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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the literature and culture of the Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, Weimar Classicism, and Romanticism within sociohistorical contexts. Genres and themes vary and may include the representation of history, absolutism and rebellion, the formation of bourgeois society, questions of national identity, aesthetics, gender, romantic love, and the fantastic. Reading and discussion of texts by authors such as Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Novalis, Günderode, the Brothers Grimm, Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Bettina von Arnim. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Prerequisite: see Requirements.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of 19th-century literature and culture within sociohistorical contexts. Genres and themes vary and may include the representation of history, liberalism and restoration, nationalism, industrialization, colonialism, class, race and gender conflicts, materialism, secularization, and fin-de-siècle. Reading and discussion of texts by authors such as Büchner, Heine, Marx, Storm, Keller, Meyer, Fontane, Droste-Hülshoff, Nietzsche, Ebner-Eschenbach, Schnitzler, Rilke. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Prerequisite: see Requirements.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores themes, practices, and expressions of alternative cultures that followed the unsuccessful student rebellion of 1968. During the 1970s young Germans engaged in a variety of protest movements against the older generation: they demanded political and social reforms, criticized the collective amnesia about the Holocaust, attacked the return of authoritarianism in family and institutions, called for sexual liberation, and attempted to save the environment from nuclear disaster. In order to comprehend the idiosyncrasies and complexities of these movements (e.g., Hippies, terrorism, Spontis, feminism, anti-AKW, New Subjectivity, Punk) we analyze literature (B. Baumann, P. Schneider, U. Plenzdorf, V. Stefan), film (Die verlorene Ehre der K. Blum, Deutschland im Herbst, Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages, Die Stille nach dem Schuss, Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei), popular music (Wader, Ton Steine Scherben, Nina Hagen, Fehlfarben, Toten Hosen), and other manifestations of the wild culture of the '70s (underground media, fashion, consumerism).
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the definition, style, form, and content that characterize a specific genre. Investigation of the social, cultural, political, and economic forces that lead to the formation and transformation of a particular genre. Examination of generic differences and of the effectiveness of a given genre in articulating the concerns of a writer or period. Topics and periods vary from semester to semester. Discussion, readings, and papers in German; some theoretical readings in English. Prerequisite: see Requirements.
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3.00 Credits
Music has often been understood as "the most German of all arts," a cultural expression able to access the deepest layers of the individual's soul as much as to shape collective belonging. This course traces the intense relationship between German literature and music from the early 19th century to the post-unification period. Whereas 19th-century authors such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Grillparzer, Kleist, and Schopenhauer often associated music with aesthetic genius, introversion, death, and redemption; and whereas the works of later writers such as Friedrich Nietzsche or Thomas Mann turned post-Romantic musical forms into sources of modernist experimentation; in very recent years pop authors such as Thomas Meinecke and Benjamin Stuckrad-Barre reference different aspects of contemporary music culture-e.g., Techno, Rap, and the figure of the DJ-to infuse German literature with new sensibilities and to transcend traditional boundaries between high culture and the popular. Discussing a wide range of novels, short stories, plays, essayistic texts, philosophical treatises, operas, and musical films from the past 200 years, this course is designed to explore the productive interaction between the literary and the musical, not only to understand how music has shaped and continues to shape cultural identities in Germany, but also to explore how literary expressions can borrow from highly diverse musical idioms in order to complicate their formal registers. All readings and discussions in German.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of the constructions of gender in literary and other texts and their sociohistorical contexts. Particular attention to the gendered conditions of writing and reading, engendering of the subject, and indicators of gender. Topics and periods vary from semester to semester and include gender and genre, education, religion, politics, cultural and state institutions, science, sexuality, and human reproduction. Discussion, readings, and papers in German; some theoretical readings in English. May be repeated with different content. Prerequisite: see Requirements.
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3.00 Credits
Treatment of the historical development of German phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. Focus on the emergence of New High German. Examination of the relationship of standard German to its dialects and to other Germanic languages, particularly English. Conducted in German; papers in German. Prerequisite: German 302D or the equivalent, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced course for undergraduates that enables better understanding of the language and sublanguages of modern German in terms of linguistic theory. Particular attention to semiotics and pragmatics, i.e., to German viewed as a "sign" of human communication, value, interaction. Conducted in German; papers in German. Prerequisite: German 302D or the equivalent, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Film 458
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3.00 Credits
Research for an Honors thesis, on a topic chosen in conjunction with the adviser. Emphasis on independent study and writing. Open to students with previous course work in German at the 400 level, an overall 3.0 grade point average, and at least a B+ average in advanced work in German. Prerequisites: senior standing and permission of the undergraduate adviser.
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