*German Bab. Elementary German (Intensive)
Catalog Number: 8629
Eric Rentschler and staff
Full course (spring term). M. through F., sections at 9, 10, or 11, plus one hour on M. to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 2, 11
A complete first-year course in one semester for students with no knowledge of German. Provides a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of German, encompassing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Class time is focused on developing oral proficiency; by the end of the course, students should be able to engage in everyday conversation with native speakers. Language instruction is supplemented by readings of 20th-century literature.
Note: Open to undergraduates. Open to graduate students only with permission of the instructor. Students planning to enroll are required to sign up for the course with Dr. Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard at the German department before the start of the term. May not be taken Pass/Fail; not open to auditors.
German Ca. Intermediate German: Reading, Speaking, and Aural Comprehension
Catalog Number: 3367
Charles P. Lutcavage and staff
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., sections at 10 or 11. EXAM GROUP: 3
Using an interactive discussion format, this third-semester language course offers systematic vocabulary-building and a grammar review. The focus is on improving comprehension and speaking skills. Materials include short fiction and drama, poetry, contemporary film, interactive lab work, and cultural materials from German websites.
Note: Not open to auditors.
German Cb. Intermediate German: Reading, Speaking, and Aural Comprehension
Catalog Number: 7174
Charles P. Lutcavage and staff
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Continuation of concentration on conversation tactics and vocabulary-building through class discussions. Materials include literary and non-literary texts, poetry, contemporary film, interactive lab work, and cultural materials from German websites. Structured grammar review.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: German Ca, German Da, Foreign Cultures 23a, or permission of the instructor.
German Da. Intermediate German: Speaking, Listening Comprehension, Reading, and Writing
Catalog Number: 5779
Charles P. Lutcavage and staff
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., sections at 9 or 10. EXAM GROUP: 2
Conversation and writing activites based on a variety of reading materials (short stories, a radio play, poems, the filmscript of Der Blaue Engel). Authors include Brecht, Böll, Kafka, and others. Course offers a review of grammar with exercises in vocabulary-building. Skits and videos. Language lab and Internet materials provide cultural information on Germany and Austria.
Note: Especially recommended for those students who wish to improve their ability to speak and write German. Conducted in German. Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Honor grade in German A or German Bab, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor.
German Db. Intermediate German: Speaking, Listening Comprehension, Reading, and Writing
Catalog Number: 2608
Charles P. Lutcavage and staff
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., sections at 9 or 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Continuation of German Da. Reading material includes journalistic and political writings, as well as literary works by Dürrenmatt, Kafka, Böll, and others. Topics include the Berlin Wall, German unification, and current events. Language laboratory exercises feature a German television detective program.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: German Da or permission of the instructor.
German S. German for Reading Knowledge
Catalog Number: 7177
Michel Chaouli and staff
Half course (spring term). M., W., sections at 4–5:30 or 5–6:30. EXAM GROUP: 9
Development of reading proficiency for students with little or no knowledge of German. Emphasizes translation of academic German prose into English.
Note: Not open to auditors.
German 50a. Masterpieces of 19th-Century German Literature
Catalog Number: 3213
Michel Chaouli
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 9. EXAM GROUP: 2
Close reading of fiction, drama, poetry, and essays from the main periods and tendencies of the 19th century. Works by Goethe, Kleist, Tieck, Hoffmann, Büchner, Heine, Droste-Hülshoff, Keller, Fontane, Nietzsche, and Freud.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Conducted in German.
Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the language requirement, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor.
German 50b. Masterpieces of 20th-Century German Literature
Catalog Number: 5412
Michel Chaouli and staff
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Close reading of fiction, drama, poetry, and essays from the main periods and tendencies of the 20th century. Works by Rilke, Freud, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Kolmar, Brecht, Borchet, Bachmann, Handke, Wolf, Jelinek, and others.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Conducted in German.
Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the language requirement, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor. German 50a is not a prerequisite for 50b.
German 60a. Advanced Reading, Conversation, and Composition
Catalog Number: 1807
Eric Rentschler and staff
Half course (fall term). Sections M., W., F., at 10 or Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 3
Reading and discussion of 20th-century literature to improve grammar and vocabulary (through linguistic analysis of texts) and to develop conversational strategies (through discussion of the issues raised by the texts). The linguistic and thematic aspects of discussions merge in the writing of short essays. Advanced grammar instruction and review.
