GER 600s


GER 600 Methods of Research (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001448
(Cross-listed with GER 700)
A course designed to foster an understanding of the fundamental notions of critical inquiry and to provide training in intellectual and practical skills common to research in the areas of applied linguistics, film and literary studies.

GER 601 Approaches in Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011669
(Cross-listed with GER 701)

GER 602 Approaches in Literary and Cultural Theory (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001449
(Cross-listed with GER 702)
Major currents in twentieth-century literary theory are discussed and applied to primary texts so that students can develop their own critical position.

GER 603 Approaches in Language Didactics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001450
(Cross-listed with GER 703)

GER 604 Approaches in Film and Performance Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011670
(Cross-listed with GER 704)

GER 610 Topics in German Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010403
(Cross-listed with GER 710)
1 Mehrsprachigkeit im Deutschen
2 K-W - Deutsch
3 Deutsch in Waterloo
4 Using Text Corpora
5 Deutsche Sprachinseln

GER 611 Topics in Second Language Acquisition and Computer Assisted Language Learning (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001451
(Cross-listed with GER 711)
1 Language Learning & Technology
2 Intelligence & Errors in CALL
3 Dynamic Aspects of SLA
4 Deutsch in Waterloo
5 Learner Variability & CALL

GER 612 Topics in Sociolinguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010405
(Cross-listed with GER 712)
1 Multilingualism: Modern Wrld
2 Bilingual Codes
3 Language, Migration & Identity
4 Multiling. & Intercult. Comm
5 Kulturell informierte Kommunik

GER 613 Topics in Discourse Analysis (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010404
(Cross-listed with GER 713)
1 Approaches to Anlyzng Commnctn
2 Language and Identity
3 #1 Approchs to Anlyzng Commntn
4 Konversationsanalyse
5 Sprach.Konstit.Wahrnehmungen
6 Managing Understanding
7 Medizinische Kommunikation

GER 614 Topics in Linguistic Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010406
(Cross-listed with GER 714)

GER 615 Topics in Language Education (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 014084
(Cross-listed with GER 715)
Department Consent Required
1 Philosophies - Lang. Education
2 Grammatikunterricht
3 Foucault's Impact on Appl Ling

GER 620 Topics in German Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011671
(Cross-listed with GER 720)
1 Weimar Republic Culture
2 Recent German Literature
3 Intell Found - Germ Classicism
4 Schiller on Stage and Film
5 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
6 Kafka Intermedial
7 Goethe's Poems
8 Hauptmann: Werk & Wirkung
9 Weimarer Klassik
10 Goethe und Herder
11 Volksstuck
12 Nachwendeliteratur
13 Schiller's Dramas
14 20th Cent. Austrian Lit
15 German Romanticism
16 Becoming Animal
17 Kafka: Classic Short Stories
18 Romantic Ecology
19 Thomas Manns Erzaehlungen
20 Deviant Desires in 19th-c Lit.
21 Austrian Lit 2000 to Today
22 Literatur und Terrorismus
23 Dark Romanticisms

GER 621 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001464
(Cross-listed with GER 721)
1 King Arthur in Medieval Europe

GER 622 Topics in Film and Electronic Media (0.50) LECCourse ID: 010267
(Cross-listed with GER 722)
1 Rewriting History in Film
2 New German Cinema
3 Perf & Sexuality in Ger Cinema
4 Ger Cinema: Intercult Context

GER 623 Topics in Literature and Cultural Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001465
(Cross-listed with GER 723)
1 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
2 Gender: Fin-de-siecle Ger Lit
3 Masculinities
4 Psychoanalysis Lit & Vis Stds
5 Concepts of Masculinity
6 Psychanlys Lit, Vis & Sex Stds
7 Gadamer & Hermeneutics
8 GER Philos for Critical Theory
9 Gender in German Literature
10 Transkulturelle Literatur
11 Transnationalism in Film & Lit

GER 695 Reading Courses in Approved Topics (0.50) RDGCourse ID: 010423
1 Teaching, Lrng & Tech Issues
2 Goethes Weimar & Kulturwissen
3 Indo-Euro:Modern Stnd German
4 Transling/Transnat Ger Culture

GER 695 Reading Courses in Approved Topics (0.50) RDGCourse ID: 001496
1 Teachng, Lrng & Tech Issues
2 Goethes Weimar & Kulturwissen
3 German Directors in Hollywood
4 Knowledge Mobilisation
5 Drctd Stdy Site-Spec Dramatrgy
6 GER Cinema thru Transnat. Lens

GER 700s


GER 700 Methods of Research (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001448
(Cross-listed with GER 600)
A course designed to foster an understanding of the fundamental notions of critical inquiry and to provide training in intellectual and practical skills common to research in the areas of applied linguistics, film and literary studies.

