A continuation of GER 101, this course is designed to develop listening comprehension and speaking proficiency as well as reading and writing skills. Instruction includes grammar drills, review of readings, communication practice, guided composition, and language lab exercises. Readings furnish insights into many aspects of German civilization and culture, conveying what life is like in the German-speaking countries today. Indivisible.

What is this thing called cabaret, this ever-changing mixture of social and political criticism, theatricality and literature? How did it begin, what was its function and how did it manage to establish itself as its own genre especially in Germany and other German-speaking countries? Focusing primarily on Germany between 1901 and 1945, we will study the history and significance of the German Cabaret, its formal settings, its origins and its literary and political place and function throughout its 20th century history. We will study the most famous Cabaret poets, political satirists, songwriters and composers through original texts, critical essays, press reviews, and audio-visual documentaries. Readings by Frank Wedekind, Hugo Ball, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern, Erich Kästner, Erich Mühsam, Klabund, Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring, Friedrich Hollaender, Jura Soyfer, Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Leo Strauß, Erika Mann, Wolfgang Borchert and others will give students an opportunity to explore influential artistic movements in Germany such as Expressionism and Dadaism, to analyze the possibilities and limits of political activism through poetry, songs and drama, and to investigate the challenges of 'being foreign' at home and in exile. Conducted in German

A survey of the most important literary and theoretical texts of the German Romantics, with emphasis on the Early Romantics of the Athenaeum circle writing at the turn of the 19th century, but also with some consideration of later Romanticism(s). We will explore key concepts of Romantic thought (irony, allegory, the fragmentary, universal poetry, "eternal becoming") as they appear in literary and theoretical works of this period. Readings to include Tieck, Wackenroder, Friedrich Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Schleiermacher, Kleist, Arnim, Brentano, Hoffmann, Chamisso, Moerike. Conducted in German.