GERM S-R. German for Reading Knowledge

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2021

Top of stack of books installation at Bebelplatz, Berlin

Day/Time

M-Th 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Instructor

Burgard

This course is designed for students who wish to acquire a precise reading knowledge of sophisticated German prose for research, study, and/or career purposes. The course focuses on grammar topics, parsing, and translation, for which texts from a variety of fields are employed. Starting the course with no knowledge of German, you will be able to decipher and translate Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud and read scholarship in your field of specialization by the end of the course.