Courses

Fall 2025

Gateway Courses

FIRST YR. SEM 64S: What is it Like to Not Be Human? Metamorphosis in Myth & Poetry (Carranza)
FIRST YR. SEM: Caravaggio and the Beginning of Modern Art (Burgard)
FIRST YR. SEM: Humans at Play (Pirozhenko)

Language Courses

GERM 10a: Beginning German I (1st semester)
GERM 10b: Beginning German II (2nd semester)
GERM 10ab: Beginning Intensive (8 credits)
GERM 20a: Intermediate German I (1st semester)
GERM 20b: Intermediate German II (2nd semester)
GERM 20ab: Intermediate Intensive (8 credits)
SCAND 10a: Beginning Swedish I (1st semester) (Broomé)
SCAND 20a: Intermediate Swedish I (1st semester) (Broomé)

Advanced Courses Conducted in German

GERM 61: Advanced Grammar and Reading (Burgard)
GERM 64: Crime (Pirozhenko)
GERM 173: German Poetry Today (Stirner)

Advanced Courses (Discussion in English)

GERM/MBB 113: Your Brain on Poetry (Dymek)
GERM 172: Cinematic Angst (Dymek)
GERM 165: Postmodern Prose. The Literary Avant-Garde in the Age of Electronic Media (Stewart)
GERM 188: Angst, Sex, Dreams. Freud, Kafka, Bachmann (Stewart)
HIST 1265: German History (Johnson)
HIST 1953: Religion & Popular Culture in Modern Europe (Johnson)
HIST 83: Heidegger’s Being and Time (Gordon)

Graduate-Level Courses

GERM 277: Creative Non-Fiction (Stirner)
GERM 275: German Ecological Imagination (Carranza)
GERM 287/COMP LIT 212: Literature on Trial. Kafka in Paris (Hamilton)
GERM 291/ROMSTD 201: Questions of Theory (Hamilton & Schnapp)
GERMPHIL 280: Approaches to Foreign Language Pedagogy (Parkes)

Spring 2026

Gateway Courses

GEN ED 1197: Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Pirozhenko) T/Th 10:30 - 11:45 pm
GERM 100x: Introduction to German Literature, History, and Thought (Hamilton)  W 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Language Courses

GERM 10b: Beginning German II (2nd semester)
GERM 10ab: Beginning Intensive (8 credits)
GERM 20b: Intermediate German II (2nd semester)
GERM 20ab: Intermediate Intensive (8 credits)
GERM AX: German for Reading Knowledge (Stewart) T/Th 12:00 - 1:15 pm

SCAND 10b: Beginning Swedish II (2nd semester) (Broomé)
SCAND 20b: Intermediate Swedish II (2nd semester) (Broomé)

Advanced Courses Conducted in German

GERM 62: Advanced Conversation and Composition (Dymek)  T/Th 10:30 - 11:45 am
GERM 118: German Drama and Theater (Parkes) W/F 9:45 am - 12:45 pm
GERM 119b: Great Works, Short Texts (Dymek) T/Th 12:00 - 1:15 pm

Advanced Courses (Discussion in English)

SCAND 55: One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema (Broomé) M 12:00 - 2:45 pm

GERM 167: Contemporary German-Jewish Culture (Stirner)  M 3:00 - 5:00 pm
GERM 171: Introduction to German Film: The Regime on the Screen (Stewart)  W 12:45 - 2:45 pm  
GERM 157k: The Age of Albrecht Dürer (Koerner) Th 12:00 - 2:45 pm

Graduate-Level Courses

GERM 210: Baroque (Burgard) M 12:00 - 2:45 pm
GERM 271: Theories of Poetic Language (Carranza) Th 1:30 - 3:30 pm
 

Year-Round Tutorials

These language and concentration tutorials are offered year-round. Enrollment is based on petition-approval. Click here for more information about that: Link to petition!

  • GERM 99 – Senior Thesis (full year)
  • GERM 98 – Junior tutorial
  • GERM 99c – Senior Capstone Seminar
  • GERM 91R | SCAND 91 R: Supervised Reading and Research* 

 

  • Dutch (GER 90R)

  • Danish (SCAND 90R.A)

  • Finnish (SCAND 90R.B)

  • Norwegian (SCAND 90R.C)

  • Old Norse (SCAND 90R.D)

 

*For students to design their own course with the guidance of a GLL faculty member. This course is designed to provide letter-graded concentration credit for research and academic study not available in regular course work.