| GRMN 101-01 |
German in Everyday Life
Instructor: Kamaal Haque
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the German language and culture of 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 have reached a basic level of intercultural and cross-cultural competence, that is, to be able to communicate with members of German-speaking cultures with an awareness of differences in language and culture.
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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 306 |
| GRMN 101-02 |
German in Everyday Life
Instructor: Kamaal Haque
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the German language and culture of 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 have reached a basic level of intercultural and cross-cultural competence, that is, to be able to communicate with members of German-speaking cultures with an awareness of differences in language and culture.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 306 |
| GRMN 102-01 |
German in Everyday Life
Instructor: Todd Bryant
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the German language and culture of 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 have reached a basic level of intercultural and cross-cultural competence, that is, to be able to communicate with members of German-speaking cultures with an awareness of differences in language and culture. Classes meet five times a week. Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 315 |
| GRMN 201-01 |
Intermediate German I: Contemporary German Cultures
Instructor: Sarah McGaughey
Course Description:
What did the Brothers Grimm do besides collecting fairy tales? How do narratives inform national identity? Why do Germans return their empty bottles to the store? Students approach such questions, which touch on language, culture, economics, geography, history, and more, through a variety of media in this course. At the same time, students review grammatical structures, expand their knowledge of stylistic forms, and practice various registers of written and spoken German. German 201 aims to develop students skills to understand and reflect upon German-language culture at a basic intermediate level. Classes meet four days a week. Prerequisite: 102 or 103, or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWR
KADE SEM |
| GRMN 201-02 |
Intermediate German I: Contemporary German Cultures
Instructor: Sarah McGaughey
Course Description:
What did the Brothers Grimm do besides collecting fairy tales? How do narratives inform national identity? Why do Germans return their empty bottles to the store? Students approach such questions, which touch on language, culture, economics, geography, history, and more, through a variety of media in this course. At the same time, students review grammatical structures, expand their knowledge of stylistic forms, and practice various registers of written and spoken German. German 201 aims to develop students skills to understand and reflect upon German-language culture at a basic intermediate level. Classes meet four days a week. Prerequisite: 102 or 103, or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWR
KADE SEM |
| GRMN 202-01 |
Intermediate German II: Mediated German Cultures
Instructor: Antje Pfannkuchen
Course Description:
What was occupied Vienna like in post-WWII Central Europe? How does a film convey fear? Is German academic writing different from how I write papers at Dickinson? Posing these or similar questions, this course builds students basic intermediate level of cultural and linguistic skill and explores the challenges of understanding and communicating with various media in colloquial, academic, and professional contexts. As it does so, students will acquire a better understanding of contemporary and historical issues, anxieties, and desires in the German-speaking world. There will be a special focus on writing in different modes, as this is a writing in the discipline (WiD) course. Prerequisite: 201, or permission of the instructor.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWR
BOSLER 318 |
| GRMN 211-01 |
Introduction to German Intellectual History
Instructor: Kamaal Haque
Course Description:
This course will analyze key documents and scholarly texts, which exemplify important aspects of German thought on various topics such as politics, culture, history, aesthetics, and philosophy. For instance, students may read and analyze Kant's essay on the Enlightenment, Lessing's Laocoon, Schiller's Aesthetic Education, Goethe's work on color theory, Alexander Kluge's Essay-Films, or political essays by Thomas Mann, Alice Schwarzer, and Gunter Grass.
Prerequisite: 202, or permission of the instructor.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 306 |
| GRMN 350-01 |
Dreams and Delusions: Romanticism, Psychoanalysis, and Film
Instructor: Antje Pfannkuchen
Course Description:
German Romantic writers in the early 1800s tried to counter the rationality of the Enlightenment with dreamlike stories and phantasmagoric tales. At the end of the same century Sigmund Freud took inspiration from these and other dreams when developing psychoanalysis as a new method to study the human mind and its delusions.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
KADE SEM |
| GRMN 500-01 |
A Film Analysis of Sissi, Empress of Austria
Instructor: Kamaal Haque
Course Description:
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