Majors must successfully complete the Senior Capstone Experience, which may consist of an original research project, or a thesis based on a seminar paper. In each case, students consult with the faculty advisor(s) in order to choose the most appropriate Capstone Experience, which must be approved by the faculty advisor(s). Students are enrolled for four SCE credits usually in the spring of their senior year, but the SCE is a year-long project that should be started at the end of the junior year. The Capstone receives a mark of Pass, Fail, or Honors.

Designed for beginning students and aimed at developing skill in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in German. Emphasis on communication through intensive aural/oral practice and awareness of cultural context. Students must not have taken or placed into a higher level of German. Three class meetings and one laboratory session per week.

Designed for beginning students and aimed at developing skill in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in German. Emphasis on communication through intensive aural/oral practice and awareness of cultural context. Student may not have taken/tested a higher level of German. Three class meetings and one laboratory session per week.

A learning contract is required prior to, enrollment. Evaluation of student performance is, completed by the faculty mentor based on, fulfillment of the contract terms and written, evaluation by the internship site supervisor. 45, hours per credit is required.

The intensive study of a selected author, movement, genre, or theme in German culture studies.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student, researching a topic of interest that is relevant to a student's major or minor. Research is conducted on campus. 45 hours per credit is required.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member a

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student allowing the student to study a topic of interest that is presently not offered at WC. 45 hours per credit is required.

Continued emphasis on the four basic skills. Intensive aural/oral practice. Review of grammar, expansion of vocabulary, and their application in writing. Development of effective reading strategies. Authentic non-fictional and literary German texts provide the basis for discussion of a wide range of contemporary social, political, and cultural topics. Three class meetings and one laboratory session per week.

Continued emphasis on the four basic skills. Intensive aural/oral practice. Review of grammar, expansion of vocabulary, and their application in writing. Development of effective reading strategies. Authentic non-fictional and literary German texts provide the basis for discussion of a wide range of contemporary social, political, and cultural topics. Three class meetings and one laboratory session per week.

A learning contract is required prior to, enrollment. Evaluation of student performance is, completed by the faculty mentor based on, fulfillment of the contract terms and written, evaluation by the internship site supervisor. 45, hours per credit is required.

The intensive study of a selected author, movement, genre, or theme in German culture studies.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student, researching a topic of interest that is relevant to a student's major or minor. Research is conducted on campus. 45 hours per credit is required.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student researching a topic of interest that is relevant to a student's major or minor. Research is conducted off-campus. Students must be enrolled before the research can begin. Graded A-F or Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required per credit.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student allowing the student to study a topic of interest that is presently not offered at WC. 45 hours per credit is required.

A course designed to enhance students' skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as their cultural knowledge. Engagement with contemporary cultural and literary texts serves to develop students' abilities to analyze texts and to express themselves clearly and according to genre-specific conventions in written and oral communication. This course also includes a review of German grammar.

A course designed to enhance students' skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as their cultural knowledge. Engagement with contemporary cultural and literary texts serves to develop students' abilities to analyze texts and to express themselves clearly and according to genre-specific conventions in written and oral communication. This course also includes a review of German grammar.

A survey of German history, politics, and art from their beginnings to the present with special emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition, this course will focus on a close study of the geography and social structures of German-speaking countries. Use will be made of authentic sources. Students will continue to develop language skills, especially reading strategies and vocabulary building.

This course provides students with the analytic tools that facilitate the reading and interpretation of German literature. Specific artistic accomplishments are discussed against the background of historical and social contexts. Brief selections may range from the writings of Martin Luther to works by contemporary women. Particular emphasis is placed on authors of the twentieth century. Students continue to develop language skills, especially reading strategies and vocabulary building.

The course provides an overview of the cultural, sociological, political, and historical significance of Berlin. It presents a survey of its history and culture over the past century, examining how Berlin has come to stand as a symbol of the development of Germany as a whole. Discussion of selected (fictional and nonfictional) texts from specific moments in Berlin's history. Course taught in German.

The course provides an overview of the historical background to situate minorities in contemporary Germany, focusing on cultural productions (fictional, non-fictional texts, films) that contribute to the discussion about the situation of minorities in postwar Germany. We examine works that address minorities and their particular circumstances such as guestworkers, the Turkish community, Black Germans, Jews, Muslims, Aussiedler, Russian immigrants. Course taught in English.

