2001 - 2002
Undergraduate Catalog

Germanic and Slavic Studies

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF 2000-2001

Bullivant, K., Chair; Alter, N.M.; Barksdale, E.C.; DiFino, S.M.; Eichhorn, E.; Futterknecht, F.; Gorham, M.S.; Hasty, W.R.; Johnston, O.W.; Overstreet, C.; Popp, D.M.; Rennert, H.H.; Rylkova, G.S.; Stephan, H.

Undergraduate Coordinator-German: W.R. Hasty.

Undergraduate Coordinator-Russian: M.S. Gorham.

Russian & East European Certificate: H. Stephan.

Graduate Coordinator- German: F. Futterknecht.

FOL 4700 The Training of Apprentice Teachers.
Credits: 3; May be taken only once for credit.
Tutor training and supervision; practice of the communication skills model. Techniques for beginning language instruction.

FOW 2202 Film German/Russian/Scandinavian.
Credits: 3. GR-E†

CZE 1130 Introduction to Czech Language and Culture 1.
Credits: 5.
This course and its sequel, CZE 1131, offer a comprehensive introduction to Czech, using interactive methods to develop competence in speaking, listening, reading, writing and cultural interaction.

CZE 1131 Introduction to Czech Language and Culture 2.
Credits: 5; Prereq: CZE 1130 (grade of C or better, or S), or its equivalent.

Dutch Language
The language requirement (10 credits) can be fulfilled by the sequence DUT 1130, 1131.

DUT 1130 Beginning Dutch 1. F.
Credits: 5.

DUT 1131 Beginning Dutch 2. S.
Credits: 5; Prereq: DUT 1130 (grade of C or better or S) or the equivalent.

German Studies
The language requirement (10 credits) can be fulfilled by the sequence GER 1120, GER 1121, GER 1122 or GER 1130, GER 1131.

GER 1120 Beginning German I.
Credits: 4.

GER 1121 Beginning German II.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 1120 (grade of C or better, or S), or the equivalent.

GER 1122 Beginning German III.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 1121 (grade of C or better, or S), or the equivalent.

GER 1125 Discover German I.
Credits: 5.
The first semester of a two-semester sequence that includes GER 1126. In this innovative on-line course, students will acquire basic skills in the German lanuague and use the Internet as a resource to explore aspects of German language cultures and everyday life. (GER 1125 and 1126 can be taken instead of GER 1120, 1121 and 1122 to satisfy the German language requirement.)

GER 1126 Discover German II.
Credits: 5; Prereq: GER 1125.
Continuation of GER 1125. Students will continue acquiring basic skills in the German language using the Internet to explore aspects of German language cultures and everyday life.

GER 1130 Beginning Intensive German I.
Credits: 5; No previous knowledge of German required.
Emphasis is on spoken German. Reading, writing and grammar are also included in the program. Communication in German is enhanced by the use of multi-media and regular meetings with tutors. Supervised homework and drill sessions in small groups.

GER 1131 Beginning Intensive German II.
Credits: 5; Prereq: GER 1130 (grade of C or better or S) or the equivalent.

GER 1930 Variable Languages.
Credits: 3 to 10.
Upon completion students will be able to converse, read and write one of the less commonly taught languages. May be repeated with change in content up to a maximum of ten credits.

GER 2200 Intermediate German I.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 1122 or GER 1131 or its equivalent.
Participants will improve their skills in the four basic areas (reading, writing, listening comprehension, speaking) by reviewing elements of grammar, particularly morphology (i.e., word forms), and by expanding vocabulary. Upon successful completion, students may go directly to Advanced German.

GER 2240 Intermediate German 2.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 2200 or its equivalent.
Objectives include improving reading and speaking skills at the intermediate level. Upon completion participants will be able to pronounce German words more accurately, listen with greater comprehension to German, and respond to questions about a variety of recorded texts.

GER 3234 Introduction to Reading German Texts.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 2200.
Upon completion, students will be able to read literary and non-literary texts and to identify the more common syntactical, stylistic and rhetorical elements.

GER 3330 German Language and Culture I.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 2200.
Students will be introduced to German civilization through grammar review, vocabulary building, reading and essay writing. Upon completion, students will be able to discuss cultural and literary concepts in German. (H)

GER 3401 Advanced German I.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 2200 or permission of the undergraduate coordinator.
A study of the German language focusing on syntax (i.e., sentence structure) is combined with the reading and discussion of different kinds of prose texts (newspaper and magazine articles about aspects of contemporary German culture, short stories) and video materials, the composition of short essays and vocabulary building. Successful completion of Advanced German I and II will increase fluency and enable students to understand and express themselves about relatively complex texts.

