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44 graduate courses in the Fall 2010 Graduate Calendar, from Waterloo’s archived copy.

GER 600 Methods of Research0.50 units

A course designed to foster an understanding of the fundamental notions of critical inquiry and to provide training in intellectual and practical skills common to research in the areas of applied linguistics, film and literary studies.

(Cross-listed with GER 700)

LEC · Course ID 001448Archived pageGER 600 today

GER 601 Approaches in Linguistics0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 701)

SEM · Course ID 011669Archived pageGER 601 today

GER 602 Approaches in Literary and Cultural Theory0.50 units

Major currents in twentieth-century literary theory are discussed and applied to primary texts so that students can develop their own critical position.

(Cross-listed with GER 702)

LEC · Course ID 001449Archived pageGER 602 today

GER 603 Approaches in Language Didactics0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 703)

SEM · Course ID 001450Archived pageGER 603 today

GER 604 Approaches in Film and Performance Theory0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 704)

SEM · Course ID 011670Archived pageGER 604 today

GER 610 Topics in German Linguistics0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 710)

  • 1 Mehrsprachigkeit im Deutschen
  • 2 K-W - Deutsch
  • 3 Deutsch in Waterloo
  • 4 Using Text Corpora

SEM · Course ID 010403Archived pageGER 610 today

GER 611 Topics in Second Language Acquisition and Computer Assisted Language Learning0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 711)

  • 1 Language Learning & Technology
  • 2 Intelligence & Errors in CALL
  • 3 Dynamic Aspects of SLA
  • 4 Deutsch in Waterloo
  • 5 Learner Variability & CALL

SEM · Course ID 001451Archived pageGER 611 today

GER 612 Topics in Sociolinguistics0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 712)

  • 1 Multilingualism: Modern Wrld
  • 2 Bilingual Codes
  • 3 Language, Migration & Identity

SEM · Course ID 010405Archived pageGER 612 today

GER 613 Topics in Discourse Analysis0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 713)

  • 1 Approaches to Anlyzng Commnctn
  • 2 Language and Identity
  • 3 #1 Approchs to Anlyzng Commntn
  • 4 Konversationsanalyse

SEM · Course ID 010404Archived pageGER 613 today

GER 614 Topics in Linguistic Theory0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 714)

SEM · Course ID 010406Archived pageGER 614 today

GER 615 Topics in Language Education0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 715)

Department Consent Required

  • 1 Philosophies - Lang. Education

SEM · Course ID 014084Archived pageGER 615 today

GER 620 Topics in German Literature and Culture0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 720)

  • 1 Weimar Republic Culture
  • 2 Recent German Literature
  • 3 Intell Found - Germ Classicism
  • 4 Schiller on Stage and Film
  • 5 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
  • 6 Kafka Intermedial
  • 7 Goethe's Poems
  • 8 Hauptmann: Werk & Wirkung
  • 9 Weimarer Klassik
  • 10 Goethe und Herder
  • 11 Volksstuck
  • 12 Nachwendeliteratur
  • 13 Schiller's Dramas
  • 14 20th Cent. Austrian Lit
  • 15 German Romanticism
  • 16 Becoming Animal
  • 17 Kafka: Classic Short Stories
  • 18 Romantic Ecology
  • 19 Thomas Manns Erzaehlungen
  • 20 Deviant Desires in 19th-c Lit.

