Five class meetings per week. Designed to advance language proficiency and to deepen knowledge of contemporary Germany. Students read and interpret literary as well as non-literary texts, analyze video segments, discuss national and individual German identities, and communicate via the web with other language learners. The course also includes a comprehensive grammar review. Students will write six essays that become progressively longer throughout the semester.
Classes meet four times per week.
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.