German Literature II

Paper Code: 
GER602
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Get introduced with  various literary forms
  2. Become familiar with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative writers

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

GER 602

German Literature II

CO 48- The course enables students to understand the definition and the concept of “Gedicht” in German with the reading of some representative works by renowned German authors.

CO 49- The course also enables students to understand the definition and the concept of  “Kurzgeschichte”  in German with the reading of some representative works by renowned German authors..

 

CO 50- The course helps students develop an insight in order to understand salient features, trends, characteristics and purposes of “Gedicht” and  “Kurzgeschichte”  in German with the reading of some representative works by renowned German authors and also understand their  tendencies and  individual traits.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Showing relevant Film in German related to the course

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Classroom presentation, Gruppenarbeit(Group work), Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

9.00
Unit I: 
1
  • GEDICHT ( Definition)
  • Burkhard Garbe: Für Sorge
  • Rudolf Otto Wiemer: Empfindungswörter
  • Rudolf Otto Wiemer: Unbestimmte zahlwörter
  • Heinrich Heine: Das Fräulein stand am Meere
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wanderers Nachtlied

 

9.00
Unit II: 
2
  • GEDICHT( Definition)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Heidenröslein
  • Heinrich Heine: Die Loreley
  • Bertolt Brecht: Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters

 

9.00
Unit III: 
3
  • GEDICHT
  • Friedrich Schiller: Der Handschuh
  • Hermann Hesse: Bhagavadgita
9.00
Unit IV: 
4
  • KURZGESCHICHTE ( Definition)
  • Heinrich Böll: Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral

 

9.00
Unit V: 
5
  • KURZGESCHICHTE ( Definition)
  • Peter Bichsel: die Tochter
  • Henning Vennske : Eine schöne Beziehung

   

Essential Readings: 
  • *Teacher will give the relevant texts to the students as handouts!

 

 

References: 

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Academic Year: 
2020-21
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