In continuation of GN 201, this course will further emphasize composition and conversation skills. German texts from various centuries serve as the basis for class discussion. In addition, Bernhard Schlink's novel Der Vorleser will be read in its entirety and discussed in an online-forum with students from other universities. Students will write six essays in multiple drafts and give short oral presentations on topics of their choice. The course also concludes the second-year grammar review.
Classes meet four times per week.
This course provides an overview of women's cultural productions from the Weimar period to Reunification and explores issues of gender, female authorship, personal and national identity, and the politicization of the private sphere within the German cultural context. Required texts include May Opitz, Showing Our Colors, Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year, Christa Wolf, What Remains, Lukens and Rosenberg, Daughters of Eve, Sue-Ellen Case, ed., The Divided Homeland. With its emphasis on grammatical structures this course is designed to develop students' writing skills, bridging the 200-level courses and the advanced 300 and 400 levels. From initial sentences and short paragraphs to a final term paper the course tries to assist individual students with their specific problems with German compositions. In addition to frequent written assignments, students also read excerpts from several German papers and magazines in order to familiarize themselves with a variety of narrative styles 3 hrs.