53 courses in the 1993–94 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Introductory Note
Not all courses listed in this section are available. Please consult the 1993-94 Course Offerings List or the Department for current course information.
In choosing first-year courses, students should read carefully the course descriptions, consult the Depariment Undergraduate Officer, and check the Department's program section.
For students with little or no knowledge of German. The basic elements of German grammar with an emphasis on oral practice and pronunciation. Language laboratory, introduction to aspects of German culture and reading of appropriate graded texts.
GER 101/102 are beginners’ courses for students with little or no knowledge of German. Not open to students who have credit for GER 111, 112, Grade 12 or equivalent. If in doubt, consult the Department.
Prereq: GER 101
GER 111/112 are beginners’ courses for Students with little or no knowledge of German. Not open to students who have credit for GER 101, 102, Grade 12 or equivalent.
For students with little or no knowledge of German. The basic elements of German grammar and pronunciation with an emphasis on reading and translation of elementary scientific literature from various fields.
Prereq: GER 111
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An introduction to German literatura designed to accomplish the transition from language studies to reading and discussing literary texts. Grammar review, conversation practice, and the reading of selected works.
Prereq: OAC or Grade 13 German or equivalent
Prereq: GER 121, or permission of the instructor
This course is a continuation of first year GER 101/102. it offers extensive practice in both the spoken and written language. It provides vocabulary building, grammar review, and exercises in pronunciation and comprehension. Language lab.
Prereq: GER 102 or equivalent
Prereq: GER 201, or permission of the instructor
Conversation on topics of everyday life as well as on political, social, and cultural aspects of the German-speaking countries. Comprehensive grammar review, vocabulary building, pronunciation, and written practice.
Prereq: OAC or Grade 13 German or equivalent
Prereq: GER 251, or equivalent
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of representative works (Goethe, Schiller, Hdlderlin, etc.).
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of representative works (Novalis, Tieck, Brentano, etc).
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
A survey of cultural currents to the 18th century. Lectures will focus on major developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, architecture, and music as seen against the historical background of the
German speaking peoples. Taught in English Open to all students above first year
A survey of cultural events from the 18th century to the present. Lectures will focus on major developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, architecture, and music as seen against the historical background of the German speaking peoples.
Taught in English.
Open to all students above first year
Reading and interpretation of major works since 1945 in prose, drama and poetry. Main authors: Borchert, Ball, Frisch, Dirrenmatt, Grass, Eich, etc.
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
Introduction to the major periods of
German literature. Reading and
interpretation of representative texts. Prereq: GER 122, 252, 202 or
equivalent
Prereq: GER 122, 252, 282 or equivalent
This course introduces students to significant aspects of modem German culture through film, and links this study with that of literature. It involves viewing and analyzing films and establishing a connection to related literary and cultural traditions. Taught in English Prereq: Open to all students above first
year Cross-listed as FINE 359
Course Descriptions Germanic and Slavic
Theory, methodology, and techniques of translation. Patterns and problems in the translation of scholarly texts from the arts and sciences, with special emphasis on idiom and structure as compared with the target language.
Prereq: Second-year standing in German .
Prereq: GER 311
Conversation on modem topics. Exercises in advanced grammar, stylistics, and composition.
Prereq: GER 252 or equivalent
Composition : As GER 351
Prereq: GER 351 or equivalent
Major German dramas will be studied from various points of view, including historical importance, themes, and technique. The course includes theory and selected dramas of such playwrights as Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Buchner, Brecht and Ddrrenmatt.
Taught in English.
Prereq: Open to students from all departments; not normally to first-year students.
This course is complemented in the Winter term by RUSS 356.
Cross-listed as DRAMA 383 (formerly 355)
Reading, interpretation and critical analy-
sis of prescribed prose, drama and poetry.
(Grillparzer, Mérike, Stifter, Gotthelf, etc.). Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
Reading, interpretation and critical analysis of prescribed prose, drama and poetry (Storm, Keller, Ludwig, Hebbel, Raabe, Fontane, etc.).
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
Reading, interpretation and critical analysis of prescribed texts relating to the “Modeme” and various literary movements around the tum of the century.
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
Reading, interpretation and critical analysis of prescribed texts from the early 20th century to the end of World War | (Kafka, Brecht, etc.).
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent.
This course will focus on the literary rendering, including film versions, of the Holocaust experience by authors from the German speaking countries, such as Jurek Becker, Paul Celan, Max Frisch, Edgar Hilsenrath, Peter Weiss and others. Also studied will be works dealing with anti-Nazi resistance by individuals and groups as described by Bert Brecht, Rolf Hochhuth and Anna Seghers.
This course is taught in English
Open te all students
A study of significant prose and drama from 1770 to the present representing themes such as Revolution, Duty vs. Inclination, Flesh vs. Spirit, Modern Germany East and West. Works studied include Danton’s Death (Bochner), Maria Stuart (Schiller), Demian (Hesse), Galileo (Brecht), and Cat and Mouse (Grass).
As GER 391
GER 3952 F 2.5 Waterloo in Germany Program Description in Arts program section.
As GER 3952
Study of the major linguistic structures of German, especially in contrast to the structures of English. Coverage of phonetics and phonology, morphology and lexicology, syntax and semantics, and differences between spoken and written German.
Prereq: GER 352 or equivalent
Prereq: GER 421
Reading, interpretation and critical analysis of prescribed texts (Erasmus, Luther, Sachs, Opitz, Gryphius, Grimmelshausen, etc.).
Prereq: Second-year standing in German
Reading, interpretation, and critical analysis of prescribed texts (Lessing, Wieland, Klopstock, Lenz, Klinger, etc.).
Prereq: Second-year standing in German
This course provides intensive practice in spoken and written German on the advanced level.
Prereq: GER 352 or equivalent
Prereq: GER 451 or equivalent
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent Offered in alternate years
Reading and interpretation of samples from the major works of the MHG period, with emphasis on writers of the first “Blatezeit” in German literature (1170 to 1250); Early Minnesang, Walther von der Vogelweide, Nibelungentied, Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, etc.
A study of the main thoughts, themes, forms and schools in German poetry from the beginning to Goethe.
Prereq: GER 122, 252 or equivalent
A study of the main thoughts, themes, forms and schools in German poetry from German Romanticism to the present.
Course Descriptions Germanic and Slavic
Prereq: Approval of the Department