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German Language and Culture Courses
- Ger 1120 - Elementary German I
- Ger 1121 - Elementary German II
- Ger 2220 - Readings & Conversation
- GET3130 - German Literature in Translation: Love & Society
- GER 3310 - Intermediate German Grammar
- GER 3500 - German Studies
- GER4480 - German of the News Media: Current Events
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GEW 4592/5597 - Dark Beginnings of the Modern Age - Occult Origins, Mysterious Forces, Vicious Desires
- GEW 4930/5596 - German Literature after 1945: The Trouble with the Rubble of the Nazi Past
- GER5060 - Graduate Reading Knowledge
Ger 1120: Elementary German I |
Multiple Sessions |
Introduction to German. Oral comprehension, speaking, reading, and
writing are stressed.
May not be taken by native speakers. Students with
more than two years of high school German or the equivalent should consult
the department for placement. May not be taken concurrently with GER 1110,
1111, 1121, or 2220.
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Ger 1121: Elementary German II |
Multiple Sessions |
Introduction to German. Oral comprehension, speaking, reading, and
writing are stressed.
Prerequisite: Ger 1110 or 1120. May not be taken by
native speakers. May not be taken concurrently with GER 1110, 1111, 1121,
or 2220.
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Ger 2220: Readings & Conversation |
Multiple Sessions |
Serves as final semester of the language requirement and as the
transition to upper-level study. Contemporary reading matter, including
films, slides, and recordings, serves as the basis for discussion.
Prerequisite:
Ger 1121. May not be taken by native speakers. May not be taken concurrently
with GER 1110, 1120,and/or 1121.
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GER 3310: Intermediate
German Grammar |
Prof. Birgit Maier-Katkin
Office: Diffenbaugh 316A
Phone: 644-8300
Email: bmaierkatkin@fsu.edu |
This course is designed for students who have completed GER 2220 or the equivalent and offers a comprehensive intermediate program. The course helps students to increase and improve competence and proficiency in German grammar; it enhances the students’ ability to use correct grammar. This will be done through grammar exercises, reading, writing, listening and conversation. By reviewing previous grammar points and by adding more detailed explanations students will be able to work on the intermediary level of language learning. Students will learn to function in the German language (writing, speaking, listening) with greater confidence.
Required Texts:
- Jamie Rankin. Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik, 4th ed., 2004.
- A good quality German-English, English-German dictionary
Optional Text:
- Cecile Zorach and Charlotte Melin, English Grammar for Students of German: The Study Guide for Those Learning German, 4th ed., 2001.
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| GER4480: German of the News Media: Current Events
| Prof. Wolfgang Adolph
Office: Diffenbaugh 316
Phone: 644-8192
Email: weadolph@fsu.edu |
The goals of this course are varied. In the course of the semester, the students will become familiar with currentissues and events in Germany and be able to converse and write about them in German. The student will becomeacquainted with the system of mass media in Germany. Another objective of the course is to improve the students'language skills primarily reading, speaking, and listening through work with texts taken from the German massmedia (newspapers, magazines, the internet, tv ).
Students will work with authentic, advanced-level texts from the media from a variety of sources on a variety ofsubjects. These texts will be the basis for discussion, role-playing, vocabulary and grammar practice, reports, andwritten assignments.
Prerequisite:
Two 3000-level courses or instructor permission 
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GER 3500: German Studies |
Prof. Christian Weber
Office: Diffenbaugh 316C
Phone: 645-7842
Email: cweber@fsu.edu |
 
This course, taught entirely in German, serves as an introduction to German studies. The course provides students with an understanding of the major cultural aspects (literature, visual arts, history, politics, etc.) of German-speaking countries. The emphasis is placed on Germany in the second half of the twentieth century.
Required texts:
- Anders Gedacht by Motyl-Mudretzkyj & Späinghaus. Houghton Mifflin, 2005
- Friedrich Christian Delius, Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde, Rowohlt 2005
Prerequisite: GER 2220 or placement test or instructor’s consent.
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GET 3130: German Literature in Translation |
Prof. Margaret MacCarroll
Office: Diffenbaugh 137
Phone:
Email: mcm03d@fsu.edu |
Love and Society
This course is taught in English and offers an overview of German literature from the early 19th century to the present using representative works of majorwriter such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffman, Franz Kafka, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Bernhard Schlink. We will examine short stories, poetry and explorethemes of love and society. By placing emphasis on cultural context the objective is to provide non-German-reading students with an understanding of German literary texts and to enhance their skill of analyzing and interpreting literature.
This course counts toward a minor or major in German, it fulfills Gordon Rule, Humanities Requirement, and Liberal Studies Multicultural Requirement: Diversity in Western Culture
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GEW 4592/5597: Dark Beginnings of the Modern Age |
Prof. Christian Weber
Office: Diffenbaugh 316C
Phone: 645-7842
Email: cweber@fsu.edu |
Occult Origins, Mysterious Forces, Vicious Desires:
Goethe’s Faust and the Drama of Enlightenment
  
The Age of Enlightenment claims to explain the world by the rigor of reason and scientific investigation. Yet the brighter its means of inquiry shine, the darker the shadows grow on those forces of nature and human faculties that remain invisible to the eye and inexplicable to the mind. This course investigates the dramatic conflict between light (rationality and reason) and darkness (desire and imagination) in the late Eighteenth century. The first half of the semester will introduce crucial debates and discourses of this period about the origins of language and imagination, the force of life, the sources of human evil and the foundations of society. At the center and as the culmination point of all these debates stands a figure who desires to know “was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält” – famous and mysterious Faust. Hence, during the second half of the semester, we will read closely the most influential and impressive literary monument of this period, Goethe’s Faust. Our analysis of this drama of Enlightenment concludes with a discussion of Horkheimer and Adorno’s thesis of a Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students from other disciplines or department who are interested in attending this course should please contact the instructor (cweber@fsu.edu).
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GEW 4930/5596 German Literature after 1945 |
Prof. Birgit Maier-Katkin
Office: Diffenbaugh 316A
Phone: 644-8300
Email: bmaierkatkin@fsu.edu |
German Literature after 1945: The Trouble with the Rubble of the Nazi Past
The course examines the major concerns of the literary community of the Federal Republic and the re-united Germany from 1945 till the end of the twentieth century. It touches on issues such as the Nullpunkt, the challenge of a new democracy, the multiplicity of postwar voices and experiences regarding the Third Reich, and the shadows cast by the Nazi period. The course explores how postwar literature and film engage in a discourse of remembrance and silence in an effort to formulate an acceptable cultural memory of the Nazi past. Among others, we will read works by Günter Grass, Bernhard Schlink, W.G Sebald, Ruth Klüger and view various films.
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GER 5060: Graduate Reading Knowledge |
Prof. Ray Hattaway
Office: Diffenbaugh 316B
Phone: 644-8191
Email: rhattawa@fsu.edu |
The focus of this course is to enable students to develop techniques essential in attaining a proficiency in the reading and translation of German language. With the assistance of a good dictionary and traditional resources, students will be able to read and understand scholarly material in their respective fields. This course offers students a way to adequately prepare for the GER 5069 Graduate Reading Knowledge Exam (German).
Texts:
- Richard Alan Korb, Jannach's German for Reading Knowledge, 6th ed. (required - previous editions will not work)
- Good German/English dictionary (required)
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