Three courses from the following list are normally offered each semester.
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The Teaching of College German (3)
Introduction to the nature of language acquisition; critical examination of instructional materials; principles of cultural analysis; and theory and practice of teaching literature. Patterned to the practice of college instruction.
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16:470:502
Teaching Apprenticeship in German (N1.5)
Weekly workshops for teaching, testing, and evaluation techniques in elementary and intermediate language courses. Observation of language classes.
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16:470:510
Literary Theory and Methodology (3)
Study and practice of scholarly techniques, the use of secondary literature for research, the writing of papers, and an overview of literary theories.
Ciklamini, Rennie, Rushing. Recommended during the first year.
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16:470:511
Advanced Grammar (3)
Comparison of syntactic and semantic differences between source and target languages.
Ciklamini
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16:470:512
Advanced Stylistics (3)
Studies in the nature and development of literary styles and nonfiction prose from the 16th century to the present, with emphasis on the expressive possibilities of various syntactic modes.
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16:470:513
Analysis of Literary Texts (3)
Study of selected works of poetry, drama, and prose with a view to increasing a teacher's faculties of literary interpretation and aesthetic judgment.
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16:470:515
History of the German Language (3)
Survey of linguistic changes and phenomena from the Indo-European era to the present.
Ciklamini
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16:470:516
Introduction to Middle-High German (3)
Phonology and grammar. Reading of representative texts from the Middle-High German period AD 1050 to AD 1350, with special emphasis on the popular epic, court epic, and Minnesänger.
Ciklamini
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16:470:517
Introduction to Old-High German (3)
Survey of the morphology of Old-High German with readings and discussions of representative literary texts as recorded in the various dialects.
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16:470:520
Literature of the Middle Ages (3)
Analysis of the folk epic (Nibelungenlied) and its sources; the courtly romances by Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg; the saint's legend and poems by prominent Minnesänger.
Ciklamini
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16:470:521
Literature of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Baroque (3)
Sociohistorical overview of German literature of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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16:470:522
From Rococo to Classicism (3)
Literature of the 18th century with emphasis on Anakreontik, Sturm und Drang, and the Weimarer Klassik, focusing mainly on contemporaries of Goethe and Schiller.
Rennie
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16:470:523
German Romanticism (3)
Aims and characteristics of the romantic movement as reflected in the works of Hölderlin, Novalis, Kleist, Brentano, Eichendorff, and Hoffmann.
Ciklamini
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16:470:524
Nineteenth-Century Realism (3)
Studies in the theory, themes, and styles of German literary realism in the 19th century, focusing on the works by Büchner, Hebbel, Stifter, Keller, Meyer, Storm, and Fontane.
Rushing
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16:470:525
Literature of the 20th Century before 1945 (3)
Study of significant literary works and trends against the background of late Wilhelminian Germany, the Weimar Republic, and the Nazi era.
Naqvi
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16:470:526
Literature of the 20th Century after 1945 (3)
Study of German writers after World War II, including Bernhard, Borchert, Böll, Dürrenmatt, Frisch, Grass, Handke, Hochhuth, Johnson, Lenz, Botho Strauss, Walser, and Weiss.
Naqvi
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16:470:601,602
Independent Study in Germanic Languages and Literatures (3,3)
Independent study or directed research. Intended for exploring areas not covered in depth by regularly scheduled courses.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and approval of graduate director.
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16:470:610
Old Norse Literature (3)
Principal genres of saga literature; Eddic and Scaldic poetry.
Ciklamini. Conducted in English.
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16:470:611
Courtly Poetry and Medieval Drama (3)
Major lyrics of the Minnesang and its later developments. The Latin and romance origins of German lyric poetry. Selected dramas from the 13th to the late 15th centuries.
Ciklamini, Rushing
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16:470:615
Literature of the Baroque (3)
Study of lyric, dramatic, and prose works as an expression of religious, historical, and cultural currents of the 17th century.
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16:470:622
The German Enlightenment (3)
The concept and question of German Enlightenment, especially as it relates to modernity. Readings by Leibniz, Kant, Mendelssohn, Gottsched, Bodmer, Lessing, Klopstock, Wieland, and Gellert.
