Program Requirements
The Minor Concentration in German Language is designed to allow students to achieve linguistic proficiency in German and to introduce students to some of the major aspects of German culture.
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration German Studies.
Students may begin at the intermediate or advanced level in their first year if they have taken German courses in high school or in CEGEP or through Â鶹AV Summer Studies.
Note: Beginners' and Intermediate language levels are offered either as a one-term intensive course or a two-term spanned course. Students choose which version of the level they prefer.
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
18 credits of language courses or any course above the 325 level given in the German language, selected from the following:
Language Courses
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GERM 200 German Language, Intensive Beginners (6 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : An intensive language course designed to develop communicative skills; covers the first level (GERM 202D1/GERM 202D2) in one term. Required for program students.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Morrison, Maria (Fall)
Winter
6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory
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GERM 202 German Language, Beginners' (6 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : A comprehensive first-level course designed to develop communicative skills.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young; Burkard, Annika; Sauvé, Benjamin (Fall) Kim, Sun-Young; Gosselin, David (Winter)
6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory
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GERM 202D1 German Language, Beginners' (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : A comprehensive first level course designed to develop communicative skills.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young; Burkard, Annika; Sauvé, Benjamin (Fall)
Fall, Winter
Students must register for both GERM 202D1 and GERM 202D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both GERM 202D1 and GERM 202D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
GERM 202D1 and GERM 202D2 together are equivalent to GERM 202
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GERM 202D2 German Language, Beginners (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : See GERM 202D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young; Gosselin, David (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: GERM 202D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both GERM 202D1 and GERM 202D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
GERM 202D1 and GERM 202D2 together are equivalent to GERM 202
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GERM 300 German Language Intensive Intermediate (6 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Continuation of GERM 200; covers the second level (GERM 307D1/GERM 307D2) in one term.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Morrison, Maria (Winter)
- GERM 307 German Language - Intermediate (6 credits)
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GERM 307D1 German Language - Intermediate (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Review of grammar, further development of basic skills; literary and cultural readings.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young (Fall)
Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: GERM 200 or GERM 202, 202D1/D2, or equivalent, or permission of Department.
Students must register for both GERM 307D1 and GERM 307D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both GERM 307D1 and GERM 307D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
GERM 307D1 and GERM 307D2 together are equivalent to GERM 307
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GERM 307D2 German Language - Intermediate (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : See GERM 307D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Morrison, Maria (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: GERM 307D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both GERM 307D1 and GERM 307D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
GERM 307D1 and GERM 307D2 together are equivalent to GERM 307
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GERM 325 German Language - Intensive Advanced (6 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course aims at developing post-intermediate proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, with emphasis on oral and written expression. Special attention is given to word formation and to the proper choice of grammatical structures, vocabulary, and phraseology.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Morrison, Maria (Fall) Kim, Sun-Young (Winter)
Fall or Winter
6 hours
Prerequisite: GERM 300 or GERM 307D1/D2, or equivalent, or permission of Department.
Required for program students.
List of Complementary Courses:
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GERM 255 German Holocaust Memory (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of German Holocaust memory through the examination of texts, artworks, monuments, and debates on memory politics. Delves into the intricate interplay between history, culture, and remembrance in the aftermath of one of the darkest chapters in human history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 326 Topics: German Language and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course aims to both improve students’ speaking and writing skills at the intermediate and advanced levels and to deepen their understanding of German culture through contemporary short texts and films. Topics include migration and national identity, memory and history, gender roles, and intergenerational conflicts. Students develop their transcultural competencies through critical engagement with the course materials. Selected grammatical topics will be reviewed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 331 Germany after Reunification (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : The events which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the changing cultural, social, political and economic landscape of the 'New Germany'. Highlighting issues of cultural and social politics, texts discussed include historical, literary and film material.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
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GERM 332 Topics in Eighteenth-Century German Literature and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Study of specific topics as they relate to eighteenth-century German literature and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 335 Science and Literature (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course examines the complex exchanges between science and literature across German literature and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Given in German
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GERM 336 German Language, Media and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Introduction to German culture through literary and non-literary texts, film, multimedia, commercials, painting and photography. By learning how to read these cultural productions, students will refine their communication skills, expand reading strategies, build vocabulary, and review selective grammatical structures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 337 Literature and Revolution (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Seminar on the relationship between literature and political, social and aesthetic change.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 340 Romanticism (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course examines one of the pivotal moments of cultural transition in German literary history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 344 Realism (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : What are the different ways social life has been represented in German literature and culture?
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 348 Nature and Ecopoetics (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course examines how German literature and culture engage with and construct an understanding of nature and the environment
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 350 Modernism and the Avant-Garde (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course will focus on the variety of German modernisms and their schools of thought.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 351 Berlin (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Interdisciplinary study of the quintessential modern centers within Germanic speaking Europe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Given in German
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GERM 360 German Drama (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course will survey the theatrical tradition within German.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 362 20th Century Literature Topics (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Introduction to selected topics and genres in twentieth century literature and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Given in German
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GERM 364 Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : In connection with notions of identity, nationhood, political change, and cultural difference, this course investigates concepts and issues of gender in contemporary German Society. The readings include critical essays and literary texts by writers, scholars, philosophers, journalists, politicians, and political activists.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 365 Modern Short Fiction (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : A study of short prose forms in German throughout history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 366 Lyric Poetry (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Introduction to the study of German Poetry from the Middle Ages to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 368 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Interdisciplinary study of one of the formative periods of modern European culture; examination of literature, art, thought, culture and politics in Vienna around 1900.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: A culture or literature course at the 200 or 300 level
Course given in English
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GERM 369 The German Novel (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Sustained engagement with the major texts of the German novel from Grimmelshausen to the present.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Bauer, Karin (Winter)
Given in German
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GERM 371 German Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Survey of German cinema from its inception to the present
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 372 Topics in German Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course investigates a special topic related to the history of German cinema.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 375 German Media Studies (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Introduction to the history of German media studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 379 German Visual Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : This course engages with the different strands of German visual culture across media.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Given in German
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GERM 381 Topics in German Thought (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Special topics on German intellectual history and its contributions to major philosophical traditions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 385 Critical Theory (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Engagement with the history of critique from Kant to Adorno.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 388 Post-Wall Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Upper level seminar exploring topics in German culture after unification.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Bauer, Karin (Fall)
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GERM 390 Topics in 21st Century German Literature and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Study of pressing contemporary themes within German literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GERM 397 Individual Reading Course 01 (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Given solely at the discretion of the instructor.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
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GERM 401 Advanced Topics in German Literature and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : Advanced research course on special topic of German literature and culture.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Holmes, Tove (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level German Studies Literature, Film, or Culture courses; permission of the Program Advisor.
