German Studies|

Courses Offered in German:

• GERST 1210 - Exploring German Contexts I
• GERST 1220 - Exploring German Contexts II
• GERST 1230 - Expanding the German Dossier
• GERST 2000 - Germany: Intercultural Context
• GERST 2020 - Literary Texts and Contexts
• GERST 2040 - Perspectives on German Culture
• GERST 2060 - German in Business Culture
• GERST 3010 - [Scenes of the Crime: German Mystery and Detective Fiction]
• GERST 3080 - German Life Style Going Digital
• GERST 3090 - Berlin: Fast Forward
• GERST 3210 - [After the Fires: Divided Germany 1945 - 1989]
• GERST 3250 - [The Age of Goethe]
• GERST 3260 - Eccentric Subjects in German Literature
• GERST 3270 - [Too Much to See: German Literary and Visual Cultures, 1900 - 1933]
• GERST 4100 - Senior Seminar
• GERST 4110 - [Literature of the Fantastic]
• GERST 4180 - [New German Literature: After the Wall]
• GERST 4190 - [Vienna 1900 and the Challenge of Modernity]
• GERST 4420 - [Changing Worlds: Migration, Minorities, and German Literature]
• GERST 4430 - [Love as Fiction: German Novellas from Three Centuries]

Courses conducted in English:

• GERST 2250 - Genius and Madness in Literature
• GERST 3542 - [Death of God] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3530 - 19th and 20th Century European Thought (crosslisted)
• GERST 3540 - Success and its Discontents
• GERST 3550 - Political Theory and Cinema (crosslisted)
• GERST 3560 - [Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature]
• GERST 3600 - [Words and Music] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3620 - Introduction to Critical Theory (crosslisted)
• GERST 3621 - Weimar Cinema (crosslisted)
• GERST 3740 - [Opera and Culture] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3770 - [The Art of the Historical Avant-Garde] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4115 - Introduction to Media Theory (crosslisted)

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Courses:

• GERST 4030 - Writing America Post 9/11 (crosslisted)
• GERST 4050 - Introduction to Medieval German Literature I
• GERST 4060 - [Introduction to Medieval German Literature II]
• GERST 4070 - Teaching German as a Foreign Language
• GERST 4090 - [Spinoza and the New Spinozism] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4150 - [Marx, Freud, Nietzsche] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4170 - [Topics in German Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4200 - [Faust: Close Reading]
• GERST 4260 - The Animal (crosslisted)
• GERST 4280 - [Genius and Madness in German Literature]
• GERST 4310 - [Theory of the Theatre and Drama] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4410 - Introduction to Germanic Linguistics (crosslisted)
• GERST 4510 - Independent Study
• GERST 4520 - Independent Study
• GERST 4530 - Honors Research
• GERST 4540 - Honors Thesis
• GERST 4570 - Imagining the Holocaust (crosslisted)

Graduate Courses:

Note: For complete descriptions of courses numbered 6000 or above consult the appropriate instructor.

• GERST 6010 - Friendship
• GERST 6030 - [Literature of Fascism and Antifascism]
• GERST 6131 - German Philosophical Texts (crosslisted)
• GERST 6140 - [The Man Without Qualities and Theories of Narration] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6150 - [Jews in German Culture Since 1945] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6160 - [Spaces of Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6180 - [The Science of the Experience of Consciousness: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (and Beyond)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6190 - [Introduction to Systems Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6200 - [Faust: Close Reading]
• GERST 6210 - The Diary: Writing Time and Self (crosslisted)
• GERST 6220 - [Cultural Pessimism and the Fin-de-Siecle]
• GERST 6270 - [Baroque]
• GERST 6310 - Reading Academic German I
• GERST 6320 - Reading Academic German II
• GERST 6340 - German Romanticism
• GERST 6370 - [Nineteenth Century Fiction: The Realist Project]
• GERST 6380 - [Readings of Recollection] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6390 - [Walter Benjamin: Constellations of Thought]
• GERST 6420 - [Operatic States: Imagining Community in Music Drama] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6430 - Classicism: The Rise of Aesthetics
• GERST 6450 - Aesthetic Phenomena and Art: 1900 - 1970 (crosslisted)
• GERST 6460 - Hans Blumenberg: Metaphor, Myth, Paradigm (crosslisted)
• GERST 6470 - [German Literature from 1949 to 1989]
• GERST 6500 - The Culture of Weimar Germany
• GERST 6530 - [Opera]
• GERST 6560 - [Aesthetic Theory: The End of Art] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6580 - [Old High German, Old Saxon] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6600 - [Visual Ideology] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6620 - [Reassembling Culture: Montage and Collage in Weimar Germany] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6630 - [Nietzsche and Heidegger] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6650 - [Heidegger’s Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6680 - [Literature and the Uncanny]
• GERST 6710 - [Postcolonial Theory and German Studies]
• GERST 6760 - Alexander Kluge, the Writer
• GERST 6780 - Persecution and the Art of Writing (crosslisted)
• GERST 6850 - [Gramsci and Cultural Politics]
• GERST 6860 - [Althusser and Lacan] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6870 - [History and Ideology] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6911 - The Total Work of Art (crosslisted)
• GERST 6940 - [Kant’s Political Reason] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6960 - [Rites of Contact: Emergent German Literature and Critical Method]
• GERST 7530 - Tutorial in German Literature
• GERST 7540 - Independent Study
• GERST 7570 - [Mozart: His Life, Works, and Times] (crosslisted)

Dutch:

• DUTCH 1210 - [Elementary Dutch]
• DUTCH 1220 - [Continuing Dutch]
• DUTCH 2030 - Intermediate Dutch I
• DUTCH 2040 - Intermediate Dutch II