GER 3402 Advanced German II.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 2200 or permission of the undergraduate coordinator.
In this continuation of GER 3401, students continue to develop their fluency and their ability to understand and utilize complex texts by studying the relationship of meaning to sentence structure and by working with different kinds of written texts and video materials. With the permission of the instructor, students may enroll in this course before taking GER 3401.

GER 3440 German in Business.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 2200.
In this course, which includes the study of Wirt-schaftsdeutsch and the ability to read and write texts in the area of international business transactions in German, students acquire the ability to communicate in German in a professional business setting. (I)(S)

GER 4450 German Phonetics and Pronunciation.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 3234, GER 3401 or GER 3402.
This course will enable participants to improve pronunciation through the production of skits and plays. Emphasis is on reading aloud to perfect oral-aural skills.

GER 4850 The Structure and Stylistics of German.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 3234, GER 3401 or GER 3402.
Upon completion students will understand the elements of contrastive grammar and be able to translate from German to English more effectively.

GER 4941 Peer Tutoring Internship in German.
Credits: 1 to 3; Prereq: GER 3000 or GEW 4000 level course.
Teaching. Internship/practicum. S/U only.

GER 4956 Overseas Studies in German.
Credits: 1 to 15; Prereq: Permission of undergraduate coordinator.
This revolving topics course provides a mechanism by which course work taken abroad as part of an approved study abroad program can be recorded on the transcript and counted toward graduation at UF.

GET 2000 German Culture and Civilization I.
Credits: 3.
Knowledge of German is not required. Introduction to German civilization from the earliest times to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Upon completion, students will have some acquaintance with German literature, philosophy, art, music and architecture. Readings and discussions in English. (H, I)

GET 2001 Modern German Culture and Civilization.
Credits: 3.
Knowledge of German is not required. Introduction to German civilization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Participants will be able to discuss leaders in German literature, philosophy, art, music and architecture. Texts and lectures in English. (H, I)

GET 2100 German Literary Heritage.
Credits: 3; Not for major credit. Satisfies general education requirement.
Knowledge of German is not required. Upon completion participants will be able to discuss major works of German literature, mainly from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Texts and lectures in English. (H) GR-E†

GET 2250 The Tales of King Arthur.
Credits: 3.
Upon completion students will be familiar with some of the great literary works of the Arthurian tradition, and with the manner in which the tales of King Arthur serve, from their sixth century Celtic origins to the present, to articulate the interests and values of different social groups through history. (H, I)

GET 2290 Early German Cinema - 1945.
Credits: 4.
A historical overview of the most influential films of German classical cinema, including how they relate to the social reality of the 1920’s and 30’s.

GET 3200 The Literature of Knighthood.
Credits: 3.
A study of the chivalric literature written by knights for knights and ladies in the northern, German-speaking regions of the Holy Roman Empire during the High Middle Ages (ca. 1200). Students will explore the political and historical foundations of knighthood in this region, the narrative traditions to which different chivalric works are related, and the socio-cultural significance of adventures, tournaments, and quests. GR-E†

GET 4291 Women and German Cinema.
Credits: 4.
An introduction to the role of women in German film from Weimar to the present day on "both sides of the camera." Basic concepts in feminist film theory will also be covered.

GET 4293 New German Cinema 1945 – Present Day.
Credits: 4.
An introduction to "New German Cinema" from its inception in the 1960’s to its demise and its subsequent legacy, both in filmmaking and criticism.

GEW 3100 Survey of German Literature I.
Credits: 3; Prereq: permission of instructor.
Upon completion participants will be acquainted with the major periods and works of German literature from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. Texts in German. (H, I)

GEW 3101 Survey of German Literature II.
Credits: 3.
Upon completion students will be familiar with the major periods of German literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Authors include Goethe, Kleist, Kafka, Mann, Grass and Christa Wolf. Readings in German. (H)

GEW 4200 Foundations of Literary Study.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GEW 3234 and GEW 3101.
Upon completion participants will be able to use research techniques and critical approaches to German literature. Students will have a working knowledge of German literary criticism. Texts and lectures in German. (H)

