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GER 101: Basic German I. Listening to, speaking, reading and writing German in a cultural context for the beginning student. Must be taken with German 100.
GER 102: Basic German II. Continued emphasis on the four skills in culturally authentic situations. Must be taken with German 100.
GER 103: Basic German III. Completion of the basic elements of the German language, spoken as well as written, with due regard to the cultural context of German expression. Must be taken with German 100.
GER 104: Intermediate German I. Intensive practice in the use of German through listening, speaking, reading and writing, and continued enhancement of the cultural awareness intrinsic to those skills.
GER 105: Intermediate German II. Continuing practice in spoken and written German and further development of reading and listening abilities in an authentic cultural context.
GER 106: Intermediate German III. Developing more fluency in speaking, understanding reading and writing German with a concomitant heightened awareness of the cultural dimensions of the German language.
GER 202: Advanced Communication II. Focus on the differences between speech and writing with an emphasis on the latter as expressed in compositions, editing and other writing activities.
GER 203: Advanced Communication III. Developing a sophisticated spoken fluency using authentic oral texts as models for elaborated discourse. Written texts and writing exercises reinforce oral expression.
GER 310: German Civilization II. Social, intellectual and artistic developments in Germany from unification in 1871 to reunification in 1990.
GER 311: German Civilization III. Contemporary Germany.
GER 312: German Intellectual History. Marx, Nietzsche, Freud; their decisive influence on the twentieth century.
GER 302: Introduction to German Literature II. From 1600-1850.
GER 303: Introduction to German Literature III. From 1850 to present.
GER 313: Turn-of-the-Century Vienna. A world center of modern art and thought: Freud, Wittgenstein, Klimt, Kokoschka, Kafka, Shoenberg.
GER 314: Berlin and the Golden Twenties. Expressionist film, Bauhaus, Dada, Brecht, Thomas Mann.
GER 315: Literature after 1945 (East and West). Reconstruction of German literature and coming to terms with the past: "Gruppe 47", Grass, Boell, Enzensberger.
GER 316: Literature of the Weimar Years: Mann, Hesse, Kafka, Brecht.
GER 317: Women Writers of German Expression. Studies in literature and social issues from all periods of German, Austrian and Swiss history.
GER 305: German Prose. * Topics include: prose form 1600 to Goethe; from the Romantic to the Realistic.
GER 306: The Novelle. From Goethe to Grass.
GER 307: German Poetry. * Topics include: from the Baroque to Holderin; from Romanticism to the present.
GER 308: Goethe's Faust. Part I and selected passages from Part II.
GER 329: The German Film. * Topics from all periods.
GER 399: Independent Study. Variable credit. Permission of chair and instructor required.
ART 371: History of Western Architecture II (course covers modern architecture with substantial sections on 20th-century German architecture including Berlin and the Bauhaus, Nazi architecture, etc., and featuring u.a. architects as: Behrens, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Meyer, Speer, Kleihues and, of course, that famous German-American Helmut Jahn)
ART 397: Special Topics (this is a series of courses rotating amongst the art history faculty including: Art and the Holocaust; Wilhelmine Art and the Development of the German Art Market; Weimar Art and Architecture; Topics in Nazi Art and Architecture; Contemporary German Art and Architecture)
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