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16145 |
GER 106
BASIC Intensive German |
Stephanie
Kufner |
M
T W
Th 8:50
am-11:10 am |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |
8 credits Basic Intensive German is designed to enable
students with little or no previous experience in German to complete three
semesters of college-level German within five months: spring semester at Bard,
plus four weeks in August at Bard College Berlin (upon successful completion
carrying four additional credits). Students will meet ten hours a week
(including a one-hour conversation class with the German language tutor).
Outside of class, students will have the opportunity to connect and prepare for
course work with innovative teaching and learning experiences online. 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 Bard’s 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 Berlin’s intriguing history, architecture, and vibrant cultural
life. Students interested in this class must consult with Prof. Stephanie Kufner before on-line registration (Need-based financial aid for the
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16197 |
GER / LIT 2704
German Literature in 7 Dates |
Thomas
Wild |
T Th 4:40
pm-6:00 pm |
OLIN 201 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: German Studies This
course offers seven relevant access points to German literature and history between
the 18th and 21st centuries. The starting points of these explorations will be
dateable events, such as January 1774 when Goethe establishes his literary fame
after six somnambulant weeks of writing The
Sorrows of Young Werther, or November 1949 when Hannah Arendt first
revisits
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16198 |
GER 303
Grimms’ MÄrchen |
Franz
Kempf |
T Th 10:10
am-11:30 am |
OLIN 101 |
FLLC |
“Enchanting,
brimming with wonder and magic, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the
special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives,” writes
translator and Grimm scholar Jack Zipes.
Unfortunately, we seem to know these tales only in adaptations that greatly
reduce their power to touch our emotions and engage our imaginations. Through a
close reading of selected tales, with emphasis on language, plot, motif, and
image, this course explores not only the tales’ poetics and politics but also
their origins in the oral tradition, in folklore and myth. The course considers
major critical approaches (e.g., Freudian, Marxist, feminist) and conducts a contrastive
analysis of creative adaptations (Disney, classical ballet, postmodern dance)
and other fairy-tale traditions (Perrault, Straparola,
Arabian Nights). Creative and critical writing assignments.
Conducted in German. Class size: 20
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16199 |
GER 331
Poetry and Philosophy |
Thomas
Wild |
T Th 11:50
am-1:10 pm |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
Is there something
like a sensory reasoning? Who has the capacity to formulate the unspeakable?
How can we address— with words— the crisis of language? Is humor a thought or a
sentiment? Poetry and philosophy have for centuries offered fascinating
responses to such questions— not least in the German tradition. Poets,
philosophers, and poetic thinkers—from Goethe, Kant, and Schiller, to Hölderlin, Heidegger, and Rilke, or from Heine, Nietzsche,
and Kafka, to writers of the Avant-Garde, and on to Benjamin, Brecht, and
Arendt—have all had something to say on these questions. The beauty and
precision of their language(s) will foster our analytical vocabulary and will
(we hope!) inspire ambitious and playful writing experiments and provoke a
semester of joyful conversations with these thinkers of and in the German
language. Conducted in
German. Class size: 16
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16200 |
GER 418
German Expressionism |
Franz
Kempf |
T Th 1:30
pm-2:50 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
Less a style than a
Weltanschauung of a rebellious generation, German Expressionism –
flourishing roughly between 1905 and 1925 – is generally
seen as an artistic reflection of a common feeling of crisis whose origins can
be sought, for instance, in the loss of a cohesive world view, especially in
the wake of Nietzsche's pessimistic diagnosis; the disappearance of
individualism in burgeoning urban centers; the hypocrisy of Imperial Wilhelminian Germany; the soulless materialism and the
(self-) alienation of increased industrialization; and the collapse of
Newtonian science.