27 courses in the 1969–70 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Department of German and Russian
Faculty listed in 1969–70
Visiting Professor H. Boeschenstein, Ph.D. (Rostock) Visiting Professor B.L.D. Coghlan, Ph.D. (Birmingham) Professor J.W. Dyck, A.B. (Bethel). M.A. (Missouri), Ph.D. (Michigan) Chairman of the Department Professor E. Heier, B.A., M.A. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (Michigan)
Deputy Chairman
Faculty listed in 1969–70
Professor S. Hoefert, B.A.. M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) Professor I. Levitsky, A.B. (Rochester), M.A. (Buffalo). Ph.D. (Duke) Associate Professor H. Fischer, Ph. D. (Munich) Assistant Professor G. Firnau (Mrs.), Staatsexamen (Berlin), Ph.D. (Yale) Assistant Professor M. Kuxdorf, B.A.. M.A. (Waterloo) Assistant Professor M. Richter, Staatsexamen (Berlin and Bonn), M.A. (Toronto) Assistant Professor W. Shelest, Diploma (Munich), M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Munich) Assistant Professor J. Whiton, B.A., M.A.. Ph.D. (Minnesota) Assistant Professor A. Zweers, Candidaatsexamen. Doctorandus (Amsterdam) Lecturer (part-time) R.S. Ages (Mrs.), B.A. (Ohio State), M.A. (Waterloo) Lecturer (part-time) M.A. Davies (Mrs.), B.A. (Washington), A.M. (Radcliffe) Lecturer A. Donskov, B.A.. M.A. (British Columbia) Lecturer H. Marsden (Mtrs.), B.A. (Randolph-Macon). M.A. (Waterloo) Lecturer H.W. Panthel, B.A. (Waterloo). M.A. (Cincinnati)
Undergraduate Courses
German
Note I All courses with the exception of German 10 are one term (half)
Note 2
Note 3
courses.
Half courses are designed for the convenience of students (Engineering and other Co-operative) who are enrolled in term-programmes. Nevertheless, to obtain credit Arts students must follow up-though not necessarily in the same year-101 with 102; 121 with 122; 201 with 202; 251 with 252; 271 with 272; 351 with 352; 451 with 452.
Any other two term (half) courses constitute one full course.
Note 4 Except for German IO, all the following courses are Honours courses.
10 Reading and Translation
but are also open to students enrolled in General programmes.
This course is designed to assist graduate students in acquiring a reading knowledge of German. Usage and structure of German scientific writings. Translation in fields of specialization.
GER 101First Year German For students with little or no knowledge of German.
A. Arts Students: The elements of German grammar, oral practice, and composition. Introduction to German literature with reading of selected texts. Open to all university students.
B. Science. Mathematics, and Engineering Students: Essential grammar, sentence structure. Reading and translation of scientific literature according to the students’ fields of interest.
GER 102First Year German Course description as in German 101.
121% Introduction to German Literary Movements
Department of German and Russian
Reading and interpretation of selected works by major German authors. Oral practice. composition, grammar. This course is normally for students with at least two years of highschool German. Other students with equivalent knowledge of German should obtain the permission of the instructor. One term.3 hours (lectures and language lab. }.
GER 201Scientific German 202* | ntermediate Scientific German
A review of the fundamentals of grammar is followed by a more advanced study of language structure and idiom. Readings and translation from contemporary scientific writing in the Physical Sciences with the aim of helping the student to acquire a greater vocabulary and to master the stylistic difficulties peculiar to technical writing. The reading material will be selected in accordance with the field of study of the individual student. One term. 3 fectures. Prerequisite: German 102 or equivalent. Permission of instructor.
Course descriptions as in 201. One term. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 201 or equivalent. Permission of instructor.
GER 251Conversation, Composition, Grammar and Phonetics
This course is conducted in German and provides intensive practice in spoken German. Vocabulary building, comprehension, pronunciation, and intonation are stressed. One term.3 hours (lectures and language lab.) Prerequisite: German 102 or 122. Permission of instructor.
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of representative works (Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Jean Paul, Holderlin, etc.) One term: 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 102 or 122: permission Of department chairman.
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of representative works (Novalis, Brentano, Tieck, Eichendorff, etc.). One term. 3 lecrures. Prerequisite: German 102 or 122; permission of department chairman.
A study of the major thought movements and masterpieces of philosophy, literature, music, art, etc. to the time of Enlightenment. This course is taught in English. One term, 3 lectures. Prerequisite: none.
Arts students can take this course in their second or subsequent years, students of other faculties in any year (cf.p.18 for course requirements in the Faculty of Arts).
A study of the major thought movements and masterpieces of philosophy, literature, music, art, etc. from Goethe to the present. This course is taught in English.
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of prescribed prose, drama and poetry (Brockes, Haller, Gellert, Lessing, Wieland, etc.) One term. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 102 or 122.
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of prescribed prose, drama and poetry (Klopstock, Herder, Gerstenberg. Lenz, Klinger, etc.), One term. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 102 or 122.
GER 451Advanced Conversation, Grammar and Composition
This course is conducted in German and provides intensive practice in spoken and written German on the advanced level. One term. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 352 or equivalent.
A study of the main thoughts, themes, forms, and schools in German poetry from the beginning to Goethe. One term. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 102 or 122.
A study of the main thoughts, themes, forms, and schools in German poetry from German Romanticism to the present. One term. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 102 or 122.
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of prescribed texts (Tepl, Brant, Erasmus, Bidermann, Luther, Sachs, etc.). One term. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: German 102 or 122.