Basic training in grammatical patterns and usage of modern German.

Advanced training in grammatical patterns and usage of modern German.

Grammar review, composition, readings and recitation, discussion of literary works, and German culture.

German 312V covers the same material as 312K, but with readings, discussions, and exercises that focus on the business world. Emphasis on practical, career-oriented competence.

German 312W covers the same material as 312L, but with readings, discussions, and exercises that focus on the business world. Emphasis on practical, career-oriented competence.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Germanic Studies. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Explore everyday lives and language use in German-speaking societies through readings and media texts discussing popular culture, university life, and work. Focus on developing practical German skills: comprehension (reading and listening), speaking (conversations and informational presentations), and writing.

Explore contemporary and often controversial issues confronting German-speaking populations (such as migration) through readings and diverse media texts. Produce oral and written work for specific audiences and purposes (recommendations, comparisons, evaluations), with a review of advanced grammar resources.

Description of German sounds, grammatical structures, pronunciation, word formation.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Germanic Studies. University credit is awarded to work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

German cultural material from print and visual media provides the basis for advanced conversation and composition, with considerable practice in the writing of short essays in German.

Students read and discuss German language materials related to the subject matter of another designated course.

German literary material from print and visual media provides the basis for advanced conversation and composition, with considerable practice in the writing of short essays in German.

Explore German-language cultures between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe (ca. 1200 to 1750), from medieval kings through religious reforms, globalizing wars, and the rising middle class. Examine how texts reflect changing social, political, and religious values, tying stories and essays to important moments in emerging German-language cultures.

Cultural, social, and literary history of Germany between 1900 and reunification. Taught in German.

Explore cultural movements through literature, essays, and philosophy from German-speaking Europe between absolutism and its imperial eras (circa 1750-1900). Focus on how texts reflect common themes and concerns of the emerging nation-states.

Explore German-speaking Europe's century of global wars, modernization, and political transformations from World War I through World War II and the resonances of the Cold War. Focus on how cultural movements and landmark texts in literature, visual arts, film, and digital media reflect transformations in cultural history and social values.

Uses language and linguistics to study the culture and society of the German-speaking countries. Taught in German.

Discussion, staging, and production of a German play.

Supervised individual instruction designed to offer students an introduction to principles of foreign language education and the opportunity to teach German in local elementary schools.

Study of selected aspects of Germanic civilization, such as science and philosophy, fine arts, film, history, social institutions. Conducted in German.

An introduction to German cinema through its most innovative, influential, and important films and filmmakers.

Examine the cultural and political history of German-speaking countries, using the concept of Heimat as a common thread, by means of a variety of media. Investi-gate the roles Heimat played in the medical discovery of nostalgia" in the German Romantic period, the rise of German natio-n-alism, the post-war Ger-manies, and in the German environmentalist movement.

Explore West German culture and society through the lens of popular music from the 1950s to the present. Examine an array of sources, from literature, film, television, and music journalism to identify the national and transnational intersections and impacts of popular music on understanding Germany.

Explore German literature and cinema throughout the 20th and 21st century.

Introduction to the phonology, morphology, syntax, dialectology, or lexicography of individual Germanic languages.

Focus on how the act and process of writing literature involves the writer's thoughts and writing skills and techniques, as well as the media, tools, and technologies through which they write. Read the draft traces of how an author brought a work into being to reconstruct the writing and thought process, reveal the evolution of poetic concepts, and evaluate the role of writing strategies and techniques. Explore the literary manuscript and writing process through the history of writing technologies, media and their ecosystems, as product of the evolution of literary writing as a Kulturtechnik (culture technique / technology).

Look at the history of the discourse around originality, plagiarism, copyright, and remix culture in German literature from the 18th to the 21st century.

Supervised individual instruction course in which students engage in special studies necessary to expand their acquaintance with any subject in Germanic languages or literature.

Supervised individual research on a literary or linguistic problem, culminating in an honors paper of some length.

Intensive reading course, emphasizing basic grammar and vocabulary with translation practice.

Survey the problems, methods, and major projects of Germanic linguistics using both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Study of various political, intellectual, artistic, and social movements in the cultures of Germanic countries.

Explore the cultural mechanisms and values associated with the arts (literature, architecture, film), ideologies, and practices of public life in the German Democratic Republic.

Explore how and why national canons use ideologies of classicism, starting with Weimar Classicism.

Explore and compare European and United States Memory Cultures since the nineteenth century.

An interdisciplinary investigation of the significance of ideological structures of thought in historical contexts.

Explore core philosophical texts from the nineteenth and twentieth century that ground post-World War II French post-structuralism.

Explore the cultures of technology and how tech influences the production and reproduction of cultures.

Explore the history of and approaches to research projects and priorities in contemporary cultural and literary studies, including research design.

Examine and apply current theories in memory and trauma studies used in cultural studies.

Examine twentieth-century models of power, governmentality, and law from Germany and Europe.

Examine how humanities has mapped cultural, literary, and inter/intratextual networks from the eighteenth century through current digital art and literature.

Thorough survey of the principal periods of Germanic literature.

An introduction to the critical and technical procedures used in Germanic studies, especially bibliographical aids.

Explore a range of digital tools, methods, and approaches to research in the humanities.

Study of problems, topics, writers, genres, and movements in Germanic literature and culture.

Explore the aesthetic theories and practices used by fascist regimes to represent their ideologies in the public sphere.

Study masterworks of travel literature as genres and in historical and intertextual contexts.

Study narratives about travel and discovery in Early Modern Europe, especially as implicating science and new experiences of space.

Explore how literature can reflect, transmit, and naturalize nationalist ideologies and identities.

Study of linguistic topics in Germanic languages, such as grammar, morphology, phonology, dialectology, syntax, lexicology, sociolinguistics.

Explore theories and applications frame semantics within linguistics.

Explore the development of linguistic thought through readings of historically important essays.

Special problems in the acquisition of German or another Germanic language as a first or second language.

Topics with a substantial Germanic component or application that fall outside of national-language literary and linguistic studies. May include comparative national approaches to genre, culture, or society; interdisciplinary studies; and surveys or focused studies on approaches to theory or methodology that apply to Germanic studies.

Examine theories and examples of image and text relations in nineteenth-century print culture as multimodal book culture.

Examine current theories of identity and identity politics from the US and Europe, deriving from theories of economic and class-based origins of identity.

Examine Cold War political and threat narratives and cultures as represented in film, literature, and non-fiction.

Introduction to German films and approaches to them from film studies.

Study the issues around migration and cultural contact in Europe, through lenses from the social sciences, history, and cultural studies.

Examine theories of power and decolonization illuminating how individuals are marginalized by dominant cultures, supported by historical case studies.

Explore how second language (L2) learners process language and construct meaning during sentence comprehension. Consider theoretical constructs and research methods as well as the practical applications of sentence processing research.

Explore how various tools of assessment are designed and implemented in the field of applied linguistics, in language teaching, and for program direction.

Study linguistic and social-psychological factors unique to second language acquisition situations.

Examine how theories of teaching and learning influence how courses and series of courses are designed to foster certain learning outcomes.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.

Analysis of the major foreign language teaching methodologies; curriculum and curricular materials development.