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GER 202—Middle High German (4) Discussion—3 hour(s); Lecture—1 hour(s). Graduate standing. Outline of grammar; selections from Middle High German epic, romance, and lyric poetry. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 206—Cognitive Grammar for Applied Linguists (4) Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper—1 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Analysis of grammar and application of cognitive grammar to language instruction. Syntactical problems and analyses relevant to the language which the student will teach. Effective: 2002 Spring Quarter.
GER 210—Techniques of Literary Scholarship (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Bibliographical, organizational, and methodological tools and resources for advanced, independent research. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 211—Concepts in Literary Theory (4) Seminar—3 hour(s). Graduate standing. Advanced course in concepts of literary theory and criticism. Discussion of the emergence of theoretical concepts and their impact on the understanding and appreciation of literary works. Discussion in German and English, readings in German. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 212—Contemporary Approaches to Literary Theory (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Study of contemporary theoretical approaches such as structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism/Frankfurt School, and reception theory in conjunction with the works of major authors. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 239—Narrative & Narrative Theory (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Studies, in a theoretical and literary historical context, major elements of 19th- and 20th-century narrative, such as techniques of framing, refraction, and montage; narrative perspective; mimesis; and self-consciousness. Focuses on paradigmatic prose texts alongside a spectrum of critical approaches. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 240—Forms of German Verse (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Development of German verse from the Middle Ages to the present, with special emphasis on different techniques of text analysis and interpretation. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 241—The German Drama (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Major forms of German drama from its origins to the middle of the 20th century. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 242—The German Novelle (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. The major German Novellisten, with particular emphasis on the flowering of this genre in the 19th century. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 243—Fontane & the Rise of the Modern German Novel (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Fontane, the father of the modern German novel and the chief German representative of the European novel at its greatest, in the context of the 19-century European political and social scene. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 244—Gender & Comedy (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Studies of genre and gender in German-language comedy by male and female writers from the 18th century to the present. Authors treated include Lessing, Kleist, Büchner, Ebner-Eschenbach, Hauptmann, Hofmannsthal, Frisch, Langner, and Jelinek. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 252—The Writing of Lessing (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Study of Lessing's theory of literature with particular emphasis upon his critical attacks on French drama. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 253—Goethe (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Study of the origins of Goethe's thought in German Pietism, and his principal artistic, autobiographical, scientific, and philosophical works. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 254—Schiller (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Critical analysis of Schiller's major works and his impact on the intellectual climate in Germany during the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 255—Aesthetics in the Age of Goethe (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Emergence of aesthetic autonomy from 18th-century normative poetics during the Age of Goethe. The shift from a model based on the imitation of nature (and the Ancients) to a new concept grounded in the individuality of aesthetic experience. Effective: 2003 Spring Quarter.
GER 257—Heinrich von Kleist (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Kleist's important dramatic and prose works; special attention will be given to the peculiar hermeneutic problems in modern German, French, and Anglo-American Kleist criticism. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 258—The Novels of Thomas Mann (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Reading of selected novels with emphasis on aesthetic techniques, originality, ethical and political views, and influence on the contemporary literary scene in Germany. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 259—Studies in Kafka (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Study of Kafkas narrative techniques with special emphasis in the shorter works on the existential development from its roots in Expressionism. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 260—The Poetry of Rilke (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Study of the principal motifs, myths, images, and problems in the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 261—Brecht & the Epic Theater (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Reading of Brechts works with emphasis on the ideas which impelled the development of new literary forms and concepts. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 262—Studies in Turn-of-the-Century Culture (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. Investigates literary currents in turn-of-the-century Germany and Austria against the background of contemporaneous developments in psychology, the visual arts, philosophy, and music. Authors treated include Hauptmann, Holz and Schlaf, Schnitzler, T. Mann, Wedekind, Musil, Hofmannsthal. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 285—Middle High German Literature (4) Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Graduate standing. Extensive reading of Middle High German texts in the original language. Examines linguistic and literary problems. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 288—Renaissance & Reformation in German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Restricted to graduate standing. Parabolic and didactic style in Germany's literature during the 16th century. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.
GER 289—German Literature of the Baroque (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Graduate standing. The "Elegantiaideal" and the varying methods used to portray it in 17th-century German literature. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
GER 290—The Enlightenment in German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Revolt against the concept of the Elegantiaideal, and evolution of a new literature based on reason and wit. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 291—Foreign Language Learning in the Classroom (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Project (Term Project). Overview of approaches to university-level foreign language instruction and the theoretical notions underlying current trends in classroom practices across commonly taught foreign languages. (Same course as FRE 291, SPA 291.) Effective: 2006 Fall Quarter.
GER 292—Sentimentality & Sturm und Drang in German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s). Reaction to overemphasis on Reason: theories of Hamann and Herder and works of poets such as Lenz, Leisewitz, the early Goethe and Schiller. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 293—The Classical Age of German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Inquiry into the aesthetic and humanistic qualities of Germany's greatest literary epoch. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 294—The Romantic Period in German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Survey of the works of early 19th-century authors in reaction against the age of classicism. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 295—Poetic Realism in German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Outstanding figures in German literature between 1840 and 1890. Important phases in their developments will be treated. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 296—20th-Century German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Considers the revolt of the Hauptmann generation, Symbolism, Expressionism, and the chief currents of the contemporary scene. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 297—Special Topics in German Literature (4) Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Various special topics in German literature, which may cut across the more usual period and genre rubrics. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 298—Group Study (1-5) Variable. Group study. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 299—Individual Study (1-12) Variable. Individual study. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 299D—Special Study for the Doctoral Dissertation (1-12) Variable. Special study for doctoral dissertation. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 390A—The Teaching of German (2) Lecture—2 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Theoretical instruction in modern teaching methods and demonstration of their practical application. Required of new teaching assistants. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 390B—The Teaching of German (2) Lecture—2 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Theoretical instruction in modern teaching methods and demonstration of their practical application. Required of new teaching assistants. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 390C—The Teaching of German (2) Lecture—2 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Theoretical instruction in modern teaching methods and demonstration of their practical application. Required of new teaching assistants. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
GER 396—Teaching Assistant Training Practicum (1-4) Variable. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Teaching assistant training. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.