THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

Graduate Program in the Humanities

HUMA 7323 Spring, 2006 M 3:30-6:15

Sec. 001 Call # 12965 CBW 1.206

Instructor: Dr. Elke Matijevich

Office hour: M 2:30-3:00 in Jo 5.904 972-883-2250
E-mail: elkefm@gmail.com

GERMAN WORKSHOP

This workshop is designed to help students meet the school’s requirements for
advanced reading and comprehension of German by M.A. and beginning Ph.D.
candidates. They should have attained at least intermediate competency (usually
equivalent to four semesters of undergraduate German courses) before registration and,
during the first meeting, will take a test to assess individual levels of proficiency in
German.

Course work itself includes textual analysis as well as some supplementary

grammar review, designed to facilitate the comprehension, interpretation, and translation
of texts in various fields of the arts and humanities.

The workshop concludes with a translation of a primary and a secondary text, which
together comprise the program’s proficiency examination as well as the final exam for the
course.

The textbooks for this term are H. and W. Rogalla, Grammar Handbook for Reading
German Texts; and Dichter, Denker und Erzähler: A German Reader, ed. P. Heller and
E. Ehrlich. In addition, I recommend Langenscheidt’s New College German Dictionary
as one of the best currently available. Students may also find English Grammar for
Students of German useful.

The attached syllabus will serve as a general guide for our work over the course of
this semester; however, there will be no strict adherence to a schedule, should students
need more time for a particular problem or issue.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: all course correspondence by e-mail must now occur through
the student’s UTD e-mail address. UT-Dallas provides each student with a free e-mail
account that is to be used in all communication with university personnel. This allows the
university to maintain a high degree of confidence in the identity of all individuals
corresponding and the security of the transmitted information. The Department of
Information Resources at UTD provides a method for students to forward email from
other accounts to their UTD address and have their UTD mail sent on to other accounts.
Students may go to the following URL to establish or maintain their official UTD
computer accounts: http://netid.utdallas.edu/.

Every effort is made to accommodate students with disabilities. The full range of
resources available through and procedures concerning Disability Services can be found
at www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/hcsvc.html.

Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to: cheating, plagiarism, collusion,
and falsifying academic records. Please familiarize yourself with the university's policies
concerning scholastic dishonesty at www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/dishonesty.html.

SCHEDULE OF CLASS MEETINGS & ASSIGNMENTS

9 Jan Introduction: assessment test and discussion

Assignment for the following week: Dichter, Denker und Erzähler
(DDE) 3-9, 40-41, 239

Over the next week, please also familiarize yourself with the Basic
Word List beginning on p. 147 in the Grammar Handbook (GH),
if you have not done so previously.

16 Jan No class (MLK Day)

23 Jan Discussion of Lessing, Hebel, Grimm, Kafka, and Hofmannsthal

Assignment: DDE 19-27

30 Jan Discussion of Hauff

Assignment: DDE 33-39

6 Feb Discussion of Hesse

Assignment: DDE 57-67

13 Feb Discussion of Hebel and Kleist

Assignment: DDE 68-77
 Assignment: DDE 77-86

27 Feb Discussion of Schnitzler and Ernst

Assignment: DDE 103-10, 144-48, 239 (Herbsttag) and 240
(Der Panther)

6 Mar Spring Break

13 Mar Discussion of Borchert, Lettau, Mann, and Rilke

Assignment: DDE 123-28

20 Mar Discussion of Heine

Assignment: DDE 135-43

27 Mar Discussion of Heuss and Zweig

Assignment: DDE 150-57

3 Apr Discussion of Freud

Assignment: DDE 165-70

10 Apr Discussion of Planck

Assignment: DDE 171-78

17 Apr Discussion of Portmann; time permitting, we will read and

discuss DDE 183- (Jaspers)

24 Apr Proficiency Examination: Translation