German

  • GRS LG 610: German Translation Workshop
    Advanced German language training. Pleasures and frustrations of different languages' and cultures' incommensurability are investigated through systematic practice in translating from German to English. Translation as technical skill, creative performance. Variety of genres; MFA students emphasize literary translation.
  • GRS LG 621: Reading German for Graduate Students
    Designed to prepare graduate students for the German reading exam. Develops a knowledge of the fundamentals of German grammar. Practice in translating passages. No previous knowledge of German required. Students will not receive graduate credit for this course and there is no tuition charge.
  • GRS LG 653: Romanticism
    Poetry and prose of major authors (Tieck, Novalis, Schlegel, Brentano, Günderrode, Eichendorff, Hoffmann), their connection to music and art and to German Idealism. Emergence of the fairy-tale. Women and the literary salons.
  • GRS LG 661: German Poetry
    Introduction to poetry as the history and science of feeling; major poets and poems of the German language from 1600 to the present. Training in close readings and interpretation. Historical and poetic contexts; musical settings (Lieder). Group work, writing, class discussion.
  • GRS LG 951: Directed Study in German Language and Literature
  • GRS LG 952: Directed Study in German Language and Literature
    Hours arranged.

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