Note: Conducted in German. Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: An honor grade in German C or D, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor.
German 65. Wirtschaftsdeutsch
Catalog Number: 2678
Charles P. Lutcavage
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
An advanced language course that focuses on communication and writing skills for a business environment. Attention to specialized vocabulary as well as cultural and political issues (e.g., German unification and the European Union) relevant to conducting business in the German-speaking world. Writing practice includes business correspondence and job applications. Articles from the German-language press together with videos and the Internet provide an up-to-date look at the contemporary economic and business scene in Germany, Austria, and the rest of Europe.
Note: Conducted in German. Not open to auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite: German 60a, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor.
*German 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1059
Peter J. Burgard and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
Note: Permission of the Head Tutor is required.
*German 97hf. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 1774
Eric Rentschler and members of the Department
Half course (throughout the year). Alternate Th., 11:30–1:00. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
Introduction to German literary and cultural history and to the analysis of poetry, drama, narrative, film, and painting.
Note: Required of all concentrators.
*German 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 3286
Peter J. Burgard and members of the Department
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to concentrators writing an honors thesis under faculty supervision. Students are expected to enroll for the entire year. Permission of the Head Tutor is required.
[German 110. Baroque]
Catalog Number: 8078
Peter J. Burgard
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the literature and poetics of the German Baroque as well as the art of the European Baroque. Discussions of poetry, drama, and narrative address not only general questions of historical context and literary form, but also issues specific to the age. Focuses on questions of identity and excess, which are introduced via consideration of European Baroque art. Readings include Fleming, Greiffenberg, Grimmelshausen, Gryphius, Harsdörffer, Hofmannswaldau, Kuhlmann, Logau, Lohenstein, Opitz, Silesius, Zesen. Artists considered include Bernini, Borromini, Caravaggio, Carracci, Rubens, Velázquez.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Readings in German, discussions in English.
[German 120. The Age of Goethe]
Catalog Number: 5099
Karl S. Guthke
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Major writers and movements from the middle of the 18th to the beginning of the 19th century. Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, and others. Reading list is flexible to accommodate students’ needs and interests.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Readings in German, lectures and discussions in English.
German 138 (formerly Comparative Literature 160x). Nietzsche, Philosophy, and Literature
Catalog Number: 1231
Beatrice Hanssen
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Considers Nietzsche’s influence on 19th- and 20th-century thought from the literature of aestheticism and decadence to contemporary critical theory. Nietzsche’s major writings (Birth of Tragedy, Genealogy of Morals, Zarathustra) are read in conjunction with works by Wagner, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Rilke, Mann, Hesse, Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Foucault, Habermas.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Course conducted in English. Readings and discussions in English; German concentrators read the majority of texts in the original.
German 140. The Gothic Unconscious
Catalog Number: 0792
Michel Chaouli
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 9. EXAM GROUP: 2
Ghosts and what becomes of them in the course of 19th-century literature. We will ask why, despite scientific advances, fictional worlds early in the century are often haunted by ghosts, why these specters become increasingly metaphorical, and why toward the end of the century they migrate into the psyche. How do ghosts function, whether they are imagined as goblins or as the unconscious? What problems are they meant to solve? Texts by Tieck, Kleist, Hoffmann, Büchner, Droste-Hülshoff, Marx, Stifter, Rilke, and Freud.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Readings and discussions in German.
German 148. Freud
Catalog Number: 5403
Peter J. Burgard
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Readings of Freud’s major works (in translation) and discussion of the questions they raise for life in the 20th century, for our concept of culture, and for the way we understand ourselves. Readings include The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Totem and Taboo, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Ego and the Id, Civilization and Its Discontents, and various of his lectures, essays, and case studies.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. No knowledge of German required. All readings and discussions in English; German concentrators read the majority of texts in the original.
[German 151. Franz Kafka: His Works, His Time, His Impact]
Catalog Number: 0169
Judith Ryan
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Close readings of Kafka’s novels and stories, with some attention to a selection from his diaries and letters. Attempts to situate Kafka’s works in relation to the cultural context in which they originated. Some attention also to Kafka’s impact on later writers; students may explore this aspect in their final papers.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. No knowledge of German required. Readings and discussions in English; German concentrators read and discuss the works in the original.
