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Spring 2026

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GERM 3000 (3)  Advanced German: Identity and Belonging 

10:00 - 10:50 MWF
Ms. Zuenner

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GERM 3230 (3)  Contemporary German II: Speaking and Writing 

2:00-3:15 TR

Mr. Bennett 

Improve your German communication skills through an innovative German conversation and writing method that draws on contemporary online resources, spanning culture, politics, technology, literature, art, and sports. Among these resources are Deutsche Welle, Tagesschau, German online newspapers, and online dictionaries.  Students develop and refine writing and conversation strategies through writing assignments and oral presentations. Daily conversation and comprehension exercises build vocabulary and introduce students to idioms. Select grammar review as needed.  No textbook is required.

 

 

 

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GERM 4600 (3) Fourth Year Seminar  

3:30-4:45 TR

Mr. Grossman 

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GERM 3290 (1)  German Studies Round Table

5:00-5:50 W

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GERM 3300 (1) Language House Conversation  

6:00-7:00 W 
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For students residing in the German group in Shea House. May be taken more than once for credit. Departmental approval needed if considered for major credit. Prerequisite: instructor permission."

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GETR 1559 (3) Illness and Disability in Fiction 

2:00 - 3:15 TR

Ms. Gutterman 

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GETR 3372 (3) German Jewish Culture and History 

11:00-12:15 TR

Ms. Gutterman 

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GETR 3464 (3) Medieval Storeis of Love and Adventure

2:00-3:15 TR, 3:30-4:45 TR

Mr. McDonald 

An interactive course, involving reading, discussion, music, and art, that seeks, through selected stories of the medieval period, to shed light on institutions, themes, and customs. At the center is the Heroic Circle, a cycle with connections to folklore, the fairy tale, and Jungian psychology—all of which illuminate the human experience. Discover here the genesis of Arthurian film, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and more. All texts on Collab.

Second Writing Requirement

Cultures and Societies of the World

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GETR 3470 (3) Writing and Screening the Holocaust 

3:30 - 6:00 W

Mr. Grossman

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GETR 3505/HIEU 3505 (3) History and Fiction - Hitler 

2:00-3:15 MW

Ms. Achilles 

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GETR 3559 (3) Drama and Theater

5:00-6:15 TR

Mr. Bennett

The course will provide a complete introduction to the study of the dramatic text and of its theatrical realization.  Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale will be studied all semester long from various poetic and theatrical points of view.  A number of short German plays will be read (in English) as well:  Büchner’s Woyzeck; Nestroy’s farce, Chief Evening-Wind; Hofmannsthal’s short dramatic poem, Death and the Fool; one of Schnitzler’s Anatol one-acters; and Brecht’s teaching play, The Measures Taken.  The format will be discussion plus theatrical exercises (reading in parts, directorial and casting problems, decisions for the actor, etc.) using the assigned texts as examples.

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GETR 3559 (3) Kafka and the Kafkaesque

9:30-12:00 T

Ms. Achilles  

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