This course concentrates on the development of speaking and listening skills. Steudent learn to negotiate everyday communication situations by acquiring verbal strategies and idiomatic expressions needed for meaningful interaction in a German-speaking country. Emphasis is placed on skills and vocabulary needed to discuss topics related to German culture.

This is the first of a two-course sequence in German that will enable students to read any German texts they wish, from daily newspapers and magazines, to literary works, to scholarly prose in any discipline.

This course develops listening, speaking and writing skills in German with emphasis on practical communicative needs. It includes a review of grammar, special oral and written projects, class discussion, and practice in a variety of written forms.

An introductory course that focuses on social, political, anthropological and aesthetic aspects of popular forms of German literature. Readings include fairy tales, folk songs and legends, children's literature, detective stories, comics and other popular literary forms. May be repeated up to 6 hours with change in topic. Prereq: GER 202 or equivalent.

An introduction to German culture with emphasis on the epochs important to the development of modern German-speaking countries. Readings in German from philosophy, the sciences, the arts, history, politics and literature. Visual materials documenting high culture and everyday life. Taught in German.

Austrian, East and West German, and Swiss authors are read relative to the economic, social, political, ar- tistic and ideological developments in the four coun- tries of the German-speaking world. Taught in German.

Further development of conversational skill and practice in writing stylistically appropriate German. Study of finer points of grammar. Discussion of special topics and theme writing.

Turn-of-the-century Modernism to the present.