Language Courses Reading & Composition Freshman Seminar Courses Taught in English Courses Taught in German Dutch Yiddish Graduate LANGUAGE COURSES Please note that all sections of German 1 through German 4 will still meet five hours per week.   However, at each level we are introducing sections that will meet three days per week, rather than five days per week.  German 1 1. (5) Elementary German I. Euba in charge. Fall/Spring. Five units; classes meet three or five times a week. All four foreign language skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) are addressed to help students acquire communicative competence in the German language while being sensitized to the links between language and culture. German 1 is for students with no prior knowledge of German. 1E. (3) G 1E (Express) is for students with prior knowledge of German. German 2 2. (5) Elementary German II. Euba in charge. Fall/Spring. Five units; classes meet three or five times a week. Prerequisite: G1 or equivalent.   In German 2, students will continue to develop communicative competence in the German language and expand their sensitivity towards the relationship between language and culture.   While all language skills will be addressed, additional emphasis will be on the various styles of written and spoken German. Prerequisite: G1 or equivalent. German 1G/2G 1G/2G. (0) Reading German for Graduates (S/U) . Euba in charge. Fall/Spring. Taken on S/U basis. Prepares graduate students from other disciplines to take their German reading exam. One year of German should be taken before 1G; 1G or consent of instructor for 2G. Students who will take 2G should enroll in it at the beginning of the semester; 2G will begin approximately the eighth week of instruction. All students interested in the G courses should attend the first meeting of the semester. German 3 3. (5) Intermediate German I. Topics in German Language and Cultural History. Euba in charge. Fall/Spring. Five units; classes meet three or five times a week. While continuing to expand students' communicative competence in German, this content-driven course will provide insights into postwar German history and cultural trends. Primary focus will be on the development of literacy skills (critical reading and writing), vocabulary expansion, and a thorough review of structural concepts. You will be guided towards expressing yourself on more abstract topics, such as language and power in society, multiculturalism, rebellion and protest, and social justice and towards drawing connections between texts and contexts, using a variety of text genres (journalistic, historical, short story, poetry, drama, advertising, film). German 4 4. (5) Intermediate German II. Topics in German Language and Culture. Euba in charge. Fall/Spring. Five units; classes meet three or five times a week. In this fourth-semester German language course you will work on strengthening your interpretative abilities as well as your written and oral forms of expression.   While continuing the development of communicative competence and literacy skills, students will discuss a variety of texts and films and try to find innovative ways in which to engage with familiar presuppositions about who we are, about what determines our values and actions and about the function and power of language. READING AND COMPOSITION (Readings and discussions in English.) R5B. (4) Reading and Composition. Fulfills the second half of the University's Reading & Composition Requirement (equivalent to English 1B, Comp. Lit. 1 B, etc.). Section 1: Staff Section 2: Staff Section 3: Staff Section 4: Staff Section 5: Staff back to top COURSES TAUGHT IN GERMAN German 100 100. (3) Introduction to Reading Culture - Kramsch, C. This course is intended to acquaint students with selected works from German cultural history and to familiarize them with various methods of interpretation and analysis. Required for all German majors. Fulfills the L&S requirement in Arts and Literature or International Studies. Taught in German. Students with native fluency in German are not eligible to enroll. German 101 101. (3) Advanced German Conversation, Composition and Style - Staff Focusing on five central themes, this advanced-level language course will help students improve and expand on spoken and written language functions utilizing a variety of works from different genres in journalism, broadcasting, literature, fine arts, and cinema. The final goal is to enable students to participate in the academic discourse, written and spoken to linguistic and stylistic level appropriate for advanced students of German in upper division courses. Fulfills the L&S breadth requirement in Arts and Literature or International Studies. Taught in German. Students with native fluency in German are not eligible to enroll. German 102 102A. (3) Cabaret Performance - Euba The analysis, discussion, adaptation and public performance of authentic texts from German Kabarett (i.e., comedic skits, political and social satire, parody, humorous poetry, etc.) will advance students' ? language and interpersonal skills, while providing unique access to a significant dimension of German popular culture. Additional emphasis is put on aspects and practice of creative writing and German pronunciation and enunciation. Students must be available for evening rehearsals and performances on 4/19 and 4/25, 2010. Fulfills the L&S breadth requirement in Arts and Literature or International Studies. Taught in German. Taught in German. Students with native fluency are not eligible to enroll. 102B. (3)German for Business- Staff This advanced language/culture course focuses on the structure and practices of German business as well as current economic, political, and cultural issues relevant to conducting business in the German-speaking world. German-language news media, video, and Internet resources keep us abreast of contemporary developments in the business scenes of the German-speaking countries and the rest of Europe. Language skills practiced include business writing, presentations, and negotiation. Fulfills the L&S breadth requirement in Arts and Literature and International Studies. Taught in German. Students with native fluency in German are not eligible to enroll. 