GEW 4301 Introduction to German Drama and Theater.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GEW 3100 and GEW 3101 or its equivalent.
Survey of German drama from the late medieval period to the present. Introduction to major forms, periods and authors such as Lessing, Goethe, Schiller and Brecht. (H)

GEW 4330 Introduction to German Poetry.
Credits: 3; Prereq: FEW 3100 and GEW 3101.
Upon completion students will be able to identify specific lyrical forms and recognize periods in the development of German poetry from the earliest period to the present. Texts and lectures in German. (H)

GEW 4400 Medieval Studies in German.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GEW 3100 and GEW 3101.
Students will read some shorter verse narratives dealing with love and chivalric adventures in the original language of the German Middle Ages (ca. 1200). In conjunction with this reading, students will learn some of the basic structure of the poetic idiom (Middle High German) as well as some of the issues and problems involved in the production, transmission, and editing of medieval manuscripts. (H)

GEW 4542 Romantics and Revolutionaries.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GEW 3100 and GEW 3101.
This introduction to the movements "Romanticism" and "Young Germany" will enable students to analyze social movements and their relationship to literature in the first half of the nineteenth century. Participants will also learn to recognize specific literary forms and styles. (H)

GEW 4730 Modern German Literature.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GEW 3100 and GEW 3101.
Upon completion students will be able to discern the major trends of German literature in the first half of the twentieth century, including impressionism, expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, workers’ literature and Nazi culture. Works by Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse and Bertolt Brecht will be discussed. (H)

GEW 4731 Contemporary German Literature.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GEW 3100 and GEW 3101.
Participants will learn to discern the major trends of post WW II German literature. Students will be able to recognize the key features of works by such German authors as Böll, Grass, Weiss, and Wolf and by such Swiss and Austrian writers Frisch, Dürrenmatt and Handke. (H)

GEW 4750 Women in German Literature.
Credits: 3; Prereq: any two 3000-level courses.
Upon completion participants will a) be familiar with the image of women in representative works of German literature; b) become acquainted with the main themes and structures in selected works by major women writers of German speaking countries and their unique contribution to German culture and literature; c) will learn to use an interdisciplinary approach to literature and get to know the basic tools of gender studies. (H)

GEW 4760 Ethnic Writing in Germany.
Credits: 3; Prereq: GER 3234 or permission of the instructor.
Students will become familiar with the writings (prose, poetry, critical essays) of significant authors of non-German descent (i.e., Spaniards, Italians, Turks, Iranians) from the 1950s to the present. Besides gaining insights into the lives and thinking of significant ethnic minorities in Germany during this period, students will develop the ability to address the implications of this corpus of literature for German literary history and the question of German identity more generally. Films dealing with relevant topics will also be screened and discussed.

GEW 4905 Individual Work.
Credits: 1 to 3. Available by special arrangement. May be taken only once for major credit.

GEW 4930 Seminar in Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Credits: 3; Prereq: any two 3000-level courses or permission of instructor.
Variable topic course dealing with specific issues of a Germanic language or literature. (H)

PLW 4905 Individual Work.
Credits: 1 to 10; May be repeated for additional credit.
Available only by special arrangement.

Russian Language and Literature
The language requirement (10 credits) can be fulfilled by the sequence RUS 1120, RUS 1121, RUS 1122 or RUS 1130, RUS 1131.

RUS 1120 Beginning Russian 1.
Credits: 4.

RUS 1121 Beginning Russian 2.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 1120 (grade of C or better, or S) or its equivalent.

RUS 1122 Beginning Russian 3.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 1121 (grade of C or better, or S) or its equivalent.

RUS 1130 Introduction to Russian Language and Culture 1.
Credits: 5.
This course and its sequel, RUS 1131, offer a comprehensive introduction to Russian, using interactive methods to develop competence in speaking, listening, reading, writing and cultural interaction.

RUS 1131 Introduction to Russian Language and Culture 2.
Credits: 5; Prereq: RUS 1130 (grade of C or better, or S) or its equivalent.

RUS 2200 Intermediate Russian: Reading and Writing.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 1122 or RUS 1131 or its equivalent.

RUS 3240 Oral Practice in Russian.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 1122 or RUS 1131 or its equivalent.

RUS 3400 Russian Grammar and Composition.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 2200 or its equivalent.
Exercises in sentence patterns, vocabulary building, sustained oral and written discourse in Russian.

