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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 ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ 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

• GERM 200 German Language, Intensive Beginners (6 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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: Winter 2021

  Instructors: Morrison, Maria; Kim, Sun-Young (Winter)

  • Winter

  • 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory

• GERM 202 German Language, Beginners' (6 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : A comprehensive first-level course designed to develop communicative skills.

  Terms: Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Winter 2021

  Instructors: Morrison, Maria; Kim, Sun-Young; Schönberg, Sophie-Marie (Summer) Morrison, Maria; Kim, Sun-Young; Rohrbacher, Katrin; Spiller, Kathrin Maria (Fall) Morrison, Maria; Kim, Sun-Young; Rohrbacher, Katrin; Oztekin, Ozlem (Winter)

  • 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory

• GERM 202D1 German Language, Beginners' (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : A comprehensive first level course designed to develop communicative skills.

  Terms: Fall 2020

  Instructors: Morrison, Maria; Kim, Sun-Young; Rohrbacher, Katrin; Spiller, Kathrin Maria (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

• GERM 202D2 German Language, Beginners (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : See GERM 202D1 for course description.

  Terms: Winter 2021

  Instructors: Morrison, Maria; Kim, Sun-Young; Rohrbacher, Katrin; Oztekin, Ozlem (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

• GERM 300 German Language Intensive Intermediate (6 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Continuation of GERM 200; covers the second level (GERM 307D1/GERM 307D2) in one term.

  Terms: Fall 2020

  Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young (Fall)

  • Fall

  • 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory

  • Prerequisite: GERM 200 or GERM 202,202D1/D2 or equivalent, or permission of Department

  • Required for program students

• GERM 307 German Language - Intermediate (6 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Review of grammar, further development of basic skills; literary and cultural readings.

  Terms: Fall 2020, Winter 2021

  Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young; Schönberg, Sophie-Marie (Fall) Kim, Sun-Young; Schönberg, Sophie-Marie (Winter)

  • 6 hours

  • Prerequisite: GERM 202 or GERM 200, or equivalent, or permission of Department

• GERM 307D1 German Language - Intermediate (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Review of grammar, further development of basic skills; literary and cultural readings.

  Terms: Fall 2020

  Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young; Schönberg, Sophie-Marie (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

• GERM 307D2 German Language - Intermediate (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : See GERM 307D1 for course description.

  Terms: Winter 2021

  Instructors: Kim, Sun-Young; Schönberg, Sophie-Marie (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

• GERM 325 German Language - Intensive Advanced (6 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020, Winter 2021

  Instructors: Morrison, Maria; Kim, Sun-Young (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:

• GERM 326 Topics: German Language and Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Prerequisite(s): GERM 307 or equivalent or permission of the Instructor.

  • Corequisite(s): May be taken concurrently with GERM 325 and with permission of the instructor.

• GERM 331 Germany after Reunification (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : The events which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ 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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Winter

• GERM 332 Topics in Eighteenth-Century German Literature and Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 333 What is Enlightenment? (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : An introduction to the debates and values of eighteenth-century German literature and culture.

  Terms: Winter 2021

  Instructors: Piper, Andrew (Winter)

• GERM 335 Science and Literature (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 336 German Language, Media and Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 337 Literature and Revolution (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Seminar on the relationship between literature and political, social and aesthetic change.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 340 Romanticism (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : This course examines one of the pivotal moments of cultural transition in German literary history.

  Terms: Fall 2020

  Instructors: Peters, Paul (Fall)

• GERM 344 Realism (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 348 Nature and Ecopoetics (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 350 Modernism and the Avant-Garde (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 351 Berlin (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Interdisciplinary study of the quintessential modern centers within Germanic speaking Europe.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 360 German Drama (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : This course will survey the theatrical tradition within German.

  Terms: Winter 2021

  Instructors: Peters, Paul (Winter)

• GERM 362 20th Century Literature Topics (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Introduction to selected topics and genres in twentieth century literature and culture.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Fall

  • Given in German

• GERM 364 Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 365 Modern Short Fiction (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : A study of short prose forms in German throughout history.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 366 Lyric Poetry (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 368 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Prerequisite: A culture or literature course at the 200 or 300 level

  • Course given in English

• GERM 369 The German Novel (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Sustained engagement with the major texts of the German novel from Grimmelshausen to the present.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 371 German Cinema (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Survey of German cinema from its inception to the present

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 372 Topics in German Cinema (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : This course investigates a special topic related to the history of German cinema.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 375 German Media Studies (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Introduction to the history of German media studies.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 379 German Visual Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : This course engages with the different strands of German visual culture across media.

  Terms: Winter 2021

  Instructors: Schwartz, Daniel (Winter)

• GERM 381 Topics in German Thought (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Special topics on German intellectual history and its contributions to major philosophical traditions.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 385 Critical Theory (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Engagement with the history of critique from Kant to Adorno.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 388 Post-Wall Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Upper level seminar exploring topics in German culture after unification.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 390 Topics in 21st Century German Literature and Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Study of pressing contemporary themes within German literature.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• GERM 397 Individual Reading Course 01 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Given solely at the discretion of the instructor.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Fall

• GERM 398 Individual Reading Course 02 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Given solely at the discretion of the instructor.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Winter

• GERM 401 Advanced Topics in German Literature and Culture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  German (Arts) : Advanced research course on special topic of German literature and culture.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level German Studies Literature, Film, or Culture courses; permission of the Program Advisor.