1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs | 1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs |
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| 1999 - 2000 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR | ||
| Carleton University |
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Telephone: 520-5644
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Professor Emeritus
Ernst M. Oppenheimer, B.A.(Toronto), M.A.(Columbia), Ph.D.(Harvard)
Jutta Goheen, Dr.Phil(Potsdam)
Arnd Bohm, B.A., M.A.(Alberta), Ph.D.(Johns Hopkins) • Robert D. Gould, M.A.(Oxford), Ph.D.(Princeton)
Joseph B. Dallett
Basil Mogridge, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Students currently enrolled in degree programs offered by the Discipline of German are governed by the requirements contained in the 1997-98 Undergraduate Calendar.
A Minor in German requires 4.0 credits in German, with a GPA of 6.5 or better, chosen from the list below; in consultation with the German section:
22.115, 22.205 (22.120 may be taken in place of 22.115 and 22.205), 22.209*, 22.213, 22.240, 22.301*, 22.302*, 22.402*, 22.403*
At least 2.0 credits in the Minor must be completed at Carleton.
| Category for Breadth | Courses in this unit |
| The temporal dimension of human societies, analyzing times before the present era or societies other than our own | |
| The artifacts of the imagination in literature and/or other forms, or that addresses the life of the imagination and culture. | All courses in German |
| The understanding of social, technological and/or natural processes and the ways in which that understanding is obtained in science and social science. | |
| Matters of human values, ethics and social responsibilities |
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 1999-2000, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.
A beginners' course designed to give a sound grasp of the fundamentals of present-day German. The facilities of the Language Learning Resource Centre and computer-assisted language instruction are available for both on-campus and off-campus use.
Lectures two hours a week and workshops two hours a week.
A course for beginners interested in the rapid acquisition of a reading knowledge of German. Grammar; use of dictionaries; basic vocabulary. Taught in English.
Seminar four hours a week.
An intensive course designed to enable students with little or no previous knowledge of German to reach in one year the level of proficiency normally attained over two years in German 22.115 and 22.205.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.
Lectures four hours a week and four hours seminar a week.
The course takes students from successful completion of the elementary course to a stage where they can use German in a variety of situations. Emphasis on reading and writing but including oral work.
Prerequisite: German 22.115 or 22.118; or equivalent.
Seminar four hours a week.
Designed for students with a higher-than-average standing on the elementary level, or with several years of high school or equivalent background, this course takes students to a stage where they can use German in a variety of situations.
Prerequisite: Standing of B+ or better in German 22.115 or equivalent.
Seminar four hours a week.
A course to develop increased proficiency in spoken German. Oral comprehension and systematic enlargement of vocabulary. Practice in the effective presentation of arguments and reports.
Prerequisite: German 22.120 or 22.205 or 22.206; or permission of the School. (This course is not open to native speakers of German.)
Seminar three hours a week and one hour language laboratory a week.
Patterns of German word formation and their interaction with syntactic structures. Analysis of text samples from various written sources; some practice in writing short essays in German.
Prerequisite: German 22.120 or 22.205 or 22.206, or permission of the School.
Lectures three hours a week.
A course parallel to German 22.209* and emphasizing effective communication in written German. Explication of grammatical patterns and sentence structure in the light of current linguistic theory. Text analyses and practice in structured writing.
Precludes additional credit for German 22.210* and 22.212*.
Prerequisite : German 22.120 or 22.205 or 22.206, or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
An introduction both to representative works of German literature (to be read in German), and to the informed discussion of literary texts, including narrative fiction, poetry and drama.
Prerequisite: German 22.118 or 22.120 or 22.205 or 22.206 or 22.213; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Practice of oral comprehension and spoken German in discussions, short presentations and casual talks; based on material (films and texts) illustrating concerns of contemporary Germany.
Prerequisite: German 22.209* or 22.210*, 22.213; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
The development of arguments and their effective presentation in texts expository and analytical, descriptive and narrative.