The course provides an overview of the historical background to situate minorities in contemporary Germany, focusing on cultural productions (fictional, non-fictional texts, films) that contribute to the discussion about the situation of minorities in postwar Germany. We examine works that address minorities and their particular circumstances such as guestworkers, the Turkish community, Black Germans, Jews, Muslims, Aussiedler, Russian immigrants. Course taught in German.

Explores the history and cultural background of German cinema, its topics, forms of representation and relationship to main issues of German history; major themes, movements, and trends, and the construction of identity and difference with special focus on gender. Apart from the historical and narrative context of the films, we also consider how movies produce meaning and how our perspectives as viewers are guided. While this course is not an introduction to Film Studies, it gives students a general idea how to think and write about film in a critical way. Films are screened outside of class; if students cannot attend the screenings, they must watch the films before the class discussion on their own time.

Explores the history and cultural background of German cinema, its topics, forms of representation and relationship to main issues of German history; major themes, movements, and trends, and the construction of identity and difference with special focus on gender. Apart from the historical and narrative context of the films, we also consider how movies produce meaning and how our perspectives as viewers are guided. While this course is not an introduction to Film Studies, it gives students a general idea how to think and write about film in a critical way. Films are screened outside of class; if students cannot attend the screenings, they must watch the films before the class discussion on their own time.

This tutorial continues the development of specific listening, speaking, reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in the target language while majors pursue their language-immersion study abroad program. Students create a portfolio remotely with frequent consultation and feedback from a faculty advisor. The study abroad portfolio is assessed for progress in the student's language learning skills and personal development.

A learning contract is required prior to, enrollment. Evaluation of student performance is, completed by the faculty mentor based on, fulfillment of the contract terms and written, evaluation by the internship site supervisor. 45, hours per credit is required.

The intensive study of a selected author, movement, genre, or theme in German culture studies.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student, researching a topic of interest that is relevant to a student's major or minor. Research is conducted on campus. 45 hours per credit is required.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member a

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student allowing the student to study a topic of interest that is presently not offered at WC. 45 hours per credit is required.

In many respects, modern German history may be said to have begun with the failed bourgeois revolution of 1848. With the shattering of its democratic hopes, the German middle class largely turned away from political concerns, focusing instead on the pleasures of family life, the private accumulation of wealth, and the advancement of science and industry. At the same time, the German bourgeoisie also came to accept the autocratic state of authority with which it would ever afterwards be associated. This course traces the often ambivalent artistic responses to German modernity, focusing on figures such as Fontane, Hauptmann, Nietzsche, Wagner, and Rilke, and the movements with which they are associated (Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Expressionism).

Few eras continue to fascinate as do those of Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and Third Reich (1933-1945). In the former, we find a fragile new democracy characterized at once by anxiety, inflation, and the destruction of values, as well as an explosion of creative energies in literature, film, music, the visual arts, and architecture. In the latter, by contrast, Germany's Golden Twenties come crashing to a halt; post-war anxieties, uncertainties, and freedoms are exchanged for the reactionary nationalism of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Drawing on key cultural artifacts from the periods in question, this course considers the troubled relationship between democracy and totalitarianism in German history. The course then concludes with an analysis of the divided Germany as it developed after 1945.

With the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Germany's permanent separation seemed assured. In the east, the German Democratic Republic sought to realize a socialist state founded upon the principles of Marxism-Leninism. In the west, the Federal Republic of Germany embraced the model of a capitalist and politically open (pluralistic) society. This seminar focuses on the trials and triumphs of the latter, tracing social, cultural, and political developments from 1961 to the present. Topics of discussion will include Germany's economic miracle and affluent society, the social market economy, student, peace, and women's movements, terrorism, and German Reunification.

A learning contract is required prior to enrollment. Evaluation of student performance is completed by the faculty mentor based on fulfillment of the contract terms and written evaluation by the internship site supervisor. 45 hours per credit is required.

The intensive study of a selected author, movement, genre, or theme in German culture studies.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student, researching a topic of interest that is relevant to a student's major or minor. Research is conducted on campus. 45 hours per credit is required.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student researching a topic of interest that is relevant to a student's major or minor. Research is conducted off-campus. 45 hours per credit is required.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty member and a student allowing the student to study a topic of interest that is presently not offered at WC. 45 hours per credit is required.