Oral reports on selected topics and reading of literary and topical texts. Conducted in German. Three hours per week, plus one additional conversation hour in small sections. Advanced Reading, Conversation, and Style. Materials will be analyzed both for their linguistic features and as cultural documents.
Textual analysis includes study of vocabulary, style, syntax, and selected points of grammar.
Students will also view unedited television programs, work with the Internet, and listen to recordings of political and scholarly speeches, cabaret, protest songs and to authors reading from their own works. Three class hours per week, plus an additional hour in the Media Center. German Cultural History to 1800. Slides, book illustrations, recordings, and videos will provide examples of artistic, architectural, and musical works representative of each of the main periods. Conducted in German.