Culture and the Arts

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...

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...

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...

Instructor Stewart Date/Time W 3:00 - 5:00 pm Although he is arguably one of the most influential Western thinkers of the 20th century, what does Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) have to teach the 21st century? A great deal, it turns out. For the questions...

Instructor Pirozhenko Date/Time T TH 9:00 am - 10:15 am We need food to live. Consisting of protein, carbohydrates, fat, and other nutrients, food provides energy for our bodies. We have our own food preferences, dietary restrictions, family dishes...

Instructor Stewart Date/Time 9:45am - 11:45am Who hasn’t felt burnout? Who hasn’t felt it more acutely in the years since the pandemic? And who hasn’t struggled to define just what exactly this feeling is or where it comes from? This first-year seminar...

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...

Day/Time MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM Instructor Burgard Explores the radical break with traditions of thinking, building, seeing, and representing that occurred at the end of the 19th-century in Germany and Austria, and the new forms of architecture, painting...

Day/Time TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Instructor Pirozhenko In this course, we will get to know Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and their methods to collect, edit, and publish fairy tales and we will reflect on their legacy. We will read and discuss fairy tales written...

Day/Time M 12:45PM – 2:45 PM Instructor CarranzaThe brilliantly witty German physicist and satirical author Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once remarked that "The American who first discovered Columbus made a horrible discovery" ("Der Amerikaner, der den...