RUS 4300 Advanced Grammar and Composition
Credits: 3; Prereq: one 3000-level course or its equivalent.

RUS 4411 Advanced Oral Practice.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 3240.
Development of advanced speaking and listening skills based on authentic written, audio and video texts from contemporary Russian culture.

RUS 4700 Structure of the Russian Language.
Credits: 3; Prereq: one 3000-level course or its equivalent.

RUS 4840 History of the Russian Language.
Credits: 3; Prereq: one 3000-level course or its equivalent.
A study of the development of the Russian language. (H, I)

RUS 4905 Individual Work in Russian.
Credits: 1 to 3; Prereq: RUS 2200 or its equivalent. Available by special arrangement.

RUS 4930 Special Topics in Russian.
Credits: 3; (course may be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits).
New or experimental courses or one-time offerings.

RUS 4941 Peer Tutoring Internship in Russian.
Credits: 1 to 3; by permission only. S/U option.

RUS 4956 Overseas Studies in Russian.
Credits: 1 to 15; Prereq: Approval by undergraduate coordinator.
This revolving topics course provides a mechanism by which course work taken abroad as part of an approved study abroad program can be recorded on the transcript and counted toward graduation at UF.

RUT 2100 Russian Masterpieces.
Credits: 3. Not for major credit. Satisfies general education requirement.
Readings and discussions in English. (H)

RUT 2500 Russian Cultural Heritage.
Credits: 3.
An introduction to the culture of pre-revolutionary Russia. Philosophical, religious, artistic and literary currents in relation to Western civilization. Readings and discussions in English. (H, I)

RUT 2501 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society.
Credits: 3.
Patterns of continuity and change in the philosophical and cultural values of Russian society as they explain the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia. Readings and discussions in English. (H)

RUT 2502 Russia Today.
Credits: 3.
An investigation into traditional and newly emerging symbols, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that shape everyday life in late- and post-Soviet Russia. GR-E†

RUT 3441 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
Credits: 3.
Introduction to the major nineteenth century Russian novelists, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and their contemporaries. Readings and discussions in English. (H)

RUT 3450 Russian Modernism.
Credits: 3.
Introduction to the major artistic contributions of Russian Modernism in the context of the political, social and cultural upheavals of Late Imperial to Stalinist Russia (1890-1939).

RUT 3452 Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century.
Credits: 3.
Authors, movements, and genres in Russian literature from the Revolution of 1917 to the present. Readings and discussions in English. (H, I) GR-E†

RUT 4440 Pushkin and Gogol.
Credits: 3.
Major works of Russian literature written in the first half of the nineteenth century, mainly by Pushkin and Gogol. Readings and discussions in English. (H)

RUW 3100 Reading the Russian Press.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 2200 or its equivalent.
An in-depth study of the vocabulary, structures, reading strategies and cultural background needed for understanding and interpreting contemporary Russian print media across a variety of relevant issues and themes. (H)

RUW 3101 Reading Russian Literature.
Credits: 3; Prereq: RUS 2200 or its equivalent.
An in-depth study of the vocabulary, structures, reading strategies and cultural background needed for understanding and interpreting a broad range of Russian prose fiction. (H)

RUW 4301 Russian Drama and Poetry.
Credits: 3. Course may be repeated with change of content up to 6 credits.
Study of plays and poems by major Russian writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readings in Russian. (H)

RUW 4370 Russian Short Prose.
Credits: 3; course may be repeated with change of content up to 9 credits.
Critical study of selected Russian short stories. Readings in Russian. (H)

RUW 4932 Selected Readings in Russian.
Credits: 3; Prereq: One 3000-level course or its equivalent. Course may be repeated with change of content up to 9 credits.
Special topic, author, genre or movement in Russian literature. (H)

SCA 1120 Beginning Swedish, Norwegian 1.
Credits: 4.

SCA 1121 Beginning Swedish, Norwegian 2.
Credits: 3; Prereq: SCA 1120 (grade of C or S) or the equivalent.

SCA 1122 Beginning Swedish, Norwegian 3.
Credits: 3; Prereq: SCA 1121 (grade of C or S) or the equivalent.

SCT 2502 Germanic Myth and Lore.
Credits: 3.
Satisfies general education requirement. Reading and lectures in English. (H)

SCT 2503 The Contemporary Scandinavian Scene.
Credits: 3.
Satisfies general education requirement. Reading and lectures in English. (H)