German 154. Introduction to German Film Studies
Catalog Number: 5782
Eric Rentschler
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. Screenings: M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An intensive introduction to the study of German film, the course offers in equal measure survey appreciations of German film history as well as in-depth analyses of representative film texts. We will consider film’s relationships to literature and the other arts, questions of narrative, genre, and authorship as well as the dynamic interactions between film history and social history. We will also open films up to perspectives offered by classical and contemporary film theorists and critics. Films to be studied include representative features and documentaries by Wiene, Lang, Murnau, Pabst, Riefenstahl, Staudte, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Dörrie, and others.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Readings and discussions in English.
[German 155. Weimar Cinema: The Laboratory of Modernity]
Catalog Number: 0662
Eric Rentschler
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Films of the Weimar Republic, such as Nosferatu, Metropolis, The Blue Angel, and M, will be analyzed as enactments of the pre-Hitler era’s dreams and nightmares, and as depictions of Germany’s uneasy confrontations with modernity and modernization. Readings will provide historical and theoretical perspectives regarding the contested status of a nascent visual culture and its industrialized processing of experience. Texts by Balázs, Kracauer, Arnheim, Bloch, Goebbels, Benjamin, and Brecht.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. No knowledge of German required. Readings, films, and discussions in English.
[German 161. New German Cinema: Oppositional Energies and Utopian Designs]
Catalog Number: 6351
Eric Rentschler
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
In 1962 twenty-six angry young German directors announced their resolve to revive a moribund national film culture. “New German Cinema” would gain acclaim in the 1970s for interventions marked by subversive narrative strategies and unique formal approaches. We will examine features, shorts, and documentaries by Fassbinder, Herzog, Kluge, Schlöndorff, Straub/Huillet, von Trotta, and Wenders, probing these films’ aesthetic shapes as well as their socio-political meanings and theoretical implications.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. No knowledge of German required. Readings, films, and discussions in English.
[German 170. Goethe’s Faust]
Catalog Number: 1246
Karl S. Guthke
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Close analytical reading of parts I and II in the context of cultural and intellectual history. Major controversies over the interpretation of significant features of the work will be discussed.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Readings in German, discussions in English.
[German 176. The Rise of Nazism and the German Resistance]
Catalog Number: 4385
Judith Ryan
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Traces the rise of nationalist movements and the emergence of various resistance efforts from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Emphasis on the reflection of these developments in literary texts. Topics: the problematic relation of fascism and modernism; inner emigration; exile; women under Nazism; youth resistance groups. Authors include Roth, Thomas Mann, Benn, Klaus Mann, Jünger, Bonhoeffer, Kolmar, Seghers, Wiechert, and Inge Scholl.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Readings in German; discussions in English.
[German 185. German Poems in Cultural Context]
Catalog Number: 6300
Judith Ryan
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Poetry from the Reformation to the present, read against the background of historical, social, and cultural events.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Readings in German, discussions in English.
German 190. The Modern German Novel and Social Reality
Catalog Number: 4870
Judith Ryan
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Explores the fictional representation of German social reality during the period 1900–1933. Examines the interaction of family and national traditions, individual psychology and the modern technological world, artistic production and political forces, male and female modes of identity formation, nostalgia for home and the pull of the exotic. Authors treated include Thomas Mann, Gabriele Reuter, Hermann Hesse, Franziska zu Reventlow, Hermann Broch, and Arnold Zweig.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Readings in German; discussions in English.
German 193. Stylistic Studies and Expository Writing
Catalog Number: 6370
Karl S. Guthke
Half course (spring term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Close analysis and informal discussion of the style and significance of very short keynote literary texts, followed by various types of written work. Designed to develop appreciation of specific stylistic qualities and cultural implications of representative prose and poetry and of the finer nuances of the German language. Authors: Luther, Goethe, Brentano, Brothers Grimm, Heine, C. F. Meyer, G. Keller, Fontane, Wedekind, Morgenstern, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Hesse, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Enzensberger, Johnson, Grass, and others.
Note: Conducted in German. Required of concentrators in German literature.
Prerequisite: Completion of German 60a or permission of the instructor.
[German 226. Georg Büchner: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 3538
Karl S. Guthke
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduces methods of literary research, bibliographic tools, and preparation of research papers.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Open to qualified undergraduates.
