Language Courses in Spring Semester 2023:
We are offering all our regular German language courses from German 101 (Beginning German 1) to German 202 (Intermediate German 2) this fall. Note: There is no GER 103 anymore! The new sequence is 101 – 102 – 201 – 202.
If you are not sure, which one you should take, check out our placement guide here: https://www.german.pitt.edu/curriculum/language-placement.
In German 101-202, we are working with the new textbook series Impuls Deutsch. German 101 will be offered online this Spring.
All the textbooks will be supplemented by a variety of authentic materials, e.g. music, websites, and videos.
If you are taking one of our intermediate-level courses, you will also read a short book, either Inge Scholl’s Die weiße Rose, about a resistance group in the Third Reich, or Otfried Preussler’s Krabat, which is a fantasy story based on an old folk tale. (Both books have been edited for language learners.)
Of course there will also be a project again! In the past, project themes have included political parties in Germany, regions of the German-speaking world, the situation of refugees in Germany and the US, and adaptations of well-known German fairy tales.”
GER 1001 Writing on the Margins
MWF - 1-1:50PM
Dr. Jaclyn Kurash
GER 1004 Geschäftsdeutsch
T/Th - 4:00-5:15PM
Dr. Dieter Wältermann
GER 1010 "Coffee and the News"
F - 12-12:50PM
Dr. Victoria Harms
GER 1102 The German-Speaking World Today
MW - 3:00-4:15PM
Prof. Von Dirke
GER 1105 Literary Analysis
T/Th - 1:00-2:15PM
Prof. Amy Colin
GER 1202 German Literature 1750-1820: Romanticism
T/Th - 9:30-10:45AM
Prof. John Lyon
GER 1500 Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas
M/W - 1-1:50PM
Dr. Uwe Stender
GER 1502 Indo-European Folktales
M/W- 12-12:50PM + Th/F Recitation
Dr. Benjamin Brand
GER 1510 Kafka and the Modern World
T/Th - 4:00-5:15PM
Prof. Colin
GER 1542 Marx and Marxism
M/W - 2-2:50PM
Prof. von Dirke