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Marburg, Germany - Course Descriptions - German Language and Elective (GLE)

Read the full description for the German Language and Elective (GLE) track.

Required Courses

During the first six weeks of the program, students will take an intensive German language course and the German culture class. Students will take a placement exam in order to determine the appropriate language level.

SubjectNumberTitle
German German Language
Culture 200/300 level German Culture


Electives

All electives meet for 48 contact hours. Courses are taught either entirely in English or both in English and German. For the courses with both languages, a two-hour lecture weekly will be in German, with four tutorials each week in English to cover what was in the lecture as well as new information. The dual language courses are appropriate for students at all levels of German. Because students will have had an intensive German course prior to the start of the electives, sitting in on the German lecture is recommended as a way of improving language skills. Generally grades are given for oral work (presentations, performance in class, etc.; 60% of the grade) and written work (reports, bibliographies, homework, essays, etc.; 40% of the grade).

The deadlines for professors to submit class descriptions is much later at German universities than what most international universities are used to. The reason lies in the varying semester times here in Europe. The classes for the spring are published in January. The classes for the fall will only be known around June etc. We recommend taking examples of classes of the respective past semester. In most cases similar courses are being offered again in a year’s time (we do not offer the same classes every year/semester. Introductory classes, however, mostly are repeated). Maybe this gives an idea of what there is and what could be used towards a degree.


American Studies

SubjectNumberTitle
American Studies 300/400 Level All You Can Eat: American Food Habits
American Studies 300/400 Level American Autobiography
American Studies 300/400 Level American Short Stories
American Studies 300/400 Level Asians in America
American Studies 300/400 Level Borders Within: Regionalism and Diversity in Canada
American Studies 300/400 Level Early American Short Stories
American Studies 300/400 Level Engendering American History, Literature, and Culture
American Studies 300/400 Level Everything in its Place: Concept of Space in America
American Studies 300/400 Level Hard Times: The USA in the 1930s
American Studies 300/400 Level Slavery in the Americas
American Studies 300/400 Level The Two Margarets: Margaret Atwood and Margaret Laurence
American Studies 300/400 Level Westward Ho: The American West

Anthropology

SubjectNumberTitle
Anthropology 300 Level Music and Anthropology: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Anthropology 300 Level Anthropology of Childhood
Anthropology 300 level Postsocialism and Religion
Anthropology 300 level Music and Identity in Postsocialist Countries
Anthropology 300 level The Anthropology of Honour
Anthropology 300 level Keeping Cultural Tradition - Women Groups in Postcolonial Societies
Anthropology 300/400 Level Anthropology of the Senses
Anthropology 300/400 Level Human Rights in Local Practice: Anthropological Perspectives on the Globalisation of Law
Anthropology 300/400 Level The Gypsies' Role in Hungarian Music: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music
Anthropology 300/400 Level Water the Source of Life: Cultural and Ethnical Definitions of Water
Anthropology 400 level Legal Labyrinths: Ethnological Perspectives on Legal Pluralism
Ethnology 300 level Life on Land and Sea: Cultural and Political Ecology
Ethnology 300 level Myth, Magic and Society: Weltbild, Values and the Organization of Canadian Indigenous Peoples
Anthropology 300/400 Level Music and Visual Anthropology
Anthropology 300/400 Level Anthropology of Nomadism in the Past and Present
Anthropology 300/400 Level Marx went Away - But Karl Stayed Behind - Anthropology of Post-Socialism

Archeology

Business

SubjectNumberTitle
Accounting 300/400 Level Cost Accounting
Business 300/400 Level Advanced Technology and Innovation Management
Economics 200 level Microeconomics
Economics 200/300 Level Macroeconomics
Economics 300 Level Introduction to Developmental Economics
Economics 300 level Economic Policy
Economics 300/400 Level Growth and Development
Economics 300/400 Level Introduction to the Economics of Cooperation
Economics 300/400 Level Decision and Production Theory
Economics 300/400 Level European Integration
Economics 300/400 Level Finance Under Certainty
Finance 300 level Introduction to Investment and Finance Theory
Finance 300 level Finance Under Risk
Finance 300 level Investment and Finance

