GER 600s


GER 600 Methods of Research (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001448
(Cross-listed with GER 700)
A course designed to foster an understanding of the fundamental notions of critical inquiry and to provide training in intellectual and practical skills common to research in the areas of applied linguistics, film and literary studies.

GER 601 Approaches in Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011669
(Cross-listed with GER 701)

GER 602 Approaches in Literary and Cultural Theory (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001449
(Cross-listed with GER 702)
Major currents in twentieth-century literary theory are discussed and applied to primary texts so that students can develop their own critical position.

GER 604 Approaches in Film and Performance Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011670
(Cross-listed with GER 704)

GER 610 Topics in German Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010403
(Cross-listed with GER 710)
1 Mehrsprachigkeit im Deutschen
2 K-W - Deutsch
3 Deutsch in Waterloo
4 Using Text Corpora

GER 611 Topics in Second Language Acquisition and Computer Assisted Language Learning (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001451
(Cross-listed with GER 711)
1 Language Learning & Technology
2 Intelligence & Errors in CALL
3 Dynamic Aspects of SLA
4 Deutsch in Waterloo
5 Learner Variability & CALL

GER 612 Topics in Sociolinguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010405
(Cross-listed with GER 712)
1 Multilingualism: Modern Wrld
2 Bilingual Codes
3 Language, Migration & Identity

GER 613 Topics in Discourse Analysis (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010404
(Cross-listed with GER 713)
1 Approaches to Anlyzng Commnctn
2 Language and Identity
3 #1 Approchs to Anlyzng Commntn
4 Konversationsanalyse

GER 614 Topics in Linguistic Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010406
(Cross-listed with GER 714)

GER 615 Topics in Language Education (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 014084
(Cross-listed with GER 715)
Department Consent Required
1 Philosophies - Lang. Education
2 Grammatik Unterricht

GER 620 Topics in German Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011671
(Cross-listed with GER 720)
1 Weimar Republic Culture
2 Recent German Literature
3 Intell Found - Germ Classicism
4 Schiller on Stage and Film
5 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
6 Kafka Intermedial
7 Goethe's Poems
8 Hauptmann: Werk & Wirkung
9 Weimarer Klassik
10 Goethe und Herder
11 Volksstuck
12 Nachwendeliteratur
13 Schiller's Dramas
14 20th Cent. Austrian Lit
15 German Romanticism
16 Becoming Animal
17 Kafka: Classic Short Stories
18 Romantic Ecology
19 Thomas Manns Erzaehlungen
20 Deviant Desires in 19th-c Lit.
21 Austrian Lit 2000 to Today
22 Literatur und Terrorismus

GER 621 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001464
(Cross-listed with GER 721)

GER 622 Topics in Film and Electronic Media (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010378
3 Class Film Theory & Aesthetics
4 Rewriting History in Film
5 Doris Dorrie: Film and Fiction
6 New German Cinema
7 Perf & Sexuality in Ger Cinema

GER 623 Topics in Literature and Cultural Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001465
(Cross-listed with GER 723)
1 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
2 Gender: Fin-de-siecle Ger Lit
3 Masculinities
4 Psychoanalysis Lit & Vis Stds
5 Concepts of Masculinity
6 Psychanlys Lit, Vis & Sex Stds
7 Gadamer & Hermeneutics
8 GER Philos for Critical Theory

GER 695 Reading Courses in Approved Topics (0.50) RDGCourse ID: 010423
1 Teaching, Lrng & Tech Issues
2 Goethes Weimar & Kulturwissen
3 Indo-Euro:Modern Stnd German

GER 695 Reading Courses in Approved Topics (0.50) RDGCourse ID: 001496
1 Teachng, Lrng & Tech Issues
2 Goethes Weimar & Kulturwissen
3 German Directors in Hollywood
4 Knowledge Mobilisation
5 Drctd Stdy Site-Spec Dramatrgy

GER 700s


GER 700 Methods of Research (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001448
(Cross-listed with GER 600)
A course designed to foster an understanding of the fundamental notions of critical inquiry and to provide training in intellectual and practical skills common to research in the areas of applied linguistics, film and literary studies.

GER 701 Approaches in Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011669
(Cross-listed with GER 601)

GER 702 Approaches in Literary and Cultural Theory (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001449
(Cross-listed with GER 602)
Major currents in twentieth-century literary theory are discussed and applied to primary texts so that students can develop their own critical position.

GER 704 Approaches in Film and Performance Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011670
(Cross-listed with GER 604)

GER 710 Topics in German Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010403
(Cross-listed with GER 610)
1 Mehrsprachigkeit im Deutschen
2 K-W - Deutsch
3 Deutsch in Waterloo
4 Using Text Corpora

GER 711 Topics in Second Language Acquisition and Computer Assisted Language Learning (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001451
(Cross-listed with GER 611)
1 Language Learning & Technology
2 Intelligence & Errors in CALL
3 Dynamic Aspects of SLA
4 Deutsch in Waterloo
5 Learner Variability & CALL

GER 712 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 014041

GER 712 Topics in Sociolinguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010405
(Cross-listed with GER 612)
1 Multilingualism: Modern Wrld
2 Bilingual Codes
3 Language, Migration & Identity

