Students examine and compare existing translations with respect to style, idiomatic usage, and figurative language, as well as the translation strategies that inform them. Groups and individuals translate a variety of texts ranging from literary prose to journalistic and scientific articles. Taught in German, this course also includes films and weekly conversation groups with native speakers. Students spend four weeks during Interim or summer break interning in Germany. Opportunities include work in health care, communications, and manufacturing, as well as non-profit groups, schools, and churches.
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Taught in German. FOL-G. Offered once a year. This seminar addresses changing literary topics associated with specific time periods, genres, or writers, e.g., German classical drama, film and literature, German Romanticism, Cold War writers, writers in exile, women writers, the German radio play, and Kafka's short stories. Taught in German. This course surveys the novella, a short prose form popular in the German-speaking countries from the early 19th century to the modern period.