GER 701 Approaches in Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011669
(Cross-listed with GER 601)

GER 702 Approaches in Literary and Cultural Theory (0.50) LECCourse ID: 001449
(Cross-listed with GER 602)
Major currents in twentieth-century literary theory are discussed and applied to primary texts so that students can develop their own critical position.

GER 703 Approaches in Language Didactics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001450
(Cross-listed with GER 603)

GER 704 Approaches in Film and Performance Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011670
(Cross-listed with GER 604)

GER 710 Topics in German Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010403
(Cross-listed with GER 610)
1 Mehrsprachigkeit im Deutschen
2 K-W - Deutsch
3 Deutsch in Waterloo
4 Using Text Corpora
5 Deutsche Sprachinseln

GER 711 Topics in Second Language Acquisition and Computer Assisted Language Learning (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001451
(Cross-listed with GER 611)
1 Language Learning & Technology
2 Intelligence & Errors in CALL
3 Dynamic Aspects of SLA
4 Deutsch in Waterloo
5 Learner Variability & CALL

GER 712 Topics in Sociolinguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010405
(Cross-listed with GER 612)
1 Multilingualism: Modern Wrld
2 Bilingual Codes
3 Language, Migration & Identity
4 Multiling. & Intercult. Comm
5 Kulturell informierte Kommunik

GER 713 Topics in Discourse Analysis (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010404
(Cross-listed with GER 613)
1 Approaches to Anlyzng Commnctn
2 Language and Identity
3 #1 Approchs to Anlyzng Commntn
4 Konversationsanalyse
5 Sprach.Konstit.Wahrnehmungen
6 Managing Understanding
7 Medizinische Kommunikation

GER 714 Topics in Linguistic Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 010406
(Cross-listed with GER 614)

GER 715 Topics in Language Education (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 014084
(Cross-listed with GER 615)
Department Consent Required
1 Philosophies - Lang. Education
2 Grammatikunterricht
3 Foucault's Impact on Appl Ling

GER 720 Topics in German Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 011671
(Cross-listed with GER 620)
1 Weimar Republic Culture
2 Recent German Literature
3 Intell Found - Germ Classicism
4 Schiller on Stage and Film
5 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
6 Kafka Intermedial
7 Goethe's Poems
8 Hauptmann: Werk & Wirkung
9 Weimarer Klassik
10 Goethe und Herder
11 Volksstuck
12 Nachwendeliteratur
13 Schiller's Dramas
14 20th Cent. Austrian Lit
15 German Romanticism
16 Becoming Animal
17 Kafka: Classic Short Stories
18 Romantic Ecology
19 Thomas Manns Erzaehlungen
20 Deviant Desires in 19th-c Lit.
21 Austrian Lit 2000 to Today
22 Literatur und Terrorismus
23 Dark Romanticisms

GER 721 Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001464
(Cross-listed with GER 621)
1 King Arthur in Medieval Europe

GER 722 Topics in Film and Electronic Media (0.50) LECCourse ID: 010267
(Cross-listed with GER 622)
1 Rewriting History in Film
2 New German Cinema
3 Perf & Sexuality in Ger Cinema
4 Ger Cinema: Intercult Context

GER 723 Topics in Literature and Cultural Theory (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 001465
(Cross-listed with GER 623)
1 Goethe's Faust: Intercultural
2 Gender: Fin-de-siecle Ger Lit
3 Masculinities
4 Psychoanalysis Lit & Vis Stds
5 Concepts of Masculinity
6 Psychanlys Lit, Vis & Sex Stds
7 Gadamer & Hermeneutics
8 GER Philos for Critical Theory
9 Gender in German Literature
10 Transkulturelle Literatur
11 Transnationalism in Film & Lit

GER 751 Topics in Linguistic Methodology (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013937
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Digitale Sprachressourcen Ling
2 Empir. Method. Lexikologie

GER 752 Topics in Theories and Models of Applied Linguistics (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013938
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany
1 Wortbild dt. Gegenwartssprache
2 Wissenschaftsmeth. Korpusling.
3 Theories and Models of Applied
4 Korpusgestuetzte Sprachanalyse
5 Comparative Corpus Linguistics
6 Sociolinguistik Fieldwork
8 Internet-Lexikographie
9 Form and Function
10 Analyse von Schreibprozessen
11 Language and Mind

GER 753 Topics in Theories and Methods of Cultural and Literary Studies (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013939
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Grundlagen der Lit.-wiss.