Prerequisite: German 22.210*, or 22.211* or 22.212*, 22.213; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Systematic analysis of German-English contrastive semantics: collocations (e.g. verb-noun, adjective-noun, adverb-adjective), emphatic particles, cognates and false cognates, word-field domains, cultural-specific metaphorizing and cognition, phraseology (idioms and similes), register.
Prerequisite: German 22.211* or 22.213; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Theory (structure, function and examples of written and spoken texts) and praxis of text analysis (representing fiction and non-fiction in modern German), production of written and spoken texts of various nonfictional types (Gebrauchstexte).
Prerequisite: German 22.211* or 22.212*, or 22.213; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Narrative style from the viewpoint of discourse analysis with particular emphasis on gender aesthetics. Texts by authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Günter Grass, Ilse Aichinger, Christa Reinig, Christa Wolf.
Prerequisite: German 22.210* or 22.211* or 22.212*, 22.213; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
This course discusses in different years the development of one of the literary genres (poetry, drama, prose) within a specific time-frame.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
The literature of the Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, and Early Classicism, with special emphasis on the works of Lessing, Goethe and Schiller.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
This course discusses, for example, an author, a genre, a theme.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Representative texts from drama, poetry, and prose fiction in the period from Hauptmann to Grass.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Practical exercises in translation and consideration of some theoretical approaches.
Prerequisite: German 22.302* or 22.311*; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
A systematic investigation of the principles of syntax in modern written German. Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as German 22.584, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: German 22.302* or 22.311* or 22.402*; or permission of the School.
Lectures two hours a week and seminar one hour a week.
A study of rhetoric as the art of persuasion and as instrument of power in political propaganda and mass communication in Germany from the Pre-World War I period, in the Third Reich, during the Cold War and after the Wende ("reunification"). Practice of forensic skills.
Precludes additional credit for German 22.401*.
Prerequisite: German 22.301* or 22.302*, or 22.312; or permission of the School.
Lecture one hour and seminar two hours a week.
Significant stages in the development of German: the evolution of its phonetic and grammatical structure, its vocabulary and stylistic norms. The social role of language of the twentieth century: language as a means of manipulation, divided German; socio-linguistic facets of contemporary literary language. Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as German 22.581, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: One of German 22.211* or 22.312 or 22.430; or permission of the School.
Lectures two hours a week and seminar one hour a week.
Introduction to Medieval German; Medieval narrative style in heroic epic poetry (Nibelungenlied) and early vernacular love poetry (Minnesang). Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as German 22.563, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Selected readings from the Reformation and the Baroque.
Precludes additional credit for German 22.441* and 22.442*.
Prerequisites: German 22.240 and 1.0 credit (or equivalent) in German at the 300-level; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
A detailed study of a movement, an author, a genre, etc.
Prerequisite: German 22.350 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
A detailed study of works by specific authors such as Fontane or Keller or Kleist.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Topic for 1999-2000: The development of the discourse on Nationalism in nineteenth and twentieth century Germany. Also offered at the graduate level with additional or different requirements, as German 22.586 for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: German 22.350 or 22.380; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Analysis of literary texts to discover the sign-systems through which literature communicates meaning. In different years the principal object of study will be the semiotics of either poetry or narrative prose or drama.
Prerequisite: German 22.240 or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
The course concentrates on one of the following: language as a means of manipulation; divided German; socio-linguistic aspects of contemporary literary language.
Prerequisite: German 22.301* or 22.302*, or 22.312; or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
A topic in German literature (an author or group of authors, a genre, a theme or period) or in the linguistics of German.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
A topic in German literature (an author or group of authors, a genre, a theme or period) or in the linguistics of German.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Primarily for Honours students in their final year. Students complete a substantial translation project. Theoretical and institutional problems of translation are considered.
Prerequisites: German 22.311* and 22.402* or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.
Open to candidates for Honours German and Honours German Studies in their Fourth year. Minimum requirement for admission to the course: an average of A- in Third year in the two core disciplines for students in German Studies, or, for students in German, A- in German courses in Third year. Candidates for Honours German Studies are required to write an essay with an interdisciplinary topic. For all students the essay will be approximately 16,000 words.
Prerequisites: Permission of the School.