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German (GER)
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
All courses are conducted in German.
GER 101 Elementary German (4) Conversation, lab
drill, grammar, reading. FL
GER 102 Elementary German (4) Continuation of
101. FL
GER 201 Intermediate German (3) Reading,
conversation, lab drill, composition. Pre: 102. FL
GER 202 Intermediate German (3) Continuation
of 201. Pre: 201. FL
GER 203 German Phonetics (3) Exercises in
German pronunciation, reading, speaking, lab exercises. Pre: 102. May be
taken concurrently with 201 or 202.
GER 204 Intermediate German: Business and Related
Fields (3) Intermediate German conversation, reading, and writing
with a special emphasis on the vocabulary and cultural context of the
German business world. Pre: 201. FL
GER 211 Intermediate German: Scholarly Readings (3)
General and individual practice in comprehending scholarly readings
in German. Pre: 102. Also open to graduate students by consent. FL
GER 212 Intermediate German: Scholarly Readings (3)
Continuation of 211. Pre: 201 or 211. Also open to graduate students
by consent. FL
GER 258 Intermediate German Abroad (3) Intensive
course of formal instruction on the second-year level in German language
and culture in Germany. Pre: 102. FL
GER 259 Intermediate German Abroad (3) Continuation
of 258. FL
GER 304 Advanced German: Business and Related
Fields (3) Advanced German conversation, reading, and writing with a
special emphasis on the vocabulary and cultural context of the German
business world. Pre: 204.
GER 305 Composition and Conversation (3) German
sentence structure and phrasing; conversation; lab drill; composition on
literary subjects. Pre: 202.
GER 306 Composition and Conversation (3) Continuation
of 305. Pre: 305.
GER 312 Introduction to German Literature (3) Representative
reading and discussion of cultural periods in chronological order from
c.1700; brief reference to earlier periods. Pre: 202 or concurrent with
instructor’s approval.
GER 313 Introduction to German Literature (3) Continuation
of 312. Pre: 312 or approval of instructor.
GER 315 Structure of German Language (3) Phonological,
morphological, syntactic structure of contemporary German, as analyzed
by descriptive linguists. Pre: 202.
GER 358 Third-Level German Abroad (3) Intensive
course of formal instruction on the third-year level in German language
and culture in Germany. Pre: 202 or 259.
GER 359 Third-Level German Abroad (3) Continuation
of 358. Pre: 358.
GER 361 Introduction to German Civilization (3) German
cultural heritage and contemporary German civilization in Austria,
Germany, and Switzerland. Pre: 305 (or concurrent).
GER 371 Practical German for use in Hawai‘i (3) Use
of German in practical situations in Hawai‘i, e.g., in travel
industry. Pre: 305 (or concurrent).
GER 401 German Literary Criticism (3) Role
of literary criticism, function of literature, literary techniques, and
German schools of literary theories. Pre: 312 or 315.
GER 407 Early German Literature to 1500 (3) Beginnings,
mythology, and literary documents; courtly literature, including
Wolfram’s Parzival; lyrics of Minnesingers; heroic epic,
mysticism, and church drama. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 408 German Literature from 1500 to 1700 (3) Reformation,
humanism; folksong chapbooks, popular theater, early novel, baroque
poetry, drama, novel. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 409 Enlightenment--Sturm und Drang (3) Lessing
and his contemporaries; early dramas of Goethe and Schiller; Goethe’s
early lyrics. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 410 Classicism (3) Classical writings of
Goethe and Schiller; some reference to other writers. Pre: 306 or
consent.
GER 411 Romanticism (3) Novalis, Tieck, E. T.
A. Hoffmann, Eichendorff, etc. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 412 Poetic Realism (3) Masterworks by Büchner,
Raabe, Storm, Keller, Meyer, Hebbel, and others. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 414 German Literature from 1880 to 1950 (3) Theater,
prose, poetry exemplifying literary currents from naturalism to
expressionism and Nullpunkt literature. Hauptmann, Rilke, Trakl, Kafka,
Brecht, Böll, etc. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 415 Contemporary German Literary Activity (3) Handke,
Becker, Weiss, Bernhard, Walser, Böll, Grass. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 428 Survey of German Lyric Poetry (3) Individual
interpretation complements lectures on theoretical and historical
background. Pre: 306 or consent.
GER 432 Stylistics (3) Analysis of prose
selections through identification of their structural and semantic
elements. Written and oral styles; specific structural elements and
their semantic effect. Pre: 306 and 315.
GER 451 Introduction to the History of German
Language (3) Survey of important developments from beginnings to
present. Pre: 315 or consent.
GER 452 Introduction to Middle High German (3) Introduction
to phonology and morphology with selected readings. Pre: 315 or consent.
GER 458 Fourth-Level German Abroad (3) Intensive
course of formal instruction on the fourth-year level in German language
and culture in a German speaking country. Pre: 6 credits of third-year
German or consent.
GER 459 Fourth-Level German Abroad (3) Intensive
course of formal instruction on the fourth-year level in German language
and culture in a German-speaking country. Pre: 6 credits of third-year
German.
GER 609 Middle High German (3) Grammar, syntax,
phonetics, rhythm, meter, reading.
GER 610 Middle High German (3) Emphasis on
literature.
GER 615 History of the German Language (3) Development
from Middle High German to present; fundamentals of linguistics.
GER 616 History of the German Language (3) Development
from the beginnings through the Old High German period. Pre: 615 or
consent.
GER 632 German Stylistics (3) Concepts of style
and stylistics; descriptive and applied stylistics; stylistic phenomena
in texts and methods of assessing style.
GER 650 Seminar: The German Essay (3) Development
as exemplified by works from various periods.
GER 651 Seminar: The German Novelle (3) Discussion
of representative works from end of 18th century to 1955.
GER 652 Seminar: German Drama (3) Development
of dramatic theory and literature as exemplified by typical works of
literary periods.
GER 653 Seminar: Lyric Poetry (3) Comparative
study of works of representative German poets.
GER 654 Seminar: The German Novel (3) Novels
representative of a period, movement, or author.
GER 655 Faust (3) Short history of Faust theme;
Goethe’s dramatic poem.
GER 699 Directed Research (V) Pre: consent of
department chair.
GER 735 Seminar (3) Study of authors, topics, a
genre, or a period. Repeatable. Pre: consent of chair of graduate field.
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