German

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• Courses offered
• The German Center
• Study abroad
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Guten Tag! Wir heissen Sie bei uns auf dem Internet willkommen! Welcome to the German Program at Nazareth College. German students at Nazareth College are taught to build on their best language skills and work toward general mastery. Teaching values of the German faculty include:

• mentoring of students in small groups and one-on-one toward language proficiency.
• teaching how to write well and argue issues intelligently.
• developing each student's critical intellectual skills in the liberal arts.
• guiding each student through the literary and historical cultures of the German-speaking world.
• challenging all students to understand and value others in the world.
• supporting every student in the transition to a profession or to higher education.

Instructor

	Prof. William Hopkins teaches a range of courses, from language and culture to literature and international business German. He received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with emphasis on German with History and Art History. His specialty of research is Reformation, Humanism, and Baroque studies. In recent years, Prof. Hopkins' students have entered major area companies in international trade and banking. Several have won one-year Fulbright Teaching Fellowships to Germany, after graduation.
	Prof. Marina Schubert teaches German language.  A native speaker of German, she received her Honors Bachelors at the University of Toronto in Modern Languages and Literatures (French, Russian, German), and the Master of Arts at the University of Alberta in Post-Secondary Education, with a major in ESL.  She has also continued in Slavic Studies at Middlebury College.
	Prof. Birgit Deir teaches German language.  A native speaker of German, she received her Master of Science in 2004 from the Rochester Institute of Technology with concentrations in programming and databases.  Professor Deir is also currently the Director of the College's Emerson Language Lab, specializing in technology and language acquisition.

Courses Offered

Ger 103, 104. Intermediate German
Intermediate level work in the language, adding more extensive practice in the four basic language skills. A review of the grammar. Continued emphasis on communicative proficiency. Expansion of the study of German cultures. Prerequisites: Ger 101, 102 or department approval.
3 credits each semester, 3 hours

Ger 310. Special Topics in German Studies
Development of a literary topic, movement or genre from the German speaking world. Readings and analysis will use a number of theoretical and methodological frameworks. Sample topics include: immigration and minorities in Germany; Germany in the European Union; literature of women; backgrounds to Nazism; the short story; feminist literature, GDR literature; Marx, Nietzsche & Freud.
3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 201, 202. Advanced Composition and Conversation
Extensive exercises in writing and speaking. Development of oral expression and aural comprehension in everyday German language. (In 201 students are trained how to write critical essays.) (202 is offered abroad in the Berlin Residential Program.)
3 credits each semester, 3 hours

Ger 312. Advanced Grammar and Stylistics

Advanced language and grammar course specializing in in-depth study of grammatical structures, stylistics and translation with extensive exercises in writing.

3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 203. Early German Culture and Composition
Literary, philosophical and political writings of great figures of German letters. Texts from a variety of styles and historical periods. Germanic and other myths: Völkerwanderungen; epic literature; crusades; Renaissance; Reformation; Baroque.
3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 457. Curriculum Methodology, Middle School and Senior High
(See Frn 457.)
3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 204. Modern German Culture
Discussion of 18th, 19th and 20th century cultural developments:  Enlightenment through German Re-Unification.  Emphasis on cultural, political and literary aspects.
3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 479. Student Teaching Middle School and Senior High
The field-based practicum in German.
6 credits

Ger 483B or 484B. Internship

A professional internship offered abroad at the Berlin Residential Program.  Students apply for and are placed at work sites, including:  museums; NGO's; Parlament; art houses; corporations; banking; law; media; tourism; publishing; etc.

3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 302. Survey of 20th-Century German Literature
Major periods and trends of German literature from Expressionism to the present. Representative works in all genres.
3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 485, 486. Independent Study

By invitation of the department.  Special literary or linguistic problems under direction of a member of the language staff.

3 credits, 3 hours

Ger 303. 19th Century Ideal & Reality
The spirit of German Romanticism (Novalis, ETA Hoffman, Tieck), through the years of revolution, 1848, to the Wilhelminian Reich and its Bourgois Realism as reflected in Stifter, Keller, Meyer, Storm, Fontane.
3 credits, 3 hours

SAB 300. Study Abroad
Study abroad, required for all foreign language majors and modern foreign language majors.
0 credits, 0 hours

Ger 305 Enlightenment to Classicism
Selected 18th-century works of prose, poetry and drama by Marie Luise Gottsched, Wolff, Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Herder, Goethe and Schiller.
3 credits, 3 hours

The German Center

The German Cultural Center houses a library with current cultural materials on a variety of topics. It also has a seminar room equipped with state-of-the-art digital hardware and international satellite reception.  Students use the Center for language training, group discussions, preparation of written work and as a social gathering place. The Center has a collection of materials for German business and marketing and current magazines and newspapers. Area German teachers also use the Center's cultural collections. The Nazareth College Media Center provides the programming from the Deutsche Welle satellite TV broadcasting network. The German Cultural Center is located on the Nazareth College campus at:

Golisano Academic Center, Rooms 396, 396A
Tel.: (585)389-2359

Study Abroad

All students majoring in German, and most who minor, study abroad at the College's Berlin Residential Program, which is offered each Fall semester.  The Program is part of the College Consortium for International Studies, Washington, D.C.  Students may go abroad in the Sophomore, Junior or Senior year.  German majors are encouraged to study abroad in the Sophomore year.  (Students may also be encouraged to add a summer abroad some time later, to improve their speaking skills.)  Non-majors/minors of German are also welcome to join the program abroad.  Students live with families and enroll in five courses (full semester load).  All students take an appropriate German language course, a professional internship (using English and German), and three additional liberal arts courses, among:  Literature; Peace/Conflict Studies; Economics/Political Science; Music; German History.  The Program includes several out-of-town excursions.  (See: http://www.naz.edu/dept/cie/abroad/residential/berlin/fulldescription.cfm and http://www.ccisabroad.org/http://www.ccisabroad.org/

Expenses for study at the Berlin Residential Program are comparable to costs at the Nazareth College campus.  Matriculated Nazareth students may use their comprehensive financial aid package, excluding Work-Study.

At Nazareth College, students in the German program may develop and broaden their educational experiences through:

• Watching live Satellite down-links from German television, GermanTV
• Visits to the German Cultural Center to learn more about German speaking cultures
• One or two semester study in Berlin or at a German University and/or the Goethe Institut
• Biennial group study tours to Europe for college credit
• Business Internship programs at Rochester corporations to develop international business skills
• International German Business Exams available at Nazareth College: Zertifikat Deutsch fur den Beruf; Prufung Wirtschaftsdeutsch International