German

Course Offerings Fall 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
GRMN 101-01	Elementary German Instructor: Sarah McGaughey Course Description: This course is an introduction to the German language as spoken in daily life. It focuses on the acquisition of language skills, such as speaking, reading, writing, and listening and does so while also learning about aspects of every-day cultures in German-speaking countries. Classes are small and emphasize communication. After successfully completing German 101 and 102, students are expected to navigate everyday situations successfully such as shopping, making friends, reading German newspapers etc. and understand basic grammatical and syntactical structures. Classes meet five times a week.	0830:MTWRF BOSLER 213
GRMN 101-02	Elementary German Instructor: Anna Hudson Course Description: This course is an introduction to the German language as spoken in daily life. It focuses on the acquisition of language skills, such as speaking, reading, writing, and listening and does so while also learning about aspects of every-day cultures in German-speaking countries. Classes are small and emphasize communication. After successfully completing German 101 and 102, students are expected to navigate everyday situations successfully such as shopping, making friends, reading German newspapers etc. and understand basic grammatical and syntactical structures. Classes meet five times a week.	1030:MTWRF WESTC DURBIN
GRMN 102-01	German in Everyday Life Instructor: Sarah McGaughey Course Description: This course is an introduction to the German language as spoken in daily life. It focuses on the acquisition of language skills, such as speaking, reading, writing, and listening and does so while also learning about aspects of every-day cultures in German-speaking countries. Classes are small and emphasize communication. After successfully completing German 101 and 102, students are expected to navigate everyday situations successfully such as shopping, making friends, reading German newspapers etc. and understand basic grammatical and syntactical structures. Classes meet five times a week. Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent for GRMN 102, or permission of the instructor.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 213
GRMN 201-01	Int German I:Contemp Grm Cltr Instructor: Janine Ludwig, Sarah McGaughey Course Description: Using literary texts and media from contemporary German-speaking cultures, students focus on recognizing and practicing various registers of written and oral German while reviewing grammatical structures and expanding stylistic forms. For instance, the course will expose students to the differences between the language of a popular daily newspaper, a TV interview, a blog entry, or an essay by a German author. Students will have to use these forms appropriately in class in and their homework. Classes meet four days a week. Prerequisite: 102 or 103, or permission of the instructor.	0930:MTWR KADE SEM
GRMN 201-02	Int German I:Contemp Grm Cltr Instructor: Janine Ludwig, Sarah McGaughey Course Description: Using literary texts and media from contemporary German-speaking cultures, students focus on recognizing and practicing various registers of written and oral German while reviewing grammatical structures and expanding stylistic forms. For instance, the course will expose students to the differences between the language of a popular daily newspaper, a TV interview, a blog entry, or an essay by a German author. Students will have to use these forms appropriately in class in and their homework. Classes meet four days a week. Prerequisite: 102 or 103, or permission of the instructor.	1030:MTWR KADE SEM
GRMN 202-01	Int Grmn II: Mediated Grmn Clt Instructor: Antje Pfannkuchen Course Description: This course will familiarize students with discourses conducted at different language levels in various German media such as newspapers, TV, and music in addition to new social media. Students will analyze these discourses, and by doing so will acquire a better understanding of contemporary German issues, anxieties, and desires ranging from the impact of the New Right on German hip hop to the heated discussions of new architectural designs, such as the Holocaust monument in Berlin. Prerequisite: 201, or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	1030:MTWR BOSLER 213
GRMN 250-01	Rebels Without a Cause Instructor: Janine Ludwig, Sarah McGaughey Course Description: Taught in German. The seminar analyzes the topics of adolescence and rebellion against suppressive rules and morals in three different societies: Germany in the late 18th century, the USA in the 1950's, and the GDR in the 1970's. We will explore subjectivity, radicalism, and escapism as the driving forces behind this rebellion and the role that (romantic) emotions play as a counterforce to reason, the dominant concept of the Enlightenment.	1500:MR BOSLER 313
GRMN 300-01	Examining Major Cultural Mvmts Instructor: Sarah McGaughey Course Description: Taught in German. This course will provide students with the opportunity to analyze a major cultural period or artistic movement in German-speaking culture. Students will consider a variety of sources, from cultural products and texts of literature and philosophy to historical documents and sociological studies. The characteristics of the period and its historical dates will be examined critically and considered in association with their international or European counterparts. Possible periods or movements include: Medieval German, Early Modern German, German Enlightenment, Goethezeit, Romanticism, Realism, the long nineteenth centruy, Expressionism, or Poplit of the 1990s.	1500:TF BOSLER 213
GRMN 350-01	German Opera and Society Instructor: Amy Wlodarski Course Description: Cross-listed with MUAC 353-01. Taught in English. This course explores the phenomenon of opera in Germany from the classical period to the end of the Second World War in 1945. Opera is often a mirror of the social world in which it was created, and thus we will reconstruct the context for each opera before turning to its musical forms and idioms. Central figures include Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. Students will learn how to interpret musical settings of libretti and gain a greater understanding of the complex means by which opera, as a merger of the musical, textual, and visual, communicates social, political, and aesthetic meaning to its listeners.	1330:W WEISS 212