Depending on each student's background, interest, and facility with German, these works will include some of the following as well as similar texts:
- selections from Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Hauff, Die Geschichte von Kalif Storch
- Hesse, Maerchen
- Bochert, Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch
- Mann, Tonio Kroeger
- Duerrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame
- Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
- Ende, Momo
- Kaurin, Irgendwo ist immer Sueden

Components of the class will include:
- reading through each text in class and clarifying its content and meaning
- regular discussions - primarily in the German language - to delve into the psychology of 
characters, the use of rhetorical and literary tools (including irony, peripety, dramatic irony,
and symbolism), and ethical issues that the works raise
- regular vocabulary quizzes
- short writing assignments - to be completed outside of class - to deepen students'
grasp of each work and help them hone their writing skills
- creative activities such as "mind maps" to make scenes and situations in the texts more
concrete; alternate scenarios and endings for a text; and imagined conversations with a character or 
character

Following is an outline of the course, subject to adjustment based on individual student needs.

1. Der Junge, der auszog, um das Fuerchten zu lernen (The Boy Who Left Home to Learn How to Be Afraid) from Grimm's Fairy Tales, introduction
2. Der Junge, der auszog, um das Fuerchten zu lernen (The Boy Who Left Home to Learn How to Be Afraid) from Grimm's Fairy Tales, continued
reading and discussion
3. Der Junge, der auszog, um das Fuerchten zu lernen (The Boy Who Left Home to Learn How to Be Afraid) from Grimm's Fairy Tales
4. Hesse, Maerchen (Fairy Tale)
5. Hesse, Maerchen (Fairy Tale)
6. Hesse, Maerchen (Fairy Tale), discussion of Hesse's appropriation of fairy tale motifs
7.  Bochert, Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch (Rats Actually Do Sleep at Night)
8.  Bochert, Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch (Rats Actually Do Sleep at Night), discussion of post-World War II trends in 
German literature, including Group 47
9. Duerrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit)
10. Duerrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit)
11. Duerrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit)
12. Duerrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit), consideration of the work's relationship to ancient Greek
tragedy, in particular Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
13. Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (The Good Person of Sechuan), discussion of what it means to be a "good" person
14. Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (The Good Person of Sechuan), 
15. Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (The Good Person of Sechuan), 
16. Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, discussion about societal hindrances to ethical behavior
17. Frisch, Andorra (This is a place name - the title is the same in English.)
18. Frisch, Andorra
19. Frisch, Andorra
20. Frisch, Andorra, discussion of the psychology of prejudice and herd mentality