GER 713 Topics in Discourse Analysis (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010404
(Cross-listed with GER 613)
1 Approaches to Anlyzng Commnctn
2 Language and Identity
3 #1 Approchs to Anlyzng Commntn
4 Konversationsanalyse

GER 714 Topics in Linguistic Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010406
(Cross-listed with GER 614)

GER 715 Topics in Language Education (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 014084
(Cross-listed with GER 615)
Department Consent Required
1 Philosophies - Lang. Education
2 Grammatik Unterricht

GER 720 Topics in German Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011671
(Cross-listed with GER 620)
1 Weimar Republic Culture
2 Recent German Literature
3 Intell Found - Germ Classicism
4 Schiller on Stage and Film
5 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
6 Kafka Intermedial
7 Goethe's Poems
8 Hauptmann: Werk & Wirkung
9 Weimarer Klassik
10 Goethe und Herder
11 Volksstuck
12 Nachwendeliteratur
13 Schiller's Dramas
14 20th Cent. Austrian Lit
15 German Romanticism
16 Becoming Animal
17 Kafka: Classic Short Stories
18 Romantic Ecology
19 Thomas Manns Erzaehlungen
20 Deviant Desires in 19th-c Lit.
21 Austrian Lit 2000 to Today
22 Literatur und Terrorismus

GER 721 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001464
(Cross-listed with GER 621)

GER 723 Topics in Literature and Cultural Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001465
(Cross-listed with GER 623)
1 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
2 Gender: Fin-de-siecle Ger Lit
3 Masculinities
4 Psychoanalysis Lit & Vis Stds
5 Concepts of Masculinity
6 Psychanlys Lit, Vis & Sex Stds
7 Gadamer & Hermeneutics
8 GER Philos for Critical Theory

GER 751 Linguistic Methodology (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013937
Systematic presentation of fundamental quantitative and qualitative methods of linguistics. Students will learn to recognize these different methodologies and to associate them with a variety of research contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 752 Theories and Models of Applied Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013938
Communicative samples from the basis of explorations of theoretical models and related analytic methodologies in applied linguistics. Statistically-based quantitative models are compared with and differentiated from evidence-based qualitative models of analysis. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 753 Theories and Methods of Cultural and Literary Studies (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013939
Systematic presentation of fundamental methods of literary and cultural analysis. Students will learn to recognize these different methodologies and to associate them with a variety of research contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 754 Theories and Conceptions of Modernity (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013940
Fundamental theories of modernism and modernity. Notions of epoch construction as well as the differing conceptualizations of modernity and social change from Luhman, Foucault, and Elias to Adorno and Horkheimer are examined. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 761 Interaction and Text (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013941
Questions of contrastive media textology, conversation analysis, text analysis, discourse analysis, field research, and transcription. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 762 Research Directions in Language Acquisition and Multilinualism (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013942
Current research and theories regarding language acquisition, language change, and multilingualism are examined, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistic notions of multilingualism, or language acquisition in social contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 763 Sociology of Language and Cultural Differentiation (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013943
Interconnections between linguistic data, elements of language, and social and cultural phenomena are analyzed utilizing examples from actual communicative situations. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 764 History of Language (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013944
The history of language as applied to the example of the development of German. Questions central to this general topic as well as problems of dialects and stages of language development are examined with an emphasis on Middle High and Old High German. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 765 German Grammar (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013945
The grammar of the German language, theory of language, and issues of the systematic description of language are the focal topics of this seminar. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 771 Individual and Society in Historical Transformation (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013946
Literary representations of the many examples of transformations from 18th century feudal to 19th century bourgeois societies. Changes in the social structures and orientations are examined with special attention to the development of the notion of the "individual" in the advent of the modern world. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 772 Aesthetic Transformations and Theoretical Concepts (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013947
Literary-aesthetic concepts of modernism are analyzed in light of their historical context and corresponding theoretical concepts. Special attention will be given to the influence of new media on models of literary production and reception. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 773 Intercultural Perspectives, Post-colonial Consteallations & Transnational Discourses (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013948
Literary reflections of intercultural encounters and cultural conflicts are analysed utilizing corresponding theoretical approaches. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 774` German Literature and Culture Before 1700 (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013949
Literature of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque. Exemplary texts are examined in their cultural and historical contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 775 Modern German Literature (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013950
Analysis and interpretation of literary texts since the early Enlightenment using a variety of theoretical approaches, such as examinations of the works within literary-historical, genre, epochal or motif contexts. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 780 Media Studies (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013951
Theory and history of media studies, combined with qualitative analyses of exemplary medial products (such as films) from the German cultural realm. This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 791 AcademicWriting (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 014304
Writing skills do provide an important tool in the academic world and are necessary for writing essays, presentations and research papers. However well you know your subject, it is not necessarily an easy task to talk and write about it. Therefore this course is designed for students who want to develop or imporove their academic writing skills and presentation techniques. The focus of the course is on processes of generating ideas, collecting information, and establishing a thesis statement. Furthermore it also gives an introduction to the development, structure, argumentation forms, and stylistic issues of academic papers with special attention to North American usage. This course is taught either in Waterloo or Mannheim Germany.
Department Consent Required