# Graduate Courses ## expand\_more [### 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 159. 100 Years of Queer German Cinema ](/class/german-159-100-years-queer-german-cinema) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2025 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... [### German 179. Austrian History in Literature ](/class/german-179-austrian-history-literature-0) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2024 Instructor Frank Johnson Date/Time T 12:45 - 2:45 pm This course uses Austrian literature to think through some of the most pressing questions of modern European (and, specifically, Austrian) history. We will read some of the greatest novels and novellas in modern German... [### 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 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 229. Deceit, Desire, & Bildung: Goethe's Novels ](/class/german-229-deceit-desire-bildung-goethes-novels) **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... [### German 260. Writing the Body in the Posthuman Age ](/class/german-260-writing-body-posthuman-age) Day/Time This course is not being offered during the current academic year. Instructor Sütterlin Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, smart surveillance – recent scientific and technological advancements have reconfigured our understanding of the human body and its... [### 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... [### GermPhil 280. Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching ](/class/germphil-280-approaches-foreign-language-teaching) Day/Time This course is not being offered during the current academic year. Instructor Parkes A practical and theoretical introduction to foreign language instruction. Emphasis on historical and current theories of second language acquisition and their implications for the... [### HIST 1265. Germany, 1848-1949 ](/class/hist-1265-germany-1848-1949) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2024 Instructor Frank Johnson Date/Time T Th 10:30 - 11:45 am German History loomed like a specter over the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, Americans have been debating the relevance and legitimacy of comparisons between German history and our contemporary world... [### HIST 2323. Reading Marx ](/class/hist-2323-reading-marx) **Semester:** Fall **Year offered:** 2024 Instructor Frank Johnson Date/Time M 9:45 - 11:45 am This graduate seminar is designed as a close and cooperative framework for reading new interpretative literature on Marx, with an emphasis on philosophical questions and contemporary debates concerning, e.g., Marxist... [### HIST. Varieties of Fascism: Histories, Theories, Controversies ](/class/hist-varieties-fascism-histories-theories-controversies) **Semester:** Spring **Year offered:** 2025 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...