Selected Graduate Course Descriptions, Fall Semester 2006(For Undergraduate Course Descriptions click here)
311: First Semester Dutch for Grad Students, 3 cr. Lecturer, Lec 1, MTWR, 1:20 Prerequisites: Graduate Student or consent of instructor. One of the advantages of studying at the UW is being able to take courses in Dutch. Although the study of Dutch Linguistics and Literature has steadily expanded at major American universities in recent years, many universities do not offer this language. Since Dutch is a Germanic language--linguistically related to both German and English--and since Dutch culture and literature have always had close ties to both German- and English speaking cultures, Dutch is a logical choice as an additional language for American students of German language, literature and culture. See our website at http://german.lss.wisc.edu/dutch/ Required Textbooks:
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313: Third Semester Dutch for Grad Students, 3 cr. Lecturer, Lec 1, MTWR, 12:05 Prerequisites: Graduate Student and German112 or 312 or consent of instructor. One of the advantages of studying at the UW is being able to take courses in Dutch. Although the study of Dutch Linguistics and Literature has steadily expanded at major American universities in recent years, many universities do not offer this language. Since Dutch is a Germanic language--linguistically related to both German and English--and since Dutch culture and literature have always had close ties to both German- and English speaking cultures, Dutch is a logical choice as an additional language for American students of German language, literature and culture. Required Textbooks:
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335: Dutch Conversation and Composition, 3 cr. Lecturer, Lec 1, MWF 9:55 Prerequisites: German 314 or consent of instructor. The aim of "German" 335 is to develop the student's ability to speak and write in Dutch on everyday matters, current events, and academic topics through daily oral work (in-class discussions and presentations) and regular essays. A grammar review is an integral part of the course. In addition, this course not only continues and strengthens the skills practiced in Fourth Semester Dutch, but aims to work on more advanced grammatical issues, and to fine-tune a student's vocabulary to include more formal registers, such as academic language, as well as the rich idioms and proverbs which make Dutch such an interesting language to learn. The final grade is based on the following 5 components: class participation, essays, quizzes, in-class exams, and the final exam. Course language is Dutch; excellent preparation for study or research abroad in the Netherlands or Flanders. http://german.lss.wisc.edu/dutch/ Required Textbooks:
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391: German for Graduate Reading Knowledge I, 3 cr. Calomino, Lec 1, TR 11:00-12:15 Prerequisites: Senior or Graduate Student or consent of instructor. This course is intended for those who wish to develop primarily reading skills in German. A thorough presentation of German grammar will be coupled, from the start, with regular practice in reading and translation. Various levels of academic prose will be covered with a twofold goal: participants will develop skills at comprehension in reading expository German in general; individuals will have the opportunity to begin reading German in their own research areas as well. Required Textbooks:
401: First Semester German for Graduate Students, 3 cr. Lecturer, Lec 1, MTWRF 9:55 Prerequisites: Graduate Student. Taught with German 101. (Click here for German 101 Course description) Presumes no knowledge of the German language. In the course students learn basic vocabulary around topics such as classroom objects, daily routines, descriptions of people and objects, simple narration in present time, etc. Currently German 101 covers material presented in the textbook VORSPRUNG from Kapitel 1 to Kapitel 6. Required Textbooks:
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402: Second Semester German for Graduate Students, 3 cr. Lecturer, Lec 1 MTWRF9:55 Prerequisites: Graduate Student; German 101 or 401 or appropriate score on placement exam. German 102 continues the learning begun in German 101. Students learn to narrate using past time markers, to express wishes and conditional ideas, to expand on their ability to describe, and to understand and produce extended texts on everyday topics. Currently German 102 covers material presented in the textbook VORSPRUNG from Kapitel 7 to Kapitel 12. Required Textbooks:
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403: Third Semester German for Graduate Students, 3 cr. Lecturer, Lec 1, MTWR 8:50Lecturer, Lec 2, MTWR 9:55 Lecturer, Lec 3, MTWR 11:00 Lecturer, Lec 4, MTWR 12:05 Lecturer, Lec 5, MTWR 1:20 Lecturer, Lec 7, MW 7-8:40pm Prerequisites: Graduate Student; German 102 or 402 or appropriate score on placement exam. Required Textbooks:
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Lecturer, Lec 2, MTWR 9:55 Taught with German 204. (Click here for German 204 Course description) Required Textbooks:
