Fall 2023 Courses
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...
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...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MTWTH 9:00AM - 10:00AM MTWTH 10:30AM - 11:30AM MTWTH 12:00PM - 1:00PM MTWTH 1:30PM - 2:30PM Instructor Staff An introduction to German language and culture for students with no knowledge of the language. Students develop basic communication competencies (spoken and...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MWTH 9:00AM - 10:15AM Instructor Staff A complete first-year course in one term for students with little or no knowledge of German. Provides an introduction to language and culture of the German-speaking countries. Students develop basic communication competencies...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM Instructor Lisa Parkes What provokes laughter in German culture? This course explores the genre of German-language comedy through major dramatists, satirists, stand-up comedians, and comedic film. Introduction to techniques and theories of comedy...
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...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM Instructor Gordon A philosophical and historical survey of major debates in modern German social theory over the span of a century, from Nietzsche's anti-foundationalist critique of morality and truth to Habermas's attempt to rebuild a pragmatic...
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...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time W 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Instructor Stewart This course examines three German-language writers whose works establish foundational critiques of modern Western society. Why do we all seem to feel so discontent? What explains the differences between our conscious and...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time Th 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm Instructor Struck The public is where we see and meet others or avoid them—on squares, in the subway, in cafés… But how are these places constructed that we necessarily inhabit? What do they allow for, and what do they prevent? What about the...
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...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MWF 9:00AM – 10:15AM MWF 10:30AM – 11:45AM Instructor Staff This third-semester language course offers a thorough review and practice of grammar and an expansion of vocabulary. Focus on enhancing students' communicative competencies in all four skill areas...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MTWTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Professor Staff A complete second-year course in one term for students with basic knowledge of German. Focus on enhancing students' communicative competencies in all four skill areas. Introduction to various cultural topics of the German...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
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...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time W 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Instructor Carranza This seminar will be centered on a close reading of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre with glimpses at select excerpts from the sequel, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. We will also take the opportunity of this engagement with two very...
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...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time TTh 12:00PM – 1:15 PM Instructor Dymek Advanced language instruction through systematic study of the rules of grammar, their nuances, and their exceptions. Application of this knowledge through the meticulous reading and parsing of selections from sophisticated...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA Individualized study of Dutch at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
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 one of a two-part series.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time TTh 10:30-11:45am Instructor Stewart Development of reading proficiency for students with little or no knowledge of German. Emphasizes translation of academic German prose into English.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time M 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Instructor Dymek Poetry is a powerful tool for expressing and exploring the human experience. But what is it about poetry that allows it to connect with us so deeply? What can we learn about the workings of the brain, the mind, and the nature of...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time T Th 9:00 am - 10:45 Instructor Mitchell This course introduces participants to the languges of medieval Scandinavia, focusing on the West Norse dialects of Iceland and Norway, with additional attention to the East Norse vernaculars of Sweden and Denmark, as well as...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2022
Day/Time Section 01: M 5:30–7:00pm Section 02: T 7:00–9:00pm Section 03: T 4:30–5:45pm Instructor TBA Individualized study of Danish at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2022
Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA Individualized study of Finnish at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with a language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2022
Day/Time Section 01: TR 1:30–2:45pm Section 02: MW 10:30–11:45am Section 03: MW 12:00pm–1:15pm Instructor TBA Individualized study of Norwegian at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2020
Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2022
Day/Time TBA Instructor Broomé Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and acquaint students with appropriate analytical methods. Open to concentrators in the Scandinavian option. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Scandinavian...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2022
Day/Time TBA Instructor Broomé Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and to develop analytical techniques. Open to concentrators in the Scandinavian option. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Scandinavian required.
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time TBA Instructor Broomé Open to concentrators writing an honors thesis under faculty supervision. Students are expected to enroll for the entire year. Part two of a two part series. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Scandinavian required.