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German Language and Literature

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Code Course Title Credit Learning Time Division Degree Grade Note Language Availability
GER3030 Deutsch B1+ 3 6 Major Bachelor 3-4 Korean Yes
This course is designed for students who wish to take internationally recognized German exams at CEFR level "B1" and above. Passing this exam demonstrates a solid command of language skills that will enable students to engage not only in everyday conversation, but also to handle situations they may encounter during a visit to Germany or an exchange semester at a German university.
GER3031 EU and German Culture 3 6 Major Bachelor 3-4 Korean Yes
Literary works always have contained messages which are synchronically or diachronically linked to other discourses, creating new themes. In this class, we will look at the materialization of these various themes we encounter in everyday life depicted in literary works. The themes are the conceptualized ideas of the historical and circumstantial problems we encounter in our life, such as 'the struggle between art and life', 'the absurdity of modern society', 'division and literature', 'the formation and the destruction of modern self', or 'the discover of the human body'. On successful completion of the course, students will be able to broaden their perspective on life and art, and analyze accurately the themes conceptualized in literary works.
GER3032 Division and Reunification of Germany 3 6 Major Bachelor 3-4 Korean Yes
The World War II and the German division and reunification have had a strong and far-reaching effect on German society and culture just beyond the political dimension. The issues of German division and reunification have been expressed in various manners in German literature. This course, in this regard, will deal with the themes of national division and reunification depicted in German literary works in terms of socio-political and socio-cultural change, which will suggest a meaningful direction for our country, which still remains a divided nation.
GER3033 Performing Arts in German Culture 3 6 Major Bachelor 3-4 Korean Yes
This course will provide an overview of the German performing arts with its focus on the German theater. It covers the current theater management, and the policies for performing arts as well. The aim of this course is to enable students to broaden their perspective on culture as citizens living in the 'century of culture', by discussing the changes of the German theater and film, and comparing the trend of the German culture with that of the Korean culture.
GER3034 Gender in German Culture 3 6 Major Bachelor 3-4 Korean Yes
Nowadays literature cannot be separated from the gender issue. Rather, literature, in its production, reception, criticism and research, is interpreted in terms of sexual difference. This course aims to explore the complex relationship between gender and literature, taking a critical look at the significant current arguments about Authorship and Gender, the Image of the Woman and the Man, Femininity and Masculinity, Sex-Gender Relationship, and the Power and Gender in the Literature, etc.
GER3035 68 Movement and German Alternative Culture 3 6 Major Bachelor Korean Yes
The alternative culture, in the course of the development of the post-industrial society, rejecting the negative aspects of main stream culture, aims to create the future-conscious culture. With the critical view of the existing culture, it has a characteristic of 'counter culture', which has developed for about 25 years in Germany. In this course, the German Counter Culture will be dealt with against its historical background. Our special attention will be paid to the inhumanity that resulted from the advanced industrial development driven by the greed of human beings, ecological preservation, peace movement and youth culture defying the values of older generations.
GER3036 German Literature of 20th Century 3 6 Major Bachelor 4 Korean Yes
The topic of this course is German-speaking literature of the 20th century. The German-speaking society went through crises by various events such as World War I and World War II, the division of East and West Germany, economic reconstruction, ideological conflicts and reunification in this time. This period was the starting and developing phase for various ideologies and philosophies that flourishes now in the 21st century. Different positions, perspectives and methodologies coexisted in the literature as well, which cannot converge. In the class we will not only deal with the brief history of German-speaking literature in the 20th century, but also attempt to interpret specific works by reading them in Korean and German and try to deepen our understanding of German-speaking society.
GER3037 Deutsche Romantik/German Romanticsm 3 6 Major Bachelor 2-4 - No
The lessons will be taught in English and German. Not only individual literary texts, for example poems, will be read and interpreted. Paintings will be analyzed and placed in their historical context. It will be about music, about philosophy, about the political and social reality of the time. It will also be about the relationship of Romanticism to the present. What meaning does it have for us today? What developments did it anticipate? A focus will be on German "dark romanticism," on "The Sandman" by E.T.A. Hoffmann, etc.
GER4006 Seminar in German Literature 3 6 Major Bachelor/Master 3-4
1-4
Korean Yes
This course is designed to understand the literary texts through discussion and reading only without any prior knowledge about the texts. Various texts will be covered during the discussion and recommendations of the texts will be made.
GER4006 Seminar in German Literature 3 6 Major Bachelor/Master 3-4
1-4
German Language and Literature Korean Yes
This course is designed to understand the literary texts through discussion and reading only without any prior knowledge about the texts. Various texts will be covered during the discussion and recommendations of the texts will be made.
GER4008 German Syntax 3 6 Major Bachelor/Master 3-4
1-4
German Yes
Syntax deals with the structure of sentences, the method to get the linguistic elements to constituent the sentence and the rules putting the elements into a sentence. This course will focus on the sub-structures of structural grammar, the formative-generative grammar and the different methodologies used in them. Students will also be encouraged to generate correct German sentences.
GER4008 German Syntax 3 6 Major Bachelor/Master 3-4
1-4
German Language and Literature German Yes
Syntax deals with the structure of sentences, the method to get the linguistic elements to constituent the sentence and the rules putting the elements into a sentence. This course will focus on the sub-structures of structural grammar, the formative-generative grammar and the different methodologies used in them. Students will also be encouraged to generate correct German sentences.
GER4009 NihilismPessimismDecadenceMelancholy 3 6 Major Bachelor/Master 1-2 Korean Yes
Nihilism/Pessimism/Decadence/Melancholy: A number of themes such as nihilism/pessimism/degeneration and decline/depression can be cited as important keywords when considering the modern/contemporary world. The philosophical, historical, literary, and cultural significance of these themes will be explored. A theme will be identified each year, and participants will have time to read and discuss in depth translations and original books. The spectrum includes such diverse areas as Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and Thomas Mann.
GER4009 NihilismPessimismDecadenceMelancholy 3 6 Major Bachelor/Master 1-2 German Language and Literature Korean Yes
Nihilism/Pessimism/Decadence/Melancholy: A number of themes such as nihilism/pessimism/degeneration and decline/depression can be cited as important keywords when considering the modern/contemporary world. The philosophical, historical, literary, and cultural significance of these themes will be explored. A theme will be identified each year, and participants will have time to read and discuss in depth translations and original books. The spectrum includes such diverse areas as Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and Thomas Mann.
GER5002 Studies in the History of German Language 3 6 Major Master/Doctor 1-4 - No
An intensive course for thorough study in the historical classifications of German language. Students will study the specific variations of German language through the knowledge of phonology, semantics and syntax. Interpretation of distinctive texts will be made in order to give a full understanding of variations of the German language. Sound variations, dialects, shift of structure, vocabulary changes will be discussed and the methodologies of modern German linguistics as well as the relations with history might be introduced.