Course: |
GER 106 Beginning German Intensive |
||
Professor: |
Thomas Wild |
||
CRN: |
90214 |
Schedule: |
Mon Tue Wed Thurs 9:30 AM
- 11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 208 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
20 |
Credits: |
8 |
Beginning German Intensive is designed to enable students with no or
little previous experience in German to complete three semesters of college
German within five months: fall semester at Bard, plus an intensive course abroad
at Bard College Berlin during winter break (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, Dada,
Jandl, Tawada) as well as of music and film. The concluding section of the
program will be spent at Bard's sister campus in Berlin in January 2022:
Students will further explore German language and culture in an intensive format
(4 hours per day), 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. Wild before
on-line registration. (Need-based financial aid for the Berlin section of the
course is available; please discuss further details with instructor.)
Course: |
GER 320 Modern German Short Prose |
||
Professor: |
Franz Kempf |
||
CRN: |
90215 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 8:30 AM - 9:50
AM Olin 304 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
16 |
Credits: |
4 |
A survey of great works of mainly twentieth-century prose, including Novellen,
Erzà¤hlungen, 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.
Course: |
GER 418 German Expressionism |
||
Professor: |
Franz Kempf |
||
CRN: |
90216 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs 12:10 PM - 1:30
PM Olin Languages Center 120 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
16 |
Credits: |
4 |
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. Readings will include
works by Frank Wedekind, Gottfried Benn, Georg Heym, Else Lasker-Schüler,
Kafka, Georg Kaiser, and Georg Trakl. Since Expressionism involved not just
literature but painting, music, and film, we will also consider works by the
Brücke- and Blaue Reiter-associations of painters, Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck,
and films such as Der letzte Mann, M, and Die Büchse der Pandora. Taught in
German.
Course: |
HIST 192 The Age of Extremes: Topics in European History |
||
Professor: |
Gregory Moynahan |
||
CRN: |
90151 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin
201 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: German
Studies; Global & International Studies
Course: |
HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945 |
||
Professor: |
Cecile Kuznitz |
||
CRN: |
90159 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 2:00 PM
- 3:20 PM Campus
Center Weis Cinema |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: German
Studies; Human Rights; Jewish Studies; Russian Studies
Course: |
LIT 2053 Once Upon A Time: The Folktales of the Brothers
Grimm |
||
Professor: |
Franz Kempf |
||
CRN: |
90261 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin
203 |
Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in English |
Class cap |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: German
Studies
Course: |
PHIL 245 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud |
||
Professor: |
Ruth Zisman |
||
CRN: |
90033 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Olin
204 |
Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being, Value |
Class cap |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: German
Studies