German Studies|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• GERST 1102 - FWS: Disorderly Subjects: Building, Breaking, and Remaking Culture
• GERST 1109 - FWS: From Fairy Tale To Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
• GERST 1113 - FWS: Participatory Culture
• GERST 1150 - FWS: German Lyric Poetry
• GERST 1170 - FWS: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

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 2002 - Abroad to Germany
• GERST 2020 - [Literary Texts and Contexts]
• GERST 2040 - Perspectives on German Culture
• GERST 2060 - German in Business Culture
• GERST 3050 - [Brecht and 20th-Century German Drama]
• GERST 3070 - Challenge of Literary Language
• GERST 3080 - German Life Style Going Digital
• GERST 3090 - [Berlin: Fast Forward]
• GERST 3221 - Lyric Poetry
• 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 3300 - West Germany 1968/1977
• GERST 3400 - [The Colors of Literature]
• GERST 4080 - [Uncanny Communities]
• GERST 4100 - Senior Seminar: Writing in/from Exile
• GERST 4110 - [Literature of the Fantastic]
• GERST 4130 - [Christa Wolf: Literature and Politics]

Courses conducted in English:

• GERST 2250 - Genius and Madness in Literature
• GERST 3530 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Thought (crosslisted)
• 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 (crosslisted)
• GERST 3570 - [The Average Man] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3580 - [Nineteenth Century Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3581 - Imaginative Arts of Migration (crosslisted)
• GERST 3590 - [Kant] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3600 - [Words and Music] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3610 - Homo Oeconomicus (crosslisted)
• GERST 3620 - [Introduction to Critical Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3630 - [My Other Self (Friendship)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3740 - [Opera and Culture] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3770 - [The Art of the Historical Avant-Garde] (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 4165 - In the Vein of Kafka (crosslisted)
• GERST 4170 - Topics in German Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GERST 4200 - [Faust: Close Reading]
• GERST 4231 - Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930) (crosslisted)
• GERST 4260 - The Animal (crosslisted)
• GERST 4280 - [Genius and Madness in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4411 - The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961) (crosslisted)
• GERST 4431 - Melancholy Left:Marx to Benjamin (crosslisted)
• GERST 4510 - Independent Study
• GERST 4520 - Independent Study
• GERST 4530 - Honors Research
• GERST 4540 - Honors Thesis
• GERST 4996 - Perfection, Objectivity and Sensation in Philosophy of Art (crosslisted)

Graduate Courses:

• GERST 6010 - [Friendship] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6020 - [Writing the Present: Pop Literature]
• GERST 6030 - [Literature of Fascism and Antifascism]
• GERST 6040 - [Tragic Modernity] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6050 - Classicism: Goethe and Schiller
• GERST 6090 - Poetologies after 1945
• GERST 6100 - Marx and Marxisms (crosslisted)
• GERST 6110 - [Narration and Knowledge] (crosslisted)
• 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 6210 - [The Diary: Writing Time and Self] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6260 - [Nuremberg]
• GERST 6270 - [Baroque]
• GERST 6230 - [Aesthetic Turns: The Fin-de-Siecle]
• GERST 6231 - Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930) (crosslisted)
• GERST 6241 - Topics in German Philosophy (crosslisted)
• 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 6400 - The Modern German Novel
• GERST 6411 - The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961) (crosslisted)
• GERST 6420 - [Operatic States: Imagining Community in Music Drama] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6430 - [Classicism: The Rise of Aesthetics]
• GERST 6431 - Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin (crosslisted)
• 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 6510 - Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents (crosslisted)
• GERST 6560 - [Aesthetic Theory: The End of Art] (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 6860 - [Althusser and Lacan] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6870 - [History and Ideology] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6960 - Rites of Contact (crosslisted)
• GERST 7530 - Independent Study
• GERST 7540 - Independent Study

Dutch:

• DUTCH 3020 - Advanced Dutch I
• DUTCH 3021 - Advanced Dutch II