course offers an introduction to the history and culture of contemporary Germany. It aims at a systematic account of German history in the 20th century, and it intends to provide a better understanding of today's German culture and politics. In addition to following a chronological approach, we will frequently stop to explore issues that are crucial to providing insights into current developments.
Formerly known as 150.
GERMAN 160B Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: Facism and Propaganda 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week; plus additional film screenings.
This course will focus on the theory and practice of propaganda during the 12 years of the Third Reich. It takes a close look at the ideology the Nazis tried to transmit, the techniques, organization, and effectiveness of their propaganda. Challenging the idea of the total power of propaganda, it looks for the limits of persuasion and possible other reasons for which Germans might have decided to follow Hitler. Sources will include the press, radio, film, photography, political posters, and a few literary works of the time.
GERMAN 160C Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: A Divided Nation. Politics and Culture in Germany 1945-1990 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week; plus additional film screenings.
This course offers an introduction to the history and culture of divided Germany in the era of the Cold War. It will look at the different ways the two states dealt with the country's pre-1945 history, the relations to the Allied Powers, and the major cultural shifts which eventually created a watershed in the history of German mentalities. We will look at various kinds of sources, including literature and film. Major national debates will be touched upon, such as breaks and continuities within the national elites, re-armament and pacifism, the student movement, opposition and conformity under Socialism, and the rise of environmentalism. We will also discuss the problems and opportunities of re-unification.
GERMAN 160D Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: Multicultural Germany 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week; plus additional film screenings.
This course will deal with the culture and politics of minorities in contemporary Germany. We will discuss how ethnic identities are perceived, constructed, and marketed. We also engage critically with such concepts as migration, assimilation, citizenship, diaspora, hybridity, and authenticity, as well as rhetorical strategies of "speaking back." We will focus on exemplary texts and films from Germany, but include comparisons with minority experiences in other countries.
GERMAN 160K Politics and Culture in 20th-Century Germany: The Weimar Republic: Politics and Culture in Germany 1918-1933 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week; plus additional film screenings.
The history of Germany's first parliamentary democracy is a dramatic one, dominated by economic woes, political violence, and a general perception of crisis and decline. The ill-fated republic bore the burden of a devastating war and suffered from an increasing lack of popular support. Democratic procedures were constantly undermined by radical and reactionary forces. Cultural pessimism was nurtured by the overwhelming experience of historical contingency, i.e., a fundamental lack of confidence in the predictability of modern life.
GERMAN 160L European Cultures 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
This course reflects on European cultures from a transnational perspective. It will explore tensions between traditional identity concepts based on the nation state model and other ways to define identity based on border crossings and intercultural connections. Special attention will be paid to Europe's multilingualism and its colonial legacy in the form of migration, diaspora, hybridity, and other social phenomena that challenge traditional boarders between cultures, languages, and people. We will discuss exemplary texts and films from German-speaking areas in Europe and beyond. The course syllabus will vary depending on the regional and thematic emphasis. All reading and discussion will be in English.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Dewulf
GERMAN 170 History of the German Language 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the history of the language of the newly united Germanys, which transverses a rich linguistic legacy from the , through Luther and Grimm, to Grass and . Discussion, via linguistic principles, of language processes in the genetic development of the German language, as well as its interchange over time with closely and remotely related languages such as English and Russian.
Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 172 German Dialects 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
This course examines geographical and social variation within the German language. Among other things we will consider the differences between language and dialect, the division of German dialects and the history of German dialect study, various linguistic features (phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical) characteristic of the major German dialect areas, and issues involving the use of dialect versus standard language in contemporary society. Besides regular readings and written assignments, grades will be based on active participation and a paper or exam.
Instructor: Shannon
GERMAN 173 The Phonetics and Phonology of Modern German 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
A course designed for undergraduates and graduates on the structure of modern German covering the fundamentals of German phonetics and phonology, with comparison to English. Some discussion of German dialect phonology.
Students will receive no credit for 173 after taking 103 before Spring 2002. Instructor: Shannon
GERMAN 174 The Morphology and Syntax of Modern German 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
A course designed for undergraduates and graduates on the grammatical structure of modern German covering the fundamentals of German morphology, syntax and semantics, with comparison to English.