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645: Topics in Dutch Culture: De Republiek en de Gouden Eeuw, 3-4 cr. Taylor, Lec 1, MWF, 1:20 Prerequisites: German 314 or consent of instructor. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of remarkable development in the Low Countries. During these periods, the development of the peoples’ group identities (regional, eventually national) experienced remarkable changes. The Revolt against the Spanish Habsburg Empire, the founding of the Republic, and the near-unfathomable wealth acquired by some deeply affected the entire region. The period was characterized by a flowering of learning and the arts and sciences; respect for, and development of, vernacular language; massive migration, in part due to the Republic’s reputation for religious tolerance; a dominant position in world-wide trade; and the beginnings of the development of a nation. This course, which will investigate the culture of the Republic and the Golden Age, will introduce this rich material, intended to help graduate students develop their ability to discuss and analyze relevant concepts in Dutch. German 645 is a three-credit course which meets for three one-hour class sessions per week taught in English plus an hour’s discussion in Dutch. Therefore, the prerequisite for the course is successful completion of German 214 or 314 (fourth-semester Dutch), or equivalent. Because the Republic and the Golden Age was such a significant period in Dutch and Flemish history, this course will serve as a meaningful point of entry into Dutch/Flemish culture for those interested in further study, including study abroad in the Low Countries. Course materials include textbooks (which will be available on reserve), readings from other text on reserve, sites on the www, and multimedia (photographic and musical) material presented in class. Required Textbooks:
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Note: Multimedia and internet-based resources will supplement the texts listed above. Silberman, Lec 1, MW 2:30-3:45 Prerequisites: For German credit: one 300 level course or above; For com arts credit: Com Arts 350 or 352. This film course presents a synoptic view of the German cinema's development during the twentieth century. Feature-length films will be screened every week on Tuesday evenings and attendance at screenings and class discussion is mandatory; some screening sessions will be as short as 90-100 min., but several features are as long as 140 minutes, and some screenings will include 2 shorter features. Course lectures will introduce the major trends in the German cinema. These include early forms of narrativization, the post WWI Expressionist period, the social film of the late Weimar period, the entertainment cinema of the Third Reich, the fifties "Heimat" and problem films of West Germany, the East German cinema, the Young German Film of the sixties, the New German Cinema of the seventies, and post-unification cinema. Students will develop a knowledge base with which to distinguish the historical development of the German cinema from other national cinemas and will be asked to demonstrate this acquired knowledge through the analysis of individual films. We will be concerned with ways in which the movie industry and specific films responded to cultural, political, and technological changes in Germany over an entire century. The course format will consist of a weekly lecture on Mondays to introduce background to a period, issue, genre, or particular film. The film screening pertinent to the lecture will always begin on Tuesday at 7:00 PM. The screened film will be the main focus of the next day’s class session (Wednesday). Pairs or groups of students will be assigned to prepare the Wednesday discussions of the feature film with questions and theses. Written work includes several short (3-4 pages) papers on topics defined by the instructor and a final term paper (ca. 15 pages + scene segmentation) that presents the analysis of an entire film chosen by the student but not screened in class. NOTE: For students with advanced German-language skills: if there is sufficient interest, we can organize an informal discussion section in German to introduce and practice the technical terminology of film analysis (possibly after Tuesday screenings). Required Textbooks:
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676: Reiseliteratur seit der frühen Neuzeit, 3 cr. Mödersheim, Sem 1, TR 2:30-3:45 Prerequisites: German 337 and two additional advanced German courses or consent of instructor. In diesem Kurs lesen wir ausgewählte Beispiele deutscher Reiseliteratur von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Die Formen der literarischen Reisebeschreibung reichen von Darstellungen realer Reisen mit Referenzen auf den wirklichen Raum bis zu fiktionalen Reiseberichten wie Robinsonaden oder utopischen Entwürfen. Spätestens ab dem 18. Jahrhundert richtet die literarische Reisebeschreibung ihren Blick nicht nur nach außen, sondern auch nach innen. Die Wahrnehmung und Repräsentation des "Fremden" und "Anderen" und die Auseinandersetzung mit kultureller Differenz spiegelt eine Kritik und Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Welt. http://german.lss.wisc.edu/gr676/
