German (GRMN)

An introductory language course for those beginning the study of German. Basic linguistic structures will be studied with particular emphasis on the oral communications.

This course continues the studies begun in GRMN 1101.

This intensive course (full year in 6½ weeks) is taught at the Canadian Summer School in Germany. Students acquire A2 German comprehension, writing, reading, and speaking skills through instruction, excursions, immersion, and living in a German home. Integral are fluency development, enhanced cultural knowledge, and grammar. Instruction is in German.

A intermediate German language course with emphasis on grammar in context, listening comprehension, reading and writing.

A continuation of 2201.

This intensive course (a full year in 6.5 weeks) is taught at the Canadian Summer School in Germany. Students will acquire intermediate comprehension, writing, reading, and speaking skills through instruction, excursions, immersion experience, and living in a German home. Integral are fluency development, enhanced cultural knowledge, and grammar review. Instruction is in German.

Readings, lectures, slide presentations, and film clips on the culture and civilization of Germany from the Germanic tribes to the present day. Discussions focus on literature, visual art, history, politics and society. This course is taught in English and satisfies the Faculty of Arts humanities 3c requirement.

A survey of German literature in translation from various periods. The course will provide the student with an introduction into literary analysis. This course is taught in English and satisfies the Faculty of Arts humanities 3c requirement.

A study of trends in German literature since the First World War and up to 1989. Poetry, plays and short stories are read and analyzed. This course is taught in English and satisfies the Faculty of Arts humanities 3c requirement.

Readings. Lecture, slide presentations, and film clips on contemporary (“Postwende”) culture and society of Germany. Topics include new trends in German literature, poetry, plays, and short stories as well as popular culture, music, film, advertising, the Web, festivals, social and political movements. This course is taught in English and satisfies the Faculty of Arts humanities 3 c requirement.

By combining readings, interactive tasks, and guided projects, this course offers students opportunities to expand and refine their ability to comprehend and to communicate effectively in German.

This course is a continuation of German 3311.

This field study course enables students to examine insitu various aspects of German cultural history as exemplified by and in the city of Cologne. Following orientation classes on the significant position of Cologne in German culture and history, the students will depart for Germany where they will take part in educational tours of major cultural venues in and around Cologne. Further educational excursions may include a rococo palace in Brühl and Beethoven’s house and the Museum of Contemporary German History in Bonn.

This intensive course (a full year in 6.5 weeks) is taught at the Canadian Summer School in Germany. Students will acquire advanced comprehension, writing, reading, and speaking skills through instruction, excursions, immersion experience, and living in a German home. Integral are fluency development, enhanced cultural knowledge, and grammar review. Instruction is in German.

The study of the significant prose works and plays in German literature from 1945 to 1989. This course is taught in German.

The study of significant aspects of German literature and culture from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day. This course is taught in German.

This intensive course (a full year in 6.5 weeks) is taught at the Canadian Summer School in Germany. Students will acquire operationally proficient comprehension, writing, reading, and speaking skills through instruction, excursions, immersion experience, and living in a German home. Integral are fluency, critical cultural analysis, and grammar review. Instruction is in German.

Students provide 50 hours of community service to faculty and participants of the Canadian Summer School in Germany through classroom support, peer consultation, and out-of-class experiential components. Students complete readings, an activity log, progress report, language journal, teaching intervention, community-engaged project, and critical self-reflection. Instruction is in German.

This course is for students who have a good working knowledge of German, a special interest in German literature, and who want to study a particular area through directed, independent readings.

This course is for students who have a good working knowledge of German, a special interest in German literature, and who want to study a particular author through directed, independent readings.