SEM · Course ID 011671Archived pageGER 620 today

GER 621 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 721)

SEM · Course ID 001464Archived pageGER 621 today

GER 622 Topics in Film and Electronic Media0.50 units

  • 3 Class Film Theory & Aesthetics
  • 4 Rewriting History in Film
  • 5 Doris Dorrie: Film and Fiction
  • 6 New German Cinema
  • 7 Perf & Sexuality in Ger Cinema

SEM · Course ID 010378Archived pageGER 622 today

GER 623 Topics in Literature and Cultural Theory0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 723)

  • 1 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
  • 2 Gender: Fin-de-siecle Ger Lit
  • 3 Masculinities
  • 4 Psychoanalysis Lit & Vis Stds
  • 5 Concepts of Masculinity
  • 6 Psychanlys Lit, Vis & Sex Stds
  • 7 Gadamer & Hermeneutics

SEM · Course ID 001465Archived pageGER 623 today

GER 695 Reading Courses in Approved Topics0.50 units

  • 1 Teaching, Lrng & Tech Issues
  • 2 Goethes Weimar & Kulturwissen
  • 3 Indo-Euro:Modern Stnd German

RDG · Course ID 010423Archived pageGER 695 today

GER 700 Methods of Research0.50 units

A course designed to foster an understanding of the fundamental notions of critical inquiry and to provide training in intellectual and practical skills common to research in the areas of applied linguistics, film and literary studies.

(Cross-listed with GER 600)

LEC · Course ID 001448Archived pageGER 700 today

GER 701 Approaches in Linguistics0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 601)

SEM · Course ID 011669Archived pageGER 701 today

GER 702 Approaches in Literary and Cultural Theory0.50 units

Major currents in twentieth-century literary theory are discussed and applied to primary texts so that students can develop their own critical position.

(Cross-listed with GER 602)

LEC · Course ID 001449Archived pageGER 702 today

GER 703 Approaches in Language Didactics0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 603)

SEM · Course ID 001450Archived pageGER 703 today

GER 704 Approaches in Film and Performance Theory0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 604)

SEM · Course ID 011670Archived pageGER 704 today

GER 710 Topics in German Linguistics0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 610)

  • 1 Mehrsprachigkeit im Deutschen
  • 2 K-W - Deutsch
  • 3 Deutsch in Waterloo
  • 4 Using Text Corpora

SEM · Course ID 010403Archived pageGER 710 today

GER 711 Topics in Second Language Acquisition and Computer Assisted Language Learning0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 611)

  • 1 Language Learning & Technology
  • 2 Intelligence & Errors in CALL
  • 3 Dynamic Aspects of SLA
  • 4 Deutsch in Waterloo
  • 5 Learner Variability & CALL

SEM · Course ID 001451Archived pageGER 711 today

GER 712 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture0.50 units

SEM · Course ID 014041Archived pageGER 712 today

GER 713 Topics in Discourse Analysis0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 613)

  • 1 Approaches to Anlyzng Commnctn
  • 2 Language and Identity
  • 3 #1 Approchs to Anlyzng Commntn
  • 4 Konversationsanalyse

SEM · Course ID 010404Archived pageGER 713 today

GER 714 Topics in Linguistic Theory0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 614)

SEM · Course ID 010406Archived pageGER 714 today

GER 720 Topics in German Literature and Culture0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 620)

  • 1 Weimar Republic Culture
  • 2 Recent German Literature
  • 3 Intell Found - Germ Classicism
  • 4 Schiller on Stage and Film
  • 5 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
  • 6 Kafka Intermedial
  • 7 Goethe's Poems
  • 8 Hauptmann: Werk & Wirkung
  • 9 Weimarer Klassik
  • 10 Goethe und Herder
  • 11 Volksstuck
  • 12 Nachwendeliteratur
  • 13 Schiller's Dramas
  • 14 20th Cent. Austrian Lit
  • 15 German Romanticism
  • 16 Becoming Animal
  • 17 Kafka: Classic Short Stories
  • 18 Romantic Ecology
  • 19 Thomas Manns Erzaehlungen
  • 20 Deviant Desires in 19th-c Lit.

