German 474 - Weimar Classicism/Humanism

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Colgate University

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C. Baldwin This course offers an interdisciplinary look at neoclassicism and its cultural meanings in Germany. Drawing on literary, visual, and theoretical works (by Goethe, Schiller, Winckelmann, Mengs, Kauffmann, and others), the seminar investigates such topics as the aesthetic and political ideals of classicism, interpretations of gender, notions of aesthetic education, and responses to Greek antiquity. Other topics include the ways important cultural institutions - universities, schools, museums - influenced and were shaped by neoclassicism, the uses of neoclassicism in the construction of German national identity, and contemporary responses to neoclassicism's normative claims. Prerequisite: two GERM 300-level courses or permission of instructor

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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