91247

GER 101 Beginning German I

Thomas Wild

M T W Th .

12:00 -1:00 pm

OLINLC 206

FLLC

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. Class size: 18

91249

GER 101 Beginning German I

Franz Kempf

. T W Th F

8:50 -9:50 am

OLINLC 120

FLLC

See above. Class size: 18

91250

GER 303 Grimms Marchen

Franz Kempf

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11:50 -1:10 pm

OLINLC 120

FLLC

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. First-year students should consult with the professor. Taught in German. Class size: 15

91724

GER 308 German through Film

Stephanie Kufner

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4:40 -6:00 pm

OLINLC 120

FLLC

This interdisciplinary course explores 100 years of German history, language and culture through the lens of contemporary German film. Films, documentaries, essays, poetry, and manifestos, will provide us with a road map through the century between World War I and Germany after reunification. Beginning with the Kinodebatte (1909-1929) of writers, theater directors, and critics in the early twentieth century on the poetics of film, we will discuss the role and responsibility of new media, examining literary, artistic, and cinematic representations of cultural, social and political issues in Germany between 1909 and 2012 - from the time of silent movies to the digital age. Directors and writers include: Fassbinder, Wenders, Fatih Akin, Elmar Fischer, Hofmannsthal, Dblin, Tucholsky. and Enzensberger. For students who have completed German 202 or the equivalent. Review and expansion of German grammar. Taught in German. Class size: 15

91248

GER 467 Correspondences: Figures of Writing

Thomas Wild

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3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 307

FLLC

One alone is always wrong; but with two involved, the truth begins, reads an aphorism by Friedrich Nietzsche. His criticism of the isolated genius thinker also proposes an alternative mode of thinking and writing: creative collaboration. The seminar will explore several instances of such creative collaborations, e.g. Hannah Arendt and Hilde Domin, Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. These intellectual relationships are also documented in letter exchanges, so that our seminar will unfold the word correspondence in a literal and in a figurative way. In this sense, Correspondence exceeds the limits of a single literary text or a letter; its dynamics translates into poems, novels, essays, or theoretical writings. As a consequence, fundamental categories such as authorship, work, intertextuality, or addressing are called into question. Our seminar will continuously reflect upon those terms based on canonical writings of modern literary criticism, including Benjamin, and (to be read in English) Genette, Barthes, Foucault, Lvinas. The course intends to incorporate materials of the Hannah Arendt Library special collection at Bard College in order to explore some of the unknown intellectual relationships between the pivotal political thinker and German as well as American writers. Taught in German. Class size: 12

91722

HIST 141    A Haunted Union: Twentieth-Century Germany and the Unifications of Europe

Gregory Moynahan

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1:30 -2:50 pm

RKC 115

HIST

91544

HIST / HUM 206 Global Europe

Gregory Moynahan / Joseph Luzzi

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10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 102

FLCL

Cross-listed: Italian Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Spanish Studies, Irish and Celtic Studies Where does Europe begin, and how do we establish its limits, conceptual and practical? Through a policy of aggressive expansion, the nation-states of Europe controlled over 85% of the habitable land in the world by 1900 and established common military, economic, political, scientific and diplomatic systems throughout much of this vast area. Yet this same expansion led to a hybridization, and contestation, of Europe polities through other cultures ranging from French North Africa, the British Commonwealth, and Latin America. How did Europe's expansion and the postcolonial reaction to it transform European culture and sensibility? How did a region defined by a millennium of continuous conflict that culminated in two world wars of unprecedented violence come to find not only relative peace but, in the European Union, a new political form and model for global human rights? Focused as much on contemporary events and developments within Europe as on its history, this seminar will feature contributions by a range of Bard faculty and incorporate film screenings, musical performances, and public readings into the curriculum. Although we will discuss global processes, the focus will be continental Europe. A basic awareness of European history at the level of at least a full-year high school course is required, while a college-level European history survey is recommended. Class size: 36