Teaching

Since coming to Davidson in 1993, I have been teaching a variety of courses on German language, literature, and history as well courses in the Humanities program and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Syllabi

For syllabi, consult the archive or email me.

Grading and Guidelines

For grading rubrics, policies, and other guidelines that apply to my courses visit the links below.

• Codes of Honor and Responsibility
• Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
• Standard Language Proficiency Levels (CEFR)
    
• Essay Grading Rubric (pdf)
• Participation Grading Rubric (pdf)
• Presentation Grading Rubric (pdf)
  
• Korrekturzeichen (pdf)

Selection of Courses Taught

• German language courses
• Introduction to German Literature
• Contemporary Germany
• German Immigration and Integration Policy
• German Literature and Identity
• The Age of Goethe
• Friedrich Schiller
• The Novel of Education
• Romantic Poetry
• Theory of Artistic Genius
• Weimar: Classicism, Modernism, Nazism
• Burning Books (Links)
• Berlin—Past and Present
• Martin Luther and the Peasant Wars
  
• The Western Tradition: The Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century (third semester of a four-semester interdisciplinary course; incl. critical reading, writing, and analysis)
• Humanities Core Course (interdisciplinary freshman course at UC Irvine; incl. critical reading, writing, and analysis)

Selection of Theses Directed

• Was ist Deutsch, was ist fremd? Zur Geschichte des Fremdwörterbuchs im Deutschen
• PISA and the German Educational System
• Second Language Acquisition and the Rassias Method
• Maladjusted: Pathology, Dilettantism and Childhood in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
• The Metaphor of Night in the Poetry of Novalis, Keats, and Hugo
• Goethe in Italy: The Vision of Rebirth
• Schiller’s Political Rhetoric and the Conclusion of the Ästhetische Erziehung

Restricted Access

• Media Repository
• 103: Bilder raten