Course	GER 202 Intermediate German II
Professor	Florian Becker
CRN	16161
Schedule	Tu Th Fr 1:00 -2:00 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

A continuation of GER 201, 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. On-line

Course	GER 206 German Immersion
Professor	Franz Kempf
CRN	16044
Schedule	M T W Th F 9:00 - 10:00 am OLINLC 118 M T W Th F 11:00 - 12:00 pm OLINLC 118 M T W Th F 2:00 - 3:00 pm OLINLC 118
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

12 credits. Intensive study 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., Freshman Seminar). Beginning with elementary pronunciation, students are plunged into daily intensive usage of German, with practice in all four language skills (speaking, listening‑comprehension, reading, writing). The communicative approach actively involves the student in a variety of activities including structured practice, role playing, linguistic games, student‑to‑student give‑and‑take, teacher‑to‑student give‑and‑take (and vice versa), response to listening‑comprehension exercises, and invention of creative oral and/or written exchanges. Emphasis will be placed on linguistic accuracy and cultural authenticity.

As the course progresses, the transition is made from learning the language for everyday communication to the consideration of literary and cultural values through the reading of classical and modern texts (e.g., Goethe, Eichendorff, Kafka, Brecht) which are representative for the thought and forms of the age in which they were written. The last month of the program will be spent in Germany. Participants will study at Collegium Palatinum, in Heidelberg for four weeks. Last year's participants raved about the Collegium's effective teaching aids and methods. Course days are Monday through Friday, leaving students most evenings and weekends free for independent study, research, leisure, and excursions. The Collegium Palatinum offers a complete program of information, cultural activities, and excursions. In July and August, after the completion of the program, participants may travel in Europe on their own or return to the U.S. immediately. To cover the costs of the program, financial aid will be made available.

Course	GER 425 Culture and Society in Weimar Germany
Professor	Florian Becker
CRN	16275
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 302
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

A critical exploration of German literature, theatre, visual arts, architecture, and film in the period from 1918 to 1933. The Weimar Republic witnessed the emergence of a distinctive brand of modernism, characterized by an unprecedented openness to mass culture and to the use of new technologies of reproduction. Much of the cultural production we shall examine does not simply seek to refashion aesthetic practice; it aims to reconfigure the human sensory and cognitive apparatus, in an attempt to transform the basic structures of social life. We shall analyze works of literature and art in their relation to the rapid technological and social modernization that shaped the period, and to the profound socio-political conflicts to which this process gave rise. Topics include: the end of Empire and the end of Expressionism; the German Revolution and Berlin Dada (Grosz, Haussmann, Heartfield, Höch, Huelsenbeck); Brecht’s “learning plays” and the cultural politics of Marxism; the “New Objectivity” and the “Expressionism Debate” (Lukács, Bloch, Benjamin, Brecht, Adorno); Döblin’s prose; social theory and the “Feuilleton” (Simmel, Krakauer, Tucholsky); the metropolis in cinema (Ruttmann, Lang) and photography (Moholy-Nagy, Sander), the art and architecture of the Bauhaus; the literature of the radical right (Jünger). All classroom discussion and primary texts will be in German. Some secondary texts will be in English. Short seminar presentations and sustained work on writing skills. On-line