Topic: “Beyond Good and Evil”

Prerequisite: G300 with a minimum grade of C-,
Recommended: G330. Study of a single literary theme (such as music,
generational conflict, love, revolution) as represented in two or
more periods.

G306 enables students to improve their reading proficiency in German
through their close study of several longer, unedited literary texts
written since about 1800. Regular class work in German will also
support the development of listening and reading skills; students
will complete writing assignments in German as well. At the same
time, both the course readings and the regular class discussions will
focus on ways in which authors from widely different times treat
similar themes: specifically, moral issues, contradictions, and
dilemmas; and moral decisions that go beyond familiar, everyday
determinations of right and wrong, good and evil.

Texts: We will read: 1) novellas selected from An Anthology of German
Novellas, edited by    Siegfried Weing [ISBN: 1571130977]; 2) Der
Besuch der alten Dame, a 1957 play by the Swiss dramatist Friedrich
Duerrenmatt [ISBN: 0395040892]; 3) Der Vorleser, the 1995 novel by
Bernhard Schlink [ISBN: 3257229534]; and one or more poems to be
distributed in class as handouts.

Students should own a good dictionary. Recommended are:
Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, 2nd edition [ISBN: 0-19-860365-7]
Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, 2nd edition [ISBN: 0-19-
864230-X]
Langenscheidt New College German Dictionary [ISBN: 0887290213]

*Students enrolling in this course should already have completed G330
(or a higher course) previously.