Germanic and Slavic Studies

A study of monastic and courtly-chivalric communities as these evolved in the Middle Ages and early modern period. Explorations of architecture, art, literature and music illustrate how different monastic and chivalric communities saw the world and their place in it.

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.

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

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

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 language 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.)

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.

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.

Upon completion, students will be able to read literary and non-literary texts and to identify the more common syntactical, stylistic and rhetorical elements.

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)

Students will review points of German grammar, using the vocabulary of cultural and literary history; understand and use concepts and vocabulary common to discussion of German cultural history and make the transition from speaking in everyday situations to discussing intelligently cultural and literary documents.

GER 3224 is a one-credit course taught as a FLAC accompaniment to various courses. It provides a forum for discussion covering different topics in German film and culture. All materials and class discussions will be in German.

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)

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

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. (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 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†

Upon completion of this course, students will have a working knowledge of the history and culture of Berlin from 1871 to the present by exploring literature, painting and film. Authors and artists will include Mann, Brecht, Dix and Wenders.

This course explores the shifting cultural representations of war (literature/art) in the 20^th century, focusing primarily on European history, culture and politics. Primary sources will include Mann, Remarque, Boll, Celan, Grosz and Kiefer.

Through an analysis of Holocaust literature, film and visual media, we will investigate the connections between history, trauma, witnessing and representation. Primary sources include Celan, Sachs, Kluger and Spiegelman.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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 of 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 sequence RUS 1120, RUS 1121, RUS 1122 or RUS 1130, RUS 1131.

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.

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.

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.

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)

An investigation into traditional and newly emerging symbols, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that shape everyday life in late- and post-Soviet Russia. (H,I) GR-E†

An introduction to the literature, film and culture of Eastern and Central Europe of the 20th century.

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

An examination of Russian everyday life and institutions of the 19th and 20th centuries through the media of literature and film. Course may be repeated with change in content up to 6 credits.

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). (H,I)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

An in-depth study of one of Russia’s most revered literary works, combining close readings of Pushkin’s original with analyses of operatic, artistic and cinematic adaptations by Chaikovsky, Nabokov and others. Readings and discussion primarily in Russian.

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

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

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