Hans Gabriel earned a BA with honors in German and Spanish from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an MA and Ph.D in German Language and Literature from the University of Virginia. He holds the German Studies position on the unranked faculty of the UNC School of the Arts, the performing arts and filmmaking conservatory of the University of North Carolina, where he teaches in the Undergraduate Academic Program and the Fletcher Graduate Opera Institute. He has also taught at the University of Virginia, Ohio University, Washington State University and Wake Forest University, where he will be a visiting senior lecturer in the 2010-2011 academic year. Research interests and publications include work on literary realism, narrative theory, and 19th-century Swiss, Austrian and German literature. An avid soccer player, cyclist, hiker and tennis player, he is looking forward to his third summer teaching in the German School.
Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
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▹ indicates offered in the upcoming term[s]
GRMN 3195 - Early Inter German for Singers ▹
GRMN 3196 - Early Inter German for Singers ▹
GRMN 3198 - Early Intermediate German ▹
The successful completion of this course corresponds to the equivalent of second and third semester German. The active use of all major points of basic grammar and vocabulary is stressed in order to bring students to a common working level in the four skills. During the second half, a greater emphasis will be placed on the development of writing skills and reading strategies with appropriate cultural and literary texts. Audio-visual materials supplement the four hours of daily classroom instruction. Listening comprehension and pronunciation practice require the use of the language laboratory.
Required texts: Moeller / Liedloff, A Concise German Review Grammar (Houghton Mifflin); Matecki, Dreimal Deutsch (Klett)
Summer 2011, Summer 2012
GRMN 3199 - Early Intermediate German ▹
The successful completion of this course corresponds to the equivalent of second and third semester German. The active use of all major points of basic grammar and vocabulary is stressed in order to bring students to a common working level in the four skills. During the second half, a greater emphasis will be placed on the development of writing skills and reading strategies with appropriate cultural and literary texts. Audio-visual materials supplement the four hours of daily classroom instruction. Listening comprehension and pronunciation practice require the use of the language laboratory.
Required texts: Moeller / Liedloff, A Concise German Review Grammar (Houghton Mifflin); Matecki, Dreimal Deutsch (Klett)
Summer 2011, Summer 2012
GRMN 3200 - Early Intermediate German ▹
The successful completion of this course corresponds to the equivalent of second and third semester German. The active use of all major points of basic grammar and vocabulary is stressed in order to bring students to a common working level in the four skills. During the second half, a greater emphasis will be placed on the development of writing skills and reading strategies with appropriate cultural and literary texts. Audio-visual materials supplement the four hours of daily classroom instruction. Listening comprehension and pronunciation practice require the use of the language laboratory.
Required texts: Moeller / Liedloff, A Concise German Review Grammar (Houghton Mifflin); Matecki, Dreimal Deutsch (Klett)
Summer 2011, Summer 2012
GRMN 3201 - Intermediate German
This is an integrated program consisting of four hours of classroom instruction and some work in the language laboratory. To develop the four skills, students take three basic courses: Grammar Review, Composition and Conversation, German Culture and Life, plus one literature module for each half of the term.
Required texts: Rankin & Wells, Handbuch zur Deutschen Grammatik,5th Edition (Houghton & Mifflin); Heller & Ehrlich, Dichter, Denker, Erzähler (Waveland Press, 1989); Generation E (Klett)
LNGSummer 2010
GRMN 3202 - Intermediate German
This is an integrated program consisting of four hours of classroom instruction and some work in the language laboratory. To develop the four skills, students take three basic courses: Grammar Review, Composition and Conversation, German Culture and Life, plus one literature module for each half of the term.
Required texts: Rankin & Wells, Handbuch zur Deutschen Grammatik,5th Edition (Houghton & Mifflin); Heller & Ehrlich, Dichter, Denker, Erzähler (Waveland Press, 1989); Generation E (Klett)
LNGSummer 2010
GRMN 3301 - Advanced Grammar & Comm ▹
This course meets two hours per day to analyze and provide advanced grammatical structures, provide intensive written and oral language training, offer insights into German ways of perception, and teach strategies of communication and language learning. For this course, some additional language and computer laboratory work is required.
Required texts: Dreyer & Schmitt, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik – aktuell (2009)( Hueber Verlag); Büchner, Woyzeck (Suhrkamp/Insel); Handke, Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere Sprechstücke (Suhrkamp); Schnitzler, Anatol. Anatols Groessenwahn. Der gruene Kakadu.
(Reclam); Kafka, Best Short Stories. Die schoensten Erzaehlungen (Dover); Luscher, Landeskunde Deutschland 2010. Von der Wende bis heute. Für Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Daten - Texte – Aufgaben (Lehrmaterialien) (Verlag für Deutsch; Auflage: 5. aktual. (2010)).
Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
GRMN 3302 - Modern German Literature ▹
This course will use short German prose to enrich cultural context, increase vocabulary, reinforce grammatical and communicative structures, and introduce methods of literary interpretation.
Required text: Required texts: Dreyer & Schmitt, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik – aktuell (2009)( Hueber Verlag); Büchner, Woyzeck (Suhrkamp/Insel); Handke, Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere Sprechstücke (Suhrkamp); Schnitzler, Anatol. Anatols Groessenwahn. Der gruene Kakadu.
(Reclam); Kafka, Best Short Stories. Die schoensten Erzaehlungen (Dover); Luscher, Landeskunde Deutschland 2010. Von der Wende bis heute. Für Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Daten - Texte – Aufgaben (Lehrmaterialien) (Verlag für Deutsch; Auflage: 5. aktual. (2010)).
Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
GRMN 3303 - German Culture & Society ▹
This course introduces aspects of the German cultures – arranged in weekly themes – and some historical background to facilitate a better understanding of the German cultures and societies, as well as increase vocabulary and reinforce grammatical and communicative structures.
Required texts: Required texts: Dreyer & Schmitt, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik – aktuell (2009)( Hueber Verlag); Büchner, Woyzeck (Suhrkamp/Insel); Handke, Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere Sprechstücke (Suhrkamp); Schnitzler, Anatol. Anatols Groessenwahn. Der gruene Kakadu.
(Reclam); Kafka, Best Short Stories. Die schoensten Erzaehlungen (Dover); Luscher, Landeskunde Deutschland 2010. Von der Wende bis heute. Für Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Daten - Texte – Aufgaben (Lehrmaterialien) (Verlag für Deutsch; Auflage: 5. aktual. (2010)).
Note: Students at the third level are encouraged to take the examination Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsparache administered through the Goethe Institute in Boston for a small additional fee
Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
GRMN 3305 - Adv German For Singers ▹
Advanced German for Singers
Advanced Grammar and Communication meets two hours per day to analyze and practice advanced grammatical structures, to provide intensive written and oral training, to offer insights into the German way of perception, and to develop communication and reading skills. Some additional work in the language and computer laboratories is required. (2 Units)
Required texts: Dreyer/Schmitt: Lehr- und übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Neubearbeitung. (2000 edition, Hueber Verlag)
Roetzer, Deutsche Literatur in Beispielen (CC Buchner Verlag)
Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
GRMN 3306 - Adv German For Singers ▹
Advanced German for Singers
Advanced Grammar and Communication meets two hours per day to analyze and practice advanced grammatical structures, to provide intensive written and oral training, to offer insights into the German way of perception, and to develop communication and reading skills. Some additional work in the language and computer laboratories is required. (2 Units)
Required texts: Dreyer/Schmitt: Lehr- und übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Neubearbeitung. (2000 edition, Hueber Verlag)
Roetzer, Deutsche Literatur in Beispielen (CC Buchner Verlag)
Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
