(half-course on load) For graduate students who wish help in meeting the German reading requirement for the Ph.D. degree. Emphasis on development of reading skills. Not available for degree credit. Graded CR/NC.
Introduction to modern German. Oral practice, listening and reading comprehension. Basic structures necessary for simple spoken and written expression.
Intermediate German. Increasing emphasis on listening and speaking skills and a review of basic structures of German. Discussion of cultural aspects. Prerequisite: 101 and 102.
Practice in oral and written German, emphasizing contemporary cultural and social developments in the German-speaking countries of Europe. In German. Prerequisite: 221 or equivalent.
Study of German prose from the eighteenth century to the present; emphasis on narrative and thematic perspectives in relation to social change and on modernism since Kafka. In German.
Aesthetic and historical analysis of major German twentieth century novels, completed by a brief study of a cinematic adaptation of each text. Texts in English; Films with subtitles.
