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