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11124 |
GER 202 Intermediate German II |
Florian Becker |
M T W . . |
12:00 -1:00 pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |
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 20th-century literary texts and audiovisual materials,
including Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung.
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11126 |
GER 202 Intermediate German II |
Stephanie Kufner |
. T W Th . |
12:05 -1:05 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
See above.
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11001 |
GER 206 German Immersion |
Franz Kempf |
M T W Th F |
9:00 - 10:00 am |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
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M T W Th F |
11:00 - 12:00 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
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M T W Th F |
2:00 -3:00 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
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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.
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11572 |
SST 298 Exiles, Refugees, and Survivors: The
Exodus from Hitler’s Germany |
David Kettler |
. . . Th . |
4:00 -6:20 pm |
OLIN 306 |
SSCI |
See Social Studies section for description.
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11368 |
GER 317 German Poetry: Goethe to Celan |
Florian Becker |
M . W . . |
3:00 -4:20 pm |
OLINLC 206 |
FLLC |
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, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, 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. Particular attention will be paid 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. Conducted in German.
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11369 |
GER 417 German Poetry: Goethe to Celan |
Florian Becker |
M . W . . |
3:00 -4:20 pm |
OLINLC 206 |
FLLC |
See above.