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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of representative works of significant periods or genres in the history of Germanic literature. Topic varies from quarter to quarter. No knowledge of Germanic languages required. With permission of the advisor, may be taken for credit toward the German major if readings are done in German.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; written work, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduces the representation of animals, plants, and other appearances of the natural world such as sunrise and sunset in European creation and destruction mythology, fairytales, and folklore. Cross-listed with EUR 124.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; individual study, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. An introduction to classic works of German literature and their film adaptations. Explores adaptations by film directors such as Welles, Kubrick, Visconti, and Fassbinder. Studies the nexus between literature, film, and theatre. Course conducted in English. Cross-listed with CPLT 126 and MCS 126.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Critical introduction to three central thinkers of modernity. Topics include alienation, free will, revolution, the unconscious, sexual difference, political power, and the modern conception of truth. Readings and discussions are in English. Selected readings are in German for German majors and minors. Cross-listed with CPLT 131.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Introductory study of the French philosopher and novelist Jean- Jacques Rousseau and the age of revolution in France, Germany, and England. Topics include social inequality, slavery, gender, subjectivity, violence, and political rights. All readings are in English. Cross-listed with CPLT 132 and FREN 132.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines cinematic confrontations involving World War II in Germany and Japan. Topics include desire between victims and perpetrators, representation of trauma, and ethical responsibility. All screenings have English subtitles. Cross-listed with CPLT 134, JPN 134, and MCS 114.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; individual study, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of the role of German immigrants in the emergence of film noir in 1940s' Hollywood. Examines the revitalization of Weimar Expressionism in Hollywood cinema. Explores traumatic memory, cultural transfer, exile and displacement in films by German filmmaker refugees including Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder. Cross-listed with CPLT 135 and MCS 170.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introductory study of German Romanticism from its origins in Goethe to its development in Hoffmann. Topics include madness, sexual desire, doppelganger, homicide, and automata. All readings are in English; selected readings are in German for German majors and minors. Cross-listed with CPLT 137 and EUR 137.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction of the German avant-garde of the twentieth century. Explores expressionism, New Objectivity, the Bauhaus movement, the manifestation of an anti-art in dadaism, and Epic Theatre. Studies works of Franz Kafka in the context of his implicit criticism of the avant-gardist movements of his time. Course is conducted in English. Cross-listed with AHS 121, CPLT 138, EUR 138, and MCS 182.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores twentieth-century German history through film. Includes World Wars I and II, inflation and polarization of classes, Nazi Germany, representations of the Holocaust, and a divided and reunited Germany. Cross-listed with CPLT 115, HISE 163, and MCS 115.
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