GM0022 - Individualized Readings in German. GM 22 focuses on texts relevant to individual interests selected in consultation with the instructor. Some grammar review as needed. Frequent written assignments. Topics include German art and literature.
Students read short stories and novels and screen contemporary German films.
Four hours per week plus some computer work in the Language Resource Center. An exploration of the ways in which cultural materials, including literature and film, played a role in the construction and deconstruction of the Berlin Wall and two Germanys. Oral and written skills in German are furthered while deepening participants' understanding of the term 'the German Question'. From emancipation to anti-Semitism and from the 'Golden Age' to the Shoah, Jewish life in Germany has experienced extremes comparable to no other cultural exchange. Texts by Lessing, Mendelssohn, Heine, Marx, Kafka, Scholem, and others.