# Spring 2024 Courses [### German 100. Introduction to German Literature and Thought ](/class/german-100-introduction-german-literature-and-thought) **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... [### German 10b. Beginning German ](/class/german-10b-beginning-german) **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... [### German 117. Minority Voices in German Literature 1750-present ](/class/german-117-minority-voices-german-literature-1750-present) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2024 Day/Time TBA Instructor Sütterlin [### German 119b. Great Works, Short Texts: German Stories ](/class/german-119b-great-works-short-texts-german-stories) **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... [### German 145. German and Austrian Modernism: Architecture, Art, Literature ](/class/german-145-german-and-austrian-modernism-architecture-art-literature) **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... [### German 150. Under Surveillance: Media, Security, and the Loss of Privacy ](/class/german-150-under-surveillance-media-security-and-loss-privacy) **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... [### German 20ab. Intermediate Intensive German ](/class/german-20ab-intermediate-intensive-german) **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... [### German 20b. Intermediate German ](/class/german-20b-intermediate-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... [### German 219. German Poetry ](/class/german-219-german-poetry) **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... [### German 62. Advanced Conversation and Composition: Berlin Stories ](/class/german-62-advanced-conversation-and-composition-berlin-stories) **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... [### German 90R. Germanic Language Tutorial: Dutch ](/class/german-90r-germanic-language-tutorial-dutch) **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. [### German 91R. Supervised Reading and Research ](/class/german-91r-supervised-reading-and-research) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2023 Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses. [### German 98. Junior Tutorial ](/class/german-98-junior-tutorial) **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). [### German 99b. Tutorial - Senior Year ](/class/german-99b-tutorial-senior-year) **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.