Winter Quarter 2018

Please click here to see the schedule as a PDF

---

German 002. Elementary German (5 units)

Course Description: This is the continuation of German 001 in areas of grammar and the basic language skills, and the second course in the Elementary German series.

Prerequisite: German 001.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Discussion - 5 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

• Robert Di Donato and Monica D. Clyde, Deutsch: Na klar! An Introductory German Course [7th Edition] (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
• Jeanine Briggs and Lida Daves-Schneider, Workbook/Laboratory Manual to accompany Deutsch: Na klar! [7th Edition]  (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
   

---

German 003. Elementary German (5 units)
Astrid Exel

MTWRF 9:00-9:50A
25 Wellman Hall
CRN 56740

Course Description: Completion of grammar sequence and continuing practice of all language skills through cultural texts.

Prerequisite: German 002.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Discussion - 5 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

• Robert Di Donato and Monica D. Clyde, Deutsch: Na klar! An Introductory German Course [7th Edition] (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
• Jeanine Briggs and Lida Daves-Schneider, Workbook/Laboratory Manual to accompany Deutsch: Na klar! [7th Edition]  (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
   

---

German 010. Fairy Tales (4 units)     In English  
Elisabeth Krimmer

TR 4:40-6:00P
1003 Giedt Hall
CRN 74247

Course Description: The course introduces students to the genre of fairy tale with a particular focus on the lives and works of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Walt Disney. We will discuss different versions of these tales, including visual and filmic adaptations (Disney movies, French films, Hollywood feature films such as Pretty Woman and Enchanted), and we will situate all tales in their respective cultural and political contexts. Throughout we will pay particular attention to the construction of race, gender, sexuality, and power in these tales. Students will also get to know different theories of and approaches to folk tales and fairy tales, including historical and psychoanalytic analysis. The fairy tales to be discussed include Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Little Mermaid. No knowledge of German required.

Prerequisite: None.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities, Diversity and Writing Experience.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Visual Literacy and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

• TBA

---

German 021. Intermediate German (4 units)
Monika Sierkowska

MWF 10:00-10:50A
217 Olson Hall
CRN 56741

Course Description: Review of grammatical principles by means of written exercises, expanding of vocabulary through readings of modern texts.

Prerequisite: German 020.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Extensive Writing.

Textbook:

• Tobias Barske, et al., Denk Mal! Deutsch ohne Grenzen [2nd Edition] With SuperSite Plus Access. Choose between two versions: "Supersite Plus / Code Only" version (contains the v/Text only, no hard copy), or "Supersite Plus / Loose-Leaf" version (contains the hard copy as loose-leaf).  Available at: vistahigherlearning.com.

---

German 022. Intermediate German (4 units)
Will Mahan

MWF 11:00-11:50A
217 Olson Hall
CRN 56742

Course Description: This course builds on the skills students have acquired in German 021.  It is the completion of 2nd-year proficiency in reading, writing, listening and speaking in German.

Prerequisite: German 021.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Writing.

Textbooks:

• A Course Reader

---

German 045. Vampires and Other Horrors in Film and Media (4 units)     In English    [Cross-Listed with FMS 045]
Kirsten Harjes

Lecture:
MW 11:00-11:50A
226 Wellman Hall

Film Viewing:
W 5:10-8:00P
106 Wellman Hall

Course Description: History of representations of vampires and the undead generally from the 16th through 21st centuries. Emphasis on transnational history of the vampire genre; psychologies of horror effects; issues of race, gender, and class; intersections with prejudice, medicine, modernity.

Prerequisite: None.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): American Cultures, Governance & History, Arts & Humanities, Domestic Diversity, Oral Literacy, Visual Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture - 2 hours; Discussion - 1 hour; Film Viewing - 3 hours.

Textbook:

• Bram Stoker, Dracula  (W.W. Norton & Company, 1996)

---

German 101B. Survey of German Literature, 1800 - Present (4 units)
Kirsten Harjes

MWF 9:00-9:50A
227 Olson Hall
CRN 74252

Course Description: This course surveys German literature between 1800 and the present by analyzing exemplary short fiction and poetry from major literary movements: the Enlightenment, the Storm and Stress period, Romanticism, the Young Germany and Vormärz periods, Realism, Expressionism and other forms of the Weimar avant-garde, postwar realism, and literature of the GDR. The course will place these movements into their cultural historical context and discuss each of the texts' significance then and today. It will also address the impact of these movements on the visual arts and music. Class is conducted in German.

Prerequisite: German 022.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours.

Textbooks:

• A Course Reader

---

German 109A. Business German (4 units)
Elisabeth Krimmer

TR 1:40-3:00P
217 Olson Hall
CRN 74253

Course Description: This course focuses on German business practices and current economic, political and cultural issues relevant to conducting business in the German-speaking world. Exercises in cultural comparison aim to promote intercultural awareness and to set the stage for exploring business practices and language use in their cultural context. Assignments include role-play, reports, compositions and translations.

Topics will include, but are not limited to:

• Economic Geography: Germany, European Union
• Germans at Work: Job Listings, Applications, Interviews; Management and Labor as Social Partners, Unions, Collective Bargaining, Strikes, Contracts; Buying and Selling; Business Structure; Business Correspondence; Banking and Finance; Marketing, Advertising
• German Business Publications

Prerequisite: German 022 or consent of instructor (emkrimmer@ucdavis.edu).

GE credit (Old): None.
GE credit (New): None.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

• TBA

---

German 168. Multiculturalism in German Literature (4 units)
Carlee Arnett

MWF 11:00-11:50A
251 Olson Hall
CRN 74254

Course Description: This course will cover how writers and artists from a variety of cultures construct their identity in the German-speaking world. We will read texts by Afro-Germans, Turkish-Germans, Jewish-Germans, Russian/Baltic Germans and others.  We will discuss what is culture and what does it mean to be an insider or an outsider.  We will look at how the authors and artists portray themselves and their dual/multiple identities.  We will also briefly trace the history of these groups in Germany and look at how their status has changed over time.

Prerequisite: German 022 or consent of instructor (clarnett@ucdavis.edu).

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities and Social-Cultural Diversity.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy, Visual Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Term Paper or Discussion - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

• A Course Reader

---

German 241. German Drama: The Anti-Aristotelian Tradition (4 units)
[Two-Track: Conducted in English; Readings in Either German or English]
Gail Finney

W 1:10-4:00P
3 Wellman Hall
CRN 74255

Course Description: Studies German theater that opposes the classical drama of Goethe, Schiller, Grillparzer, and others who adhere to the conventions established by Aristotle’s Poetics. Topics such as the following will be explored: the attractions and limitations of Aristotelian theory; romantic irony in the theater; the proletarian protagonist; politics and drama; the grotesque on stage; the doctrine of epic theater and its sexualization; the dramatic parable; women as playwrights; the critical folk play; socialist feminism and theater. Plays will be illuminated by theoretical and critical writings.

May be repeated for credit.

Authors such as the following will be treated:

Georg Büchner
J.M.R. Lenz
Ludwig Tieck
Gerhart Hauptmann
Frank Wedekind
Marieluise Fleißer
Bertolt Brecht
Max Frisch
Elfriede Jelinek

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper

Textbooks:

• TBA