Course	GER 101 Beginning German I
Professor	Florian Becker
CRN	90198
Schedule	Tu Wed Th Fri 12:00 -1:00 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

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, both GER 101 and 102 must be taken to earn credit.

Course	GER 303 Grimms Märchen
Professor	Franz Kempf
CRN	90239
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLINLC 210
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

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.

Course	GER 405 “Exit Metaphysics, Enter Sauerkraut”: 19th Century German Literature
Professor	Franz Kempf
CRN	90240
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 107
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

"Exit Metaphysics, enter Sauerkraut" is the phrase frequently used to describe the development of nineteenth-century German literature from "Romanticism" to "Naturalism". The phrase also alludes to the overwhelming experience shared by the majority of intellectuals and writers at that time: the awareness of the loss of security that idealistic philosophy had provided and the attempt to find new absolutes. We will investigate the evolution and the various facets of this experience as it manifests itself in literature through a close reading of selected works (novels, novellas, poems, and plays) by Grillparzer, Nestroy, Grabbe, Hebbel, Heine, Morike, Droste-Hulshoff, Keller, Stifler, C.F. Meyer, Fontane, Schnitzler, Wedekind, Hauptmann. Conducted in German.