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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
There is a $100 field trip fee for this course (2 days in Chicago, IL). An introduction to the evolutionary relationships, natural history, anatomy, behavior, and geological and environmental context of extinct vertebrates. Dinosaurs and their Mesozoic contemporaries receive particular attention. Prehistoric lineages are used to explore general topics in systematics, geology, paleontology, and evolutionary biology. This course includes an overnight class trip to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the characteristic features of German idiom and usage through texts chronicling the development of German culture from the age of Mozart to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Prerequisite: 110 for 120 or placement.
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3.00 Credits
German language and culture through the medium or current films, television, slides, and paintings. Readings in "Landeskunde," the geography and contemporary political and social institutions of the Federal Republic, Austria, and Switzerland. Emphasis on speaking, reading, and writing in German. Prerequisite: GER 120 or placement.
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3.00 Credits
German language and culture through the medium of current films, television, slides, and paintings. Readings in "Kulturgeschichte," the historical and cultural development of Germanic lands since the time of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Emphasis on speaking, reading, and writing in German. Prerequisite: GER 120 or placement. Note: GER 210 or 220 or placement is prerequisite for all German courses numbered 300 or higher.
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3.00 Credits
This course leads students to direct encounters with the cultural history of Central Europe through travel to some of the countries that comprise this region now and have comprised it in the past. Though centered in Germany, visits may also include Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia. Emphasis is on extended classroom knowledge through on-site discovery of the geography, urban organization, transportation networks, commerce, and daily life of the area, as well as on discovering ways the past is preserved there, including architecture, museums, palaces and castles, monuments and memorials, and concentration camps. Prerequisite: GER 210.
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3.00 Credits
A study of German identity drawn from the rich storehouse of sagas, legends, fairy tales, and other folk sources welding historical events with interpretations of the mysterious natural world. Selections from the Nibelungenlied, Herder, the Brothers Grimm, Eichendorff, Heine, Wagner, and others are included.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of German-language cinema emphasizing the early black-and-white films of the Weimar period (1919-33), the highly influential art films of the "New German Cinema" (ca. 1965-85) and the (superficially) lighter German films made after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Emphasis on understanding films in their social, cultural and historical contexts and on understanding the fundamentals of film art, analysis and criticism. Films will be screened in the evenings and will be available on reserve in the library. Prerequisite: GER 210 or placement.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the simultaneous maturing of Enlightenment, Classical, and Romantic thought in the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Germanic drive toward the integration of all knowledge. Readings from works that set the stage (Lessing); from works by Goethe's illustrious friend Schiller; and from more recent works in the Faustian tradition.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the cultural and political competition between the public realm of fatherland and the private sphere of family and of the evolving process of breaking down gender barriers in Germanic culture. Readings include plays, novels, diaries, letters, and polemical writings by Gottfried Lessing, Sophie von LaRoche, Friedrich Schiller, Theodor Fontane, Christa Wolf, and Christine Bruckner.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the unique effects of geography on Germanic arts and letters from the early Roman walls criss-crossing the landscape; to terrifying border invasions; to the Berlin Wall, the most recent Kafkaesque monument to political division. Readings include Gottfried von Strassburg, Heinrich Kleist, Franz Kafka, Günther Grass, Christa Wolf, and others.
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