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GM 067 The Romantic Experience (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with EN 084 Satisfies Literature Core Requirement Offered Biennially Conducted in English. This course traces a number of themes which were first expressed in the writings of European Romantics during the early nineteenth century and which shaped European and American intellectual history throughout the twentieth century. Such themes are, for example: love, emotion, nature, spirit, solitude, the miraculous, the sublime, and mental insanity. Texts (three novels, an autobiographical memoir, a short story, an essay, poems, letters, and fairy tales) include works by Rousseau, Goethe, Jane Austen, the Grimm brothers, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Jack Kerouac. Christoph Eykman GM 175 Business German (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: GM 051 or the equivalent Conducted in German. Completion of this course satisfies the undergraduate language-proficiency requirement. An introduction to the language and structure of business in the German-speaking countries, this course will focus on daily business practices, on texts related to business in German, and on cultural differences in the German-speaking business world. A semesters work includes the practice of skills necessary to understand and perform basic business transactions (role-playing); the exploration of business in German in different media, such as television and the Internet; and the praxis-oriented expansion of applying the German language in a professional context. Ruth Sondermann GM 201-202 German Composition and Conversation I and II (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: GM 050-051 or their equivalent Required for German majors. Completion of this course satisfies the undergraduate language-proficiency requirement. Auditors must register. This course is designed to improve fluency in spoken and written German. Review of grammar will be restricted to a few selected, difficult items. Short German compositions will be written periodically. Course work includes systematic vocabulary building (including German idiomatic expressions as well as compound nouns and adjectives), listening comprehension, speaking exercises (spontaneous and guided dialogues) and reading. Christoph Eykman GM 218 German Feature Film: A Survey (Spring: 3) Offered Periodically Conducted in German. Counts toward German and German Studies minors or German major. An introduction to feature films from Germany and Austria from the 1920s to the present. Questions of personal, cultural, gendered, sexual, religious, and national identity give the course thematic cohesion. Films to be discussed are: Das blaue Licht (The Blue Light), M, Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), Sissi, Das Boot (The Boat). Deutschland bleiche Mutter (Germany Pale Mother), Memphisto, Taking Sides, Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa, Europa), Männer (Men), Lola rennt (Run Lola Run), Ich bin meine eigene Frau (I am my own woman), Aimee und Jaguar, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa), Goodbye Lenin. Rachel Freudenburg GM 220 Goethe und Schiller (Fall: 3) Offered Biennially Conducted in German This course is for students (not necessarily German majors) with a good knowledge of German (at least 3rd year level). A study of selected dramas and lyrics of Goethe and Schiller. The development on the part of both poets from early Storm and Stress to the later Classicism will be systematically traced. Throughout the course, the literature will be linked to the larger cultural context of its age, with particular attention to the philosophical (Herder, Schiller, Winckelmann, Kant) and musical (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven) heritage of Germany in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Michael Resler GM 240 King Arthur in German Literature (Spring: 3) Offered Biennially Conducted in English. All readings in English translation. A study centering on the most popular and enduring of all medieval legendary figures. We will examine the early texts from which the Arthurian mythology took root and contributed to the eventual spread into Germany of the tales of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. We will then focus on a close reading of four or five of the most significant Arthurian romances within the German tradition. In addition, we will systematically trace the relationship between this highly idealized world of literary knighthood and real-life contemporary historical and social events of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. GM 242 Germany Divided and Reunited (Fall: 3) Offered Biennially Conducted in English. Required for German Studies Minors This course provides a multi-dimensional look at post-war Germany, East and West. Politics, social and economic structure (East versus West), music, art, literature, philosophy (Critical Theory), the crisis and reform of the West German university system, the young generation, and Americanization, will be discussed. Other topics include radicalism/extremism/protest movements (including terrorism), coping with the past (National Socialism), the Revolution of November 1989, and the legal ramifications and unsolved problems deriving from reunification. Christoph Eykman GM 290 Advanced Reading in German (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: GM 050-051 or the equivalent Conducted in German. Counts toward German Major and German Studies Minor. Required for German Minor. This course will sharpen students skills in reading advanced texts in German. It serves as a bridge between the departments language courses and the various practical and academic settings in which a strong reading knowledge of German is required. Texts will be taken from a wide spectrum of sources: the German press, university life, the Internet, scholarly writing and literature. It is recommended for students planning to study abroad and is also open to graduate students planning to conduct research in the German language, whether in this country or abroad. Auditors must register. Michael Resler 140 The Boston College Catalog 2005-2006 ARTS AND SCIENCES

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