Instuctor

Vinken

Date/Time

Th 9:00 - 11:00 am

Herrmann, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe, had for ages been seen as the incarnation of the heroic liberator from Roman Imperial colonialism and the arch-founder of an authentic German nation. Heinrich von Kleist’s drama Die Herrmannschlacht (The Battle of Hermann), depicts the battle between the Romans and Germanic tribes that took place in the Teutoburg forest in 9 CE. The play, poorly received at first, was later seen as a rallying cry for the nation’s liberation...

Instructor

Vinken

Date/Time

W 3:45 - 5:45 pm

During the 19th century, marriage and family were promoted as the new religion; a woman’s fulfillment was that of a wife and a mother. With Madame Bovary, Flaubert created the icon of the adulteress. The novel was denounced as morally offensive: a paean to adultery. Madame Bovary influenced Effi Briest, Fontane’s most successful novel, as well as Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Even today, we continue to write, dance, and film this tragic story, in works by Rainer Werner Fassbinder,...

Day/Time

M 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm

Instructor

Burgard

Close readings of 24 poems representing the best of modern German poetry. Readings in German, discussions in English. All of the poems are short, allowing us to achieve both breadth and depth and allowing those students who can read two pages of sophisticated German carefully each week, but maybe not a drama or a novel, to practice their close reading in German and improve their scholarly German. The chronological progression provides a history of modern...

Day/Time

W 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Instructor

Carranza

This seminar will be...

Day/Time

This course is not being offered during the current academic year.

Instructor

Sütterlin

Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, smart surveillance – recent scientific and technological advancements have reconfigured our understanding...

Day/Time

T 12:00–2:45pm

Instructor

Sütterlin and Sommer

To explore key literary, cultural and critical theories, we pose questions through readings of classic and contemporary theorists, from Aristotle to Kant, Schiller, Arendt, Barthes,...

Day/Time

This course is not being offered during the current academic year.

Instructor

Parkes

A practical and theoretical introduction to foreign language...