German 226r. Proseminar: Literary Theory
Catalog Number: 1720
Anton Kaes (University of California, Berkeley)
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A critical introduction to contemporary literary and cultural theory. The first part is historical, where we study the emergence of literary criticism and theory as institutional praxes. In the second systematic part, we focus on current issues and debates within literary theory, including concerns such as intertextuality, historiography, cultural identity formation and postcolonial discussions, discourse theory, and the pros and cons of interdisciplinary cultural studies. We relate specifically German debates to the larger concerns in contemporary literary theory in an effort to comprehend the often underappreciated contributions of German theorists. Includes texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Scherer, Derrida, Kristeva, de Man, Greenblatt, and others.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Discussions in English; readings in German and English.
German 230. Political Romanticism
Catalog Number: 3699
Beatrice Hanssen
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4.
In order to understand better the relations between aesthetics and politics, we may need to return to the period of Romanticism—or this, at least, is the working hypothesis of our semester-long investigation. Does Romanticism merely aestheticize politics—to invoke Benjamin—or does it perhaps also politicize aesthetics? Combines discussion of terms such as aesthetic fragment, reflection, allegory, and symbol with an analysis of their contemporary “use-value.” Authors include Kant, Rousseau, Fichte, Schlegel, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hoelderlin, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, de Man, Rorty, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Arendt, and Varnhagen.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Course conducted in English. Readings in English; students with German-language proficiency read texts in the original.
*German 231. The Cultural Legacy of the Brothers Grimm
Catalog Number: 5904
Maria Tatar
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the folktales collected and edited by the Brothers Grimm and investigates the dissemination of the tales in other folkloric and literary cultures. Special emphasis on the connection between fairy tales for children and the folklore of childhood.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Course conducted in English. Readings in English; students with German-language proficiency read texts in the original.
[German 239. Turn-of-the-Century Prague: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 3666
Judith Ryan
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Prague as a rival and partner of Vienna; as an ethnic, linguistic, and cultural mixture; as a crucible of early modernism. Focus on prose narrative and drama. Authors include Kafka, Brod, Werfel, Weiss, Rilke, Meyrink, Mauthner, Kisch; contributors to the yearbook Arkadia; Löwy and the Yiddish theater.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Conducted in German.
[German 244. Readings in Classical Film Theory]
Catalog Number: 6388
Eric Rentschler
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores classical film theory, from the formalist perspectives of Arnheim and Eisenstein to critical assessments of cinema’s potential by Balázs, Kracauer, Benjamin, and Adorno. We will also contemplate the pertinence of these contributions for recent discussions about gender, spectatorship, and modern culture’s primacy of the visual as well as the ideological effects of mass-produced sights and sounds.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Course conducted in English. Readings in English; students with German-language proficiency read texts in the original.
German 250. Cultural Studies and the Literary Text
Catalog Number: 1364
Maria Tatar
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
By focusing on problems such as identity formation, violence, gender, and sexuality, this course will situate literary texts in their cultural contexts and identify the ideological issues at stake in representational practices. Authors include Wedekind, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Döblin, Brecht, Grass, and Süsskind.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Course conducted in English. Readings in German.
[German 264. German Literary Criticism from the Enlightenment to Naturalism]
Catalog Number: 2411
Karl S. Guthke
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey focusing on the analysis of representative critical texts. Lecture and discussion.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Open to qualified undergraduates.
[German 268 (formerly German 168). German Feminism and Women’s Literature]
Catalog Number: 2790
Beatrice Hanssen
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Focuses on representative German and Austrian authors such as Bachmann, Zürn, Kirsch, Wolf, and Jelinek, whose work will be read in conjunction with theoretical texts by Freud, Cixous, Lacan, Irigaray, Barthes, Bovenschen, Theweleit, Carter, MacKinnon, de Lauretis, Spivak, and Butler. Films by Ottinger, Sander, and Export.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Open to qualified undergraduates.
[German 270. Aesthetic Theory (Kant to Adorno): Seminar]
Catalog Number: 7365
Beatrice Hanssen
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines major 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century tracts on aesthetic theory that are still foundational to current debates about aesthetic ideology. Combines in-depth study of such concepts as representation, symbol, beauty, the sublime, and the end of art with discussion of their contemporary relevance. Primary texts by Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno. Critical responses by Gadamer, Eagleton, de Man, Bourdieu, Derrida, and Lyotard.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Open to qualified undergraduates.
