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Regular Offerings

  • German 101 and 102
  • German Intermediate I — after completion of 101 and 102
  • German Intermediate II — after completion of 101, 102, and 202
  • Transitional German 110 (Fall only) — accelerated to join with 202
  • German Immersion (every two years – Spring only)

 

SAMPLE CLASS CYCLE

Offered Spring '08 Fall '08 Spring '09 Fall '09 Spring '10 Fall '10
Regular language classes (4 credits) German 202 German 101 German 102 German 201 German 202 German 101
Accelerated Language classes (up to 12 Credits) IMMERSION
(every 2 years)
(German Transitional)   German Transitional IMMERSION
(every 2 years)
(German Transitional)
Literature 300 Level            
Literature 400 Level            
Cross-Disciplinary Tutorials (level 200-400|2-4 Credits)            

 

German Literature Taught in First-Year-Seminar

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
  • The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
  • The Good God of Manhattan (Ingeborg Bachmann)
  • The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
  • Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • Doktor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
  • Goethe's Faust
  • The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
  • The German Ideology
  • Thesis on Feuerbach
  • Weber: The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism
  • Freud: The Future of an Illusion
  • Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

 

Other Related Courses

  • The Weimar Republic
  • The European State System
  • Western Political Theory
  • History of Philosophy
  • Researching the Holocaust
  • Wittgenstein
  • German Aesthetic Theory
  • Europe from 1815 to the Present
  • German Expressionism
  • Berthold Brecht and the Theater
  • The Philosophy of Kant

 

Cross-Disciplinary Tutorials

In order to diversify the upper-level curriculum, members of the German faculty offer literary as well as non-literary 2 or 4 credit cross-disciplinary tutorials to students of all majors taught side by side with virtually any course offered at Bard. For example, a philosophy major with a third-year competence in German who is taking a course on nineteenth-century Continental Philosophy can read and discuss Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy in both English (in the philosophy course) and German (in the concurrent tutorial).

If you are interested in signing up for a tutorial, contact any of the German faculty: Franz Kempf (kempf@bard.edu); Florian Becker (fnbecker@bard.edu) , or Stephanie Kufner (kufner@bard.edu)

A Selection of Cross-Disciplinary Tutorials in German Studies:

  • GER T350: German Tutorial - Hegel
  • GER T300: The Birth Of Tragedy
  • GER T400: Enlightenment Thought
  • GER T200: German Poetry
  • GER T300: The German Hoerspiel
  • GER T350 The Modernist Novel
  • GER T300: Children's Literature
  • GER T300: Fiction & Poetry
  • GER T200: Music: German Duets
  • GER T300: Einstein
  • GER T300: German Through Economics
  • GER T300: Gunter Wallroff
  • GER T400: Schopenhauer, Mann, Nietzsche
  • GER T300: German Grammar And Computers
  • GER T200: German Expressionism Online
  • GER T300: Afro-Germans
  • GER T200: Theater Production: Brecht On Trial
  • GER T300: Freud
  • GER T300: Thomas Mann:Der Tod In Venedig
  • GER T300: Theater Production: 100 Years Of German Cabaret
  • GER T300: German English Translation
  • GER T200: Advanced Grammar & Conversation
  • GER T200: Advanced Grammar & Conversation
  • GER T400: Nietzsche
  • GER T300: Nations, States & Nationalism
  • GER T300: Theater Production: Franz Kafka - Report to an Academy
  • GER T300: Integrating Computer Technology Into FL Learning
  • GER T300: African Diaspora In Germany
  • GER T300: Brecht's Mahagonny
  • GER T300: F. Schiller: On the Aesthetic Education of Man
  • GER T300: Theater Production: Franz Kafka - The Trial
  • GER T300: Theater Production: Bertholt Brecht - The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
  • GER T300: Theater Production: Christa Wolf - Cassandra  
  • GER T200: Advanced Grammar and Compositions
  • GER T300: On the Authentic Education of Man
  • GER T300: Investigating the American Presidency
  • GER T100: German Through Film
  • GER T300: Theater Production : Erich Mühsam