Classes

Instructor Sütterlin Date/Time W 3:00 - 5:00 pm A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and...

Instructor Burgard Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pmMajor movements in German literature and thought from the mid-18th to early 19th century: Enlightenment, Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Romanticism. Readings include Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller...

Instructor Dymek Date/Time W 12:00 - 2:45 pm German Queer cinema played a pivotal role in the emergence of LGBTQ+ representation on celluloid. We’ll delve into the groundbreaking contributions of German filmmakers, exemplified by productions like Richard Oswald’s seminal...

Instructor Hamilton Date/Time Th 12:45 - 2:45 pmSince antiquity, literary works have been drawn to music and the human voice: fascinated by their captivating force, seduced by their alluring charms, envious of their capacity to express the singularity of life and lived...

Instructor Gordon Date/Time W 9:45 - 11:45 pmThis conference course, for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, will examine the significance of fascism both past and present. We will explore its historical emergence, its variations across time and space, and the...

Day/Time MTWTH 9:00AM - 10:00AM MTWTH 10:30AM - 11:30AM MTWTH 12:00PM - 1:00PM Instructor Staff An introduction to German language and culture designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Encompasses all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and...

Day/Time MWF 12:00-1:15pm Professor Staff This second-semester intermediate course is a continuation of 20a. Further review and practice of grammar and expansion of vocabulary.Focus on enhancing students' communicative competencies. Introduction to various cultural topics of...

Day/Time M 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA With a camera positioned at the entrance to the director’s factory, Louis Lumière’s famous early film of 1895, La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon, captured workers as they left for the day. Today, surveillance practices have...

Day/Time TBA Instructor Parkes Open to concentrators writing an honors thesis under faculty supervision. Students are expected to enroll for the entire year. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required. Part two of a two-part series.

Day/Time TTh 10:30AM – 11:45AM Instructor Pirozhenko This course is designed to further students' spoken and written German at the advanced level. Students will analyze and practice the stylistic and rhetorical features of various written and spoken genres. By focusing on...

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...

Instructor Dymek Day/Time T 12:00 - 2:00 pm What defines the self? In this course, we take a close look at the intricate philosophical investigations regarding the self within German Idealism. We study pivotal works by key figures like Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte...