Mar 28, 2024  
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

German (GERM)

  
  • GERM 411 - Advanced Language III

    3 Credit Hours
    Reaching a more advanced level in writing, listening, and speaking; review of advanced grammatical concepts.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311 and 312.
  
  • GERM 412 - Advanced Language IV

    3 Credit Hours
    Reaching a more advanced level in writing, listening, and speaking; review of advanced grammatical concepts.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311 and 312.
  
  • GERM 415 - German Special Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 212 or 223 or placement score higher than 467.
  
  • GERM 416 - Berlin: Culture and History

    3 Credit Hours
    The 20th-century German or Austrian metropolis in the mirror of history, literature, theory, art, architecture, and music. Taught in English.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 112 or higher German language course or placement score between 338 and 467.
  
  • GERM 419 - German Fairy Tales and Literary Fantasies

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination of how and why forms of literary fantasies ranging from apocalyptic dreams to enchanted visions have changed over the centuries. Strong interdisciplinary component, tracing interconnections between philosophy, psychology, religion and literary history, as well as exploring the relationship between literary, musical and artistic representations of specific themes.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Two courses from 321, 322, 325.
  
  • GERM 420 - Selected Topics in German Literatures and Cultures

    3 Credit Hours
    Taught in English. Writing-emphasis course.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Two courses from 321, 322, 325.
  
  • GERM 423 - Themes and Genres in German Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    A study of selected themes and genres in German Cinema. Writing emphasis course.
    Cross-listed: Same as Cinema Studies 423.

  
  • GERM 425 - Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See French 425.)

  
  • GERM 426 - Methods of Historical Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Phonetics, distinctive feature analysis, sound change types, nature of sound change, principles of reconstruction, and fundamental assumptions about language change through time. Non-phonological linguistic change, language families, and Proto-Indo-European, and other proto-languages.
    Cross-listed: (Same as French 426; Linguistics 426; Russian 426; Spanish 426.)

    Recommended Background: Linguistics 200 or two 3rd year foreign language courses.
  
  • GERM 433 - Nation, Race, and Ethnicity

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination of cultural constructions of nation, race, and ethnicity and how they have challenged each other and developed in German-speaking countries since the 18th-century. Close study and analysis of fiction, non-fiction, and films that address controversial topics such as assimilation, integration, racial/ethnic identity formation, and multiculturalism.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 321 and 322.
  
  • GERM 434 - Extraordinary Wo(Men)-Outcasts, Rebels, Martyrs and Saints

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination of German texts and visual media that have challenged mainstream thinking throughout the centuries. Strong interdisciplinary component focusing on literary and artistic forms that depict struggles involving religion, politics and gender.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Two courses from 321, 322, 325.
  
  • GERM 435 - Structure of the German Language

    3 Credit Hours
    Contrastive English-German segmental and suprasegmental phonemes, contrastive English-German linguistic structures, selected topics in advanced German grammar and syntactic analysis.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 435.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311 and 312 and two courses from 321, 322, 325.
  
  • GERM 455 - German Literatures and Cultures

    3 Credit Hours
    Seminar with varying topics about literatures and cultures in the German-speaking world. Writing emphasis course.
    Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 12 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 321 and 322.
  
  • GERM 485 - Business German

    3 Credit Hours
    German used in fields of business, government, administration, and economics.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311 and 312.
  
  • GERM 494 - German Community Service Practicum

    1 Credit Hours
    Supervised by the director of the lower-division German program. Students either assist German classes at local schools or perform supervised service with local institutions that promote awareness of German culture among the general public.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 3 hours. (Maximum 1 hour per semester.)
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 411 or 412 or 485.
    Registration Permission: Consent of program chair.
  
  • GERM 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • GERM 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • GERM 510 - German Phonetics and Advanced Grammar

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced work in phonetics, pronunciation, and selected topics in German grammar. For teachers and prospective teachers.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • GERM 519 - Bibliography and Methods of Research

    3 Credit Hours
    Critical research tools and scholarly contributions in German literature and language. Practical exercises on compiling of scholarly data using computer-based and non-computer sources.
  
  • GERM 541 - Medieval German Language and Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to Middle High German.
  
  • GERM 550 - Studies in German Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • GERM 552 - Foundations of Modernity: Topics in 18th Century German Literatures and Cultures

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • GERM 553 - Classicisms: Literature, Criticism, and the German Canon around 1800

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • GERM 554 - The Long Nineteenth Century

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • GERM 555 - Modern German Literatures and Cultures

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • GERM 556 - German Visual Cultures and Media

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • GERM 561 - Directed Readings in German Language and Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • GERM 562 - Directed Readings in German Language and Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • GERM 591 - Foreign Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • GERM 592 - Off-Campus Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • GERM 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • GERM 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation

    3-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • GERM 621 - Seminar in German Literatures and Cultures I

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • GERM 622 - Seminar in German Literatures and Cultures II

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • GERM 631 - Seminar in German and Germanic Philology

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • GERM 632 - Seminar in German and Germanic Philology

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.