GERM 1015/5015 (3) German for Reading Knowledge   

1:00 - 1:30 MWF

Ms. Schenberg

GERM 3000 (3)  Advanced German  

2:00 - 3:15 MW

Mr. Wellmon 

GERM 3290 (1) German Studies Round Table  

5:00-5:50 W

TBA

GERM 3300 (1) Language House Conversation  

TBA

TBA
 

For students residing in the German group in Shea House. May be taken more than once for credit. Departmental approval needed if considered for major credit. Prerequisite: instructor permission."

GERM 3559 (3)  Rediscovring the GDR (German Democratic Republic) through Literature, Art, and Film      

11:00 - 11:50 MWF 

Ms. Parker

GERM 3600 (3) Lyric Poetry: From Minnesang to Mic Drop

3:30 - 6:00  T   

Ms. Gutterman 

What role does poetry play in our lives—and what can you do with a poem? In this course, we’ll explore how German poetry has shaped and responded to the world, from medieval love songs to contemporary voices tackling migration, memory, and resistance.

We’ll read poets like Walther von der Vogelweide, Goethe, Brecht, Else Lasker-Schüler, May Ayim, and more, diving into themes of love, nature, animals, crisis, and personal experience. Along the way, you'll sharpen your reading and speaking skills through in-depth discussion and close reading—all in German.

This course is especially suited for students looking to expand their vocabulary, strengthen conversational fluency, and discover the power of poetry. Prerequisite GERM 3000. (If you haven’t taking GERM 3000 but are interested in the course, please email me!)

GERM 3559 (3) Contemporary Literature

10:00 - 10:50  MW    

Ms. Zuerner 

GETR 1559 (3) Fairy Tales

3:30 - 4:45  TR  

Mr. Schmid

GETR 3360 (3) The Art of Dreaming

3:30-4:45 MW 

Ms. Gutterman

What do our dreams mean—if anything? Are they just brain static, or windows into our deepest selves? In this course, we explore how dreams have fascinated thinkers for centuries. From Freud’s groundbreaking Interpretation of Dreams to dystopian fiction, political nightmares, surrealist films, and your own dream journal, we’ll examine how dreams shape and reflect human experience.

Texts include works by Descartes, Freud, Charlotte Beradt (“Dreams under Dictatorship”), Ursula Le Guin, and the anime film Paprika. Along the way, you’ll sharpen your skills in literary and cultural analysis, creative writing, and interdisciplinary thinking through vibrant discussions and hands-on activities.

GETR 3420 (3) German Intellectual History from Nietzche to the Present

3:30-4:45 MW 

Mr. Wellmon  

GETR 3462 (3) Neighbors and Enemies 

2:00 - 3:15 MW

Ms. Achilles

GETR 3464 (3) Medieval Stories of Love and Adventure

2:00-3:15 TR  Sec. 1

3:30-4:45 TR  Sec. 2 

Mr. McDonald 

An interactive course, involving reading, discussion, music, and art, that seeks, through selected stories of the medieval period, to shed light on institutions, themes, and customs. At the center is the Heroic Circle, a cycle with connections to folklore, the fairy tale, and Jungian psychology—all of which illuminate the human experience. Discover here the genesis of Arthurian film, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and more. All texts on Collab.

Second Writing Requirement

Cultures and Societies of the World

GETR 3472 (3) Hollywood Exile: German Filmmakers Flee Fascism  

12:30 - 1:45 TR

Mr. Dobryden

In the 1930s, many people employed in the German film industry whose lives were threatened by Nazism took refuge in Hollywood. This course examines the contributions exiled directors, writers, actors, and others made in genres ranging from comedy and melodrama to film noir. In addition to indicting fascism and reflecting on the trauma of forced migration these films often turned a critical eye on the U.S.. 

GETR 3559 (3) Refugees and the Holocaust  

 3:30 - 6:00 T

Mr. Grossman 

GETR 3559 (3) Body Horror: From Kafka to Cronenberg and Beyond 

 3:30 - 4:45 TR

Mr. Dobryden

This course explores the terrifying and thrilling experience of being (in) a body through the film genre of “body horror.” Beginning with early influences (Kafka, German expressionism), we will examine ‘80s classics (The Thing, The Fly) and more recent examples (The Skin I Live In, The Substance). Readings in psychoanalysis, disability studies, and gender studies will help us grapple with the question of what makes bodies so fascinatingly scary. 

GETR 3710 (3) Kafka and His Doubles

11:00 - 12:15 TR

Ms. Martens 

The course will introduce the enigmatic work of Franz Kafka: stories including "The Judgment," "The Metamorphosis," "A Country Doctor," "A Report to an Academy," "A Hunger Artist," "The Burrow," and "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"; one of his three unpublished novels (The Trial); the Letter to His Father; and some short parables. But we will also look at Kafka's "doubles": the literary tradition he works with and the way in which he, in turn, forms literary tradition. Thus: Kafka: Cervantes, Kafka: Bible, Kafka: Aesop, Kafka: Dostoevsky, Kafka: Melville; Kafka: O'Connor, Kafka: Singer; Kafka: Calvino, Kafka: Borges. Readings will center on four principal themes: conflicts with others and the self (and Kafka's psychological vision); the double; the play with paradox and infinity; and artists and animals. A seminar limited to 20 participants. Requirements include a short midterm paper (5-7 pages) and a longer final paper (10-12 pages).

GETR 3780 (3) Memory Speaks 

2:00 - 3:15 TR

Mr. Martens

Memory is a crucial human faculty. Our ability to remember our own past is one of the things that make us human. Memory has long been thought to ground identity: without memory, one has no sense of self. Memory has been seen as fundamental to psychic health, and even as a remedy in times of trouble, as well as essential to our ability to imagine the future. Remembering has its delights. Certainly the idea of losing one’s memory, through shock or illness for example, is terrifying to contemplate. Yet having too many memories of the wrong kind is believed to endanger our equilibrium. Maddeningly, given its power to make us healthy or sick, memory often lies beyond our conscious control. It operates according to its own laws, giving us what we want only sometimes. Undeniably useful, it has also been seen as deceptive. It is demonstrably suggestible. It is not surprising, therefore, that memory is a subject of vital importance in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences alike.

This course will focus on individual memory and in particular on autobiographical memory (our memories of our own lives). We will read autobiographies and works of fiction, written from the early twentieth century to the present, by Patrick Modiano, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary McCarthy, Vladimir Nabokov, and Marguerite Duras. We will also study two films on the theme of memory: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inside Out. Concurrently, we will read psychological, psychoanalytic, and neuroscientific work on memory. Some attention will be paid to the issues of false memory, external memory, and mediated memory, as well.

Two short papers, presentations, exam.

GETR 4559 (3) Faust

2:00 - 3:15 MW

Mr. Grossman