SEM · Course ID 011671Archived pageGER 720 today

GER 721 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 621)

SEM · Course ID 001464Archived pageGER 721 today

GER 723 Topics in Literature and Cultural Theory0.50 units

(Cross-listed with GER 623)

  • 1 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
  • 2 Gender: Fin-de-siecle Ger Lit
  • 3 Masculinities
  • 4 Psychoanalysis Lit & Vis Stds
  • 5 Concepts of Masculinity
  • 6 Psychanlys Lit, Vis & Sex Stds
  • 7 Gadamer & Hermeneutics

SEM · Course ID 001465Archived pageGER 723 today

GER 751 Linguistic Methodology0.50 units

Systematic presentation of fundamental quantitative and qualitative methods of linguistics. Students will learn to recognize these different methodologies and to associate them with a variety of research contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013937Archived pageGER 751 today

GER 752 Theories and Models of Applied Linguistics0.50 units

Communicative samples from the basis of explorations of theoretical models and related analytic methodologies in applied linguistics. Statistically-based quantitative models are compared with and differentiated from evidence-based qualitative models of analysis. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013938Archived pageGER 752 today

GER 753 Theories and Methods of Cultural and Literary Studies0.50 units

Systematic presentation of fundamental methods of literary and cultural analysis. Students will learn to recognize these different methodologies and to associate them with a variety of research contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013939Archived pageGER 753 today

GER 754 Theories and Conceptions of Modernity0.50 units

Fundamental theories of modernism and modernity. Notions of epoch construction as well as the differing conceptualizations of modernity and social change from Luhman, Foucault, and Elias to Adorno and Horkheimer are examined. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013940Archived pageGER 754 today

GER 761 Interaction and Text0.50 units

Questions of contrastive media textology, conversation analysis, text analysis, discourse analysis, field research, and transcription. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013941Archived pageGER 761 today

GER 762 Research Directions in Language Acquisition and Multilinualism0.50 units

Current research and theories regarding language acquisition, language change, and multilingualism are examined, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistic notions of multilingualism, or language acquisition in social contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013942Archived pageGER 762 today

GER 763 Sociology of Language and Cultural Differentiation0.50 units

Interconnections between linguistic data, elements of language, and social and cultural phenomena are analyzed utilizing examples from actual communicative situations. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013943Archived pageGER 763 today

GER 764 History of Language0.50 units

The history of language as applied to the example of the development of German. Questions central to this general topic as well as problems of dialects and stages of language development are examined with an emphasis on Middle High and Old High German. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013944Archived pageGER 764 today

GER 765 German Grammar0.50 units

The grammar of the German language, theory of language, and issues of the systematic description of language are the focal topics of this seminar. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013945Archived pageGER 765 today

GER 771 Individual and Society in Historical Transformation0.50 units

Literary representations of the many examples of transformations from 18th century feudal to 19th century bourgeois societies. Changes in the social structures and orientations are examined with special attention to the development of the notion of the "individual" in the advent of the modern world. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013946Archived pageGER 771 today

GER 772 Aesthetic Transformations and Theoretical Concepts0.50 units

Literary-aesthetic concepts of modernism are analyzed in light of their historical context and corresponding theoretical concepts. Special attention will be given to the influence of new media on models of literary production and reception. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013947Archived pageGER 772 today

GER 773 Intercultural Perspectives, Post-colonial Consteallations & Transnational Discourses0.50 units

Literary reflections of intercultural encounters and cultural conflicts are analysed utilizing corresponding theoretical approaches. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013948Archived pageGER 773 today

GER 774 ` German Literature and Culture Before 17000.50 units

Literature of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque. Exemplary texts are examined in their cultural and historical contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013949Archived pageGER 774 today

GER 775 Modern German Literature0.50 units

Analysis and interpretation of literary texts since the early Enlightenment using a variety of theoretical approaches, such as examinations of the works within literary-historical, genre, epochal or motif contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013950Archived pageGER 775 today

GER 780 Media Studies0.50 units

Theory and history of media studies, combined with qualitative analyses of exemplary medial products (such as films) from the German cultural realm. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

Department Consent Required

SEM · Course ID 013951Archived pageGER 780 today