Rennie
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16:470:625
Goethe (3)
Study of Goethe's poetry, drama, and prose, focusing on three major areas: works of the Storm and Stress, works of Goethe's classical period, and the "Alterswerk," including Faust.
Rennie
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16:470:626
Faust in German Literature (3)
The Faust tradition from biblical days to contemporary German literature. Emphasis on the Volksbuch, the Faust theme in the Storm and Stress period, Goethe's Faust, and Faust's works of the 20th century.
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16:470:627
Schiller (3)
Schiller's development as an author through detailed study of his prose, poetry, and plays, including Die Räuber, Kabale und Liebe, Don Carlos, and Wallenstein.
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16:470:632
Heine and His Contemporaries (3)
Development of German literature of the 19th century in the context of social and political change brought about by the end of feudalism and the rise of industrialism in the period 1813 to 1849.
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16:470:642
The Expressionist Movement (3)
German expressionism from its early prewar phase to the mid-1920s, with emphasis on its philosophical foundations, sociopolitical aims, and poetic styles. The poets Benn, Heym, Stadler, Stramm, and Werfel; the dramatists Goering, Hasenclever, Kaiser, Sorge, Sternheim, and Toller.
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16:470:645
Contemporary Germany (3)
Study of modern Germany with consideration of pertinent cultural, historical, political, geographical, and sociological factors and their impact on contemporary literary life.
Naqvi
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16:470:646
Postwar German Film (3)
Study of feature films in German after 1945; issues of guilt, remembrance (and its counterpart--amnesia), gender, Heimat or "homeland," national self-fashioning, and trauma. How do the Second World War and its legacy inflect these films? What other sociopolitical and economic factors influence the private and collective identities that these films articulate? How do the predominant concerns shift with the passage of time? How is the category of "nation" constructed and how is it contested within the narratives themselves? Close attention to aesthetic issues and the concept of "authorship."
Naqvi
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16:470:650
Lyrical Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Present (3)
Study of significant poets, with special emphasis on the development of literary movements and the intellectual background of the times.
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16:470:651
German Drama from the Baroque to the Present (3)
Readings of selected plays with background studies in the theory and historical development of the drama.
Rennie
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16:470:652
Short Forms of German Prose (3)
Short prose forms such as the Anekdote, Skizze, Novelle, Erzählung, and Kurzgeschichte. Historical, theoretical, and analytical approaches to representative works.
Naqvi
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16:470:653
The German Novelle (3)
Development of the Novelle as a specific German narrative form and as an expression of social, philosophical, and metaphysical viewpoints.
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16:470:654
The German Novel (3)
Development of the novel as a literary genre in German literature. Emphasis on European influences, the novel and the court, the rise of the bourgeoisie, women and writing, and theory of novel.
Naqvi, Rennie
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16:470:660
Austrian Narrative of the 19th and 20th Centuries (3)
Comparative study of representative works that use various narrative techniques. Special emphasis on the end of the monarchy, the emergence of national socialism, and the period after 1945.
Naqvi, Rennie
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16:470:661
Folklore in German Literature (3)
Archetypal patterns, motifs, figures in folklore, Sage, folksong, hagiography, and sources in pagan and biblical tradition as a basis for study of adaptations and interpretations in literary works of various genres and periods to the present.
Ciklamini
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16:470:662
German Feminist Writers (3)
The rise of literary feminism and a sociological analysis of women's literature.
Naqvi
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16:470:663
Literature and Ideology (3)
Study in the history of ideas, dealing specifically with the conflict of ideologies in varying periods of German culture as expressed in the works of such authors as Gottfried von Strassburg, Luther, Gryphius, Goethe, Büchner, Nietzsche, Wagner, and Brecht.
Rennie, Rushing
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16:470:670,671,672,673
Topics in German Literature I,II,III,IV (3,3,3,3)
Special topics devoted to the investigation of a single author, text, critical or philosophical problem, theme or motif, historical period, film, or development.
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16:470:701,702
Research in German (BA,BA)
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