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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. In an age when truth is conflated with "gut feeling" and facts with spin, it is necessary to investigate how theories of subjectivity, science, and philosophy have successively redefined authenticity, factuality, and the concept of truth itself. We will establish a historical inventory of these changing notions of truth, and analyze how literary works, especially fictions, rely on them to ground their own verisimilitude and meaning. We will read a variety of texts covering five centuries, including texts by Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau, Flaubert, Sartre, and Beckett. Conducted in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement examination. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
One-half or full course for one semester or one year.
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3.00 Credits
One-half or full course for one semester. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by examination; approval of instructor and division.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one year. This course introduces the student to all of the basic language skills in German. The teaching of grammar is always supplemented with cultural vignettes from German-speaking countries. Classroom activities include skits, poetry readings, film clips, and internet research. In order to employ the knowledge of German language and culture more creatively, the student will be asked to participate in a final project at the end of the academic year. Use of the language laboratory is part of the course. This course is reserved for students without a background in the language. Conference.
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1.00 Credits
Full course for one year. This course is designed to develop an understanding of German language, culture, and literature through a variety of texts, class discussions, and written assignments. Course material is drawn from different fields. In addition to literature, we will include readings on history, art, philosophy, and current events from the media pertaining to the German-speaking countries. The communicative competence of students is developed in frequent discussions. One hour each week is spent in conversation tutorials. Students review grammar systematically throughout the year and use the language laboratory. Prerequisite: German 110 or 111 or placement by examination. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This class is designed to help students develop advanced competence in written and spoken German. There will be regular essay assignments, oral presentations, and group projects. Seminar discussions will focus on short novels, prose texts, and films dealing with representations of Berlin, past and present. We will explore Berlin as the center of the emerging mass culture in the early 20th century, the capital of National Socialism, the divided city of the Cold War era, the symbol of the united Germany, and the multicultural core of German society. Prerequisite: German 220 or consent of the instructor. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. By the end of the 19th century, the metropolis had become a central force in the transformation of culture in Europe. This course traces various manifestations of Central European modernism in the context of three metropolitan centers, Berlin, Vienna, and Prague. Modernism I: Berlin 1871-1929 Germany's cultural transformation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is explored through works primarily by Berlin writers and artists. Various forms of modernism in the Wilhelminian and Weimar eras will be discussed through an interdisciplinary approach, with focus on literature, visual arts, music, film, and philosophy. The effect of the urban milieu on new aesthetic movements and representations of war are among the major issues to be discussed. Readings include works by Fontane, H. and Th. Mann, Holz, Schlaf, Simmel, T nnies, Rosa Luxemburg, Brecht, and D blin. Readings in German, discussion and papers in German and English. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 321. Not offered 2009-10. Modernism II: Turn-of-the-century Vienna and Prague, 1890-1918 This course explores the cultural transformation in Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Impressionism, decadence, and aestheticism will be discussed as the predominant artistic modes of the epoch. The emergence of the "modern" in the late Habsburg Empire will be investigated through a broad spectrum of works, ranging from the literary movemen t Jung Wien (Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal); texts by the Prague writers Rilke and Kafka; studies in psychoanalysis (Freud); essays, memoirs, and diaries (Broch, St. Zweig, Lou-Andreas Salomé); philosophical texts (Mach, Wittgenstein); music (Schoenberg); to the fine arts (Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka). Students taking the course for German literature credit will meet once a week in an extra seminar. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 321
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores a paradigmatic example of a minority culture. We will examine the entwinement of political emancipation and cultural assimilation of the Jews in Germany. The course covers the period from the Enlightenment to the present, with a special emphasis on the first part of the 20th century. At this time German Jewish writers and thinkers became increasingly aware of their tenuous position and devised new ways of realizing Jewish particularity within modern, secular German culture. We will explore themes such as gender and assimilation, racial anti-Semitism, cultural Zionism, the writing of exile, and the aestheticization and politicization of Jewish traditions. The course concludes with a brief look at the reinterpretation of the historical "German-Jewish symbiosis" after the Holocaust. Readings from Lessing, Heine, Schnitzler, Kafka, D blin, Lasker-Schüler, Celan, Mendelssohn, Buber, Freud, Scholem, Benjamin. Conducted in English. Students may arrange with the instructor to take the class for German credit. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 325. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course traces treatments of "das Fremde" in major philosophical and literary works of the German language from Romanticism to the present. Through selected texts by Hegel, Tieck, Kleist, Nietzsche, Simmel, Freud, Adorno, and Gadamer, we will explore shifting definitions of alterity. We will then focus on the discourse of alterity in the contemporary literary scene in Germany. Readings include recent constructions of selfhood and otherness by German authors (H. Müller, B. Strauss, F.X. Kroetz, S. Lenz, and S. Nadolny) and by Turkish émigrés, such as ren, Pazaraya, zakin, and Senocak. Current theoretical approaches will complement the literary readings. Readings in German, discussion and papers in German and English. Prerequisite: German 311 or its equivalent, or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course offers several expeditions into the German-language literary imagination since the late 1980s. We will explore topics such as the German unification, pop culture, exilic identities, remembrance, and contemporary myths. Authors include Brussig, Sparschuh, Schulze, Kracht, Senocak, Honigmann, Sebald, Hermann, and Bernhard. Themes and techniques of postfeminist writing will be examined in works by Jelinek and Erpenbeck. Conducted in German. Prerequisite: German 311 or its equivalent or consent of instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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