German (GERM)

GERM101
Beginning German I

Description: Introduction to contemporary German. Stresses oral and written communication, reading and aural comprehension.

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$20

Credit Hours:5

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GERM102
Beginning German II

For students with credit in GERM 101, or a qualifying MLPE score.

Description: Continuation of GERM 101. Readings on contemporary cultural and social issues in German-speaking countries.

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$20

Credit Hours:5

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GERM181
Beginning Grammar and Reading

Description: Rapid course in the essentials of grammar followed by reading of varied types of literary and technical publications. For mature students; also designed to meet the needs of graduates preparing for the German reading examination.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$20

Credit Hours:3

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GERM201
Second-Year German I

For students with credit for GERM 102 or a qualifying MLPE score.

Description: Intensive and extensive reading of moderately difficult German prose, review of grammar, conversational exercises based on the texts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$20

Credit Hours:3

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GERM202
Second-Year German II

For students with credit in GERM 201, or a qualifying MLPE score.

Description: Continuation of GERM 201. Reading of more difficult texts. Class discussion and reports on supplementary reading.

This course is a prerequisite for: GERM 301; GERM 302

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$20

Credit Hours:3

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GERM210
Accelerated Second-Year German

For students with credit for GERM 102, or a qualifying MLPE score. Credit cannot be earned for both GERM 201/202 and GERM 210.

Description: Covers the same material as GERM 201-202.

Course details
Credit Hours:6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$20

Credit Hours:6

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GERM282
German Literature in Translation

Description: Masterpieces of German literature in translation. Selected texts to be announced in the schedule and the course description booklet.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$10

Credit Hours:1-24

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GERM301
German for Professional Purposes

Prerequisites: GERM 202

Description: Builds German communication skills appropriate for a variety of professional settings, with emphasis on writing and speaking.

This course is a prerequisite for: GERM 303; GERM 304; GERM 307

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$10

Credit Hours:3

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GERM302
Contemporary German Culture: Film, Literature, Theater

Prerequisites: GERM 202

Description: Focus on aspects of contemporary German culture, including literature, graphic novel, film, theater, and popular music. Emphasis is on developing literary abilities of summarizing, analyzing, and interpreting in German through discussion, presentations, and critical writing.

This course is a prerequisite for: GERM 303; GERM 304

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$10
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

GERM303
Advanced Communication: Exploring Contested Identities

Prerequisites: GERM 301 or 302

Description: Develop a range of communication skills through exploring issues of contested identities in contemporary German-speaking societies.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$10
ACE Outcomes: ACE 2 Communication Competence

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 2 Communication Competence

GERM304
Sustainability and Migration

Prerequisites: GERM 301 or 302

Description: Exploration of response to issues of sustainability and migration in German-speaking societies. Emphasis is on broadening critical reading and writing skills in German in an interdisciplinary context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$10

Credit Hours:3

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GERM307
German for Business and Commerce I

Prerequisites: GERM 301

Description: Initiates a special sequence of language and culture study designed for students interested in international business. Introduction to cultural aspects of problems related to the conduct of international business. Focus on specific business language problems, e.g., business correspondence, commercial vocabulary, etc.

This course is a prerequisite for: GERM 308

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$10

Credit Hours:3

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GERM308
German for Business and Commerce II

Prerequisites: GERM 307

Description: Continuation of GERM 307.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$10

Credit Hours:3

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GERM321
German Cultural Studies and Civilization

Taught in English

Description: In-depth study of German culture and its relation to civilization throughout time.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM322
German Civilization

Description: Systematic, chronological presentation of German civilization from the beginning to the present.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM387
Women Totalitarian Experience: Culture, Identity and MemoryCrosslisted with CZEC 387, JUDS 387, WMNS 387

Taught in English.

Description: Examination of complexities of women's experience under Nazism and Communism of Central and Eastern Europe.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

GERM391
Special Topics in German

Description: Language, literature, and civilization.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-6

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GERM395
Internship in German-Speaking Country

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Reflection, research, and writing related to an internship in a German-speaking country.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Pass No Pass

Credit Hours:1-6

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GERM396
Independent Study in German

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Independent reading or research under direction by a faculty member.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

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GERM403
Advanced Syntax and Stylistics in GermanCrosslisted with GERM 803

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

Recommended for all German majors. See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Advanced syntax and style in their application to composition.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

GERM404
Advanced Grammar and Composition in GermanCrosslisted with GERM 804

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

Recommended for all German majors. See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Advanced grammar study and its practical applications to writing.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM405
Linguistics in GermanCrosslisted with GERM 805

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Phonetics, phonemics, morphology, and transformational grammar as applied to standard German.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM407
History of the German LanguageCrosslisted with GERM 807

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM442
Survey of Medieval German Literature in TranslationCrosslisted with GERM 842, MODL 442, MODL 842

Prerequisites: Permission

German majors expected to read the works in German translation and to write their papers in German. Non-German majors read the works in English translation.

Description: Development of German vernacular literature during the Middle Ages. Include works that represent the philosophical/religious literature, the heroic epic, and the romance.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM444
Middle High German LiteratureCrosslisted with GERM 844

Prerequisites: GERM 443 / 843.

See instructor to enroll without prerequisites if you already have reading knowledge of Middle High German.

Description: Reading of masterworks of Middle High German literature in the original language.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM445
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German LiteratureCrosslisted with GERM 845

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Humanism, Reformation, and Baroque.

Course details
Credit Hours:2-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:2-3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM447
Eighteenth-Century LiteratureCrosslisted with GERM 847

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Representative authors of the Enlightenment, Empfindsamkeit, and Storm and Stress.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM448
RomanticismCrosslisted with GERM 848

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Representative authors of the Romantic movement.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM449
Survey of Nineteenth-Century German Literature I, 1820-1848Crosslisted with GERM 849

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

Description: A survey of the major literary currents, authors, works, influences in German-speaking countries in the first half of the nineteenth century, excluding Romanticism, which is treated in GERM 448/848. The main concern of the course will be a careful examination of many aspects of "Biedermeier" and "Das Junge Deutschland," the two major movements of the time.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM450
Survey of Nineteenth-Century German Literature II, 1848-1900Crosslisted with GERM 850

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

Description: A survey of the major literary currents, authors, works, influences in German-speaking countries in the second half of the nineteenth century. The main concern of the course will be a careful examination of Poetic Realism and Naturalism, the two major movements in this half of the century.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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GERM451
From Naturalism to ExpressionismCrosslisted with GERM 851

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Critical survey of the major literary currents from the turn of the century to the end of World War I.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM452
From the Weimar Republic into ExileCrosslisted with GERM 852

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Critical survey of German literature from 1918 to 1945.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM453
History of German PoetryCrosslisted with GERM 853

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Critical survey of the development of epic and lyric poetry from the beginning to the present time.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM454
German Literature and PhilosophyCrosslisted with GERM 854

Prerequisites: GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Relationship between literature and contemporary thought from the eighteenth century to the present.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM455
Postwar German Literature: The Literature of West Germany, Austria, and SwitzerlandCrosslisted with GERM 855

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Critical survey of major literary currents in the West since 1945.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM459
Works of Goethe and SchillerCrosslisted with GERM 859

Prerequisites: One of GERM 301, 302, 303 or 304.

See instructor if you believe an equivalent course(s) may count for prerequisite.

Description: Representative works.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM460
The Faust TraditionCrosslisted with GERM 860

Description: Critical study. Lectures, assigned readings, and reports.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

GERM491
Special Topics in GermanCrosslisted with GERM 891

Description: Language, literature, and civilization.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-6

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