131 (3) Goethe - Staff Taught in German.   back to top COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH 24. (1). Freshman Seminar - Largier "The Good Life". Since antiquity, philosophers have been thinking about what they call the 'good life', the 'happy life', the 'blessed life'. In this course we will discuss some of their texts and ask ourselves what they can tell us about happiness today. C109. (4). Language and Power- Kramsch Multidisciplinary explorations into the origins, nature, and exercise of language as social symbolic power, drawing on readings taken from anthropology, social and cultural theory, and critical discourse analysis. Topics include language and myth, the meaning of meaning, the economy of verbal exchanges, perspective and ideology in language, institutional discourse, gender and discourse, and linguistic imperialism. Cross-listed with Letters and Science C180T section 1. Fulfills the L & S breadth requirement in Social and Behavioral Sciences or Arts and Literature. Taught in English. 157D. (4). Marx, Nietzsche, Freud- Feldman The so-called Frankfurt School of Critical Theory was a unique assembly of German intellectuals known for their analytical critique of modern mass culture, society, and politics. Their interest in the cultural and political life around them has produced major theoretical work that still resonates today. This course will focus on the critical thought of three figures associated with the Frankfurt School. Taught in English. 160B. (4) Facism and Propaganda- Schuering This course will focus on the theory and practice of propaganda during the 12 years of the Third Reich. It takes a close look at the ideology the Nazis tried to transmit, the techniques, organization, and effectiveness of their propaganda. Challenging the idea of the total power of propaganda, it looks for the limits of persuation and possible other reasons for which Germans might have decided to follow Hitler. Taught in English. 160D. (4) Multicultural Germany - Gokturk This course approaches migration as a force of social and cultural change. Through documents from a 50 year history of migration to Germany, students will learn to contextualize specific case studies within broader debates on recruitment of guest workers, foreigners in East Germany, xenophobia and racism, citizenship law, immigration and national identity, the instituitions of multiculturalism, religion, the private sphere, literature and multilingualism, popular culture, and globalization. The course is taught in English. Fulfill the breadth requirement in International Studies or Social and Behavioral Sciences. 174. (3). The Morphology and Syntax of Modern German- Shannon Taught in English. back to top GRADUATE COURSES 201B. (4) - Tennant 16th and 17 th Century. 205. (4) Studies in Medieval Literature - Largier So-called mystical traditions have played a major role in the history of modern philosophy and literature from Hegel to Heidegger, Bataille, and Derrida, and from Novalis to Paul Celan, and Ingeborg Bachmann. In this course we will read and discuss key texts written by Meister Eckhart, one of the most significant background figures in this tradition. Based on the discussion of his texts, we will look into the ways how Eckhart has been read by 19th and 20th century authors, and we will explore the impact he had on the formation of modern concepts of (and discussions about) subjectivity. Depending on student interests, other pre-modern mystical texts e.g. Angela of Foligno's writings and Bataille's engagement with them can be part of the course as well. We will decide on a final version of the syllabus at the first or second meeting of class. 214. (4) Studies in the 20th Century. Kudszus "Freud, Kafka, and Celan: Translations" 214. (4) Studies in the 20th Century- Goktürk This seminar will provide grounding in media theory, focusing on questions of spectatorship, memory, interactive participation, collectivity, and the production of locality within translocal, intertextual and intermedial networks. In the age of Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube, we have entered a new stage in the age of technical reproduction, reception, and authorship. Print media animate the historical archive through editorial selection and literacy while the internet brings new forms of non-linear and layered presentation that require new reading skills; exhibitions of video art such as international biennials curate artifacts and recruit traveling spectators; cyber-installations and online streaming platforms publicize their content through multiple points of access, interactive links, and searchability. What are the social and political implications of such media developments? Does cyberspace function as a new virtual meeting place, where identifications with territory and nation are potentially becoming obsolete? Or is our production of knowledge still primarily regulated by national frameworks and institutions? Our case studies will range from books, films, and video essays to exhibitions, installations, and online streaming platforms. The selection of readings and case studies will be determined at the beginning of the semester in discussion with seminar participants. 265. (4) Film Theory- Kaes German-Jewish Encounters in Cinema. Co-taught with Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi, Hebrew University, this research seminar will explore how encounters between Jews and Germans are envisioned in German, Israeli and American cinema between 1945 and the present.  The characteristics and social functions of 'the Jew' and 'the German' played an essential role in the post-WWII Western imagination. Representative films will help us analyze 'the Jew' and 'the German' as complimentary concepts, defined by their differences, their similarities, and by the extraordinary types of relationships they maintain. We will explore the relations between identity formation on the screen and the discourse on identity in the societies that produced these films. Our focus will be on films that use genre conventions of comedy, melodrama, and action, but we shall also study how these films negotiate political agendas and deal with memory and trauma.  