Department of German
UW-Madison
College of Letters & Science

Graduate Program Booklet: Course Offerings for Graduate Students

• Advanced Undergraduate: 300-600 Level

(These courses do not count toward a graduate degree in German)

302 Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts
303 Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts
305 Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts
337Advanced Composition and Conversation
351 Introduction to German Linguistics
352 Topics in German Linguistics
375 Seminar in German Literature
385 Honors Seminar in German Literature
601 Deutsche Kulturgeschichte bis 1648
410 Deutsche Kulturgeschichte 1648-1918
411 Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts
465 Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen
611 Survey of German Literature to 1750
673 Senior Seminar in German Literature
677 Seminar in German Culture Studies
683 Senior Honors Seminar in German Literature

• Preparation for Teaching

712 Exercises in German Style
720 College Teaching of German
721 Practicum in the Coordination of Undergraduate Language Instruction
722 Theory of Teaching German
723 Practicum in Teaching Undergraduate Literature
724 Practicum in Teaching Undergraduate Linguistics
725 Practicum in Teaching Undergraduate Culture

• Literature and Culture Courses: 500-600 Level

510 German-Jewish Culture since the 18th Century
518 Anti-Semitism in European Culture, 1700-1945
609 Summer Seminar in German Studies
632 A Theme in German Literature
633 An Author in German Literature
635 19th Century German Prose Fiction
636 20th Century German Prose Fiction
638 German Lyric Poetry I
639 German Lyric Poetry II
642 German Drama I
643 German Drama II
644 Theory and Practice of German Drama
655 German Film
699 Directed Study

• Literature and Culture Courses: 700 Level and Above

701 Literature of the Middle Ages (750-1400)
702 Literatur von 1400 bis 1700
703 Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts
708 Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts
709 Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts
710 Background of German Literature
711 Special Topics in German Literature
740 German Literary Theory and Criticism
741 Topics in German Cultural Theory
742 Topics in German Cultural Studies
799 Independent Study
804 Interdisciplinary European Area Studies Seminar
947-949 Advanced Seminars in German Literature and Culture
990 Individual Research in Literature

• German Linguistics / Medieval German Language and Literature

650 History of the German Language
651 Introduction to Middle High German
652 Readings in Middle High German
662 Applied German Philology
671 Phonetics
727 Topics in Applied Linguistics
751 Contrastive Grammar of English and German
755 Old Germanic Languages (Gothic, Old High German, Old Saxon)
758 Topics in Contemporary German
768 Comparative and Historical Grammar of the Old Germanic Languages
769 Introduction to Comparative Germanic Morphology
960 Seminar in German Linguistics
970 Advanced Seminar in German Linguistics
991 Individual Research in Linguistics and Germanic Philology

• Dutch

311-314 Four Semesters Dutch for Graduate Students
325 Topics in Dutch Literature
335 Dutch Conversation and Composition
445 Topics in Dutch Culture
625 Topics in Dutch Literature/Letterkunde der Lage Landen
645 Topics in Dutch Culture/Cultuurkunde der Lage Landen

Special Topics in Recent Graduate Courses and Seminars include:

Authors: Goethe, Lessing, Herder, Kleist, Heine, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Benjamin, Heiner Müller
The Acquisition of German
Aesthetik von Platon bis zur Postmoderne
Authentic Foreign Texts in the Classroom
Biographien und Autobiographien vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
Code Switching in the Foreign Language Classroom
Comparative and Historical Grammar of the Old Germanic Languages
Comparative Fascisms - Modernity and Modernisms
Contrastive Grammar of English and German
Contemporary Germany and the Transatlantic Politics of Memory
Cultural History of Homosexuality in Germany
Dutch Literature: Koloniale, Anti-Koloniale, Post-Koloniale Literatur
Entwicklungstendenzen im heutigen Deutsch
Expressionism and the Arts
German Literary Dialects, 1250-1400
The German Opera
German Phonology
Germans and Jews in 18th-century Germany
The Grotesque
Historicizing GDR Culture
Implicature and Lexical Semantics
Landschaft in der Poesie
Language & Immigration
Literatur, Kunst, Musik und Tod
Literatur und Film
Medien der Kommunikation in Renaissance, Humanismus und Barock
Mord und Totschlag
Natürliche Morphologie
Paleographic Studies in Medieval German
The Phonology of German
Poetiken und literarische Texte der 70er und 80er Jahre
Psychoanalyse und Literatur
Reading Angels
Reisen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
Representations of the Holocaust in the Media
Sociolinguistics & Pragmatics in 2nd Language Acquisition
Sprache, Literatur, Wahrnehmung
Walter Benjamin´s Ghosts: Theory, Politics, Technology
“Woman” and Women Writers 1700-1848
World War II in Dutch and German Literature

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