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Graduate Courses 2009/10
(This schedule may be subject to change; please confirm course numbers and times in “Learning Opportunities”) FALL QUARTER 15-GRMN-501 Survey of German Literature I Professor Manfred Zimmermann Introduction to German literature from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period. Open to advanced undergraduate student and incoming graduate students. T H 2-3:15 15-GRMN-753 Focus Course: "Cross the Border, Close the Gap": Postmodernity and its Debates Professor Katharina Gerstenberger This course offers an introduction to postmodern theory and practice. Beginning in the 1960s, theorist, writers, and architects, among others, began to develop new ways of analyzing, depicting and shaping the world. The distinction between high and low culture, the division between different genres as well as ideological divides began to wane in favor of blurred boundaries and hybrid constructions. Mass media and communication reached unprecedented dimensions and many critics associate postmodernity with a “visual turn.” These developments were accompanied by vigorous debates between the proponents of the aesthetics and politics of modernity (Jürgen Habermas, among others) and the representatives of postmodern thinking (for instance Jean-François Lyotard). In this course we will read key texts that shaped these discussions, reflect on the question of continuities and breaks across what Andreas Huyssen has termed the “great divide,” and ask where we stand on these issues today. Readings will include theoretical and literary texts; we will also look at films and examples from architecture. W 4:00-6:20 15-GRMN-810 Research Seminar: 1989 Professor Todd Herzog Twenty years after the Fall of the Wall, this seminar will look back at the Fall of the Wall and the ensuing (re)unification of Germany. In the first quarter of this course, we will examine a variety of texts (fictional, nonfictional, film) to analyze the ways in which the Wall has been commemorated and the Wende has been understood over the past two decades. In the second quarter, students will work on independent research projects related to the topics discussed during the first quarter. Emphasis will be placed on the process of researching and writing an academic paper. Students will present their papers at a conference to take place during spring quarter. T 4:00-6:20 15-EUST-710 Graduate Workshop in European Studies: Unity and Division in the European Experience. Faculty coordinator: Professor Todd Herzog This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together grad studies and faculty from a range of departments to explore the broad theme of unity and division in Europe, past and present. We will have 5 meetings over the course of the quarter, with each meeting led by a different faculty member helping us to approach our general theme from different perspectives. This year’s workshop focuses on the theme of unity and division as part of the marking of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. We want to try to understand this momentous event of recent history in a broad perspective, exploring how European societies, both in the present and the past, have addressed the challenges of combining – and dividing – different political systems, religions, and ways of life. Our working team of faculty in this year’s workshop will include professors from English, Political Science, German Studies, History, and Classics. Students will be expected to write short papers and to join in lively and engaging discussion. F 3:00-5:20
15 SWLC 751 Language Teaching Methods Professor Fenfang Hwu (Romance Languages and Literatures) A discussion of the theoretical issues relating to the teaching and learning of other languages, their practical implications for classroom instruction, and the methods and techniques for communicative language teaching. Students will be able to critically evaluate existing teaching practices and materials based on their understanding of theory and research. Students will be able to develop teaching materials for the classroom, which are informed by theory and research in second language acquisition. Students will be able to provide second language learners with strategies that can lead to successful learning. H 5:00-8:00 15-SWLC-801 Introduction to Literary Theory I Professor Patricia Valladares-Ruiz (Romance Languages and Literatures) This seminar on contemporary literary theory introduces some of the principal methods of criticisms. We will focus on structuralist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, ethnic, feminist, performative, and post-modern approaches to literary and cultural research. A wide variety of short stories, novellas, comics, films, performances, and popular culture will serve as reference points for the exploration of these theoretical issues. H 5:00-8:00
WINTER QUARTER 15-GRMN-502 Survey of German Literature II Professor Richard Schade Introduction to German literature from the Enlightenment period to Realism. Open to advanced undergraduate student and incoming graduate students. T H 2-3:15 15-GRMN-731 Focus Course: Early Modern German Literary Culture Professor Richard Schade The course will focus on German literary culture between Luther and 1700. The early modern is a time of cultural transition marked by the Reformation and the 30 Years War, each determinants of literary phenomena. The texts examined will be from all genres and will include those listed on the MA / PhD reading lists. W 4:00-6:20 15-GRMN-811 Research Seminar: 1989 Professor Todd Herzog Continuation of 15-GRMN-810 M 4:00-6:20 15-SWLC-752 Second Language Acquisition Theory Professor Fenfang Hwu (Romance Languages and Literatures) Continuation of 15-SWLC-751 H 5:00-8:00 15-SWLC-802 Introduction to Literary Theory II: Issues in Race, Gender, and Sexuality Professor Patricia Valladares-Ruiz (Romance Languages and Literatures) This seminar will reflect on different politics and aesthetics of race, gender, and “dissident sexualities” in literary and filmic representations. We will focus on the role of these cultural productions in the construction of (non)heteronormative bodies and collective identities. More specifically we will study the racialization of queer sexualities and the uses of language to subvert the dominant paradigms of heterosexuality, femininity, and masculinity. H 5:00-8:00
Spring Quarter 15-GRMN-503 Survey of German Literature III Professor Sara Friedrichsmeyer Introduction to German literature from the Naturalism to the present. Open to advanced undergraduate students and incoming graduate students. M W 2:00-3:15 15-GRMN-733 Kade Seminar I :"Turns“ in den Cultural Studies. Theorien und Literaturbeispiele Professor Doris Bachmann-Medick (Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor) Nach einer Einführung in theoretische Schlüsselkonzepte und in die einzelnen turns (z.B. interpretive turn, performative turn, spatial turn, iconic turn, translational turn) wird ein jeweils signifikantes literarisches Interpretationsbeispiel herangezogen und mit den Impulsen der neuen Fokussierung diskutiert. Grundlage: Doris Bachmann-Medick, Cultural Turns. Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften. 3., neu bearb. Aufl. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2009. T 4:00-6:20 15-GRMN-734 Kade Seminar II: Weltliteratur - Revisited. Konzepte und literarische Positionen Professor Doris Bachmann-Medick (Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor) Hier geht es um eine Beschäftigung mit aelteren, klassischen Konzeptionalisierungen von Weltliteratur (Herder, Goethe usw.) bis hin zu neueren, postkolonialen Neuformulierungen und den aktuellen Herausforderungen durch Neubestimmungen von Literatur im Zeichen der Globalisierung. Auch hier soll nicht nur mit theoretischen Ansätzen, sondern auch mit literarischen Texten gearbeitet werden. W 4:00-6:20 15-SWLC-753 Computer Assisted Language Learning Professor Fenfang Hwu (Romance Languages and Literatures) Continuation of 15-SWLC-752 H 5:00-8:00
15-SWLC-803 Introduction to Literary Theory III Professor Gila Safran Naveh (Judaic Studies) This course investigates contemporary currents of thought which bridge text, socio-cultural, and geo-political contexts. We begin by examining the redirection of critical energies which shaped reader response criticism. We study in some detail the line of social criticism which has as its object an understanding of social subjects and how they are constituted (and constitute themselves) as readers in the broadest sense of the term. We will focus our investigation on Marxist approaches to critical theory, reader response in its elaborations in feminism and psychological criticism with brief note on deconstruction (in case it was not discussed in part II). H 5:00-8:00
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