German

Return to: USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  

Taper Hall of Humanities 255
(213) 740-2735
FAX: (213) 740-8560
Email: german@dornsife.usc.edu

Faculty

Associate Professor (Teaching) of German: Britta Bothe, PhD

Assistant Professors (Teaching) of German: John W. Arensmeyer, Jr., PhD; Eve Lee, PhD

Emeritus Professor: Gerhard Clausing, PhD

Emeritus Associate Professor: Cornelius Schnauber, PhD

The USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences offers a variety of courses from basic and advanced language classes to literature classes and general and cultural topics.

Note: Students are no longer being admitted as majors in German.

See also Slavic Languages and Literatures .

Programs

Minor

• •  German Minor

Courses

German

• •  GERM 020 x Course in Reading German
• •  GERM 025 x Course in Reading German
• •  GERM 101 German I
• •  GERM 102 German II
• •  GERM 201 German III, Conversation and Composition
• •  GERM 221 Conversational German IV
• •  GERM 310 Business German I
• •  GERM 311 Business German II
• •  GERM 320 Composition and Conversation on Contemporary Affairs
• •  GERM 325 Composition and Conversation in Cultural History
• •  GERM 330 Introduction to Literary Studies
• •  GERM 335 Applied German Drama
• •  GERM 340 German Prose Fiction from Goethe to Thomas Mann
• •  GERM 346 German Folklore and Popular Culture
• •  GERM 351 Colloquium on Drama
• •  GERM 352 Colloquium on Poetry
• •  GERM 353 Colloquium on Prose
• •  GERM 360g 20th Century German Prose: Texts and Films
• •  GERM 370 Literature and Culture in Vienna at the Turn of the Century
• •  GERM 372g Literature and Culture in Berlin in the 1920s
• •  GERM 390 Special Problems
• •  GERM 410 Profile of German Literature I
• •  GERM 420 Profile of German Literature II
• •  GERM 430 Age of Goethe
• •  GERM 440 Women’s Literature in Germany I
• •  GERM 460 Expressionism to the Present
• •  GERM 465 Germany East and West
• •  GERM 466 The German Speaking Nations
• •  GERM 470 Advanced Composition and Stylistics
• •  GERM 490 x Directed Research
• •  GERM 499 Special Topics
• •  GERM 508 Bibliography and Research Techniques
• •  GERM 510 Methods of Literary Criticism and Linguistic Analysis
• •  GERM 581 Weimar Culture
• •  GERM 590 Directed Research
• •  GERM 593 Practicum in Teaching the Liberal Arts
• •  GERM 595a Directed Readings
• •  GERM 595b Directed Readings
• •  GERM 599 Special Topics
• •  GERM 637 Seminar in Brecht
• •  GERM 790 Research
• •  GERM 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• •  GERM 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• •  GERM 794c Doctoral Dissertation
• •  GERM 794d Doctoral Dissertation
• •  GERM 794z Doctoral Dissertation