GERMAN - Tufts University

GERMAN
Language Courses
GER 2A-C
GER 4A-B
GER 22
GER 34
GER 62
GER 178
Taught in English:
GER 57
GER 66
GER 76
GER 80/180
GER 82/182
GER 92-01
Elementary German
Intermediate German
Composition/Conversation
German Business and Politics
Survey of German Literature II
German Literature Since 1945
Bertolt Brecht: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern
Drama
Jews and Germans
Vienna: A Biography
Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Experience
Imagining the Environment: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Special Topics: Uncanny Stories: From The Castle of Murder to
Metropolis
Special Courses:
GER 94/194
GER 96/196
GER 199
GER 291
GER 401-PT
GER 402-FT
Directed Study
Teaching Internship
Honors Thesis
Graduate Colloquium
Masters Degree
Masters Degree
GER 2 Elementary German
Section A
Stoessel
DMD+
M 9:30-10:20 TR 10:30-11:45
Section B
Pfaffinger
E+EF
MW 10:30-11:45, F 10:30-11:20
Section C
Grimm
NML+
M 6:00-6:50, TR 4:30-5:45
The continuation of German 1 with emphasis on active command of basic spoken and written
German. Texts will familiarize students with various aspects of German life and culture.
Prerequisites: German 1 or equivalent.
GER 4 Intermediate German
Section A
Pfaffinger
C
TWF 9:30-10:20
Section B
Grimm
J
M 4:30-5:20, TR 3:00-3:50
The continuation of the intermediate course with discussion of longer texts. Review of the
more complex aspects of intermediate level grammar. Oral presentations. Written
compositions. Films and web-based assignments. Additional weekly practice sessions in small
groups reinforce class materials. Prerequisites: German 3 or equivalent.
GER 22 Composition/Conversation
Stoessel
C
TWF 9:30-10:20
Emphasis on oral skills and vocabulary development with continuing practice in writing. Oral
reports and discussions of the current German cultural scene based primarily on readings of
non-fiction from online-materials, news magazines, short films, and movies. Additional
practice sections in small groups to achieve increased fluency. Prerequisites: German 4, 21, or
equivalent.
GER 34 German Business and Politics
Pfaffinger
H+
TR 1:30-2:45
Introduction to necessary German language skills for working in fields related to current
business and politics. Possible topics include globalization, development, finance, technology,
migration, the environment, and the political system. Discussions of policy documents,
government reports, newspaper articles, other relevant contemporary materials, and on-line
resources. In German. Prerequisites: German 21, or permission of instructor.
GER 62 Survey of German Literature II
Wilczek
G+
MW 1:30-2:45
A systematic survey of the historical development of German literature from the turn of the
twentieth century to the present. The selected readings of (mostly short) texts by leading
German authors (such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bert Brecht, Elfriede Jelinek, Herta
Müller) will serve as an introduction to the main literary trends of 20th-century Germany in
their political and cultural context. In German. Prerequisites: 21, 22, 61, or consent.
GER 178 German Literature Since 1945
Romero
D+
TR 10:30-11:45
A critical survey of literary developments from the end of World War II to the present; special
emphasis on the broader political and social contexts in Austria, Germany (including division
and unification), and Switzerland. Authors include Aichinger, Bachmann, Bernhard, Borchert,
Brussig, Dürrenmatt, Franck. Frisch, Grass, Handke, Jelinek, Müller and Müller, Özdamar,
Schlink, Seghers, Weiss, and Wolf. In German. Prerequisites: German 62 or equivalent, or
permission of instructor.
Taught in English:
GER 57 Bertolt Brecht: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama
Brown
J+
TR 3:00-4:15
A study of selected Dramas with emphasis on Brecht's representation of women and the role
of women in his life and collective. Special attention given to recent literary
theory/interpretation. Dramas studied include "Caucasian Chalk Circle," "Mother Courage,"
"Saint Joan of The Stockyards" and "Three Penny Opera". Readings in German for German
majors and in English for other students. No prerequisites. In English. Cross-listed as DR 57.
GER 66 Jews and Germans
North
D+
TR 10:30-11:45
Examines complex interrelationship between German and Jewish cultures from 1750 to 1933.
Themes include the Enlightenment and universalism, relation of Jewish emancipation to the
construction of German identity, Zionism and nationalism, assimilation, integration, exile.
Readings in literary, political, theological, and philosophical texts, along with films, plays, and
music produced up to the eve of World War II. In English. Cross-listed as JS 66 and ILVS 66.
GER 76 Vienna: A Biography
Romero
N+
TR 6:00-7:15
A "biography" of Vienna through the texts the city has produced/inspired; the changing
(multi)cultural role Vienna has played and continues to play in the heart of Europe. Emphasis
is on literary texts, but in conjunction with art, architecture, and music, as well as their modes
of consumption. In English. No prerequisites. Cross-listed as ILVS 72 and HST 161.
GER 80/180 Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Experience
North
L+
TR 4:30-5:45
Advanced survey of key works by the German literary theorist and cultural critic, focusing on
his theories of experience. Includes the afterlife of the past; violence destruction, fate, and law;
language, literature and translation; reception of Kant, Marx, and Husserl; childhood and
memory; and the uses of theology. Ancillary readings from Goethe, Proust, Baudelaire, Freud,
Brecht, Kafka. In English. If taken at the 100-level: Extra assignments and class meetings.
Cross-listed as JS 80, ILVS 80, and PHIL 92-03.
GER 82/182 Imagining the Environment: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Wilczek
K+
MW 4:30-5:45
Compares and contrasts representations of the environment in German culture – commonly
understood to be particularly “Green” – with other European and Non-European cultures.
Focuses on how themes such as sustainability, the toxic discourse, wilderness, biodiversity,
nationalism, postcolonial heritage, and the global risk society are negotiated in literature, film,
and music. In English. If taken at the 100-level: Extra assignments and class meetings. Crosslisted as ILVS 82 and ENVS 95-4.
GER 92-01 Special Topics: Uncanny Stories: From The Castle of Murder to Metropolis
Densky
I+
MW 3:00-4:15
Doppelgängers, vampires, animated objects, artificial humans, and other eerie figures have
haunted the popular imagination for centuries. Blurring the lines between the natural world
and paranormal phenomena, between the familiar and the strange, uncanny stories in
literature and film are commonly used in psychoanalytic theory to illustrate aspects of our
unconscious mind. In this course, we will analyze Romantic tales, novellas, and modern short
stories with regard to their unsettling aspects as well as their political, historical, and aesthetic
contexts. We will also trace the reappearance of uncanny figures in early cinema and tie their
occurrence to the shocking effects of the new technological medium. Our readings and
viewings will include prose by the Grimm Brothers, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, Edgar
Allen Poe, and Franz Kafka; masterpieces of Expressionist film (The Golem, The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari, Metropolis) and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds; as well as theoretical reflections
by Sigmund Freud, Siegfried Kracauer, and Slavoj Zizek. In English. Cross-listed as ILVS 9207.

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