Course	GER 202 Intermediate German II
Professor	Stephanie Kufner
CRN	18067
Schedule	M Tu W 12:00 -1:00 pm Olin L.C. 208
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and Culture

For students who have completed Ger 201 (or equivalent). The course is designed to deepen the proficiency gained in 101, 102 and 201. It increases students’ fluency in speaking, reading, and writing, and adds significantly to their working vocabulary. Students improve their ability to express their own ideas and hone their strategies for understanding spoken and written communication. Selected 20^th-century literary texts and audiovisual materials, including Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung.

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Course	GER 202 Intermediate German II
Professor	Florian Becker
CRN	18068
Schedule	Tu Wed Th 12:00 -1:00 pm Olin L.C. 115
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and Culture

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Course	GER 206 German Immersion
Professor	Franz Kempf
CRN	18003
Schedule	M T W Th Fr 9:00 - 10:00 am Olin L.C. 118 M T W Th Fr 11:00 - 12:00 pm Olin L.C. 118 M T W Th Fr 2:00 - 3:00 pm Olin L.C. 118
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and 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. 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	18071
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm Olin L.C. 208
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and 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. On-line registration

Course	GER T300 German Theater: Scripting and Production
Professor	Stephanie Kufner
CRN	18531
Schedule	To be arranged.

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, and others). 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, singing, dancing, and acting, in addition to taking on roles as stage manager, music and video art director, or costume designer.  Students will choose which of these elements they prefer to focus on throughout the semester, and as their final project. Classes will meet weekly until mid-term. After mid-term, the schedule will change to a rather rigorous night and weekend rehearsal schedule. Play production will be around May 1, 2008. German language skills preferred but not mandatory.