708: Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, 3 cr. Adler, Lec 1, TR 11:00-12:15 Prerequisites: Graduate Student. In dieser Vorlesung werder wir uns mit Grundzügen der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts vertraut machen. Ziel des Kurses ist, mit den wichtigsten Autorinnen, Autoren, Gattungen, Problemen und Herausforderungen der Literatur bekannt zu werden. Wir werden zudem diskursive Kontinuitäten, Brüche und Innovationen beobachten und analysieren. Ein Charakteristikum des 19. Jahrhunderts ist, daß seine Literatur zwischen enger Kontextbindung und extremer Kontextferne schwankt. In einem zuvor nicht gekannten Ausmaß wird Literatur einerseits politisiert und zieht sich andererseits bis zur programmatischen Kommunikationsverweigerung in esoterische Bereiche zurück. Für den Roman hat das 19. Jahrhundert bis heute wirksame Standards gesetzt. Das gleiche gilt für Feuilleton und Essay. Die epochalen Emphasen reichen von traumschwerer, eskapistischer, aber auch politischer Romantik und nischensüchtigem Biedermeier über das von der Required Textbooks:
Berghahn, Lec 1, MW 4:00-5:15 PM Prerequisites: Graduate Student. Literaturkritik, die heute nur noch ein bescheidenes Dasein als schoengeistige Beilage in ueberregionalen Zeitungen fristet, war im 18. Jahrhundert ein wichtiger Bestandteil der buergerlich-literarischen Oeffentlichkeit. Sie ist eine Erscheinung der Aufklaerung, die ihr Kunsturteil nicht mehr ausschliesslich auf klassische Muster und normative Regeln sondern auf eine psychologische Wirkungsaesthetik und ein egalitaeres Geschmacksurteil stuetzte. Die literarische Kritik war im 18. Jahrhundert keineswegs ein bloss innerliterarisches Phaenomen, sie war vielmehr –wie Koselleck und Habermas nachgewiesen haben – auch immer versteckt politisch und zielte auf die Herstellung einer buergerlichen Oeffentlichkeit. Sie ist als Kritik der herrschenden Kultur zugleich auch ein Instrument buergerlicher Emanzipation. Vernachlaessigt man diese Dialektik von Kritik und Oeffentlichkeit, so kann man weder die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Litertaur noch die politische Funktion der Kritik fuer den Prozess der Aufklaerung adaequat erkennen. Erst auf dem Hintergrund dieser Voraussetzungen erklaert sich auch die Heftigkeit der Literaturdebatten, die als politische Ersatzhandlungen der Intellektuellen verstanden werden koennen. Sie markieren nicht nur Wendepunkte der Literaturgeschichte sondern auch ein sich aenderndes Selbstverstaendnis derLiteratur und Kritik. Anhand der literarischen Debatten lassen sich literarische Konzepte, Epochenbewusstsein und Epochengrenzen erkennen, die in dieser Schaerfe sonst nicht so klar fassbar sind.
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720: College Teaching of German, 1 cr. Chavez, Lec 1, M 8:50 Prerequisites: Must be taken with 722 and Graduate Student. PLEASE NOTE THAT
This course offers an introduction to principles and theory of second-language acquisition as well as foreign-language pedagogy. We will explore the many interpretations of the common term "communicative language teaching/learning"; how to put the concept into practice; and how the concept is rooted in theory. We will look at how every teacher can and should conduct what is called 'action' ("informal", classroom-based) research, as a check mechanism for intuitive practice. We will also consider the influence of teacher and learner variables and how these variables can be embedded in a common theory of teaching and learning. You will be encouraged to explore yourself as a teacher, to get to know the UW-Madison German/Dutch and other language programs, and to familiarize yourself with the profession at large. The course will primarily be assignment- and project- rather than exam-based. Practical concerns will also be addressed through a combined departmental and Van Hise (Foreign Language) orientation, which takes place during welcome week (the week before classes start). Please contact me (mmchavez@wisc.edu) or the department for the specific program. Participation in the entire orientation program is mandatory for all course participants, and will count toward course credit (we will cancel Friday meetings during the second half of the semester). Your teaching practice and course work will also be informed through collaboration with the Teaching Assistant Mentor, a pedagogical workshop series, and a course segment called "Issues in Teaching", in which practical concerns raised by you will be discussed. Concurrent teaching is not required although many course participants will, in fact, be first-time teaching assistants. Students new to the department who anticipate teaching in the department in the future are also encouraged to enroll. The course is only offered in Fall semesters. There will be two similar versions of the syllabus, for teaching and non-teaching participants. Required Textbooks:
