GERMAN

GERMAN

CRN	92075	Distribution	D
Course No.	GER 101
Title	Beginning German I
Professor	Susan Bernofsky
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm LC 118

For students with little or no previous instruction in German. This course is designed to develop listening comprehension and speaking proficiency as well as reading and writing skills. Instruction will include grammar drills, review of readings, communication practice, guided composition, and language lab exercises. Readings furnish insights into many aspects of German civilization and culture, thus conveying to students what life is like in the German-speaking countries today. Indivisible.

CRN	92132	Distribution	D
Course No.	GER 200
Title	Transitional German
Professor	Stephanie Kufner
Schedule	Tu Wed Th Fr 10:00 am - 11:00 am LC 210

This course is designed for students who have completed the equivalent of approximately 3+ years of high-school German. While the emphasis will be on a complete review of German grammar, all four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing), as well as cultural proficiency will be enhanced. Extensive online audio and grammar work (outside the classroom) will be combined with conversational practice, reading of modern literary texts, and writing of compositions. Successfull completion will allow students to continue with German 202 in the spring semester. Weekly sessions with the German-language tutor are obligatory.

CRN	92113	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	GER 303
Title	Grimm's Märchen
Professor	Franz Kempf
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm LC 118

Close reading of selected tales, with emphasis on language, plot, motif, image, and the relation to folklore. Critical examination and application of major approaches: Freudian, Jungian, Marxist, and feminist.

CRN	92076	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	GER 316
Title	The German Stage
Professor	Susan Bernofsky
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm LC 118

War, revolution, street riots and terrorist acts-it's no coincidence that many of the most radically experimental works of German-language theater followed directly on moments of national and international crisis. What does aesthetic revolution have to do with revolution on the streets? How can "die Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten" (Schiller) influence the course of events in the world itself? When is comedy an appropriate response to tragedy? What is the role of censorship? What does the "V-Effekt" mean to us today? These are the sorts of questions we will be addressing in this survey of major German, Swiss and Austrian dramas of the last two hundred years, including comedies, tragedies and tragicomedies by authors including Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Brecht, Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Heiner Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck and Christoph Schlingensief written in the aftermath of events ranging from the French Revolution to Sept. 11. This course will be offered simultaneously on the 300 and 400 levels (with 400-level credit requiring supplementary historical/theoretical readings and an additional fortnightly class meeting). Conducted in German. Please register at either the 300 or 400 level-it will be possible to switch later if necessary.

CRN	92115	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	GER 321
Title	Rebels with(out) a Cause: Great Works of German Literature
Professor	Franz Kempf
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am LC 118

A survey of representative works of German literature from the eighteenth century to the present, from Goethe's Weltschmerz bestseller The Sufferings of Young Werther (1774) to Mother Tongue (1990), a collection of stories by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, a Turkish-German woman writer. Other authors include: Schiller, Eichendorff, Heine, Hauptmann, Wedekind, Rilke, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, and Jelinek. Course conducted in English. Students with an advanced proficiency in German are expected to read the works in the original.

CRN	92112	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	GER 416
Title	The German Stage
Professor	Susan Bernofsky
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm

See description for GER 316.