Instructor: Shannon
GERMAN 175B Undergraduate Seminars: 20th-Century Poetry 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100.
Analysis of various poetry from the beginning of the century to today, including works by Trakl, Benn, Bachmann, Sachs, Celan, and Brinkmann. A 20-page research paper will be part of the requirements for this course.
Instructor: Kudszus
GERMAN 177 The Cultural History of Switzerland in Literature and Film 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
On the basis of literary texts (in translation) and films, we will examine major topics pertaining to the cultural identity of Switzerland. Special attention will be paid to the cultural history of Switerzland in a European context. Themes in discussion will be Swiss multiculturalism and multilingualism, the importance of the Alps for national self-identification, the origin and development of the Swiss model of direct democracy, and the Swiss policy of neutrality.
GERMAN 178 Semiotics 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course introduces principal figures from the basic disciplines of philosophy, biology, and linguistics who are particularly influential in current trends in semiotic method. It undertakes to lay the foundation of a semiotic method distinct from monolithic traditional structuralism, so, e.g, it concentrates on anti-Saussurean thought. In presenting semiotic universals, the course pursues the formulation and the application of a theoretical construct valid for any and all semiotic modalities ranging from the literary text, to the language act as text, and to the human being as text.
Formerly known as 296. Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 179 Special Topics in German 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of German may be required depending on topic.
Topics will vary from semester to semester. See departmental announcement for offerings. Additional screening time may be required for film topics.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN C179/SPANISH C179 Special Topics in German 3 Units
Department: German; Spanish
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Open to any foreign language student.
Issues in bilingualism for students of foreign languages. This course explores what research on bilingualism says about what it means to learn someone else's language -- the cognitive, affective, and social dimensions of second language acquisition, the relation of language and culture, and language and identity. Fieldwork will include observing, recording, and transcribing segments of foreign language classrooms, visits to bilingual schools in the area, and interviews with native speakers of various languages on campus. Course taught in English, open to any foreign language student, data collected in the languages of the participants.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 182 German Cinema in Exile 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The course will deal with the topic from various angles; a representative selection of American films noirs from the United States and some films (as forerunners) from the Weimar Republic will be shown and discussed in terms of their visuals and narratives. There will also be literary texts and cultural documents (articles on crime in the United States; on the working conditions in Hollywood) pertaining to the topic. Films have English subtitles.
Instructor: Kaes
GERMAN 186 Transnational Cinemas 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week, plus weekly film screenings.
This course will explore how experiences of migration, dislocation, or exile are visualized in cinema, and how processes of internationalization in film production and distribution intersect with the projection of a transnational global imagery. Some examples of transnational cinematic connections will be analyzed in historical perspective as well as contemporary examples of "migrant cinema." We will investigate how these films engage with debates about multiculturalism and assimilation/segregation of minorities, as scenarios of itinerancy and mobility are often intertwined with representations of ethnicity and gender.
Instructor: Gokturk
GERMAN H196 Honors Studies in German 2 - 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 3.5 to 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: One of the 195 courses.
Supervised independent study and research course for honor students who are writing their theses for completion of the requirements for the Honors Program.
GERMAN H196A Honors Studies in German 2 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: Individual meetings to be arranged with thesis advisor.
Prerequisites: Consent of faculty adviser; H196A is prerequisite to H196B.
Two-semester supervised independent study and research course in which honor students research their theses topic the first semester (H196A) and write their theses the second semester (H196B) for completion of the requirements for the honors program.
Students will receive no credit for H196A-H196B after taking H196.
GERMAN H196B Honors Studies in German 2 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: Individual meetings to be arranged with thesis advisor.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor; H196A is a prerequisite of H196B.
Two-semester supervised independent study and research course in which honor students research their theses topic the first semester (H196A) and write their theses the second semester (H196B) for completion of the requirements for the honors program.
Students will receive no credit for H196A-H196B after taking H196.
GERMAN 198 Directed Group Study 2 - 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 2 to 4 hours of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Group study of selected topics which will vary from year to year.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 or 2 Units
Department: German
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conference.
