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GE Foreign Language course
Introduction to language and culture of the German-speaking world, with emphasis placed on the acquisition of basic communication skills in cultural context. CEFR Levels A1/A2. Not open to native speakers of this language through regular course enrollment or EM credits, or to students with 2 or more years of study in this language in high school, except by permission of dept.
Prereq: Not open to students with credits for 101.01, 4 sem cr hrs of 1101.51, or 5 sem cr hrs or 101.51. This course is available for EM credit. GE lit course. FL Admis Cond course.
Text: ISBN 978-3-468-96993-5 Berliner Platz 1 Neu: German for Beginners: Student Pack PLUS, English Edition

Development of communication skills and knowledge about recent social, cultural, and political developments in German speaking countries through texts, media and film; CEFR level A2/B1. Closed to native speakers of this language.
Prereq: 1103 or 1103.51, or equiv, or permission of instructor. No audit. FL Admis Cond course.

Study of popular culture forms in relation to the artistic, intellectual, historic, and literary traditions of the German-speaking world. Taught in English.
Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs. GE lit course.

Major versions of the Faust story, their socio-cultural context, and their symbolic expression of recurring human concerns. Taught in English.
Prereq: Honors standing, and English 1110.01 (110) or equiv, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 263H. GE lit and diversity global studies course. EN Admis Cond course.
Texts: Marlowe: Doctor Faustus; Goethe: Faust; Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Klaus Mann: Mephisto.

German perspectives on and in 20th-century American culture. Influence of German thought and writings on American culture; German views of American culture. Taught in English.
Prereq: English 1110.01, 1110.02, and 1110.03 or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 367. GE writing and comm course: level 2. EN Admis Cond course.

Reading, analysis, and discussion of representative works pertaining to the Holocaust from the perspectives of the German and Ashkenazic traditions. Taught in English.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 399, or Yiddish 3399 (399). GE lit and diversity global studies course. Cross-listed in Yiddish 3399.

Culture of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany in literature, film, the other arts; the roots of fascism and its echoes in postwar Germany. Taught in English.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 299. GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.

German-English/English-German translation; focus on everyday language; emphasis on improvement of grammar and development of vocabulary; discussion of common translation techniques, introduction to theories of translation.
Prereq: 2102 or equiv, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 303. Admis Cond course.

In this course we will investigate the German language as it used today. As an introduction, we will briefly review the structural aspects of German, e.g., phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Next we will move on to a look at the numerous varieties that make up the German language, including dialects, sociolects and technolects. Further topics to be investigated include:

- the influence of foreign languages on German, especially English (Denglisch)
- modern attitudes toward standardization and language change
- the role of German in the EU
- minority and immigrant languages in Germany
- German in the media and advertising
Students will work in groups to publish an electronic iBook of course materials (iPads will be supplied).

The fundamentals of German grammar, as required for the reading of German texts in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Prereq: Grad standing. Not open to students with credit for 571. No audit. Credit does not apply to the minimum hours required for the master's or doctoral degrees.
Text: Jannach's German for Reading Knowledge (6th), isbn 1413033490

Reading of difficult material at a reasonable rate of speed and with only infrequent use of dictionaries.
Prereq: Grade of C or above in 6101, Grad standing, or equiv. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs. FL Admis Cond course. Does not count towards Master's or Doctoral degree.

Lecture-based introduction to the methodology and tools of literary scholarship and to major contemporary theoretical approaches to literary studies; contextualization of these methodologies and approaches within literary history.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 702.

Developing an understanding of communicative language teaching and second language acquisition as it applies to German. Overview of instructional strategies and techniques for various modalities.
Prereq: Open to Graduate Teaching Associates enrolled in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; all others by permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 840.

Course structure and readings will be organized around various topics involved in the building and challenges of a socialist culture. Requirements: Individual presentations and written drafts leading up to a final research paper.

This seminar will focus on the Frankfurt School. After looking briefly at the origins in Marx and Weber, and more immediately in Lukcs and Korsch, we will turn to some of the key works by the central figures in the Frankfurt School: Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Lwenthal, Benjamin, and Fromm. In the last few weeks we will examine briefly the chief representative of the second-generation of the Frankfurt School: Jrgen Habermas. Students will be expected to contribute by reading assignments carefully and participating in discussions, making presentations and leading discussions, and writing a research paper. I will choose texts that are readily available in English so that students from other departments, whose German is not adequate to read the texts in the original, can also participate in the seminar.
Prereq: 6200, or Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 30 cr hrs. Admis Cond course.

This seminar invites graduate students from all disciplines to look at modernity through the lens of vision. Why has vision become such a key category for comprehending and critiquing social, political, and cultural developments that shape our world today? We will place a particular emphasis on the agency of vision in theories of power and in ecological critiques of modernity. Modernity will emerge as a deeply conflicted episteme, entrenched in its dialectic of visual re-presentation: promising absolute transparency and disembodying our relation to our environments ever more systematically. We will work on practical and theoretical ways of responding to this challenge through an ecology of seeing: the combination of an aesthetics of bodily engagement and a politics of resistance to the visual totalization of life.

In our discussions Wim Wenders will meet Yasujiro Ozu, Miguel Gomes Friedrich Murnau, and Werner Herzog Andrej Tarkovsky; we will visit Heidegger among the sculptors, Merleau-Ponty among the painters, Benjamin among the photographers, Foucault among the architects. Literary readings from Goethe, Hlderlin, Handke, Sebald.
Film, Visual Culture, Performance Studies focus; No German required, texts available in English & German. Prereq: 6200, or Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 30 cr hrs. Admis Cond course.

Regular student-driven discussions of ongoing dissertations, current topics in the professional field, and new research approaches to Germanic Studies.
Prereq: Successful completion of Ph.D. candidacy exams or permission from Director of Graduate Studies and instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs. This course is graded S/U. Admis Cond course.

GE Foreign Language course
Introduction to language and culture of Sweden with emphasis on the acquisition of basic communication skills in a cultural context. Closed to native speakers of this language.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 101.01, or to students with 2 or more years of study in this language in high school, except by permission of dept. GE for lang course.
Text: Althn, Anette. Ml 1 Lrobok (textbook with CD); Althn, Anette. Ml vningsbok (workbook). Both Stockholm: Natur och Kultur (2007 edition).

GE Foreign Language course
Development of skills necessary for the independent use of Swedish. Discussions, presentations, writing and listening/viewing activities address topics of contemporary Sweden.
Prereq: Grade of C- or better in 102. Not open to students with credit for 103.01, 104.01, or to native speakers of this language through regular course enrollment or EM credit. GE for lang course. FL Admis Cond course.
Text: Althn, Anette. Ml 2 Lrobok (textbook with CD); Althn, Anette. Ml vningsbok (workbook). Both Stockholm: Natur och Kultur (2007 edition).

3 credit units Autumn Semester 2013

GE lit and diversity global studies course
Reading and analysis of texts, films and music pertaining to the topic of the Holocaust, the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany against European Jewry, and its impact on Ashkenazic-Jewish civilization.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 399. GE lit and diversity global studies course.

Advanced study of specific literary periods, figures, and/or topics involving extensive reading and discussion of appropriate primary and secondary source materials.
Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr. hrs.