SCHOOL OF GERMANIC LANGUAGE
German A1: For beginners and for students offering less than three units
of German for entrance.—Elementary grammar, reading, conversation, dictation,
and composition. Five hours a week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for
those who have offered less than three units of German for entrance.)
Assistant Professor Mohr.
German B1: German A1 or its equivalent or three entrance-units of German
prerequisite.—German reading, conversation, and composition. The reading
is made the basis for the conversation and composition, and is selected from
novels characteristic of German life and thought in the late nineteenth and the
early twentieth century. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Faulkner.
German B2: German B1 prerequisite.—First term. History of German
Literature, with collateral readings illustrative of the development of literature
in the New High German Period, and conversation and composition based on
the readings. Ability to understand spoken German is required. Second and
third terms: Goethe's Faust. Weekly themes in German on topic suggested
by the drama. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Faulkner.
German C1: German A1 and B1, or the equivalent, and one additional year
of college German prerequisite.—Given in German. Der deutsche Roman von
Goethe bis zur Gegenwart. Selected novels of Goethe, Keller, Fontaine, Sudermann,
Frennsen, Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, and Wassermann will be studied,
discussed in class, and reported on in class papers.
Professor —.
Linguistics D1: For graduate students only. First and second terms: A
general introduction to the history and comparative grammar of the Indo-European
languages. A good working knowledge of the grammar and vocabulary of
two languages other than English is necessary for deriving full benefit from the
course. Third term: Gothic, with especial reference to its relation to English.
Professor —.
