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Graduate Courses - FALL 2009

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• GER 450 METHODOLOGY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
• GER 500 INDEPENDENT STUDY
• GER 5052 TEACHING PRACTICUM
• GER 5061 APPRENTICESHIP IN THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE I
• GER 5062 APPRENTICESHIP IN THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE II
• GER 5071 GERMAN READING KNOWLEDGE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS I
• GER 528 GERMAN-JEWISH LITERATURE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE PRESENT
• GER 529 SPLIT SCREENS: WEIMAR CINEMA AND ITS VISIONS OF MODERNITY
• GER 551 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LITERARY TRANSLATION
• GER 580 RESEARCH FOR MASTER'S THESIS
• GER 590 RESEARCH

• GER 450 METHODOLOGY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Examines the most important streams in modern literary theory and criticism, such as new criticism, structuralism, sociological approach, Marxist theory, and semiotics. Includes an introduction to bibliography. Survey of the most important streams in modern literary theory and criticism: hermeneutics and reader-response theory, formalism and structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, poststructuralism and other post-theories, feminism-, gender and cultural studies. The course includes an introduction to the tools of scholarly research. Readings and discussions in English. PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT. 1 T/Th 2:30-4:00 Schindler
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• GER 500 INDEPENDENT STUDY The course requires a paper or a written examination. Prerequisite: permission of the students's advisor and the German Department.
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• GER 5052 TEACHING PRACTICUM This course supports beginning university instructors during their first German course at Washington University. It will be comprised of activity composition, discussion and microteaching with a focus on the following topics: a review of processing instruction, the national standards and the four skills in a cultural context, technology in the foreign language classroom, and appropriate strategies for feedback, assessment and motivation. 1 M/W 3:00-4:00 Russo
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• GER 5061 APPRENTICESHIP IN THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE I Apprenticeship in teaching literature and culture in English. For students who have completed at least 1 year of teaching at Washington University. Credit 1 unit. 1 TBA Schindler
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• GER 5062 APPRENTICESHIP IN THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE II Apprenticeship in teaching literature and culture in German. For students who have completed at least 1 year of teaching at Washington University. 1 TBA Schindler
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• GER 5071 GERMAN READING KNOWLEDGE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS I The first part of a two-semester course sequence in reading and translating German. For graduate students in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. May not be taken for graduate credit. Credit 3 units. 1 M/W 6:30-8:00 Staff
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• GER 528 GERMAN-JEWISH LITERATURE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE PRESENT This seminar will explore the Jewish contribution to German literature from the Enlightenment to the present day by examining texts by German-speaking Jewish writers and analyzing constructions of German-Jewish identity in literature. We will investigate the development of the cultural discourse of a "German-Jewish symbiosis" and its redefinition after the Holocaust in a variety of texts by prominent figures such as Moses Mendelsohn, Rahel Varnhagen, Heinrich Heine, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Paul Celan, Edgar Hilsenrath, Robert Schindel, and Barbara Honigmann. We will examine how each text negotiates complex questions of German/Austrian-Jewish identity, alterity, assimilation and acculturation. In addition, we will focus on issues such as the Jewish contribution to the German cultural canon, German anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hatred, the love-hate relationship with "Ostjuden" and Yiddish heritage, German-Jewish identity and literary production after the Holocaust and the concept of a "negative German-Jewish symbiosis." Readings in German. Wednesday from 4-6:30 or anytime Tuesday afternoon. 1 T 4:00-6:30 McGlothlin
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• GER 529 (L53 4529 Ident) SEMINAR IN CULTURAL THEORY: SPLIT SCREENS: WEIMAR CINEMA AND ITS VISIONS OF MODERNITY German cinema during the Weimar Republic has gained international reputation for the distorted images and haunted narratives of its expressionist filmmakers, the uncompromising visions and dystopian fantasies of its auteur directors, the artistic interventions of its avant-gardists and the political commitments of its realists. Like Weimar culture in general, Weimar cinema was a crucible of formal and social experimentation, a site of modernist departures wedged between the decline of the Wilhelminian Reich and the rise of the Nazi period. This seminar explores some of the most important films produced in Germany between 1918 and 1933 and locates them in their artistic, cultural, and historical context. Aside from discussing the work of such directors as Fritz Lang, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann, and Robert Wiene as case studies to explore the contested course of Weimar film history and culture, this seminar also serves as a theoretically informed introduction to the critical study of film and visual materials in general. Discussions and readings in English. Undergraduates with permission of instructor only. Weekly screenings: TBA. 1 W 4:00-6:30 Koepnick
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• GER 551 (L16 551 Home) Methods of Literary Study: THe Theory and Practice of Literary Translation This course combines a historical review of translation theories with a study of translation practices. We will investigate how translations reflect changing literary and cultural values and tastes. In addition, we will examine how the nuances of language and culture (source and target) influence the translator's choice of whom and what kind of text to translate. Guest translators will occasionally discuss their work. The professor will schedule one additional class hour per week for group work. M 4:00-6:00 Williams · Website
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• GER 580 Research for Master's Thesis Credit to be arranged.
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• GER 590 RESEARCH Credit to be arranged.
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