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Notice to Students
Introduction

1: Academic Calendar

2: Academic Information

3: Fields of Concentration

4: Secondary Fields

5: General Regulations and Standards of Conduct

6: Life in the Harvard Community

7: Financial Information

8: Academic and Support Resources

9: Extracurricular Activities


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FAS Courses of Instruction

German Literature Specific Requirements

  1. Basic required courses: Nine half-courses.
    1. German 61 or 62 (may be waived by Director of Undergraduate Studies on the basis of equivalent preparation).
    2. German 97 (sophomore tutorial).
    3. German 193 or equivalent.
    4. Six additional numbered half-courses in German:
      1. Two of these should normally be German 50a and 50b.
      2. Four of these must be 100-200 level German courses, one from each of the following groups:
        Medieval, Baroque
        Age of Goethe, Romanticism, Realism
        Turn-of-the-Century, Weimar, Postwar
        A literary genre
  2. Courses required for honors eligibility: Eleven half-courses.
        a-d. Same as item 1, above.
        e. German 99 (two terms). Honors thesis.
  3. Other information:
    1. The concentration is designed to make it possible to begin with Elementary German (German A or Bab) in the freshman year and to complete the concentration without difficulty.
    2. At the student's request, concentration credit is granted, beyond the basic required courses, for second-year language courses (German D).