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GERM 3000 (3) Advanced German
3:30 - 4:45 TR
Mr. Dobryden
TBA
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GERM 3500 (1) Germany in Words
12:00-12:15 W
Ms. Achilles
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GERM 3559 (3) Rediscovering the GDR through Literature, Art & Film
11:00-11:15 MWF
Ms. Parker
This course examines literary works from the GDR (and post-wall representations of the GDR) in their socio-political context. Through close textual analysis students examine different artistic strategies and the changing focus of GDR literature in response to political and social developments. Questions to be addressed are: What was the relationship between literature and censorship in the GDR and how was social critique articulated? In which ways did GDR literature address the widening cleft between the GDR’s utopian socialist vision and the more mundane historical reality? And how does post-wall literature imagine or address the former GDR?
The assignments will include film screenings, film reviews, short essays and brief presentations.
The course will be conducted in German.
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GERM 3559 (3) German Intellectual History
2:00- 3:15 TR
Mr. Bennett
The main contribution of Germany to European intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is generally thought to be what Windelband calls “system of reason,” large systematic works which attempt to derive from a specific idea of reason the whole world, and especially human history. None of those large systematic works will be read in this course. Instead we will read (in German) short, often critical and entertaining texts from the environment of those works in the attempt to show how actual day-to-day thinking was being carried out. We will start with Kant (before his turn to system) and read texts by Novalis, F. Schlegel, Büchner, Heine, Nietzsche, Kraus, Hesse, Thomas Mann, and some post-1945 writers including Ingeborg Bachmann and Robert Musil. A midterm exercise and a final essay will be required.
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GERM 3230 (3) Contemporary German: Speaking and Writing
2:00 - 3:15 TR
Mr. McDonald
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GERM 1015/5015 (3) German for Reading Knowledge
11:00-12:15 TR
Mr. Bennett
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GERM 4600 (3) Fourth Year Seminar
3:30 -4:45 MW
Mr. Grossman
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GETR 3390 (3)
10:00-10:50 MW
Ms. Achilles
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GETR 3392 (3) Fairy Tales
5:00 - 6:15 MW
Mr. Schmid
In fairy tales, everything is possible: throw a frog against the wall, it may well turn out to be a prince in disguise; go visit your grandmother and you may realize that she has been eaten and replaced by a wolf; and if you have plans for the next hundred years, you better beware of being pricked by a spindle. Entering the world of fairy tales often feels like passing into an elaborate dream: it is a world teeming with sorcerers, dwarves, wondrous objects, and animals that speak. In this seminar, we focus on tales from fairy tale traditions in Germany and around the world. Why did the Grimm brothers bother to collect fairy tales? How does Disney depict the fairy tale in film? – These are some of the questions that our seminar addresses. Requirements include regular attendance, active participation, exams, and written assignments.
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GETR 3393 (3) Serial Media
3:30-4:45 MW
Mr. Schmid
Have you ever binge-watched a show on Netflix? Have you ever not been able to put down a book? You had to know what was going to happen in the next episode or the next chapter. In this class we will not only reflect on and analyze this experience, we will also investigate its history: the history of serial media.
Over the past 20 years we have witnessed in a revolution in serial media: The medial possibilities made available through online streaming have inspired a trend away from the theater in favor of the laptop, and the primacy of feature length film has been upset by the advent of the so-called second golden age of television. Together we will explore the history of serial forms, particularly through its German tradition beginning with the 19th century serial journal projects of the Romantics and culminating with the contemporary German Netflix show “Dark,” a show that, like the American hit “Stranger Things,” involves parallel dimensions and supernatural elements. Finally, with the help of the work of German intellectuals such as Paul Kammerer and Carl Gustav Jung, we will explore the connection between seriality and coincidence
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GETR 3462 (3)
2:00-3:15 MW
Ms. Achilles
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GETR 3471 (3) Refugees and the Holocaust
3:30-6:00 T
Mr. Grossman
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GETR 3472 (3) Hollywood Exile
12:30-1:45 TR
Mr. Dobryden
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GETR 3710 (3) Kafka and His Doubles
11:00-12:15 TR
Ms. Martens
TBA
