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  [### German 100. Introduction to German Literature and Thought

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 **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 140. German Social Thought, Nietzsche to Habermas

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 **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... 

 

   [### German 179. Austrian History in Literature

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 **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 199. Freedom: A Transatlantic Affair

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 **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... 

 

   [### HIST 1265. Germany, 1848-1949

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 **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. Varieties of Fascism: Histories, Theories, Controversies

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 **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... 

 

   [### Scandinavian 150. The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition

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 **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... 

 

   [### Scandinavian 160. Intro to Old Norse: Folklore, Philology, and Performance

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 **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...