722:Theory of Teaching German, 2 cr. Chavez, Lec 1, WF 8:50 Prerequisites: German 720 and Graduate Student. See description for German 720. 727:Topics in Applied Linquistics: Teacher as Variable in Language Teaching and Learning, 3 cr. Chavez, Lec 1, MWF 9:55 Prerequisites: Graduate Student. For some time now, language learners have been regarded as individuals who – partly based on specific characteristics such as motivation or demographics – take distinctly different approaches to foreign/second language learning. Teachers, however, continued to be viewed as generic entities, most distinguishable by the “teaching method” they subscribed to – or were made to subscribe to by their programs, supervisors, or the “profession”. In recent years, though, teachers, too, have become regarded as individuals and as deserving “objects of study”. In this course we will examine the teacher as a variable from the following perspectives: (1) how teachers develop (differing) beliefs about language learning and teaching; (2) how teachers’ beliefs (do not) coincide with their practices; (3) how teachers’ views of their role in the classroom translates into distinctly different language-use practices, all under the umbrella term of “communicative language teaching”; (4) how a teacher’s language-use practices interact with language-use practices of her/his students; (5) how a teacher’s native speaker status and gender interact with teaching behaviors and beliefs as well as students’ perceptions of the teacher; and (6) which potential gaps there are between a teacher’s beliefs on the one hand and, on the other, beliefs or demands of learners, programs, and professional “best practices”. This last point especially will lead into the topic of a subsequent course (taught in the Spring of 2007), with the title Resistance and Subversion in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. The course will be taught in English. No prior experience with second-language-acquisition research is assumed. Course participants will receive extensive guidance when completing course assignments such as course readings, interviews, a take-home exam, a conference abstract, drafting of research questions, and a group research paper. The course readings will be based on recent research articles from a broad scope of publications and be made available in the form of a reading pack. If you have any questions regarding the course, please feel free to contact me at mmchavez@wisc.edu . 755: Early New High German, 3 cr. Calomino, Lec 1, TR 1:00- 2:15 Prerequisites: Consent of instructor or German 651. This course will examine predominant linguistic trends based on textual evidence during the Early New High German period. Topics will include phonological, morphological, and syntactic developments from the late thirteenth through the late sixteenth century. Lexical topics and literary or textual types will also be treated. Regional developments will be considered for representative dialect-areas: East and West Middle German, Alemannic (including Swabian), Bavarian, and Low German. A variety of texts from each of these areas will provide opportunity to develop fluency in reading and will also provide a basis for topics in linguistic and thematic discussion. These texts will also be examined for the development or continuation of linguistic phenomena and literary or ecclesiastical trends which had already been present during earlier phases of Middle High German. Handbooks will include:
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Texts that may be out of print will be made available as PDF-files or as photocopies. Participants will complete a research project on a linguistic or textual topic. 758: Topics in Contemporary German: Comparative German Syntax, 3 cr. Louden, Lec 1, TR 8:00-9:15 Prerequisites: Graduate Student or Advanced Undergraduate Student with permission of instructor.
758: Topics in Contemporary German: German Morphology, 3 cr. Salmons, Lec 2, MWF 11:00 Prerequisites: Graduate Student. This course offers a chance to look at the forms German words can take from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Among other issues, we will seek to understand how and why German nouns end up with the particular genders they do, why umlaut is associated with the particular categories it is (subjunctives, plural nouns, comparative adjectives, many others), and how case works (in contrast to English). In addition to contemporary Standard German, we will draw evidence from dialects and sociolinguistic variation, language history and acquisition. Required Textbooks:
804: Interdisciplinary Western European Area Studies Seminar: Eastern Europe in Transition: Property Relations and Society , 3 cr. Bloch, P; Ventura, S; Radeloff, V; Kaiser, R, Sem 1, W 2:25-5:00pm Prerequisites: Graduate Student. Please contact Instructors for course description and books. 947: Advanced Seminar in German Literature and Culture: "The Third Reich", 3 cr. Steakley, Sem 1, T 3:30-5:30pm Prerequisites: Graduate Student. Please contact Prof. Steakley (steakley@wisc.edu) for course description and books.
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