# Culture and the Arts ## expand\_more [### FRSEMR 63L. Memory Wars: Cultural Trauma and the Power of Literature ](/class/frsemr-63l-memory-wars-cultural-trauma-and-power-literature) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2023 Day/Time W 3:00–5:00pm Instructor Sütterlin How do we respond to a traumatic event? Denial, acceptance, blame, reconciliation… there are many stances we can take toward a harmful act we have experienced or committed in the past. When entire populations have suffered or... [### FY Seminar 53H. Burnout: Quiet Quitting, Slacking Off, and Our Addiction to Achievement ](/class/fy-seminar-53h-burnout-quiet-quitting-slacking-and-our-addiction-achievement) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2024 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 takes a close look at... [### GENED 1043. American Dreams Made in Hollywood ](/class/gened-1043-american-dreams-made-hollywood) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2023 Day/Time MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM Instructor TBA Is the so-called American dream dead? The notion once essentialized the grand promise of a better, fuller, and richer life. At the present moment, however, it seems to have lost its evocative power as a collective myth. In a time... [### German 100. Introduction to German Literature and Thought ](/class/german-100-introduction-german-literature-and-thought) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2024 Day/Time TBA Instructor Carranza 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 intellectual... [### German 100x. Introduction to German Literature, History, and Thought ](/class/german-100x-introduction-german-literature-history-and-thought) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2025 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... [### German 120. The Age of Goethe ](/class/german-120-age-goethe) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2025 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... [### German 126. The Magic World of Fairy Tales ](/class/german-126-magic-world-fairy-tales) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2023 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 by E.T.A. Hoffmann... [### German 145. German and Austrian Modernism: Architecture, Art, Literature ](/class/german-145-german-and-austrian-modernism-architecture-art-literature) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2024 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, and literature to... [### German 154. The Frankfurt School on Film and Mass Culture ](/class/german-154-frankfurt-school-film-and-mass-culture) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2023 Day/Time T 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA This seminar considers the Frankfurt School's deliberations on film, radio, television, and mass culture. We will devote the majority of the course to three seminal figures: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and T. W. Adorno... [### German 181. Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Modernity: History, Language, Technology, Catastrophe ](/class/german-181-walter-benjamins-theory-modernity-history-language-technology-catastrophe) **Year offered:** 2024 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 about history, language... [### German 182. Music, Literature, & the Voice ](/class/german-182-music-literature-voice) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2025 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... [### German 199. Freedom: A Transatlantic Affair ](/class/german-199-freedom-transatlantic-affair) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2023 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 Kolumbus zuerst... [### German 219. German Poetry ](/class/german-219-german-poetry) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2024 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... [### German 291. Questions of Theory ](/class/german-291-questions-theory) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2023 Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Sütterlin 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, Foucault, Glissant, Ortiz, Kittler, and Butler... [### German 67. Essen, Fressen, Mahlzeit und Prost! Esskultur auf Deutsch ](/class/german-67-essen-fressen-mahlzeit-und-prost-esskultur-auf-deutsch) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2024 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, tastes, table manners... [### Scandinavian 102. Scandinavian Folklore: Trolls, Trolldom and the Uses of Tradition ](/class/scandinavian-102-scandinavian-folklore-trolls-trolldom-and-uses-tradition) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2023 Day/Time R 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Mitchell Examines Nordic folklore and folklife, with an emphasis on narratives, supernatural beliefs, and material culture from the 15th to the early 20th centuries, interpreted against additional sources of information drawn from the... [### Scandinavian 150. The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition ](/class/scandinavian-150-vikings-and-nordic-heroic-tradition) **Year offered:** 2022 Day/Time TR 1:30–2:45pm Instructor Mitchell Examines the historical events in Europe A.D. 800 to A.D. 1100, and the resulting heroic legacy in medieval Icelandic sagas. The course focuses on Viking Age figures as warriors, kings, poets, outlaws and adventurers; pre-Christian... [### Swedish 10a. Beginning Swedish Language and Literature ](/class/swedish-10a-beginning-swedish-language-and-literature) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2022 Day/Time M-Th 9:00-10:15am Instructor Broomé A basic course focusing on listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. During fall term, pronunciation and listening comprehension will be emphasized, as well as regular writing assignments. Literary, film, music and other...