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2.00 Credits
This course provides cultural preparation for students with advanced language skills who plan to study German language, literature and culture abroad. Emphasis on practical needs and everyday cultural understanding. Also an introduction to German cultural history. Taught in German. Every fall. (2 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Changing topics in German film. Possible titles include: Nazi Cinema; Film, Philosophy, Politics; Film and the Fantastic; Form and Gender in German and American Cinema; Cinema of the Weimar Republic; Where am I in the Film Students may register up to two times for courses numbered 255, provided a different topic is offered. No prerequisites. Taught in English. Every year. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Students continue enhancing their German language skills while exploring contemporary issues through media, ranging from television shows to commercials, films, magazines, newspapers and the Internet. At the end of the course students should be able to converse and write on a relatively sophisticated level about a variety of social and academic topics, and be comfortable reading or listening to contemporary German. Excellent preparation for study abroad. Prerequisite: German Studies 204, placement test or permission of instructor. Taught in German. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. Every semester. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares students for upper-level courses in German Studies through the critical investigation of important political, social and aesthetic topics in the context of German cultural history. Such topics include the tension between the German Kulturnation and the political nation, the economic and philosophical critique offered by socialism, imperialism as discourse and political tool, the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the debacle of fascism and the Holocaust. In addition to historical texts, students will read literary and autobiographical texts, view films, and examine a number of examples of material culture from a variety of periods. Conducted in German. Prerequisite: German Studies 305, placement test, or permission of instructor. Every semester. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Changing German Studies topics such as: Desire, Reason and Power in Modernity; Modernity and the Unconscious; German Nationalism and its Legacy; Kafka and German Expressionism; Karl Marx and the Development of Communism; German Political Theater; Nietzsche: Romantic, Modern, Postmodern; The Comical Effects of Kafka and Kleist. Students may register up to two times for courses numbered 360, provided a different topic is offered. May be taught in German or in English. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Starting with Pre-romanticism and the Sturm und Drang, students in this course explore the writings of Goethe, Schiller, H lderlin, Kleist and the members of the Romantic School (the Schlegels, Tieck, Clemens and Bettina Brentano, Karoline von Günderrode, Eichendorff and others). The course considers the effects of the Napoleonic wars on German literary culture as well as the influence of German Romanticism on the later romanticisms of France, England, Italy and on both the American transcendentalists and Edgar Allan Poe. Taught in German. Prerequesites: German 306 Omay be taken concurrently), study abroad, or permission of the instructor. Alternate years; next offered Fall 2008. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores German literature and thought during the Industrial Revolution as well as concomitant social and political events-the creation of the customs union, the drive for national unity and for a constitutional guarantee of civil rights, the revolutions of 1848 and the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. We will critique the concept of realism and the project of representing reality in the arts. Among the thinkers and writers considered are Nietzsche, Heine, Droste-Hülshoff, von Ebner Eschenbach, M rike, Keller, Storm and Gerhart Hauptmann (whose play "The Weavers" dramatizes the social effects of automation in the1840s). Taught in German. Alternate years; next offered Fall 2007. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
The course will be framed by an exploration of the terms modernism, avant garde and, implicitly, postmodernism, all of which reflect differing (though sometimes overlapping) understandings of the relation between "high" art and mass culture. Similarly all are intertwined with historical, political, and economicdevelopments, whether a world war, totalitarianism, or the influence of consumer capitalism. Proceeding from this reciprocal relationship, we will explore various aspects of the cultures of modernism and the avant-garde in the German-speaking world. Topics will include: expressionism and Kafka, Dada and surrealism, the "New Objectivity" and rise of cinema in the Weimar Republic, Brecht's epic theater, "high" modernism of figures liThomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Else Lasker Schüler, culture criticism (e.g., Theodor Adorno's theory ofmodernism) and questions of canonization (the dominance of "high" culture in schools, universities, andmuseums). Taught in German. Alternate years; next offered Spring 2008. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
The course will begin with an overview of National Socialism as a basis for understanding the cultural leap that Germany undertook following World War II. It will examine issues of Vergangenheitsbew ltigung ( coming to terms with the past), the economic miracle in West Germany, and the evolution and collapse of the German Democratic Republic. The course will conclude with opportunities and problems generated by reunification. We will look at texts by writers such as Handke, Kroetz, Plenzdorf, Strau , Rinser, Morgner, Bachmann, and Wolf, as well as films and other media. Taught in German. Alternate years; next offered Spring 2009. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Designed as a capstone experience in German studies, the seminar brings together fundamental questions engaged by the field of German studies, and enhances students' understanding of the theories and methodologies informing contemporary scholarship. Part of the seminar will be devoted to study of an aspect of German studies; students will then conduct independent research, which will serve as the basis of class discussions during the latter part of the semester. Changing topics may include: Constructing National Identity; Radicalism and Conservatism in Modernism; Goethe's Faust; Centrality and Marginality in German Culture; Translingual Interventions: Migration and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Germany, Stardom and Charisma. Taught in German. Every spring. (4 credits)
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