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Investigates the link between the writings of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) and Thomas Mann (1875-1955), two major German authors. Mann considered himself the inheritor of Goethe's perspective and strove to emulate his understanding of Goethe. Reading major works of Goethe, such as Götz von Berlichingen, Wilhelm Meister's "Apprenticeship," and Wilhelm Meister's "Journeyman Years," we shall compare them to Thomas Mann's (1875-1955) works, in particular "The Magic Mountain," "Doktor Faustus" and numerous shorter works, for their aesthetic, political and social influences on Germany. Prerequisite, any 100-level literature course. Taught in English.
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Topic for 2010: Berlin and Vienna. Much alike and yet so different, the course focused on the rich cultural heritage of the two major German speaking centers, Berlin and Vienna. Representative works of major Austrian and German writers from the 19th to the 21st centuries examined the social and cultural developments and traced the socio-historic context in which these works are situated. Taught in German. Prerequisite, 200, 310 or consent of instructor.
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Study and analysis of works spanning the era from 1871 to the beginning of the Second World War. Selections focus on literary and cultural changes including the Jahrhundertwende and the Weimar Republic. Authors include Fontane, Hauptmann, Trakl, Hofmannsthal, George, Schnitzler and Mann. Taught in German. Prerequisite, 310 or consent of instructor.
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Introduction to the German language. Exercises in aural comprehension, speaking, reading and writing reinforced by short cultural and literary texts. No previous knowedge of German required. Four hours of class, with additional drill sessions and laboratory work. Toegel.
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Continued development of German grammar and its use in aural comprehension, speaking, reading and writing. Readings in literature and culture supplemented with video recordings. Three hours of class, with additional sessions and laboratory work. Toegel.
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Review of grammar, syntax and conversational techniques through work in aural comprehension, speaking, reading and writing. Literary texts supplemented with realia (such as news stories German songs, videos). Three hours of class. Piesche.
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Continued development of German grammar and vocabulary with cultural and literary texts, including works by Kafka, Dürrenmatt and Brecht, and song texts by contemporary Liedermacher. Practice in oral and written work. Prerequisite, 130 or consent of instructor. Taught in German. Piesche.
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Focusing on the effects of the phenomenon of Anti-Islamism or Islamophobia within the European expansion and the German, respectively European, debate on integration and multiculturalism, this course seeks to understand and reexamine notions of German national identity and gender in the light of this new era. We will be studying recent debates on integration and Islamic minority which challenge our traditional understanding of critical categories like feminism, race, and gender within the framework of Western modernity. (Same as Women's Studies 155.) Piesche.
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This course explores the crime genre in German film and television and offers an overview of selected historical developments in German literature. In addition to contextualizing the genre within the premiere crime of the twentieth century, the Holocaust, the course explores its function as a mediation on the role of evil, the power of law, and the tension between society and individuals or marginalized groups. The German fascination with crime ranges from Nazi parents, the state, and the Stasi to terrorists, foreigners, women, and even Americans. (Same as Comparative Literature 161.) Piesche.
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Combines literary representation of important periods of German culture with cinematic representation of that period. Covers the late 18th century with its intellectual problem of Faust and the rise of Prussia politically (Minna von Barnhelm), 19th-century Romanticism and its dissolution of the self in art (The Golden Pot), turn-of-the-20th-century malaise (Young Torless) to mid-20th century political and social issues (White Rose, Divided Heaven) and divided loyalties (Le Coup de Grace). Taught in English. Malloy.
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