The German Immersion program will be offered in the Spring 2006 semester, therefore Basic German (101-102) will not be offered in the fall of 2005. Contact Professor Kempf early in the fall if you are interested in participating in the spring Immersion course.

German Immersion:

Intensive study (12 credits) of a foreign language helps to create a highly effective and exciting learning environment for those who wish to achieve a high degree of proficiency in the shortest possible time. German immersion is designed to enable students with little or no previous experience in German to complete two years of college German within five months (spring semester at Bard, plus June in Germany for 4 additional credits). To achieve this goal, students take fifteen class hours per week during the semester at Bard, and twenty hours per week during June at Collegium Palatinum, the German language institute of Schiller International University in Heidelberg. Each participant will be able to enroll concurrently in one other course at Bard. This will allow the student to pursue a more balanced study program or to fulfill certain requirements (e.g., First Year Seminar).

Course	GER 110 Transitional German
Professor	Stephanie Kufner
CRN	95035
Schedule	Tu Wed Th Fr 9:20 -10:20 am OLINLC 118
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

This course is for students with some background in German, but whose proficiency is not yet on the level of Ger. 201. While the emphasis will be on a complete and accelerated review of elementary grammar and vocabulary, all four language skills (speaking, reading, writing, listening), as well as cultural proficiency, will be honed. Extensive work with the German Tutor and in the Language Center will be combined with conversational practice, writing simple compositions, and reading and analysis of modern German texts. Successful completion will allow students to continue with German 202 in Spring 2006.

Course	GER / LIT 187 The Ring of the Nibelung
Professor	Franz Kempf
CRN	95018
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 -11:50 am OLINLC 118 Fr 12:30 -5:30 pm CAMPUS WEIS
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

A study of Richard Wagner’s cycle of four immense music dramas. A story about “gods, dwarves (Nibelungs), giants and humans, it has been read and performed as a manifesto for socialism, as a plea for a Nazi-like racialism, as a study of the workings of the human psyche, as forecast of the fate of the world and humankind, as a parable about the new industrial society of Wagner’s time.” As we travel down the Rhine and across the rainbow and on through the underworld, our tour-guides will be Heinrich Heine, the Brothers Grimm, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, as well as the anonymous author of the medieval epic, the Nibelungenlied. Musical expertise neither expected nor provided. Taught in English. Students with an advanced proficiency in German are expected to read the

libretti in the original.

Course	GER / LIT 199 Kafka: Prague, Politics and the fin-de-siècle
Professor	Franz Kempf
CRN	95017
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 -11:50 am OLINLC 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

Kafka can be read as the chronicler of modern despair, of human suffering in an unidentifiable, timeless landscape. Yet he can also be read as a representative of his era, his “existential anguish” springing from the very real cultural and historical conflicts that agitated Prague at the turn of the century (e.g. anti-Semitism, contemporary theories of sexuality). The course will cover Kafka’s shorter fiction ranging from fragments, parables and sketches to longer, complete tales (e.g. The Judgment, The Metamorphosis), as well as the novels The Trial and The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika) and excerpts from his diaries and letters. Together they reveal the breath of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Taught in English. Students with an advanced proficiency in German can read selections in the original for extra credit.

Course	GER 201 Intermediate German I
Professor	Florian Becker
CRN	95401
Schedule	Mon Tu 1:25 -2:25 pm OLIN 301 Th 1:25 -2:25 pm OLIN 305
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

For students who have completed German 101 and 102. This course is designed to increase the student’s a command of all four language skills (speaking, comprehension, reading, writing). Provision is made for grammar review, conversational practices, and language lab work. Selected readings from modern authors, introducing students to various styles of literary German, are discussed.

Course	GER 456 The Student Movement and the Neo-Avantgarde in 1960s Germany
Professor	Florian Becker
CRN	95402
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLINLC 118
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

An interdisciplinary examination of the aesthetic and intellectual shifts that transformed West German cultural and political life in the years leading up to the student rebellion of 1968. The aesthetic production on which we will focus creatively re-appropriated many of the strategies of the historical avant-garde (especially those of Dadaism), often in the hope to subvert the “spectacle” of consumer capitalism and to transform everyday life. We will engage closely with a variety of texts and projecs, seeking to attain a theoretically informed understanding of these now historical ambitions, and of their relation to wider processes of societal change. Topics will include: experimental poetry (“Wiener Gruppe,” Heißenbüttel, Enzensberger); theatre and anti-theatre (Handke, Weiss); “New German Cinema” (Fassbinder, Kluge); visual art (Beuys, Fluxus, Pop and Capitalist Realism); pronouncements and manifestoes of the student movement (Dutschke, Baumann, Gruppe SPUR). Theoretical essays by Adorno, Bürger, Schneider, Enzensberger, Mayer, Habermas. All readings and classroom discussion will be in German. Short seminar presentations and sustained work on writing skills.