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GER 102 Beginning German II |
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Professor |
Florian Becker |
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CRN |
17406 |
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Schedule |
M T W Th 11:50-12:50 pm Olin LC 208 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D |
NEW: Foreign
Language, Literature & Culture
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The continuation of GER 101, this course lays a
foundation for proficiency in oral and written communication. Class time is
devoted to interactive tasks that develop communicative competence. The
emphasis falls on oral production, strategies for understanding oral and
written discourse, vocabulary acquisition, and on expressing your ideas in
writing. Readings and audiovisual materials convey what life is like in the
German-speaking countries today. On-line registration
Course |
GER 102 Beginning German II |
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Professor |
Stephanie Kufner |
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CRN |
17508 |
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Schedule |
T W Th Fr 11:50-12:50 pm Olin LC 206 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D |
NEW: Foreign
Language, Literature & Culture
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The continuation of GER 101, this course lays a foundation
for proficiency in oral and written communication. Class time is devoted to
interactive tasks that develop communicative competence. The emphasis falls on
oral production, strategies for understanding oral and written discourse,
vocabulary acquisition, and on expressing your ideas in writing. Readings and
audiovisual materials convey what life is like in the German-speaking countries
today. On-line
registration
Course |
GER 317 / 417 German Poetry: Goethe to Celan |
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Professor |
Florian Becker |
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CRN |
17407 / 17501 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 3:00-4:20 pm Olin LC 118 |
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Distribution |
OLD: B/D |
NEW: Foreign
Language, Literature & Culture
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This course will introduce you to the pleasures and
challenges of reading German poetry. We shall read exemplary works by the most
important German poets of the last three centuries, including Goethe, Schiller,
Hölderlin, Brentano, Heine, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, George and Celan. While we
shall attend closely to the formal features of each poem (metrical structure,
tropes, generic conventions), we shall do so with a view to understanding how
the poem engages with the major philosophical shifts and historical
catastrophes of the times. We shall pay particular attention to the ways in
which poets like Hölderlin and Rilke appropriate and transform historical
genres such as the hymn, ode, sonnet, or elegy, by infusing them with their own
conceptions of history, subjectivity, and poetic writing. Advanced students will
have the opportunity to take this seminar as a 400-level course, which will
entail additional reading and writing. Conducted in German. On-line
registration
Course |
GER T300 German Theater: Scripting and Production |
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Professor |
Stephanie Kufner |
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CRN |
17509 |
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Schedule |
TBA |
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For
students with an interest in the scripting, practice, and production of a
bilingual theater play within the German Studies Program, based on works by authors
of interest to participants (i.e. Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur
Schnitzler, Christa Wolf). This tutorial is open to anybody from the Bard
Community and involves among other things close reading and discussion of
respective texts, scripting, producing, staging, and acting, in addition to
taking on roles as stage managers, music and video art directors, or costume
designers. Students will choose which
of these elements they prefer to focus on throughout the semester, and as their
final project. German language skills preferred. On-line registration