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3.00 Credits
This course, taught in English, explores the city of Vienna, home of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Strauss, Mahler, Schönberg, Wittgenstein, Freud, Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, the Habsburgs, Kaffeehaus culture, Sachertorte, Jugendstil (Art Nouveau), and The Third Man, through literature, film, architecture, art, and music. Students enrolled in the course are encouraged to participate in a study-abroad program in Vienna offered during the subsequent spring break.
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3.00 Credits
The course, which is taught in English, engages with Grimms¿ fairy tales in the Western intellectual tradition by analyzing literary fairy tales from continental Europe written between 1600 and 1900. Students explore fairy tales as a genre and its links to socioeconomic class, family conflicts, gender, politics, economics, society, and cultural life. The tales will be read using literary theory as well as cultural and media studies. All readings and class discussion are taught in English. No prerequisites.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course explores the rich German culture of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Expressionism, Dada, New Objectivity and the representative filmmakers, artists and writers such as Fritz Lang, George Grosz, Erich Maria Remarque, and Bertolt Brecht who shaped these movements will be investigated in the context of the social and political situation after the defeat of Germany in WWI, during the 'Roaring Twenties', and during the immediate period before Hitler's rise to power. Taught in English. Fulfills University Humanities and Literature requirements
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3.00 Credits
The iconic symbol of three failed political identities, Berlin is now a vibrant metropolis of political and cultural activity. The course is framed by the two German unifications of 1871 and 1990 and examines literary, artistic, and cinematic representations of Berlin. Films, documentaries, visual arts, novels, diaries, short stories, essays, and poetry will provide us with a road map through two centuries of this amazing city. Taught in English.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course addresses religion as a major force in shaping German culture and identity from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. Topics include: Embracing Christianity and Learning: Charlemagne - From Craftsman to Creator: Durer's Renaissance Art - The Church Divided: Luther's Reformation - Sing Unto the Lord: Johann Sebastian Bach - Seeking God and Self: Parvizal and Faust. Designed to fulfill humanities requirement. Prerequisite: German 204 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
In the historical context of the 18th to the 20th century we look at the formation of national identity through the lens of cultural and social developments. Topics include: Freedom of Thought and Action: Schiller, Beethoven; The Romantic Utopia of the Golden Age; Challenging the Establishment: Heine and Buchner in Exile; New Social Realities in Political Theory (Marx), Literature (Hauptmann's Weber), and Art (Kathe Kollwitz) ; 'Degenerate Art': Censorship in the Third Reich; A Nation Divided and United: Towards a New Definition of Citizenship. Designed to fulfill humanities requirements. Prerequisite: German 204 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the literature of immigrants to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Students learn about migration and cultural politics. They discuss questions central to the current public discourse in the emerging multicultural societies. Students read literature by German-speaking migrant authors to study questions of cultural identity, the construction of ¿home¿ and ¿homeland¿ (Heimat) as well as issues of memory, gender, and religion. All readings and discussions are in German.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to central theories of drama that have influenced German playwrights from the 18th century to the present. After close reading of plays by major German authors, students will discuss a number of short plays by 20th century dramatists and select one for performance. Assignments include analytical papers, presentations, a play bill, and the staging of a play. All readings and discussions will be in German.
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3.00 Credits
The course traces the reception of the medieval Nibelungen story from its beginnings to the present day with special emphasis on its most influential adaptations, its appropriation as German national epic, and the peculiar role it played and continues to play in shaping a German cultural and national identity. A variety of media will be studied, including literary texts, opera, theater, film, art, architecture, historical sources, political speeches, pamphlets, advertisement, newspaper articles, and scholarly essays. All readings will be in English translation. The course fulfills the humanities requirement.
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3.00 Credits
From the haunted world of Nosferatu to the explosive populism of Run Lola Run, we trace the role of art in film and the interweaving of cinema and history in the German and European context. What role does visual art play in film? What kind of "moveable" art is film? We will then reflect upon the filmic experience of individual and collective memory. Does film reflect history or create it? What happens when the most human of experiences--memory and personal history--are transformed into flickering lights and elevated into a film experience? We will lean to read film and film theory, with special attention to the ways literature, history and visual culture inflect how we see and experience films.
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