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Minor
A minor requires a minimum of seven courses in German or Russian (or six courses and a designated Short Term course). At least one of the seven courses must involve a study of literature or culture (taught either in the language or in translation), but only one course in translation may be counted toward the minor. A student may petition to have up to three comparable courses, completed at other institutions either in the United States or abroad, apply toward the minor. Advanced Placement courses may not be applied toward the minor.
All students, and especially majors, are strongly encouraged to spend an extended period of time abroad prior to graduation. Opportunities to do so include participation in the Bates Fall Semester Abroad programs in Austria, Germany, and Russia; junior year or junior semester abroad programs; summer sessions; and the various off-campus Short Term courses sponsored by the department.
Entering students are assigned to the appropriate level in language courses according to the following criteria: their performance on the SAT II or Advanced Placement Test of the College Entrance Examination Board taken in secondary school, relative proficiency based on length of previous study, and/or after consultation with an appropriate member of the department.
Literatures and Cultures in Translation
While the department emphasizes the importance of acquiring the fluency needed to study literature and culture in the original, many courses are offered in translation. See listings under individual languages for detailed descriptions of these courses.
GER 120. Writing on the Wall.
GER 254. Berlin and Vienna, 1900-1914.
GER 290. Nietzsche, Kafka, Goethe.
GER s22. Kafka.
GER s24. Monsters: Imagining the Other.
ES/RU 216. Nature in Russian Culture.
RUSS 220. Twentieth-Century Russian Novel.
RU/WS 240. Women and Russia.
INDS 256. Rites of Spring.
RUSS 261. Russian Culture.
RUSS 270. Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature.
RUSS 271. Modern Russian Literature.
RUSS 276. Dostoevsky and the Culture of Crisis.
RUSS s19. Radical Tolstoy.
RUSS s26. Russian and Soviet Film.
General Education Information for the Class of 2010
Any one Short Term course from the Department of German and Russian Studies may be used as an option for the fifth humanities course. |
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