German 272. Gerhart Hauptmann’s Major Plays: Seminar
Catalog Number: 4547
Karl S. Guthke
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Discussion of about eight plays in their social and cultural contexts.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01.
German 295. Post-War to Post-Wall to Post-Union: The Politics of Cultural Production (European Studies Seminar)
Catalog Number: 7648
Peter J. Burgard and Peter Nisbet
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines German cultural production through three historical transformations: the post-war era, the fall of the wall and German unification, and the emergence of the European Union. Considers the political strategies of cultural productions themselves as well as the ways in which political realities affect cultural production. Topics addressed by visiting seminar leaders: literary and gender politics (Sigrid Weigel, Berlin); the politics of art (Siegfried Gohr, Karlsruhe); memorializations of the Holocaust (James Young, UMass-Amherst); the politics of writing (Hans Magnus Enzensberger).
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Readings in German and English; discussions in English.
[Germanic Philology 225. History of the German Language]
Catalog Number: 5192
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A cultural history of the German language, from pre-literate Germanic dialects to the present. The relationship between spoken and written German. Close reading and philological analysis of representative texts, handwritten and printed, from all periods.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Conducted in German.
Germanic Philology 280. Teaching Methods for Language Courses
Catalog Number: 5944
Charles P. Lutcavage
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
An introduction to teaching methods for introductory and intermediate German language courses. Emphasis on development of practical skills for classroom instruction.
Scandinavian Ba. Intermediate Swedish
Catalog Number: 3104
Annette Johansson-Los
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 1, and one hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6
Review of the essentials of Swedish grammar and development of vocabulary. Readings in modern Swedish literature are selected to encourage class discussion and to improve the student’s speaking and writing skills. Authors include Hjalmar Söderberg, Selma Lagerlöf, and Ingmar Bergman.
Note: Conducted in Swedish. Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Scandinavian A or equivalent.
Scandinavian Bb. Intermediate Swedish
Catalog Number: 3405
Annette Johansson-Los
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1, and one hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6
Continuation of Scandinavian Ba. Readings from works in classical and modern Swedish literature and other texts of cultural and social interest. Authors include August Strindberg, Pär Lagerkvist, Carl Michael Bellman, Tomas Tranströmer, and Vilhelm Moberg.
Note: Conducted in Swedish. Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Scandinavian Ba or equivalent.
*Scandinavian 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 7308
Stephen A. Mitchell and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
Note: Permission of the Head Tutor is required.
*Scandinavian 97. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 1592
Stephen A. Mitchell and members of the Department
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and acquaint students with appropriate analytical methods.
Note: Open to concentrators in the Scandinavian option. Permission of the Head Tutor is required.
*Scandinavian 98. Tutorial — Junior Year
Catalog Number: 4255
and members of the Department
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and to develop analytical techniques.
Note: Permission of the Head Tutor is required.
*Scandinavian 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 5542
Stephen A. Mitchell and members of the Department
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to concentrators writing an honors thesis under faculty supervision. Students are expected to enroll for the entire year. Permission of the Head Tutor is required.
Scandinavian 151. The Viking World
Catalog Number: 6970
Stephen A. Mitchell
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Reviews the historical events in northern Europe A.D. 800–1100 and the literary legacy that resulted from those activities. Special attention is paid to the development of the North Atlantic colonies. The evidence for “viking” activity in the New World (e.g., the Vinland sagas, the archaeological record)—and the fabrication of such evidence (e.g., the Kensington rune stone, the “viking” city of Norumbega)—carefully considered.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. All readings in English.
Scandinavian 200br. Old Norse Literature: Edda and Saga
Catalog Number: 2021
Joseph C. Harris
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A continuation of Scandinavian 200a (or equivalent). Readings in eddic and skaldic poetry and in the saga literature. Special attention will be given to short story genres.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
Scandinavian 210. Wise Women and Wicked Witches in the Old Norse Tradition
Catalog Number: 1670
Stephen A. Mitchell
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Readings and discussions of relevant literary, ecclesiastical, and documentary texts from medieval Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2000–01.
Prerequisite: Strong reading knowledge of Old Norse. German and/or a modern Nordic language.