GRM - German

Acquisition of vocabulary and structures necessary to execute basic communicative tasks.

Acquisition of vocabulary and structures necessary to execute basic communicative tasks.

This class provides students with the opportunity to learn a full year of German in one semester with the advantage of intensive study, which promotes greater retention. It provides a solid foundation for second-year German at the University of Portland or for students planning to study in Salzburg.

Maximizing Study Abroad helps students approach and enrich the study and/or sojourning abroad experience from the perspectives of intercultural communication, cultural adjustment, and practical language learning strategies prior to departing for their target cultures. Participants are applicants to UP Study Abroad programs and UP students sojourning abroad. This course counts toward meeting requirements of the Sojourner Scholars Program.

Review and further development of proficiency skills.

Review and further development of proficiency skills.

This course will offer students an opportunity to immerse themselves in the German language and strengthen their linguistics skills. This course follows GRM 102 or GRM 105 and will build upon the concepts covered at the introductory level.

Broad variety of activities and reading materials are used together with partner, group, and individualized approaches to develop conversational proficiency, improve accuracy in writing and speaking, and expand active and passive vocabulary. Conducted in German.

Broad variety of activities and reading materials are used together with partner, group, and individualized approaches to develop conversational proficiency, improve accuracy in writing and speaking, and expand active and passive vocabulary. Conducted in German.

Students will increase the proficiency of their receptive and productive skills in German through a variety of activities and materials, including tasks allowing students to engage with local culture and customs. At the end of their year in Salzburg, students take an internationally recognized stadardized test and receive a certificate. (Salzburg only.)

Students will increase the proficiency of their receptive and productive skills in German through a variety of activities and materials, including tasks allowing students to engage with local culture and customs. At the end of their year in Salzburg, students take an internationally recognized stadardized test and receive a certificate. (Salzburg only.)

This course is intended as a scaffold between the GRM 301-GRM 302 sequence and the 400-level. By reading a variety of texts, students will strengthen their reading skills, practice close analysis, and begin to work with literary theory. This course will continue to build on students' existing vocabulary and grammar knowledge with the goal of greater precision in writing in preparation for the 400-level.

This course is intended as a scaffold between the GRM 301-GRM 302 sequence and the 400-level. By reading a variety of texts, students will strengthen their reading skills, practice close analysis, and begin to work with literary theory. This course will continue to build on students’ existing vocabulary and grammar knowledge with the goal of greater precision in writing in preparation for the 400-level.

This course allows students who have completed two 300-level courses prior to study in Salzburg to improve the accuracy of their written and spoken proficiency in German. Along with classroom activities, students will engage with the local culture and customs. At the end of their year in Salzburg, students will take an internationally recognized standardized test and receive a certificate. (Salzburg only.)

This course allows students, who have completed two 300-level courses prior to study in Salzburg, to improve the accuracy of their written and spoken proficiency in German. Along with classroom activities, students will engage with the local culture and customs. At the end of their year in Salzburg, students will take an internationally recognized standardized test and receive a certificate. (Salzburg only.)

Participants will become familiar with how experts in the field consider the language learning process and how theories of second language acquisition connect to their own efforts to learn a foreign language. More importantly, participants will reframe how they go about learning a foreign language, try new strategies, and document what they have done through a diary research project.

Credit arranged.

Germanness is often equated with whiteness, but this no longer reflects the reality of German society. In this course we engage with historical events that complicate the idea of Germanness as well as current creative works that revise Germany's national identity as based on race. Together we investigate national identity, belonging, and the politics of integration and inclusion.

Students in this course will explore an aspect of Austrian literature and culture as it relates to depictions of nature, boundaries, identity, spirituality, or the legacy of the past and will also refine their receptive (listening, reading) and productive (speaking, writing) skills in German through summary, description, comparison, and narration.

In this supposedly post-feminist age, gender nonetheless shapes lived experience. This course introduces students to the literature and thematic concerns of "women's writing" in German. Taking an intersectional approach to identity, we consider gender as one facet that shapes life and literary production.

This course focuses on visual and textual cultural products in the German-speaking world during the First World War, including public documents, such as Kaiser Franz Josef’s declaration of war, and private documents, such as letters written between war front and home front. Along with content goals, this course focuses on practicing and increasing German language skills appropriate for this level.

Contemporary German plays will be read in a reader's theater format, discussed in the context of current social/cultural events, and performed in German. Emphasis upon expanding vocabulary and improving pronunciation, intonation, and expression. Conducted in German.

Using a variety of cultural products (films, poetry, memoirs, essays, newspaper articles, and museum exhibits) created after German unification, we consider the ways that Germans remember their divided past and how it shapes their current understanding of the German nation. Ultimately we ask whether it is possible yet to speak of a unified Germany.

In this course, we will describe characteristics of German Romanticism focusing on nature and spirituality and explore how the depiction of nature in Romanticism is a vehicle for discussions about environmental degradation and solutions in contemporary Germany. We will engage with a variety of images and text genres, including literature, public debate, and political posters.

Students will investigate a variety of media or a single medium (such as art, theater, film, and music) to analyze depictions of nature, boundaries, identity, spirituality, or the legacy of the past in German-speaking cultures. Concurrent with refining their German language skills, students will learn specific vocabulary to analyze each medium.

Academic internships are available for qualified students (3.0 GPA; 3.25 GPA in German). Internships provide students with job experience pertinent to the study of German. The internship may be taken for one to three credit hours. Students may receive an IP (In Progress) grade until the completion of their internship.

Research, study, or original work under the direction of a faculty mentor, leading to a scholarly thesis document with a public presentation of results. Requires approval of thesis director, department chair, dean, and the director of the honors program, when appropriate.