Earlier representations of German-Jewish encounters in cinema from the early twenties to the end of WW II will be included by way of clips from such classic films as Der Golem, Der ewige Jude, and To Be or Not to Be.  Close readings of films from West and East Germany (e.g. Lang ist der Weg; Ich war Neunzehn; Alles auf Zucker; Am Ende kommen Touristen; ), Israel (e.g. The Specialist; Made in Israel; Walk on Water) as well as the United States (e.g. The Producers; Schindler’s List; Inglorious Basterds) will provide us with fundamentally different points of view, new perceptions of events, and divergent memories and aspirations. The seminar also addresses important issues in current German and film scholarship: the limits of representations of the past in the post-Holocaust reality; the formation of stereotypical identities through visual media; and the status of transnational influences on 'national' imagery.  All German and Israeli films have English subtitles. 263C. (4). Poetry and Thought- Kudszus This seminar examines the interrelationship of poetic and philosophical discourses, with an emphasis on roles and functions of language. Questions of style and writing will interconnect different genres of poetry and thought. The seminar will explore a tradition in which poetic thought and highly reflexive poetry approach and at times merge with each other. We will reflect on works by Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Trakl, Heidegger, and Celan, among others. 273. (4). Gothic - Rauch Study of the orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon of the earliest Germanic dialect with a sizeable corpus. The Indo-European origins of the Gothic language as well as the relationship with North and West Germanic are considered. The cultural environment in which Bishop Wulfila translated the Scriptures in the fourth century is discussed. Translations of texts include, among others, the newly found leaf of the Codex Argenteus and the Skeireins. No prerequisites. 290. (4). Studies in German Liguistics - Shannon 296. (4). Semiotics - Rauch This seminar introduces principal figures from the basic disciplines of philosophy, biology, and linguistics who are particularly influential in current trends in semiotic method. It undertakes to lay the foundation of a semiotic method distinct from monolithic traditional structuralism, so, e. g. it concentrates on anti-Saussurean thought. No prerequisites back to top 298. (2) (Fall/Spring): Bay Area German Project- Rauch Linguistic investigation of bilingual and interlingual structures of contemporary German found in data collected firsthand in the San Francisco Bay Area. Formulation of a working hypothesis, method and application of linguistic fieldwork, data elicitation and analysis, synthesis and preparation of results for publication. PEDAGOGY 350. (3) Seminar in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching College German (I)- Euba Focusing on the theory and practice of foreign language pedagogy, this course is designed to provide graduate students in German with knowledge and tools for their careers as teachers in the language classroom and beyond. While emphasizing critical reflection on pedagogical practices--one's own and that of others-- students will also be introduced to the field of Second Language Acquisition research and its relationship to pedagogy. This, along with the development of practices that promote continuing professional growth, should provide a basis for the ability to stay theoretically informed and to participate in the professional discourse of a rapidly developing field. Included in this course is a significant practical component, addressing the day-to-day challenges of planning for and teaching the simultaneously offered elementary German language courses. back to top DUTCH 1. (5) Elementary Dutch- Hollander Dutch language course for beginners. Focus of the course is on acquiring basic communicative competence in the language, i.e., developing the ability to appropriatly use the language (spoken as well as written) in authentic situations. 2. (5) Elementary Dutch- Dewulf Prerequisite: Dutch 1 or consent of instructor. In this course you reinforce and expand your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and increase fluency through oral and written exercises. Focus of this course is on developing communicative competence in the language, i.e. developing the ability to appropriately use the language (spoken as well as written) in authentic situations. Activities to develop oral communicative competence include dialogues and group discussions, and listening to songs, conversations and interviews. You are encouraged to build confidence and skill by actively participatingin classroom activities and interacting with others. Authentic readings are drawn from a variety of genres (ads, newspaper articles, short stories) and are designed to increase vocabulary and to reinforce grammatical knowledge. Writing assignments include expressing an opinion, and writing personal letters and business letters. The course meets five hours per week. In addition to classroom instruction, one hour at the language lab is required. 125. (3) Advanced Dutch- Hollander C164. (4) Indonesian Connection- Dewulf Literature and film on the history of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch colonization policy in Southeast Asia, with focus on Indonesia. Cross-listed with Southeast Asian C164 section 1. 170. (4) Dutch Culture and Society- Dewulf Migration and multiculturalism in contemporary Europe, with focus to the Netherlands. Special guests will be Dutch politician Boris Dittrich and Dutch-Iranian author Kader Abdolah. Fulfills the Social and Behavioral or International Studies breadth requirement. YIDDISH 102. (5) Intermediate Yiddish for Students- Chaver Further intensive study of Yiddish for advanced students, building on the foundation established in Yiddish 101, or equivalent knowledge. Advanced grammar and introduction to the reading of original texts. back to top