Spring 2024 Courses
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time TBA Instructor Carranza A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and intellectual...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time MTWTH 9:00AM - 10:00AM MTWTH 10:30AM - 11:30AM MTWTH 12:00PM - 1:00PM Instructor Staff An introduction to German language and culture designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Encompasses all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time TBA Instructor Sütterlin
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time T 12:00PM - 2:00PM Instructor Dymek Close reading of stories by Schiller, Tieck, Kleist, Hoffmann, Droste-Hülshoff, Stifter, Storm, Döblin, Kafka, Musil, Mann, Aichinger, and Bachmann. While the course focuses virtually entirely on the close reading of outstanding...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM Instructor Burgard Explores the radical break with traditions of thinking, building, seeing, and representing that occurred at the end of the 19th-century in Germany and Austria, and the new forms of architecture, painting, and literature to...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time M 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA With a camera positioned at the entrance to the director’s factory, Louis Lumière’s famous early film of 1895, La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon, captured workers as they left for the day. Today, surveillance practices have...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MTWTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Professor Staff A complete second-year course in one term for students with basic knowledge of German. Focus on enhancing students' communicative competencies in all four skill areas. Introduction to various cultural topics of the German...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time MWF 12:00-1:15pm Professor Staff This second-semester intermediate course is a continuation of 20a. Further review and practice of grammar and expansion of vocabulary.Focus on enhancing students' communicative competencies. Introduction to various cultural topics of...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time M 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm Instructor Burgard Close readings of 24 poems representing the best of modern German poetry. Readings in German, discussions in English. All of the poems are short, allowing us to achieve both breadth and depth and allowing those students who can...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time TTh 10:30AM – 11:45AM Instructor Pirozhenko This course is designed to further students' spoken and written German at the advanced level. Students will analyze and practice the stylistic and rhetorical features of various written and spoken genres. By focusing on...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA Individualized study of Dutch at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time TBA Instructor Dymek Individualized course of study developed by junior concentrators in German to explore a particular field of interest, and ordinarily directed by a member of the faculty. The tutorial culminates in a longer paper (of 15-20 pages, in English).
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time TBA Instructor Parkes Open to concentrators writing an honors thesis under faculty supervision. Students are expected to enroll for the entire year. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required. Part two of a two-part series.