Face-to-face , first and second term, 30 hours of theory.

First term
Thursday from 16:00 to 17:00 at 109 Marais 611
Second term
Thursday from 10:00 to 11:00 at 109 Marais 511

The course is taught in German. During the 1st term, occasional explanations are given in French for the benefit of the beginner-level students.

- To acquire reasoned knowledge of a period of German literature: the course aims to introduce students to the great authors and founding texts of German literature compared to the cultural, political and social European context; it seeks to develop students' cultural consciousness and literary awareness;
- To integrate elementary level literary know-how: the course seeks to stimulate the students' reading and analysis of German literary works;
- To develop the students' elementary-level learning skills: the course tends to promote autonomy in the learning process.

By the end of this course, students will be able:
- to understand and explain the main developments of the history of German literature;
- to read, understand and summarise in German, the literary works discussed from a given literary period;
- to locate on a timeline (periods, trends, generations) the German literary works studied during the course and to highlight their specific characteristics while referring to elements of literary criticism (genres, poetic, topics…) ;
- to demonstrate, based on the literary works studied, their capacity of personal reflection with regard to the periods to which the works belong;
- to demonstrate a passive command of the literary criticism terminology studied;
- to read a short scientific comment on a given literary work and to summarise it;
- to use the tools presented, thus allowing them to continue their literary learning process.

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Class Frequency
This is a biennial course. In even academic years (2014-2015…), it covers German literature of the Middle Ages up to the Romantic Movement; odd academic years (2013-2014…) cover the Romantic Movement through the contemporary period.
The course is taught 1 hour per week over the entire year and is aimed at students from BAC 1 and 2.

- Putting into question the concept of “history of literature”: questioning its methodological foundations (in particular for German literature);
- Introduction to the analysis of the literary phenomenon;
- Presentation of the history of German literature in the context of the great European cultural, philosophical, political and social works;
- Description of its period setting based on excerpts from selected works;
- Summary essay on the dominant productions in confrontation with the analysis of individual movements.
Special attention is given to the use of work and information tools in German literature.

- Lectures with multimedia supports, punctuated by commented readings of literary works in German chosen among a wide range of topics, registers, genres and periods;
- Interactive learning activities (open-ended questions, comparison of statements…) and targeted reading and analysis (narrative, poetic, stylistic, rhetoric) tasks (individual or collective) of excerpts of literary works in German
- Personal work (“Referat”) on a chosen text, to present and discuss in front of the group.

Formative evaluation;
Certificate-based assessment: in accordance with the stated objectives, it will include:
- Evaluation of the knowledge and contents relating to lecture part of the course: 50% of the grade;
- Evaluation of literary know-how and learning capacity: 50% of the grade:
° short summary of a literary work discussed in class, followed by a summary of a short excerpt of critical literature on this work (oral examination);
° recognition of an excerpt from a work covered during the course, basing the choice of the reference period by using the criteria introduced during the lessons (oral examination).
° reading and commenting of one (fragment of) text chosen, including an indication of documentary sources: presentation in front of the group (“Referat”) and short written work (“Hausarbeit”).

- Horst Brunner, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters im Überblick. Stuttgart: reclam 1997
- Manfred Mai, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, 2006 (2), Weinheim / Basel: Beltz & Gelberg (à acheter par les étudiants)
- Volker Meid, Das Reclam-Buch der deutschen Literatur, Stuttgart: Reclam, 2004.
- Gerald Rainer, Norbert KERN, Eva RAINER, Stichwort Literatur. Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Linz: Veritas 2009. 
- Hans Gerd Rötzer, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, Bamberg: C.C. Buchners 2010(2).

Handouts, Powerpoint, Slides, audio and video recordings.