Continues the goals of GER 101, focusing on increased communicative proficiency (oral and written), effective reading strategies, and listening skills. Emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and functional language tasks: learning to request, persuade, ask for help, express opinions, agree and disagree, negotiate conversations, and gain perspective on German culture through readings, discussion, and film.

A special online offering of third-semester German taught during the summer. Students take part in a six-week intensive language course and will cover the same range of vocabulary, grammar, and literary/filmic materials as they would during the semester. Five one-hour classes weekly.

A special online offering of fourth-semester German taught during the summer. Students take part in a six-week intensive language course and will cover the same range of vocabulary, grammar, and literary/textual materials as they would during the semester. Five one-hour classes weekly.

While Germany is hardly alone in seeking origins in an imagined past, the realities of its fragmente political history resist unified narratives. In what ways has the question "was ist deutsch?" been shaped by medievalist and antiquarian impulses? How did those historical frameworks inform expressions of Germanness in politics, society, and culture? What ruptures and continuities in these approaches can be located on either side of 1945? This course, taught in German, examines medievalist and antiquarian literary motifs, developments in history and linguistics, artworks, and other materials from the perspectives of identity and culture.

Berlin is famous for its neighborhoods (der Kiez), its history of exclusions, national unity and divisions, as well as for its atmosphere of urban cosmopolitanism. We explore ethnographically the current state of civility, hospitality, and xenophobia in the German capital, and through readings explore its states in the past. We will debate issues of Kultur, multiculturalism, integration, Islam, political party representation, East/West polarization, and immigration. Students are introduced to an ethnographic approach to knowledge production.