GER 754 Topics in Theories and Conceptions of Modernity (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013940
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

GER 761 Topics in Interaction and Text (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013941
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Gespraechsstrukturen
2 Interakt. Zugaenge Jugendspr
3 Konversationsanalyse
4 Multimodale Interaktion

GER 762 Topics in Research Directions in Language Acquisition and Multilingualism (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013942
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Superdiversitaet und Sprache
2 Multiling in Medieval England
3 Zweitsprachenentw. & Emergent.
4 Migration and Language Acquisi

GER 763 Topics in Sociology of Language and Cultural Differentiation (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013943
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Internetbasierte Kommunikation
2 Medizinische Kommunikation
3 Wikipedia Sprach & Kulturvergl
4 Soziale Sprache:Lob&Verletzung
5 Bilingual Speech Production
6 Hypertextlinguistik
7 Sprache und Kolonialismus

GER 764 Topics in History of Language (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013944
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Das Deutsche im 20.Jhdt

GER 765 Topics in German Grammar (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013945
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.

GER 771 Topics in Individual and Society in Historical Transformation (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013946
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Letzte Welten, letzte Menschen
2 Lit Anthropol.: Jahnn, Fichte
3 Autofiktionalitaet:Bernhard ua
4 Paardynamik. Goethe-Jelinek
5 Sich selbst schreiben
6 Pornographie. Aesth. Obszoenen
7 Climate Change Novels
8 Signs/Times Contemp Brit. Fict
9 Aesthetik der Langsamkeit
10 Zoff. Kontroversen um Lit.
11 Time and the Novel
12 Gruendungsjhr d. Nationaltheat

GER 772 Topics in Aesthetic Transformations and Theoretical Concepts (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013947
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Gott und Geld
2 Autorschaft
3 Einfuehrung in die Ethik
4 Variation

GER 773 Topics in Intercultural Perspectives, Post-colonial Constellations & Transnational Discourses (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013948
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Fernweh-ABC: Welt-Reise-Lit.
2 Deutsch-jued. Literaturgesch.
3 Deutsche Literatur des Exils
4 Identitaet & Alteritaet

GER 774 Topics in German Literature and Culture Before 1700 (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013949
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Das Nibelungenlied

GER 775 Topics in Modern German Literature (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013950
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Wagner, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann
2 Literarische Kulinaristik
3 Goethe, Freytag, Th. Mann
4 Grammatik: Wortarten
5 Goethes Romane
6 Die Literatur und das Boese
7 Epische Miniaturen
8 Lyrik des 20.Jahrhunderts
9 Robert Musil: Erzaehlg. Essays

GER 780 Topics in Media Studies (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 013951
This course is taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Blickwechsel. Literatur & Film
2 Spoiler Alert
3 Adapt. Cult. Hist. in America
4 Anschauliches Schreiben

GER 790 Topics in Intercultural Perspectives (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 015050
This course is normally taught in Mannheim, Germany.
1 Wahre oder falsche Mittler?
2 Entfuehrungsgeschichten
3 Sociolinguistics
4 Interkulturelle Komunikation
5 Identitaet und Alteritaet
6 Flucht:Lit & Theater Gegenwart

GER 791 Academic Writing (0.50) SEMCourse ID: 014304
Writing skills do provide an important tool in the academic world and are necessary for writing essays, presentations and research papers. However well you know your subject, it is not necessarily an easy task to talk and write about it. Therefore this course is designed for students who want to develop or imporove their academic writing skills and presentation techniques. The focus of the course is on processes of generating ideas, collecting information, and establishing a thesis statement. Furthermore it also gives an introduction to the development, structure, argumentation forms, and stylistic issues of academic papers with special attention to North American usage. This course is taught either in Waterloo or Mannheim Germany.
Department Consent Required

GER 792 Master's Thesis Colloquium (0.25) SEMCourse ID: 014736
The function of the MA Colloquium is the preparation and discussion of the MA thesis. It covers key components of the thesis and the writing process, such as theoretical reflection on relevant literary, cultural, linguistic or media theories, research methodologies, existing research and the writing of a research report, as well as techniques for presenting research results.

GER 793 Knowledge Transfer & Reflection (0.25) PRACourse ID: 015395
The course encompasses two learning elements: A Knowledge Transfer Project and an Intercultural Reflection. Both elements are designed to encourage reflection on your academic and experiential learning progress and to engage with a wider audience.