Education

English Studies

SubjectNumberTitle
English 300/400 Level Theory is dead. Long live theory.
English 300/400 Level From the Augustan Age to Early Romanticism: Key Texts from the 18th Century
English 300/400 Level The English Novel in the 18th Century
English 300/400 Level Medieval Survey
English 300/400 Level Early Modern Travel Narratives
English 300/400 Level British Fantasy Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries
English 300/400 Level Shakespeare's Tragedies
English 300/400 Level The 18th Century
English 300/400 Level The 18th Century: Key Texts
English 300/400 Level Decadence/Fin de siecle: Representative Texts of an Era
English, Communication 300/400 Level Persuasive Communication
English, Linguistics 300/400 Level Virtual Linguistics
English, History 300/400 Level Wales: Neighbours from Hell
English 300/400 Level The Sonnet
English 300/400 Level Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Great Britain and the Commonwealth
English 300/400 Level 19th Century British Literature
English 300/400 Level 19th Century Novels from Britain and Canada
English 300/400 Level Recent Novels from Great Britain and the Commonwealth
English 300/400 Level Writing the Nation: Lyrics of Poets Laureate from the Anglophone World

Geography

SubjectNumberTitle
Geography 200/300 Level Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Geography 300 Level Economic Geography
Geography 300/400 Level Geomorphology - Forms, Dynamics and Gensis of the Relief
Geography 300/400 Level Biogeography

Law

SubjectNumberTitle
Law, Political Science 300/400 Level Law of International Organizations

Linguistics and Language Technologies

Linguistics and Language Technology courses are offered through the Virtual Linguistics Campus. Classes will be a combination of on-line coursework and in-class sessions.

SubjectNumberTitle
Linguistics 300 Level The Design of Language
Linguistics 300 Level Phonetics and Phonology
Linguistics 300 Level The History of English
Linguistics 300 Level The Languages of the World
Linguistics 300 Level Writing Systems
Linguistics 300 Level The Structure of English
Linguistics 300/400 Level Sociolinguistics: Language Variation in Present-Day English

Media Studies

SubjectNumberTitle
Film Studies 300 level Documentary: Theoretical Dimensions and Practical Aspects
Film Studies 300 level Contemporary Canadian Cinema
Film Studies 300 level British Film Comedy
Media Studies 300 Level British Film and Television Since 1945
Media Studies 300/400 Level Perspectives on Mobile Media

Peace and Conflict Studies

SubjectNumberTitle
Peace and Conflict Studies 200/300 level Introduction to Social Theories of Conflict
Peace and Conflict Studies 300/400 Level Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Peace and Conflict Studies 300 level Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Socialist Europe
Peace and Conflict Studies 300 level Introduction to Conflict Resolution
Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science 300 level Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies 300 Level Peace and Federalism versus Balance of Power and Free Market Economy: Lessons to be Learned from Conceptual History of Europe
Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science 300/400 level The African World War: The Conflict in the Great Lakes Region
Peace and Conflict Studies 300/400 Level Participation and Positive Peace
Peace and Conflict Studies 300/400 Level Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

Political Science

SubjectNumberTitle
Political Science 200/300 level Introduction to International Relations
Political Science 200/300 level A Simulation-based Approach to the United Nations
Political Science 300 level Analyzing Post-Conflict Environments – The Example of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Political Science 300 level South African Politics
Political Science 300 level Germany in Europe/Germany and Europe in the Process of Globalization
Political Science 300 level Introduction to European Integration
Political Science 300 level Introduction to the Political System of Germany
Political Science 300 Level The Basics of the European Union
Political Science 300 Level Germany in Europe
Political Science, Economics 300 level New Experiences - Old Problems. On Economic Development in the Acceding Countries of the EU
Political Science 300/400 Level South African Power Structures
Political Science, Law 300/400 Level Law of Nations: General and Particular Parts
Political Science, Media Studies 300/400 Level South Africa as Mirrored in Motion Pictures
Political Science 300/400 Level European Identity and National Discourses (and Votes) on Europe
Political Science 300/400 Level Political Participation in the USA

Psychology

SubjectNumberTitle
Psychology 300 level Social Development
Psychology 300 level Prosocial Psychology (Social Psychology)
Psychology 300 level National Character
Psychology 300 level Aggression and Violence
Psychology 300 level Interpersonal behavior: Evolutionary aspects
Psychology 300 level Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Recent Theoretical and Empirical Advances
Psychology 300 level Attachment Throughout the Life Course
Psychology 300/400 level Psychological aspects of war and terrorism (Social Psychology)
Psychology 300/400 Level Culture, Cognition, and Behavior
Psychology 300/400 Level Close Relationships
Psychology 300/400 Level Evolutionary Aspects of Social Behavior
Psychology 300/400 Level Attachment: From Infancy to Adulthood
Psychology 300/400 Level Culture and Development

Theology and Philosophy

Sociology

Web Technologies and the New Media

SubjectNumberTitle
Web Technologies and the New Media 200 Level Presenting Content
Web Technologies and the New Media 200 Level Web Publishing
Web Technologies and the New Media, Education 200/300 Level E-Learning
Web Technologies and the New Media, Education 300 Level The New Media in Education