German Studies|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• GERST 1109 - FWS: From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
• GERST 1112 - [FWS: Music and Letters]
• GERST 1117 - [FWS: Just Friends?]
• GERST 1118 - [FWS: Let’s Play!]
• GERST 1121 - FWS: Writing Berlin
• GERST 1150 - [FWS: German Lyric Poetry]
• GERST 1170 - FWS: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
• GERST 1175 - Small Forms, Big Ideas
• GERST 1190 - [FWS: Evil, God, and Modern Thought: Exploring the Enlightenment]

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 Contexts and Texts: The Myth of 1968
• GERST 2040 - Perspectives on German Culture
• GERST 2060 - German in Business Culture
• GERST 3013 - German Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAC)
• GERST 3070 - Challenge of Literary Language
• GERST 3075 - [Print Matters]
• GERST 3080 - German Life Style Going Digital
• GERST 3215 - [Performance Theater and Politics]
• GERST 3225 - [Bestseller]
• GERST 3260 - [Oddballs, Outcasts and Rebels]
• GERST 3290 - Mean Streets: German Crime and Detective Fiction
• GERST 3300 - [West Germany 1968/1977]
• GERST 3330 - Laughter and Wit in German Lit
• GERST 3350 - [Kafka in Context: Trials of Modernity]
• GERST 3410 - [History Will Be Televised]
• GERST 4002 - Changing Worlds: Migration, Minorities, and German Literature
• GERST 4100 - The Seminar

Courses Offered in English:

• GERST 2250 - Genius and Madness in Literature
• GERST 2700 - Introduction to German Culture and Thought
• GERST 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• GERST 3511 - [Media in Transit] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3512 - No Rest: The Exhausted Self (crosslisted)
• GERST 3515 - [Cinema of the Weimar Republic] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3525 - [New German Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3535 - [Science, Fiction, Media]
• GERST 3550 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3552 - [Marx as Philosopher] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3560 - [Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3561 - [Freud and the Invention of Psychoanalysis] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3580 - [Nineteenth Century Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3581 - [Imagining Migration in Film and Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3590 - Kant (crosslisted)
• GERST 3610 - [Fables of Capitalism] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3620 - Introduction to Critical Theory (crosslisted)
• GERST 3640 - [Me, Myself, I: Subjects of Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3770 - The Art of the Historical Avant-Garde (crosslisted)
• GERST 3800 - [Kafka’s Worlds: Castles, Trials, and Tribulations] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4245 - [Critical Thinking and Literary Methods] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4285 - [Introduction to Medieval German Literature] (crosslisted)

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Courses:

• GERST 4210 - Existentialism or Marxism (crosslisted)
• GERST 4211 - Beyond the Limits of the Human: Explorations in German Literature (crosslisted)
• GERST 4250 - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (crosslisted)
• GERST 4260 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4290 - [Spinoza and the New Spinozism] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4312 - [What was Film?] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4351 - Critical Theory and Climate Change (crosslisted)
• GERST 4370 - [Topics in German Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4411 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4413 - Walter Benjamin (crosslisted)
• GERST 4421 - [Topics in Modern Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4471 - Premodern/Postmodern (crosslisted)
• GERST 4510 - Independent Study
• GERST 4520 - Independent Study
• GERST 4530 - Honors Research
• GERST 4540 - Honors Thesis

Graduate Courses:

• GERST 5070 - Teaching German as a Foreign Language: Principles and Practices
• GERST 6040 - [Tragic Modernity] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6050 - [Classicism: Goethe and Schiller]
• GERST 6070 - [Prose of the World: 19th C. Letters] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6090 - [Poetologies & Dramaturgies After 1945]
• GERST 6100 - Marx and Marxisms (crosslisted)
• GERST 6131 - German Philosophical Texts (crosslisted)
• GERST 6160 - [Spaces of Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6175 - [Empathy: Affects and Sociality in Literature and Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6190 - [Introduction to Systems Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6210 - [Writing the Self] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6221 - [Topics in Modern Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6230 - Aesthetic Turns: The Fin-de-Siecle
• GERST 6235 - [Intensity: Recent Critical Models] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6241 - [Topics in German Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6310 - Reading Academic German I
• GERST 6315 - [Posthumanism, Cybernetics, Systems Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6320 - Reading Academic German II
• GERST 6340 - [German Romanticism]
• GERST 6351 - Critical Theory and Climate Change (crosslisted)
• GERST 6370 - Nineteenth Century Fiction: The Realist Project
• GERST 6400 - [The Modern German Novel]
• GERST 6411 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6413 - Walter Benjamin (crosslisted)
• GERST 6470 - Post-War German Literature from 1945 to 1989
• GERST 6471 - Premodern/Postmodern (crosslisted)
• GERST 6481 - Literature, Media, Form (crosslisted)
• GERST 6490 - [Collapse of the Secular Future] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6510 - Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents (crosslisted)
• GERST 6515 - [Culture of Weimar and Nazi Germany]
• GERST 6525 - Violence in Literature (crosslisted)
• GERST 6535 - [Literature and Psychoanalysis: Kindred Spirits]
• GERST 6560 - [Aesthetic Theory: The End of Art] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6586 - [Schmitt, Strauss, Arendt] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6600 - Visual Ideology (crosslisted)
• GERST 6610 - [Fictions of Law: Literature, Philosophy, and Culture in the Long 18th Century]
• GERST 6630 - [Nietzsche and Heidegger] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6648 - The Visual Economy of Work (crosslisted)
• GERST 6649 - Tradition and Modernity: The Jewish Case and Beyond (crosslisted)
• GERST 6709 - Thinking Sameness (crosslisted)
• GERST 6720 - [Futures in German Studies]
• GERST 6780 - [Persecution and the Art of Writing] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6850 - [Gramsci and Cultural Politics] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6866 - [Global Avant-Gardes] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6910 - [Vision in Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6960 - [Rites of Contact] (crosslisted)
• GERST 7530 - Independent Study
• GERST 7531 - Colloquium
• GERST 7540 - Independent Study
• GERST 7541 - Colloquium

Dutch:

• DUTCH 2030 - Intermediate Dutch I
• DUTCH 2040 - Intermediate Dutch II
• DUTCH 3020 - Advanced Dutch I
• DUTCH 3021 - Advanced Dutch II
• DUTCH 5010 - 17th Century Dutch Texts