Students interested in studying German should
note that Beginning German is only offered in an intensive format every spring
semester. For more information please see the following description or contact
Prof. Franz Kempf directly.
GER
106: Beginning German Intensive is designed to
enable students with little or no previous experience in German to complete
three semesters of college-level German within five months: spring semester at
Bard, plus four weeks in the summer at Bard College Berlin (upon successful
completion carrying four additional credits). Students will meet ten hours a
week (including a one-hour conversation class with the German language tutor).
Outside of class, students will have the opportunity to connect and prepare for
course work with innovative teaching and learning experiences online. The
communicative approach actively involves students from day one in this class.
As the course progresses, the transition is made from learning the language for
everyday communication to the reading and discussion of classical and modern
texts (such as Goethe, Heine, Kafka, Brecht) as well as of music and film. The
concluding four weeks of the program will be spent at Bard’s sister campus in
Berlin: Students will further explore German language and culture in a twenty
hours per week course, which is accompanied by guided tours introducing
participants to Berlin’s intriguing history, architecture, and vibrant cultural
life. Students interested in this class must consult with Prof. Franz Kempf before on-line registration in December. (Need-based
financial aid for the
92404 |
GER
202 Intermediate
German II |
Thomas
Wild |
M
T
Th 10:30
am-11:30 am |
OLINLC 206 |
FL |
FLLC |
For students who have completed three
semesters of college German (or equivalent).
The course is designed to deepen the language proficiency by increasing
students’ fluency in speaking, reading, and writing, and adding significantly
to their working vocabulary. Students improve their ability to express their
own ideas and hone their strategies for understanding spoken and written
communication. We will discuss various materials on questions around
multiculturalism and migration in
91763 |
GER / LIT 287 The Ring of
the Nibelung |
Franz
Kempf |
T Th 10:10
am-11:30 am |
OLIN 203 |
LA |
ELIT |
See Literature section for description.
91759 |
LIT
318 Hannah
Arendt: Political Thinking and the plurality of languages |
Thomas
Wild |
T 4:40 pm-7:00
pm |
HEG 308 |
MBV |
HUM |
See Literature section for description.
91761 |
GER
320 Modern German
Prose |
Franz
Kempf |
T Th 1:30
pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 307 |
FL |
FLLC |
A survey of great works of mainly
twentieth-century prose, including Novellen, Erzählungen, parables and other short forms.
Detailed literary analysis will be combined with the discussion of the social,
political and historical contexts of each work and interspersed with frequent
creative writing assigments. Readings to include
E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Thomas
Mann, Robert Walser, Heinrich von Kleist, Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann,
Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ilse Aichinger, Peter Handke, Thomas
Bernhard, Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada
and others. Conducted in German. Class
size: 16
91764 |
GER
426 Kleist's
Worlds |
Thomas
Wild |
M W 3:10
pm-4:30 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
FL |
FLLC |
This seminar is dedicated to the works and
worlds of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), one of the most fascinating and
thought-provoking writers of German literature. We will discuss a core
selection of his plays (Amphitryon, Penthesilea, Der zerbrochene Krug),
prose works (Marquise von O., Michael Kohlhaas),
and essays (Marionettentheater). Our course
will explore the historical constellations from which Kleist’s writings
emerged, in particular European enlightenment and its discontents (Diderot,
Molière, Goethe, Kant, Brentano) as well as intriguing contemporary
responses – also to the myth of Kleist – up to our days by prominent poets and
thinkers such as Heine, Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal, Aichinger,
Mayröcker, Brasch. Kleist’s
enthralling works inspired the worlds of theater, music and not the least of
modern poetics and literary theory; we will closely analyze respective
productions, compositions, and debates.
Class size: 18