Prerequisites: Open to students who have completed at least 15 units of upper division German with an average no less than B.
Supervised independent study and research.
GERMAN 200 Proseminar in German Literature 2 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion and 1 hour of practical exercises per week.
The course will give a brief introduction to the history of , draw attention to bibliographical and research tools, dwell on problems relating to critical editions of modern authors, familiarize students with as a profession in the U.S.A., and focus upon literary theory. Required of all M.A. candidates.
GERMAN 201A Major Periods in German Literature: Literature of the Middle Ages 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Survey of medieval German literature that concentrates on monuments of the Hohenstauffen period but also includes representative works from the later 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Intended for M.A. candidates but open to all students with a working knowledge of Middle High German.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Tennant, Largier
GERMAN 201B Major Periods in German Literature: 16th and 17th Century 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Recommended for M.A. candidates.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Tenant, Largier
GERMAN 201C Major Periods in German Literature: 18th Century 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
An introduction to major works of late Enlightenment, Sturm and Drang, and Classicism to Schiller's death.
GERMAN 201D Major Periods in German Literature: 19th Century 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
A study of pivotal literary texts, including works by Goethe, Novalis, Holderlin, Heine, and Nietzsche.
Instructor: Kudszus
GERMAN 201E Major Periods in German Literature: 20th Century 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
A critical overview of major literary and intellectual currents between the initial and the final turn of the century. We will explore literary, sociocultural, and philosophical forces in their consequential interactions. Considerations will include Freud, Dada, Expressionism, National Socialism, Exile, post-World War II literature, countercultural texts, and post-modernism.
Instructor: Kaes
GERMAN 204 Compact Seminar 2 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 4 weeks.
A compact seminar designed to feature distinguished short-term visitors from German-speaking countries who have expertise in German literature and culture to teach topics that complement regular departmental offerings. One short paper is required. Taught in German.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 205 Studies in Medieval Literature 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 106 or 203.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Tenant, Largier
GERMAN 207 Reading the German Literary Text 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Drawing on a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, this seminar will present and explore different ways of reading. Topics will include literary hermeneutics and textual deconstruction.
Instructors: Kaes, Kudszus, Largier
GERMAN 210A Studies in the 18th Century: Age of Enlightenment 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
. Literary texts will be studied as historical documents illuminating changes in literary theory and in religious and philosophical thought during the Enlightenment. Texts by Lessing, Herder, and Lenz, and some Storm and Stress plays.
GERMAN 212A Studies in the 19th Century: Topics in Romanticism 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks.
Major authors and texts of the romantic period will be discussed.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 214 Studies in the 20th Century 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 255 Interpretation and Criticism of Poetry 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Kudszus
GERMAN 256 Problems of Literary Theory 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks.
Topics vary from year to year. For current topic see the department's "Course Descriptions" booklet.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 263C Poetry and Thought 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Previous work with German poetry and philosophy.
This seminar examines the interrelationship of poetic and philosophical discourses, with an emphasis on roles and functions of language. Questions of style and writing will interrelate different genres of poetry and thought. The seminar will explore a tradition in which poetic thought and highly reflective poetry approach and at times merge with each other.
Instructor: Kudszus
GERMAN 265 Film Theory: Historical and Systematic Perspectives 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion plus 1 hour of tutorial per week.
Prerequisites: 200 or equivalent.
This seminar will examine traditional and recent critical approaches to the study of film. Knowledge of German and background in literary theory required.
Instructor: Kaes
GERMAN 266 Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in German Studies 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 9.5 hours of Seminar per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Good proficiency in German.
Consisting of reguar meetings and discussions as well as weekly lectues by distinguished speakers from various disciplines, the seminar will explore instuitutional, political, social, and cultural aspects of the former two Germanies grappling with an ambiguous heritage. Within this framework participants will pursue individual directions in research. Topic varies from year to year.
GERMAN 268 Aspects of Literary and Cultural History 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
A comparison of literary and cultural developments in Germany and the United States. Emphasis is placed on individual research designed to develop teaching materials.
