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.; Stephan, A.; Stephan, H.; Sullivan, W.J. III.

Undergraduate Coordinator in German and German Area Studies: W.R. Hasty

Undergraduate Coordinator in Russian: W.J. Sullivan III

Russian and East European Certificate: H. Stephan

Graduate Coordinator in German: F. Futterknecht

Office: Dauer 263 (392-2101)

ww.clas.ufl.edu/germslav

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

Tutor training and supervision; practice of the communication skills model. Techniques for beginning language instruction.

The language requirement (10 credits) can be fulfilled by the sequence GER 1120, 1121, 1122.

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.

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.

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.

Students reinforce and further develop the basic skills acquired in 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.

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.

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)

Upon completion, students will be able to work with grammatical structures, vocabulary and idioms needed to converse about Germany today.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Upon completion students will be familiar with significant moments in the history of the German language from its Indo-European origins to the present, and with the relationship of language as a medium of literary expression to cultural, social, and political developments. (I)(H)

Upon completion students will understand the elements of contrastive grammar and be able to translate from German to English more effectively.

Teaching. Internship/practicum. S/U only.

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.

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)

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)

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†

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. Available film versions of the Arthurian tales will be screened. (H, I)

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.

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. (H)

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.

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.

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)

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)

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)

Upon completion students will be familiar with several major prose texts, including novels, novellas, and short stories. Texts are selected from major periods and are representative of major authors. Texts and lectures in German. (H)

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)

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)

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.

Upon completion students will be able to recognize the major trends in German literature between the

Enlightenment and Romanticism. Emphasis is placed on Sturm und Drang and Weimar Classicism. Authors include Goethe, Schiller, Kleist and Hölderlin. Participants will have a working knowledge of the socio-political background of the period. (H)

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)

Participants will learn to read and analyze prose, drama and poetry of representative German Realists and Naturalists. (H)

Students will become acquainted with the rich intellectual and cultural life of the period between 1918 and 1933. Upon course completion, participants will be able to analyze literary works from the theater, cabaret and cinema within the context of the social and political life of the Republic.

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)

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)

Upon course completion, students will a) understand National Socialist thinking and be able to analyze major literary and non-literary works of the Nazi period,
b) understand the appropriation of the German literary tradition and examine Nazi theater and film, and
c) recognize the literature of the so-called inner emigration and the post-war response to Nazism.

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)

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 German identity more generally. Films dealing with relevant topics will also be screened and discussed.

Variable topic course dealing with specific issues of a Germanic language or literature. (H)

The language requirement (10 credits) can be fulfilled by the sequel POL 1130, 1131.

A survey of the development of Polish literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Literary developments are presented in the context of social and political currents. Readings and discussions in English. (H)

Survey of the developments in Polish culture from the beginning of the twentieth century with an emphasis on the present period. Cultural developments are viewed against the background of social and political currents. Readings and lectures in English. (H)

Available only by special arrangement.

The language requirement (10 credits) can be fulfilled by the sequence RUS 1120, 1121, 1122.

Exercises in sentence patterns, vocabulary building, sustained oral and written discourse in Russian.

Development of advanced speaking and listening skills based on authentic written, audio and video texts from contemporary Russian culture.

A study of the development of the Russian language. (H, I)

New or experimental courses or one-time offerings.

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.

A survey of Russian literary history from 1830 through Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. (H)

A survey of Russian literary history from Tolstoy to the present. (H)

Study of plays and poems by major Russian writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readings in Russian. (H)

Critical study of selected Russian short stories. Readings in Russian. (H)

Special topic, author, genre or movement in Russian literature. (H)

Readings and discussions in English. (H)

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)

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)

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

Authors, movements, and genres in Russian literature from the Revolution of 1917 to the present. Readings and discussions in English. (H, I) GR-E†

An investigation into traditional and newly emerging symbols, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that shape everyday life in late- and post-Soviet Russia.

Major works of old Russian literature, 11th through 17th centuries. Folk genres such as epic, fairy tale and ritual songs. Readings and discussions in English. (H)

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)

Satisfies general education requirement. Reading and lectures in English. (H)

Satisfies general education requirement. Reading and lectures in English. (H)