15005 |
GER
106 A Intensive German |
Thomas Wild |
M T W Th . |
10:30am- 12:45pm |
OLINLC 206 |
FLLC |
8 credits Beginning German Intensive is designed to
enable students with little or no previous experience in German to complete
three semesters of college German within five months: spring semester at Bard,
plus four weeks in the summer at Bard College Berlin (upon successful
completion carrying four additional credits). Students will take eight class
hours per week during the semester at Bard, plus a weekly conversation meeting
with the German language tutor. The communicative approach actively involves
students from day one in this class. As the course progresses, the transition
is made from learning the language for everyday communication to the reading
and discussion of classical and modern texts (such as Goethe, Heine, Kafka,
Brecht) as well as of music and film. The concluding four weeks of the program
will be spent at Bards sister campus in Berlin: Students will further explore
German language and culture in a twenty hours per week course, which is
accompanied by guided tours introducing participants to Berlins intriguing
history, architecture, and vibrant cultural life. Students interested in this
class must consult with Profs Thomas Wild or Stephanie Kufner
before online-registration. (Need-based financial aid for the Berlin section of
the course is available; please discuss further details with instructors.) Class size: 16
15040 |
GER / LIT
206 SYMPATHY
FOR THE DEVIL: Goethe's Faust |
Franz Kempf |
M . W . . |
11:50am- 1:10pm |
OLINLC 120 |
ELIT |
See
Literature section for description.
15041 |
GER
320 Modern German Prose |
Franz Kempf |
. T . Th . |
10:10am- 11:30am |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
A
survey of great works of mainly twentieth-century prose, including Novellen, Erzählungen, parables
and other short forms.
Detailed literary analysis will be combined with the discussion of the social,
political and historical contexts of each work and interspersed with frequent
creative writing assigments. Readings to include
E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Thomas
Mann, Robert Walser, Heinrich von Kleist, Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg
Bachmann, Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ilse Aichinger, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Jenny Erpenbeck,
Yoko Tawada and others. Conducted
in German. Class size: 15
15042 |
GER
421 THE Experience OF THE
Foreign IN German LitERATURE |
Franz Kempf |
. T . Th . |
1:30pm-2:50pm |
OLIN 310 |
FLLC/DIFF |
This
course will examine representations of foreignness in modern German literature
and opera (e.g., Lessing, Mozart, Novalis, Heine,
Kafka, Frisch), in contemporary films (Hark Bohm, R.W. Fassbinder, Fatih Akin), and in works of nonnative Germans writing in
Germany today (Yoko Tawada, Aras Ören,
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Rafik Schami). Attempting to combine aesthetic appreciation
with cultural critique, the course will focus on issues such as
multiculturalism, homogeneity, and xenophobia. Its goal is to enable students
to approach cultural difference, in Claire Kramsch's
words, "in a spirit of ethnographic inquiry rather than in a normative or
judgmental way." Conducted in German. Class size: 15
15040 |
LIT 206 SYMPATHY
FOR THE DEVIL: Goethe's Faust |
Franz Kempf |
M . W . . |
11:50am- 1:10pm |
OLINLC 120 |
ELIT |
15422 |
HIST 141 A HAUNTED UNION: TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY AND THE UNIFICATIONS OF EUROPE |
Gregory Moynahan |
. T . Th . |
1:30pm- 2:50pm |
OLINLC 206 |
HIST |
15418 |
HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945 |
Cecile Kuznitz |
. T . Th . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
OLIN 301 |
HIST/DIFF |