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 3050 - Brecht and 20th-Century German Drama
• 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 3290 - Mean Streets: German Crime and Detective Fiction
• GERST 4080 - Uncanny Communities
• 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 3540 - [Success and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3550 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3560 - [Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature]
• GERST 3570 - The Average Man (crosslisted)
• GERST 3580 - Nineteenth Century Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GERST 3590 - Kant (crosslisted)
• 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 Literature (crosslisted)
• GERST 4310 - [Theory of the Theatre and Drama] (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] (crosslisted)
• 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 6230 - Aesthetic Turns: The Fin-de-Siecle
• 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: Metaphore, Myth, Paradigm] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6470 - Post-War German Literature from 1949 to 1989
• GERST 6480 - Critical Theory and Literature: Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno (crosslisted)
• 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 (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] (crosslisted)
• 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] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6991 - Constructing the Death Drive (crosslisted)
• GERST 7530 - Independent Study
• GERST 7540 - Independent Study

Dutch:

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