GERMAN 270 History of the German Language 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Designed for students interested in the history of the language and culture of united Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, which transverses a rich legacy from the , through Luther and Grimm, to Grass and . Discussion, via linguistic principles, of language processes in the genetic development of the German language, as well as its interchange over time with closely and remotely related languages.
GERMAN 271 Comparative Germanic 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Advanced topics in Germanic phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. The principal Germanic dialects viewed within laryngeal theory and reconstruction.
Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 273 Gothic 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Study of the linguistic structures of the earliest Germanic dialect with a sizable corpus. Indo-European origins, Germanic relationships, and Gothic as a synchronic construct are considered.
Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 276 Old High German 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Reading of poetic and prose texts in Old High German. The synchronic and diachronic study of the dialects of the High German language from the eighth to the eleventh century within the framework of current linguistic method.
Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 280 North Sea Germanic 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Readings and discussion of poetic and prose texts in the Ingwaeonic languages (broadly construed) not covered elsewhere: Old Low Franconian, Middle Dutch, Old Frisian, Middle Low German.
Instructor: Shannon
GERMAN 282 Old Saxon 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Study of the most provocative of the major Germanic languages in terms of structural identification. The literary and ethnographic setting of the and its shared isogrammar.
Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 285 Approaches and Issues in the Study of Modern German 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 103.
A survey of relevant contemporary issues and topics in linguistic research on the structure of German.
Instructor: Shannon
GERMAN 290 Seminar in German Linguistics 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks.
Variable topic. For specific topic contact departmental office.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 291 Methods and Issues in German Morphology 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The seminar will deal with the methods and results of morphological analysis as applied to the German language. It will introduce basic concepts and means of morphological analyses, as well as study and apply various theories of word structure to German. The primary concern will be the synchronic analyses of modern German word formation, but questions of a diachronic nature as well as ones about inflection will also be discussed.
Instructor: Shannon
GERMAN 292 German Syntax 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Discussion of current syntactic theories as applied to a number of issues in modern German syntax with an eye toward their description and explanatory potential. Typological comparison, especially with English.
GERMAN 293 German Semantics 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Concentration on the essential categories of semantics via data from German and Germanic. Extensive discussion of semantic change, the semantics of prevarication, and the semantics of pathological language.
GERMAN 294 Contrastive Grammars 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Theory and methods of contrastive linguistic analyses. Study of pairs of contrastive language sets in two time perspectives: Modern German with Modern English and Early New High German with Early New English.
Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 296 Semiotics 4 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Discussion of the principal figures from the basic disciplines of philosophy, biology, and linguistics influential in current trends in semiotics. Application of Peircean semiotics to a wide range of semiotic modalities.
Instructor: Rauch
GERMAN 298 Directed Group Study 2 - 8 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Seminar.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 299 Individual Study for Graduate Students in Literature and Linguistics 2 - 12 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conference. Individual conference.
Primarily for post-M.A. students engaged in exploration of a restricted field, involving writing of a report, and for students writing their doctoral dissertations.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GERMAN 375A Seminar in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching College German I 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
The course focuses on the theory and practice of foreign language pedagogy. It introduces students to second language acquisition research and its relationship to pedagogy, providing a basis for staying theoretically informed and for participating in professional discourse of the field throughout one's teaching career. It also emphasizes critical reflection on pedagogical practices. Includes a practical component dealing directly with the day-to-day challenges of teaching elementary German.
Formerly known as German 350.
GERMAN 375B Seminar in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching College German II 3 Units
Department: German
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
This course expands upon the basis of methodology and theory of language teaching covered in 350 and prepares students for teaching at the intermediate level. The theoretical and practical exploration of recent developments in second language teaching concentrates on instructional technology, teaching writing, teaching literary texts, and curriculum design. Students reflect on their development as teachers through a journal, video, and observation of their teaching, and the final portfolio.
Formerly known as German 351.
GERMAN 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: German
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conference.
Prerequisites: M.A. in German.
Independent study in consultation with graduate adviser to provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to prepare for the qualifying examination.
Course may be repeated once for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Print this page.
The PDF will include all information unique to this page.
All pages in Academic Catalog.